Friday, July 11, 2014

secret weird trick for a flat stomach

^^^  personal joke -- I HATE those ads....

We just visited the grocery while out running another lumberyard-errand.  For decades, it's been nothing but amusing to read the headlines on the checkout-counter magazines -- "lose 15 pounds in four weeks" will be on the same cover with a close-up photo of cake or cookies.  Do they really expect nobody notices the inconsistent message?  What DID hit my funnybone today was a cookbook devoted to "flat belly" recipes.

I can tell people how to flatten their bellies -- or at least improve their condition -- in four steps,  but I doubt if i'd get a lot of takers.
  1. Eliminate omega-6 oils and fructose from your diet, to get rid of that NAFL that causes your liver to take over your midsection (of course, if your FL is not of the NA variety, dropping the A is in order);
  2. Stop eating things that bloat your intestines;
  3. Do slow-burn-type leg lifts; and
  4. Persistently follow a diet that's effective for YOU to lose weight -- not your trainer, not your doctor, not your nephew, not your granddaughter, and certainly not the diets that failed Tara Pope.
I didn't LOOK at the little cookbook, of course -- it was published by one of those magazines which are rife with Conventional Wisdom uselessness.  I can imagine that it was full of lovely low-fat salads and vegetable dishes which keep you full for all of twenty minutes, as well as some "satisfying protein" entrees calling for lean meats which keep you full for maybe thirty.  ;-)

Trouble is, stuffing your belly with large quantities of vegetation is not only non-satiating, they cause an outsized insulin response MERELY FROM THE STOMACH DISTENTION.  Then when those vegetables reach your small intestine, if you have bacterial overgrowth there (as a lot of people do, who are recovering from a high-carb diet), that portion of your gut will bloat.  When the contents get to your colon, anything that your microbiota don't like (or like too much) will create even more fermentation, gas and inflammation.

Fructose malabsorption and FODMAP problems, dysbiosis and food-poisoning -- a lot of things cause bloat in your gut.  It's THOROUGHLY STUPID to insist on continuing to eat foods which are DAMAGING YOUR BODY simply because "you have the right to eat anything you want."  Sure you have the right to eat whatever -- but is it actually a good idea to do so?

10 comments:

  1. YES! This, Tess. Nearly spit my decaf on my laptop screen... certainly not the diets that failed Tara Pope! ;)

    I can tell you I used to eat baby carrots until my skin started to turn orange-ish and I could not leave the house due to major GI problems. I was afraid of good fat and afraid that too much protein would be too high of WW points.. so I'd better eat a lot of "free" veggies and fruits.

    I cringe thinking about it... Ugh, the magazines... the one weird, old trick. .. Getting the right food template is key.

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    1. yep! it took me a LONG time to learn that eating lots of fruits and vegetables didn't get me anywhere! it took me even longer to stop feeling guilty when i cut back on them. :-) we've been so brainwashed about the perfection of vegetable foods....

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  2. The very worst things for me were apples and whole wheat. I look like I was seven months pregnant. I checked out the book No More Digestive Problems by Cynthia Yoshida, a gastroenterologist, who said that gas is all in your head.

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    1. well, obviously she has gas in hers.... ;-)

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  3. Magazine covers are amazing - pictures of baking goods for diabetics, claims"give your thyroid a boost " and recharge your metabolism and pictures of naturally lean people and dr.Oz with piles of vegetables and some green drinks, loose 20 lb by Labor Day! Nation wide scam nobody cares about.

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    1. ...AND the fashion magazines with all those air-brushed photos of anorexic models, giving normal women the feeling that they're inferior ... AND the men's version of the same -- no way those guys aren't on drugs ...

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  4. I will venture that right next to the pious, unsatisfying salad recipes there will be an ad for diet pills. Magazines for the win!

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    1. :-D many of them with an old, or a weird (sometimes spelled "wierd"), or a secret TRICK.... because the magic substance IS out there, isn't it? someone just wants it to be SECRET....

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  5. Congratulations on this fabulous post Tess!

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