Chronic weight gain and persistent excessive weight is something that many people struggle with all of the time. Most people get so aggravated that all they want to do is shriek and beat their pillows in stress and rage. They ask why in sheer annoyance without any reason to expect an answer. However, that “why” question is a very good one, worthy of consideration. If you can figure out why weight gain and weight retention happens, then you’re better equipped to get and keep the figure you’re prefer. Naturally , your self-image isn’t the only matter that receiving straight down to your appropriate fat should help fix. Weight problems is bad for your health as well.
Our ancestors developed to dwell in a selected way and in a particular set of surroundings. Their lives were often harsh with periodic famines. Everyday life involved a certain amount of exercise and their diets were sharply circumscribed by whatsoever was available. Early humankind developed a preference for high calorie foods like fat and sugars because those were the most efficient kinds of food to eat. If it requires the same amount of work to get a carrot or to get honey, but the honey gives three times the amount of power back, then the honey is a much better investment of the power it got to get it.
Today we’ve succeeded too well in some ways. We’ve modified our world so much that we no longer need to walk miles every day, or outrun animals, or spend the vast majority of our time in hard physical work just to survive. Our food is plentiful and requires no more direct effort than going to the grocery store. We still have these urges to eat all we can of high efficiency foods, but we no longer lead the life that helps make these foods so advantageous. We need to substitute internally determined training and self-discipline for exterior situation in order to sustain our right weight.
Weight management, like so many other things these days, is a balancing act. Most people really don’t want to try to live like our Stone Age ancestors did, living in the middle of nowhere dragging food directly out of the environment while outrunning predators. Even when people would like to live that way, and there are always a few who would, it’s unacceptable with today’s society. Research and willpower are better and more applicable tools anyhow. However, understanding that we are still creatures who evolved to live in the Stone Age, who evolved to deal with those sorts of challenges, can help us with solving our weight loss puzzles with as little defeat as possible.
