Thoughts on the Nature of Fat Loss
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Speaker 1:I've got about 20 bites, and it's so itchy. That is so it's hard to stay still. I can sleep complete itch. But, you know, gotta do a good spray now. Oh, there's one that Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Anyway, enough about mosquitoes. What are gonna talk about today in this podcast, guys? I'm away. I mean, Keflonian is not very historical in terms of what I'm interested in, so I'm not really relaying the facts. I was in in an offense.
Speaker 1:And in reality, if we wanna talk about health and fitness and macros, nutrition, and all that stuff, it is really as simple as calorie deficit, hitting macros. There's no need to overcomplicate that. That's it. The game of Tetris over time is what works. That's it.
Speaker 1:I don't know why we need to overcomplicate that fact. That's the fact. Let's leave that fact there. Let's move to the most important part. What's the most important part of the equation?
Speaker 1:Well, it's obviously getting into a deficit. It's obviously not eating in moderation. It's obviously being able to curb, my word, the metaphor, curb our desire. Or can we not curb desire? Does it keep going?
Speaker 1:Like, how do we stop binge eating? How do we stop eating too much food? Do we stop turning to food for comfort? How do we do these things? That's the question.
Speaker 1:Know thyself, as Socrates says. So instead of me running away to reading my books all the time, you guys running away to thinking of other scientific reasons why you're not losing weight, whether you think it's hormones, you think it's this and that. The truth of the matter is if you're not losing fat over the long period of time, you're not in a calorie deficit. Right? And it might take four to six weeks for you to actually show total weight dropping because you could lose fat for a while and not lose weight because fat loss and weight loss are not the same things.
Speaker 1:Remember that. And after that, your measurements and stuff. If things aren't moving in the right direction, it's very easy to blame things outside of what, you know, the truth is. We skew with it to, like, can't be me. I'm definitely tracking.
Speaker 1:Are you 100% tracking? Because if you're not, the chances are you're gonna be off. Are you secret eating? What's your weekends like? All this stuff.
Speaker 1:You know? We need to start looking at those things, the reality things, and not let these people on the Internet make us think that it's down to our met metabolism, down to hormones, down to genetics, whilst they play a role, none of those override a calorie deficit. The the the the law of thermodynamics in physics, energy cannot be created or destroyed. It's only transferred from one form to another. You learn this in physics.
Speaker 1:This is the rule that governs the entire universe. So energy will transform from one form to another. A star blows up. Right? That energy that's blown up is transformed into other forms of energy, other you know, the the at atom carbon the carbon atoms in our body.
Speaker 1:The only way carbon atoms are formed in the universe is when a sun, a star, blows up. Right? So these these destructive forces create new things, but the energy is just transferred from one form to another. And then when we bring it down to the human body now we know that quantum physics, if you look into quantum physics, it doesn't work in the same as well. It doesn't work in the same world.
Speaker 1:It's very different laws there for some reason. It's a bit weird. But the the law of thermodynamics energy wise is the same everywhere. Planets, universes, galaxies. Right?
Speaker 1:Energy on Earth, our bodies. So we all are governed by this law. So we eat food. Think about it in a very simple form. We eat food, which is energy.
Speaker 1:That energy is used up in different ways. Of course, we've mac, protein, carbs, and fat. If we have too much energy, we don't need it. So we store it because we might need it at later date. It's a very good mechanism storing excess energy.
Speaker 1:Because if we never stored it and just pissed it all out all the time, because it's gotta go somewhere, it's either gets stored or it's gotta leave or it's gotta get used. We can't use it because we've used enough as it is. We don't need to use more. So we store it or we or we would have just got rid of it. If we got rid of it, that means when it comes to times when we don't have energy coming in, we'd be we'd be buggered when we so that's why body fat in a sense is it causes it's it's a thing that saves our lives, basically.
Speaker 1:It keeps us living. So the simple terms is if we've got stored fat, we need to you to lie we need to get that stored fat back into a form that's usable. So that energy has to be transformed from stored fat into the bloodstream to then be used as energy with by the body, and you basically breathe it out. Right? That's what happens with fat loss, fat oxidization.
Speaker 1:And the way for this to happen is as a net net, your body must be in a deficit over time. So a lot of people and you'll see a lot of this on the Internet. They say, well, if you go into ketosis or if you go into low carb and stuff, you are burning fat for longer because when you're not eating much carbs, your body switches energy, the utilization of energy to fat. And this happens throughout the day. Your body use fat sometimes.
Speaker 1:It starts using carbs, fat carbs, fat carbs, carb, carb, carb, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, carb. Right? Whatever the combination is, it doesn't matter. Because if it's not a deficit at the end of the day over time, then it's not you're not gonna lose body fat. Using fat as energy is not the same as burning losing body fat.
Speaker 1:So your body can use fat, but if you're in ketosis, you're eating way more fat as a part of your diet. So, of course, it's gonna burn more fat. That's the energy source coming in. So you oh, yeah. Your body's burning fat.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But you're eating your diet is literally all fat. So when it's you're consuming that fat, then you might be consuming some body fat. But then if you're not on a deficit, then net is gonna store again. And then net net, you haven't lost fat.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense? So using fat as energy is not the same as losing body fat. Losing body fat, there must be a deficit to take from. Now that's simple. So I did wrong wrong that up because it it can be quite confusing with these, like, different energy systems and this and that.
Speaker 1:And at the end of the day, the more people want to confuse you is because most of the time they wanna sell you something. Or one, it's like there's an ego involved, and they wanna make things more complicated because that's their field of expertise maybe. And they they can't handle the fact that it can be simple. Form the general population, it can be simplified. They don't want that to happen because they want it to feel like there's more to it.
Speaker 1:If if if someone can't explain things simply, it's either the ego's in a way or they don't know the subject enough. There's a famous physicist called Richard Feynman, and he was the best physicist physics teacher ever to live, basically. People thought know, look at his lectures and stuff, they are the best. And you look at his form of teaching, and he was explaining to a five year old. If you can't explain it simple enough, plug the gaps plug the gaps and re re reteach it as if you're talking to a five year old.
Speaker 1:And if they get it, you know the subject enough to be able to teach it. And that's when it comes down to this old fatal thing. This very, very simple. Psychological battle is a different realm. There is no path to the psychological side.
Speaker 1:I mean, I can't we I can make you think about things, but I can't do anything psychologically. I can't be there when you wanna order a delivery. I can't be there when you're binge eating. We can make you think about these moments to come and see if you can change your percept perception of it. But in the end of the day, most of us are stuck in our psychological battles, and we think we're fixing them.
Speaker 1:I think it's the human condition. We think, no. I can't get out of it. I'm always binge eating. I hate myself all this stuff.
Speaker 1:Right? And we don't we wanna we wanna be able to look at that entire mess, psychological mess we all we all are basically in, and we need to look at how it's all made up. How it's all made up. So our speaking with the languages podcast that we we learn, we develop language by explaining psychological things or things psychologically through the physical world. That makes complete sense.
Speaker 1:But of course, the physical world can never represent represent the inward psychological thing we're feeling. Right? So whenever truly explaining what's really happening, that's the first thing to understand because there's no you can't learn from someone else's explanation. You have to learn yourself. Know thyself is such an old concept.
Speaker 1:Socrates, like, know thyself. Like, you know, you might blow away and go or whatever, but it is he does what he says. Socrates literally says, the only wisdom is that. Like, he can say all he wants to you. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Do you know yourself? Most of us have no clue. Do you know why you think a certain way? Can you understand why that is? Can you see how your thoughts are a creation of your memory?
Speaker 1:And your memory is the is is the storage of your experience. And your experience is a very limited narrow thing from where you were born, what you you were taught, your friends, family, culture, religion, all that stuff. Very narrow, limited way. Our thoughts come from this. Right?
Speaker 1:And obviously, we think our thoughts is all real and we take them all so seriously. And then we think we are the thoughts. And in a sense, we are all of it. But we take it all so seriously that these random thoughts, some crazy thoughts we have, we take them seriously and then the taking of them seriously, our perception of the thoughts we have is the problem, not the thoughts themselves. Because the thoughts themselves, you can't do anything about them.
Speaker 1:You are who you are. You you've been conditioned for many, many years, and it's not reversible. You can't reverse the condition. You think I cannot be Welsh. You're telling me to change my accent.
Speaker 1:There's no way I can change my well, I can maybe put an accent on, but me is in my natural state. I'm a Welshman. I'm from the Valleys in West Wales. I love Wales. I'm the person I am.
Speaker 1:I speak for modernisms, everything. This is me. My experience growing up from my background, you know, my friends and family, my humor, everything, all this stuff is me due to my upbringing. I can't change that because changing that means changing 29 of stuff. But what I can do is I can look at it and see, ah, I get it.
Speaker 1:That's why I think that way. Or this is why that thought happened. Like, I can see it, and I don't actually have to be judgmental of it at all. I can simply observe it and be like, oh, interesting. You know, classic Wales versus England stuff.
Speaker 1:In Wales, we get drilled into us as a young age that England is this big rival against England, and it's very easy. And I'm sure English people, the boys as well, you you know, you're out to me. You're the English accent. You gotta fucking the English. You know, it's a quick one.
Speaker 1:Bam. And it's interesting because this this is built into this rivalry, young when you play rugby and all that as well. And it's like these all these thoughts come straight in. Straight in. They take them all seriously.
Speaker 1:You're fighting forever, literally fighting for ages. So there was a book in 1918 about the first book about calories and how losing weight for calories. Now I've seen a few comments in the in the Facebook group as well. The calories and the calorie, all the stuff. A calorie is a unit of measurement.
Speaker 1:Right? So a calorie is a calorie. Right? But food isn't the same. All foods aren't created equal, obviously.
Speaker 1:You got more nutrient dense stuff, but a calorie is a calorie. Right? So there was a book in 1918 written by this this woman. It's it's it's phenomenal. I'll send the link.
Speaker 1:You can read it as a PDF. I think they don't sell it anymore. And she is this doctor, and she says about, look, you can eat pies, whatever. Just be in a deficit. This is how you work your deficit out with all this stuff.
Speaker 1:She's brutally honest about it. She's like, look, someone's overweight or obese. They're eating too much energy for their needs. They need to look at their energy and energy out. Right?
Speaker 1:And they sold $2,000,000, right, which is loads, but at the same time, it doesn't touch enough of the world. But between then and now, oh my god, the shit has come out. The shit that has come out about how to lose weight. We are the answer, the modern answer well, there wasn't a problem of weight loss of of being overweight really until, you know, after World War two essentially. I mean, you know, people on rations and stuff, it was very hard to over overeat back in the day, especially for the lower classes.
Speaker 1:I mean, the kings and stuff, you know, you know, fat kings and all that. But it was hard. But now we live in a world where there's so much abundance of food. It's actually unbelievable. Like, is there so much food?
Speaker 1:I was thinking this the day, it's like there's so much food everywhere. How is this possible? Back in the day, they were like literally nothing. So there's so much food, there's so much abundance. Right?
Speaker 1:And the answer is you just eat consuming too much of it. That's a simple explanation of it. The truth of it is that. And then the skewed version is what we hear about all the other stuff. You you know, it's gotta be this and that.
Speaker 1:And it sounds about right. A lot of these things sound right. That's the problem when they sound sciency, and it's like, oh, yeah. That sounds quite right. But at the end of the day, the battle is you your psychological self.
Speaker 1:Where what is happening there? You have to look into yourself. I I spot myself all the time. I'm like, wanna read another book. Right?
Speaker 1:I'm like, why am I always trying to read books? Why why am I escaping to books all the time? Why can't I sit to myself for a bit? You know? It's like, that's an escape a form of escapism for me.
Speaker 1:I wanna attain obtain more knowledge. Why do I need more knowledge? You know? Why is there a need for more knowledge? It's not gonna make me happier.
Speaker 1:It's not gonna gain give me anything. And I've been reading more on this because the language is bugless talking about it. Why do we think gaining psychologically is gonna help us? But the reason is it's the same as the answer to language. If we explain the physical world psychologically to understand it, we saw in the physical world that the accumulation of stuff for security, the accumulation of weapons, property, money brought security with it, in our sense, in the physical realm, it did.
Speaker 1:And we have now transferred that to the psychological realm where if we can keep accumulating things, we think it's gonna give us security. We think it's gonna make us feel safe. We think it's gonna make us better because in the physical world, the more things you can accumulate back in the day maybe equal better. And because we've got this now in our heads, we think more is better. And more is simply just desire, basically.
Speaker 1:More and desire are the same thing. Desire in, desire in, desire in because we think the more we can we can accumulate, the safer we're gonna be. So in our sense, myself, I'm accumulating knowledge deep down thinking that somehow it could give me security. Maybe so. Maybe that's what I think.
Speaker 1:But if we keep accumulating self knowledge or not self knowledge, if we keep accumulating things psychologically, right, That's just all we're doing. We're thinking, what can we I'm accumulating this above myself, that above myself. This is me. This is our I need to all take it on, take it on. You build this picture of yourself.
Speaker 1:Right? And then you start thinking that you need to build more by yourself. You don't need your reputation, all this stuff. You think you're gonna get some sort of security from it. At the end of the day then, you feel so tight to this self image of yours that anything that anything that threatens it makes you defensive.
Speaker 1:That's what happens. We have built this self image of ourselves, and we don't really see what we've done and this condition and all this stuff. We all see it now. Build a self image, that's the thing that protect when we need to we protect because we feel that because we have accumulated it over time, it's an asset, basically. And that is the start of the problem really because there's always a division in, isn't it?
Speaker 1:It's the the thing we've accumulated in the world and there's, oh, go like this and that. And that's like another topic entirely. But if you look at everything you've accumulated psychologically, the story you've told yourself over and over, Freya sent me a a video to watch this interview, and she talks about something called core beliefs. And again, we all have these core beliefs we've built up over time and time and time. What are they?
Speaker 1:Have we ever questioned our core beliefs? Are we even open to questioning them? Is the quest is really the question. You know, you can you think you have these you think you got these facts about things, and you won't budge on them. But that's the start.
Speaker 1:That's the actually the end of you ever learning anything more. I think what's the quote? If you think you if you think you can. No. No.
Speaker 1:You can't learn what you think you already know. So anything you go into and you all you think you already know. Nutrition is a classic. Everyone thinks they know everything about nutrition. You speak to your friends and family and they're like, oh, you shouldn't do this, shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1:They think they know. And because they think they know, they're not even open to learning the truth of our nutrition. Same as training. Psychology. How can anyone tell you much about psychology in a sense because yourself?
Speaker 1:We, you know, we think we already know everything and then there's no more learning. And we stop learning at a young age, think. Some of us are much younger than others. Some of us are students all the time, which is great. But think about where you've stopped learning because you think your beliefs about stuff are so strong.
Speaker 1:You think you're right. Look at those areas and start questioning them. Start looking into them. And I think that's the way that's the start. You know, that's the start of the nutrition stuff we're doing.
Speaker 1:Again, we've got the new fourteen the fourteen day challenge coming, the second version of it. So everyone's open to do it. If you wanna get back into it, learn how to use a new app, more of the mindset stuff. You know, what do you think you know about nutrition? You know, what really is the truth?
Speaker 1:Is eating a Mars bag gonna cause you to gain weight? Can you eat food that is labeled junk food and still lose weight? Will eating junk food as 20% of your diet cause your health to go down? Can you reverse diabetes by eating a diet that still contains foods with sugar? You know, what are the answers to these?
Speaker 1:If you think you already know the answer, you don't. That's the truth of it, you don't. And you've got someone like doctor p who has got this wealth of information on nutrition. It's like huge amount of knowledge about research and truth and facts that even if he started to tell you something and you're you're not willing to let go of everything you've learned, you will not learn from someone who is an absolute expert in the field. Think how crazy that is.
Speaker 1:Because we are so stuck to our beliefs, We won't even be open to learning from someone of that caliber. That's the sad reality, like, why aren't people willing to do it? You know? It's it's it's for me, it's maddening. It's maddening because if you were to empty the cup, as Bruce Lee said and Krishna Murti and all these people say, know, empty the mind, empty the cup, start from nothing, start from fresh.
Speaker 1:When you start a new program, you got these experts, other people member other members learn from. God, learn a lot. Even in fourteen days, the last challenge, people couldn't believe what they learned in fourteen days about themselves, about nutrition, about community because they empty their mind. Okay? I'm gonna empty my mind for two weeks, and I'm gonna be open, and I'll I'll watch my biases.
Speaker 1:I'll watch my condition and I see it. I see it trying to creep in. No. That can't be right. That was but you see, that was Slimming World.
Speaker 1:Slimming World five years into my head. I get where our thought has come from. I'm not gonna take it seriously, but take note. I see it and you start noticing the your thoughts and where they actually come from. And then you you notice how you took those thoughts seriously and that went down.
Speaker 1:It's a mad world. It's mad. But guys, I'm done now. I'm done for today. I'm on my way.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna spend my last day in Keflon. I'll probably drive around the island. Got my friends now left me. So I'm on a solo journey for a bit until I meet other friends on the way. But, yeah, that's it really.
Speaker 1:Hope you have a good day. This is your trigger as it was to get your one big thing done. Like, what is it? Get it done. Start your day.
Speaker 1:Wins, wins, wins. Little wins. Build momentum. What I've noticed really as well and I'll finish this because this voice note is now twenty minutes long. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well, momentum. Bit of momentum I noticed earlier because I've been away now for two weeks, about a two week break. I'm not gonna be able to have much more of a break because when you run a business and all this stuff, you just it just can't happen, unfortunately. Just gotta get back in.
Speaker 1:Guys, gotta get back into it, help you all out, get things going, improve things. But what I realized was momentum is such a big thing. The momentum of the challenge into that event. Right? Huge momentum lead through to everybody for a week or so.
Speaker 1:And then you can feel it. You I for me, you feel the momentum can go down. And once momentum slows, it's hard to build up. Same with rugby warfare. I remember back in 2017, 2018.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. The momentum I had. Rugby players from all blacks, France, Fiji, Wales, England, all these players wearing my stuff and it's building momentum momentum and momentum was like carrying the brand itself, you know. And it's huge growth and sales and opportunities. And then when you lose momentum, oh, the wheels come off and then it's kind of you can get to a you can get to a dead stop again, and you have to rebuild her up.
Speaker 1:So in a sense, it's easier to it's better to keep momentum going somehow, be able to keep it going than ever to go to a full stop. And I'm talking in terms of nutrition and stuff like that, like, whilst you it's fine to have a break and all that. Right. It's fine to update weeks or days off training or tracking your macros and all that. Still keeping something in there that keeps you on track.
Speaker 1:Will help you not to come to you. You're still gonna go five miles per hour. Still may go off a bit faster than a full stop. Because when you come to a full stop, feel, oh, you gotta push that. You gotta get the energy to push inside of going again.
Speaker 1:So that's just a tip really. If you're feeling a bit deflated, feeling a bit low, low energy, take a break and stuff, but don't completely cut it off. Look at something, get your steps in maybe, just keep your steps going. Keep the daily diary entries going, you know. Maybe do a work a workout a week, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Just keep something going because you I'm sure hell, you know, you will thank yourself for doing that. But that's it, My longest voice note to date. I'll be speaking to you soon.
