Yo-Yo Diets Leave you Disappointed Year after Year…
Healthy Eating, Eat Fat and Shed Weight…
It is during the holiday season that everybody wants to shed a few extra pounds. We find ourselves spending late nights at the gym, long hours on the treadmill, and packing mini meals for lunch. All this to lose a couple extra pounds, feel wore out, and have no energy come family holiday time.
That is until now. Abundant Life Chiropractic, chanhassen chiropractors, are suggesting this crucial weight loss tip. Chiropractor, Dr. Ben Knight suggest doubling your fat intake. Yes, we understand this sounds ridiculous! Our whole lives we have been told that eating fat will actually make you fat… Why the heck would I want to eat more fat when I am trying to lose weight.
Fat and it’s four critical functions on your body and for weight loss.
Fat actually makes up a component of every cell in your body. The outer cell membrane is composed of a fat bi-layer which controls the entrance of good nutrients and oxygen coming into the cell and the expelling of bad nutrition and toxins leaving the cell. This bi-layer of fat serves as the armor to protect and keep every cell healthy.
When you eat bad fats like trans-fats, processed-fats, and polyunsaturated fats you create unhealthy cell walls. Unhealthy cell walls cannot allow the cell to breathe and eventually suffocate it with toxins and other junk. It is critical to eat healthy saturated fats to have a healthy cellular wall.
Fats are also the precursor to every single hormone in your body. Progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, serotonin, melatonin are all hormones composed from a fat. Good healthy fats will lead to good healthy hormones and vice versa. Crazy, right! We have all heard you are what you eat, but when you actually dive into the concept of that phrase, what you eat will influence your mood, energy level and ability to sleep well at night time… Ready to start eating good fats yet?
If you are not quite there yet, I know this one will do it for you. There are several metabolic processes in the body that use fat as it’s fuel source. Similar to putting wood on a fire to keep the fire burning strong, these metabolic processes desire healthy fats in order to keep you burning fat. That is correct, in order to actually burn fat and lose weight you have to eat fat!
If weight loss was not enough for you to start healthy eating, then hopefully this will. ATP is the energy precursor for the entire body. Our chiropractors continually hear one common complaint from our patients, “that I am too tired or wore out.” Our doctors have seen an major rise in chronic fatigue and low energy levels with patients over the past year.
The one thing all of these patients have in common is the lack of good fats. Yes, not only does fat help you lose weight but you need it for energy!
Abundant Life Chiropractic healthy eating suggestion of how to lose weight, gain energy and vibrate into the holidays. Eat healthy, organic, non-denatured fats. Below is a list of fats recommended by our nutrition experts.
- Coconut Oil
- Omega Sufficiency
- Cod Liver Oil
- Avocados
- Wild Caught Fish
- Free Range organic beef and chicken
- Organic butter and dairy products
- Raw nuts: walnuts, cashews, pecans etc…
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Grapeseed Oil
Be the best you can be in 2016, call Abundant Life Chiropractic at 952.300.8338 to schedule a complete and thorough wellness consultation.
