The Power of Metabolism - Slow Metabolism
Sections
- Success Stories
- Introduction
- Personal Problem
- Overweight / Obesity
- Contradictions
- Metabolism
- Slow Metabolism
- Vital Facts
Chapter: A Giant Problem
The Famous "Slow Metabolism".
The statistics don't lie. The vast majority of the population is overweight and one in four people is already in an obese condition. The biggest problem is that the trend is clear: the situation continues to worsen year after year.
It is estimated that at any given time of the year more than 30% of the population is making some kind of diet, exercise or effort to lose or control their weight. However, we are losing the battle; we are getting fatter and weaker.
Many of the people who have tried several of the different fad diets have already given up because they have observed that they make the effort and see very poor results. Others get depressed when they see how a family member or acquaintance who is skinny eats everything they cannot eat and yet remains a skinny skeleton, even though he eats sweets, chocolates and butter every day.
It is illogical because for some mysterious reason some of us get fat even from looking at food. This phenomenon has been called slow metabolism. The term slow metabolism has become so popular that anyone who observes that they put on weight very easily or have great difficulty losing weight uses it to describe their condition even though they cannot explain to themselves what the word metabolism means. For the population slow metabolism means I eat little and gain a lot of weight.
If we look at the national statistics on overweight and obesity we have to conclude that it becomes obvious that the number of people experiencing the famous slow metabolism must be increasing. It would now remain to understand what are the factors that reduce the metabolism to become a slow metabolism. If we knew the factors that reduce the metabolism to a slow metabolism then we could not only avoid the slow metabolism but also recover the metabolism to bring it to an optimal point of health and energy.
This reminds me that I was recently talking to a very pretty young woman who was holding a beautiful baby in her arms. The young woman was telling me about her great difficulty in losing weight. She explained that before she had her baby she could eat anything and always maintained her figure. She showed me pictures of herself as a slim size 4 and with tears in her eyes she told me that now I am a size 10 and nothing fits me. The anguish was evident. Something happened that now she says I have a slow metabolism. It also reminds me of the diabetic man who was at least 60 pounds overweight and who told me I was one of those skinny guys who eats like a cancer and doesn't get fat. Today that skinny guy was obese and complained about having a slow metabolism.
What are the factors that reduce the metabolism and turn it into a slow metabolism? We will see that below. But, the most important thing is to look at the solutions. That is, what we can do to recover the maximum of our metabolism.
After having worked with more than 10,000 people to help them recover their metabolism, I can tell you that there are several factors that reduce metabolism. The agile metabolism that almost all of us are born with can suffer damage if we don't take care of it. Once it has suffered damage it could be called a slow metabolism. Not all of the damage done to the metabolism is recoverable but a good part of it is. That is, if we cannot recover 100% of the metabolism from when we were younger, we can recover a substantial part by applying the right knowledge. So, there is hope for everyone at any age. I have seen a 72 year old lady apply the right knowledge to raise her metabolism and get down from a huge size (size 22) to an elegant size 10. Her family could not believe it, the lady used to walk only with the help of a cane and today she walks 1 mile, 3 times a week, without any help and full of energy and enthusiasm.
There are, of course, some experts who insist on the fixed and mistaken idea that anyone who is overweight or obese is only because they consume too many calories. They generally cling to this simplistic idea that nutrition is the only area that exists to achieve weight loss and feel good. These are people who may certainly have good intentions but surely do not have the ability to look at the other multiple factors that affect a person's metabolism. Sometimes our health professionals' need to be right overshadows their own curiosity and common sense. In my case, as a victim of my own obesity, I did not have the luxury of closing myself off to the idea that only by starving myself and counting calories could I lose weight. My mental health and self-esteem were at stake with this metabolism issue.
Slow metabolism doesn't have to be a life sentence. Metabolism, in large part, can be recovered if we stop doing those things that slow it down and start doing those things that speed it up.