Are Peak Success and Fitness Tied Together?

You don’t see many successful politicians or high tech gurus that are fat.

Is it the public image they want to avoid, the discipline that pervades all their habits, their own concept of leanness and self worth, the acceptance of the value and necessity of health and fitness to enjoy a fruitful life?

When you see people that are fat or overweight you subconsciously figure they drink or they are emotional eaters. Any one who has a lot of sugar in their diet by consuming soda, alcohol, or processed foods will be over weight.

Hamburgers and pizza by themselves will not make you over weight. A hamburger without the bun can be a healthy meal. A pizza with vegetables is also a healthy choice and can be a good support for strenuous exercise.

However, if you add fries, cokes, or beer, you are adding the foods that make you body absorb the calories from the food and turn them into fat.

The reason goes back to the times of early man. In geologic time and evolution, we are still early man. The forager/hunter did not have any sugar in his diet. He ate 30 or 40 plant items and as much meat as he could kill.

The body uses sugar to determine how much you have eaten. Because meat and plants do not have much sugar, the body would regulate a little insulin and digestive juices and enzymes to take care of the meals. It would not store the calories as fat.

A coke or beer tells the bodies sugar measuring device that you have just eaten a moose. It pumps out enough toxic digestive juices and insulin to digest a very big meal, Then it ravenously stores all the calories. It doesn’t recognize the non natural foods, so it encapsulates them in fat.

It doesn’t take long for the fat to build around your middle and thighs. That is why after a year at college, freshman are usually twenty pounds heavier. The only thing that changed in their diet was the beer and late night pizzas. The sedentary part adds to the problem but is not the cause.

Once you are an adult, the fat shows you have emotional problems you can’t release or you are a real unhealthy food junkie. This type of tell sign makes it difficult to get the respect from business prospects you would like to impress or from constituents you would like to vote for you. We don’t need to discuss attraction to the opposite sex.

When you look in the mirror are you proud or do you repeat for the millionth time that you need to take off a few pounds? Are you the only one that notices? How much of your self esteem is tied to the fact you can’t control what you eat or drink?

A healthy natural diet could set off an avalanche of great new outcomes. Start by eliminating the worst offenders. Then find good substitutes. If you give yourself a few years to take out the bad and put in the good, you will have a whole new image in the mirror.