Leaving all those dreams from my last post, let’s come back to reality, maybe a reality that you don’t even know about yourself . . . Who is in charge, you or your brain!?
Quite often a difficult relationship, but knowing better your brain can lever big time your long term goals.
At first is good to remind that brains are always worried about the urgent. In danger or stress, it will give you an abnormal strength and if needed to run, other than doing speed PBs, you would go over obstacles that you never thought you could. Only hours later you are going to notice scratches and wounds caused by the defensive actions.
What if there is no danger in sight?
Well, then the grey mass, is going to prepare yourself for a future danger, in other words, it’s time to store as much energy as possible. And that’s why it’s so hard to exchange your comfort zone to study, diet, work and workout, as all these tasks will not bring you any immediate benefits.
That’s why you will need to persevere to reach any long term goals, and here comes motivation . . . I like this word because it derives from motive, and basically what you need is to give a good reason for your brain to spend all those calories, or why to not store energy when you your goal is to lose weight.
Each person has it particularity when it comes to motivation. For my “profession”, having a notebook with all my workouts is enough, as I don’t want to have any “chicken” workout written down.
For your diet it’s even more important, as you are depriving your brain from its most precious thing.
Not talking only about calories, I’m talking about fat!
The captain of your body is made of more than 75% of fat, and cholesterol is what makes your brain works by neural synapses.
I know, we all thought that cholesterol was something harmful, and as David Perlmutter says on his book, Grain Brain: “Ironically, ever since we ‘scientized’ nutrition, the state of our health has declined.”
Yep, your brain has been washed up. And if we could have no body fat, there would be no brain! Making true those statements about gorgeous women with no content! Lol
On the same way, against the idea of bad cholesterol, you will find a lot more on this website:
http://www.survivediabetes.com/lowfat.html
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