We recently spoke with J. Stanton about what we eat.
Now we wanna talk to him about how we eat and how that affects us.
So J., we've heard that you should eat a bunch of small meals throughout the day to lose
weight, but is there any truth to that?
Absolutely not. You don't lose weight by eating. You lose weight by not eating. By analogy
you can look at how animals eat. Predators are uniformly lean and muscular. They'll gorge
on their kill and then fast for extended periods of time. Sometimes only eating once every
day or every few days. On the other extreme, prey animals, like cattle, graze constantly
and they get very, very fat doing that. So, by analogy to humans, not that we should eat
once every 3 days, but, it is better to eat like a predator, than like prey.
So, is it more about how often we eat or how much?
In my experience, and i think in most people's experience, it's much easier to limit the
number of times you eat than to try to limit the quantity you eat when you do eat.
Hmm... Well, I know for me, if i don't eat something every couple hours I tend to get
pretty hangry.
I used to be the guy you had to feed every three hours or he turned into an ogre. "Oh,
gotta feed J. again, he's getting grumpy."
So are you saying your body eventually gets used to eating less often? And, if that's
the case, what's the biggest difference we'll notice going from grazing like prey to eating
like a predator?
The most important change is that food doesn't run your life. Once you don't have to keep
stuffing yourself with snacks every couple hours, you'll realize how much more time you
have to devote to fixing yourself real food.
Really interesting stuff here! Again, thanks to J. Stanton for his insight into how and
what we eat and be sure to check out his website gnolls.org for more of his thoughts on nutririon.
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