Back to EdenThe interesting thing, to me, is that it is all cyclical. Prior to nutrition and germ theory...
No, for most of mankind's history, mankind ate everything it had in front of it then spent the next several days looking for another one to kill.
Ever since we started killing whole supermarkets and fast-food restaurants, our hormonal systems have stuck with the "eat everything in front of you" and not had a reason to wait the several days.
But knowledge comes from learning gained during your lifetime. Like right now.
It's not the lazy. It's the genetic survival mechanism that says "eat it all and get fat now, because you might not see any for another month." It's the increase in food and the reduction in relative cost and the ease of preservation and access 24/7/365 that enables eating to become a lifestyle.
That's how endomorphic body types work.
The other types don't have an issue with getting fat because their bodies don't tell them to overeat in any situation. Their genes evolved in situations where the mean time to end of famine was shorter.
Endomorphs have to apply logic to the system to overcome the ingestive ideation that their brain chemicals impress on them. The good news is, it works. And everyone who's ever said it doesn't has been proved wrong. Eat less than you burn and you lose weight. Game over.
169 lbs. Down from 252. 43 years old. I know more about gaining and losing weight than your doctor and his personal trainer put together.
He's been fat before. This is at least the second time he's bloated since the series started. And the nominal weight gain as people age is roughly a pound per year. Not twenty pounds in six months.
Doesn't matter. Neither of you is managing your weight rationally.
--Blair
