This is possibility one of the most important email you will ever read! Please take 8 minutes and read the whole letter, then email me with your thoughts!
In this letter we discuss:
• We are all born with billions of fat cells
• Why some people gain and loss weight all their life and are still overweight
• Why some people are underweight and no matter what they do they can’t gain weight
• Why weight loss (fat loss) gets harder and harder ever time you try
• Why is there no miracle drug or pill that will ever solve your weight problems
• What your body needs and what you body gets
Did you know that every single person on planet earth is born with fat cells?
Fat cells act as a survival mechanism in times of death and was extremely useful hundreds of years ago when our forefathers only ate once every 10-14 days! Food was not as regularly available as it is today!
As Dr David Heber always says: “The aquarium has changed not the fish”, meaning the human body, its functions and metabolism has not changed at all in the last 2000 years, but the environment has.
Back to the Fat Cells we are all born with. It is now clinically proven that each person is born with trillions of cells and billions of fat cells.
We all need fat cells to maintain normal bodily functions and therefore it is not necessary a bad thing to have. However, having said that fat cells are also the reason why some can’t lose weight and keep it off.
I am going to use easy numbers, just to illustrate how fat cells operate. Let’s assume you were born with 100 000* fat cells, each fat cell can expand and hold about 1ml* of content (fat).
In time of malnutrition, (when your body does not get everything it needs) your body goes into a slow down and storing phase. Your body might be looking for protein, or amino acids, your body creates a craving “hoping” you going to eat protein, but you have no idea it’s looking for protein and you eat as an example a sandwich or a pack of chips (fibre and carbohydrates). Now your body still need the protein, but it only got fibre and carbohydrates. Your body will continue the craving process and keep going until you eat the right protein. At the same time when it’s in starvation mode and has no idea when it will get protein, the excess (fibre and carbohydrates in the example) is now converted to body fat and stored in the fat cells.
Each Fat Cell can only hold so much, once it reaches it maximum capacity (1ml*) it mutates and forms 2 x smaller cells. Each of the 2 x smaller cells can now grow, expand and store more body fat. Yes, that’s right, you had 100 000 fat cells, malnutrition, lack of the right balance and so on causes your body to store body fat in its fat cells and then when the maximum volume is reached, the cells mutates in order to make more space.
You now have twice as much (200 000*) fat cells and twice as much storing capacity. It’s a snowball effect and the more malnutrition and lack of nutrition you experience the more you body stores.
What is even more scary it that once you have those extra fat cells you can never get rid of them again!!!!
You are basically stuck with them. It you don’t control the body fat%, the fat cells keep multiplying and storing.
When someone decides to go on a “diet” they basically want to get rid of the body fat (not the muscle, the organs and certainly not their bones). By going on a diet or taking a chemical to control your appetite they force their body to use up the reserve energy stored in the fat cells. Let’s face it, when you don’t eat your body does not stop the heart and lungs until your next meal and then start working again. What happens is you lose weight because your body needs to maintain normal vital functions and it uses the body fat as energy. In the long run though this process of cutting nutrition or staying without food affects your metabolism and has the opposite effect to weight loss. It also sometimes manifests as an illness, stress, chronic fatigue, and yes you guest it rapid weight gain.
So trying to control your weight by cutting your food intake, or skipping meals is not the best plan and here is another reason why: Have you ever noticed trying to lose body fat, you lose 2 or 3 kg’s on the scale but your body shape is different? Right, this is because simply staying without food or starting an exercise program without the right nutritional intake causes your body to convert the muscle mass into amino acids to maintain vital body function. You might be very happy with the weight loss on the scale, but in the mirror your shape is different. Click here to read more about body fat% in our previous newsletter.
What happens to the fat cells when you lose body fat?
Once you have fat cells you are stuck with them, you can’t cut yourself open and remove them….
The moment you start losing body fat, the volume inside your fat cells decrease until it’s empty. Almost like a plastic bag. You can put all your groceries in the bag, when you done you a fold it up and store the plastic bag in a space 1/100th it size.
Fat Cells are the same; they lose their volume and space, but remain in your body for when you next need them! Next time your body is left malnutrition the fat cells are utilised to make sure you can survive; your body quickly fills the empty fat cells. Rapid weight gain is the results and in many cases you lose 4 or 5 only to gain 6 or 7.
Weight gain during pregnancy:
Woman can store loads of body fat during pregnancy in preparation for the birth of their child. This is a survival mechanism, especially when the mother doesn’t get the right nutrition while pregnant. The woman’s body starts storing body fat to make sure the newly born baby will be fed or kept alive even if there is not adequate food supply available. Now we all know that in today’s day and age, there is more than enough food for the new born baby, but while the mother is pregnant that is not the message the pregnant mother’s body is getting.
Pregnant mothers are often asked so what are you craving for??? The mother will only crave something it their body is not getting the right nutrition. Nature prepares the mother just in case there is not enough, even if the mother mentally know she will have enough to feed the baby, subconsciously the body is storing (filling the fat cells) and making provisions just in case the “environment” outside the womb is not ideal.
What is the solution? How to lose weigh and keep it off:
1. You need to make sure your body gets the Recommended Daily Requirements (RDR) like proteins (amino acids), good carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, fats, oils, water, etc without all the extra calories. Today’s foods is packed with thousands of cheap calories and almost no nutrition.
- A recent study in Germany took oranges from 5 different supermarkets (farmers) and tested it for its Vitamin C content. The results were staggering and trigged a German health department investigation; it was found that 2 of the 5 oranges tested had ZERO Vitamin C and the other 3 less than 15% of the RDR.
- Ask yourself this question, when you buy fruits and vegetables, how on earth do you know if it has then intended nutrients in it?? There is no law forcing farmers or supermarkets to show the nutritional value of fruits and vegetable. BUT, all our dog food has a label on it stating the contents? It seems we have a better idea of what our dogs eat.
- Look at your plate tonight, how many question marks do you see?
- Make sure you eat a balanced (protein based) breakfast.
- Eliminate sugar and chemicals to enhance your foods.
2. Exercise, simple active lifestyle increase your normal body function and helps heart health.
- You don’t have to overdo it.
- ½ hour per day of any physical activity will be magic.
- Do something fun, play a game with your kids, take the dog for a walk, or simply take a walk in your neighbourhood.
3. Make sure you feed your body ½ hour after you wake up in the morning. Enjoy protein based snacks during the day and eat nothing at least 2 hours before you go to bed.
- Kick start your day with a protein breakfast. Click here to see what happens when you don’t
- Breakfast cereal and milk is not as good as the TV wants you to believe.
- Carbohydrates spikes your insulin levels
4. Drink enough water, click here to read what water can do for you.
- Start right now, go drink 2 -3 glasses of water
- When going to the loo and your water has a colour or it smells your body is not in balance
- Drink enough water until your water is clear and has no smell.
- Hunger is often mistaken for thirst. You might feel hungry, but all a long you were thirsty!
- The majority of headaches, colon, and constipation problems are as a result of not enough water.
5. Take in less calories than what you burn
- Make sure your RDR – nutritional intake is not cut, as this will not help the process, but rather slow you down.
- Herbalife does just that, cut your calories, but increase your nutrition.
I have reached a stage, I can lose to a certain weight and then I can’t lose anymore. Why?
The answer: You need to convert your body from sugar burner to fat burner.
(1 month is not enough to do this, it is a process and the sooner you realise this, the better).
How? Nutrition, nutrition, nutrition!!
Increase in your nutrition = Increase in Metabolism = Reduce Body Fat
Maintaining you muscle mass with the right nutrition, increase your resting metabolic rate which forces your body to use up the body fat while maintaining muscle tone.
Balance Nutrition (without all the empty calories) = Ideal “environment” = Normal body function
Cutting calories without cutting nutrition with normal food is just not possible. Under normal circumstances when you cut calories, you also cut the nutrition, which has the opposite effect on your health. You body remains in the storing of body fat mode and store, burn store, burn. The extra calories (sugars) is burned and stored, from where it’s only converted when your starve yourself.
Increase in nutrition (without all the calories), forces your body to get the energy it needs from the food you eat, while converting the body fat into fuel. When your body is getting everything it needs, the increase in metabolism = increase rate of calories burn while at rest.
Your body starts converting the body fat and no longer needs it!!!
The fat cells stay empty!!!!! Problem solved!
Did you know that your age or genes has ZERO to do with how you look and feel?
I get this often, my mother or father is overweight that is why I am overweight, I have inherited it….. bullocks!!!
Genes can’t be blamed for your state of being. What you consume determines your health!
You are what you eat.
Your age also has ZERO to do with how you look.
It’s all about your nutrition! Our containers (bodies) were designed to live for 100 years plus…. what we put into it causes it to break down and malfunction.
Many people will service and refuel their cars more often than they service or look after their own bodies.
Stop saying it’s because of this or that that I have a health problem or weight issue and face the facts: Change your nutrition and change your life!!!
For all the reasons explained above, you need to ensure your body gets the right RDR every day, the rest your body will take care of.
Your job is to give it the right ingredients; your body will do the magic!!!
I am underweight, why?
Well you are not alone and yes there is a solution for you as well.
99% of people are either overweigh or under weight and only 1% is in balance. This means that you have the same problem as someone who is overweight. What? Yes if you are underweight it means that you are not feeding your body the right nutrition and instead of your body storing any excess you might consume like someone who is overweight. When you underweight your body simply discards what it doesn’t need and converts muscle mass into amino acids and uses that. Autopsies performed on people who die of anorexia, showed there was no muscle left, only fat and bone. The body will use up all the muscle to stay alive.
The underlying problem is empty calories, food with energy but no nutrition. Just by increasing your calories (eating more) you will never gain weight. You need to increase your nutrition.
If you are underweight you are likely to suffer from no appetite, some health issues as well as fatigue.
Did you know that more than 70% of all health issues are nutrition related?
As little as 3 kg’s of abdominal fat has the ability to act as extra organ cause havoc with your enzymes and hormones.
Being overweight or underweight has the same long term impact on your health.
Think about it 7 out of 10 people who visit the doctor don’t need go!! Don’t need the chemicals the doctor prescript!!! Don’t need to spend thousands on medical bills….unreal!!
Fact: For the first time in history there is 2 Billion Underweight as well as 2 Billion Overweight people in the world.
Illness associated with being overweight:
Chronic Fatigue
Diabetes, type 2
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Heart disease
Stroke
Gout
Gallstones and gallbladder disorders
Some types of cancer
Constipation
Heartburn
Complicated pregnancy
Poor female reproductive health
Depression
Stress
Illness associated with being underweight:
Chronic fatigue
Digestive problems
Hair loss
Osteoporosis
Anemia
Eating disorders
Depression
Stress
Complicated pregnancy
Poor female reproductive health
Menstrual irregularities
Heart palpitations
As you can see the majority of illness listed above can be found in both categories. Whether you under-or-over-weight the long term risk on your health is the same.
Remember, if you give your body what it needs (balanced nutrition) it will perform the miracle.
Just by starting your day with a health breakfast (protein based) you are already going a long way in improving your health!!!
What the body needs:
Protein (amino acids)
Vitamins & Minerals
Trace elements
Fibre
Healthy fats
Good carbohydrates
Water
Herbs
(Herbalife F1, F2 and Fibre and Herb provide all of the above)
What the body gets:
Excess Sugar & Salt
Fats (bad fats)
Chemicals
Pesticides
Artificial Colours
Preservatives
Pollution
Hormones
Alcohol & Tobacco
As a final note:
Okay, it’s the silly season and the time of the year where we can celebrate the past year, nothing wrong with that.
It is however the time of the year where it’s the most difficult to stay focused on your health goals. Remember the fat cells, we all are born with? During this time of the year we tend to socialize more and consume more sugars and bad fats our body really does not need. The only part of your body which really enjoy this is the size of a tennis ball; yes you guessed it your mouth. Think about this, the food you eat…. do you eat it for what it can do for your body, or do you eat it for the taste?
That slice of carrot cake, what are the ingredients? Sugar, fat, maize (corn, cheap carbohydrate), loads of calories, ZERO nutrition.
What do you think your body does with that??
You consume the energy; it must do something with it? Yes, it will simply convert it to body fat or burn it (if your resting metabolic rate is normal).
Usually during this time those fat cells are filled to the max and then on the 1st January you want to empty them out again, but as a result of the festive season overeating you now have twice as many as the last time you try to make a change.
Why not start right now? Why not start to take control on your nutritional intake now, today, this very minute. Why not??
I want you to enjoy the festive season, but limit yourself to 1, 2 or even 3 days to relax and to enjoy all the foods you want to eat. The rest of the time, make a conscious decision to make healthy choices. When you take the right nutrition you will not crave and feel hungry. You will control overeating and you will want to make the right choices.
If you need help, staying on track let me know, we are open to help you right through December.
If you looking for the Herbalife solution, reply right now and let me help you and guide you to the new better looking, healthier you!!!
All the best and thanks for your time!
*For illustration purpose only.
Herbalife range can be classified into, Basic Core Nutrition:
Herbalife Niteworks is packed with Amino Acids L-Arginine & L-Citrulline in the perfect quantity which when consumed before bed time, helps create an environment inside your body for Nitric oxide (NO) production which in turn helps to keep your blood vessels and veins flexible.
“I started using Niteworks when it was launched in America because my family has a history of heart disease and so I wanted some insurance for my future. I have found that I sleep better, wake up refreshed, have more energy and have an increased overall sense of wellbeing.
“I have been using Niteworks for 5 weeks now, before starting on the product I used to have a problem with waking up and getting out of bed., I had to rely on someone to wake me up. I am now waking up at 5:30 am on my own and I don’t struggle to get up, in fact I wake up feeling very refreshed and with an incredible sense of wellness, I will never stop using this product.”
“I am 63 years old and I live in Tongaat, North Coast. I used to suffer with blood pressure problem and this led to a stroke on my right side 3 years ago and I am confined to a wheel chair due to an amputation of my left leg and right foot. While visiting my cousin in Gauteng one evening before going to bed he gave me a glass of liquid to drink and it tasted like a lemon drink. He did not tell me what it was, he just told me to drink it and it would help to sleep.
How about you?
