Your Body Is Brilliant: Homeostasis 101
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Warm-Up
It’s all good if you don’t know the answers. You will get another shot at this quiz later in the lesson.
Q1
Your body does not “want” to become chronically fat any more than it “wants” cancer.
True
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
False
Try again and don’t worry…today’s lesson will clear this up.
Q2
Rampant obesity disproves that your body is attempting to balance calories for you.
True
Try again and don’t worry…today’s lesson will clear this up.
False
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
Q3
To avoid obesity and disease you have to consciously count 16 types of minerals, 13 types of vitamins, 17 types of amino acids, and 2 types of fatty acids.
True
Try again and don’t worry…today’s lesson will clear this up.
False
Correct! You are about to learn exactly why.
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inSANE
Spend All Day Thinking About Basic Bodily Functions & You Are Not Fundamentally Flawed
Listen
Note 1
Calorie counting is a restriction model. It is saying you are inadequate; you are broken by default. If you don’t count calories, your stupid and weak body will go off the train tracks, and you will become fat, and no one will love you. It puts you in this position of being broken and inadequate and is incredibly repressive.
Note 2
Telling you to be hungry the rest of your life is like saying you need to go to the bathroom less frequently for the rest of your life. If you’re hungry, your body is saying that for a reason.
Note 3
Stop thinking about eating like math, and start thinking about eating like breathing, drinking, or any automatically balanced bodily function.
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SANE
Spend All Day Thinking About Things You Love & You Learned the Truth in High School Biology
Listen
Note 1
Compare “eat less and count calories so you shrink” to “eat an abundance of natural and healthy foods because I want you to be the most brilliant, vibrant, version of yourself possible… One is suppressive, shrinking, and demeaning, while the other is uplifting, accurate, and actually helpful.
Note 2
Every relevant study ever conducted proves that your body works to automatically balance calories. This also explains why calorie counting fails for more than 95% of us.
Note 3
When you learn how brilliant your body is and how to heal it rather than trying to fight it via calorie counting, medication, and spending hours in the gym, you will never have to worry about your weight again.
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Quiz
Remember these? Give them one more try now that you’ve spent a few minutes going SANE.
Q1
Your body does not “want” to become chronically fat any more than it “wants” cancer.
True
Correct! Given the devastating effect of chronic fat gain, it makes no sense for humans to be designed to or to have evolved to be obese without complex efforts such as calorie counting.
False
Try again.
Q2
Rampant obesity disproves that your body is attempting to balance calories for you.
True
Try again.
False
Correct! Given how little weight we gained relative to the amount we should have gained according to calorie math, our current situation actually supports the fact that your body works to balance you out automatically.
Q3
To avoid obesity and disease you have to consciously count 16 types of minerals, 13 types of vitamins, 17 types of amino acids, and 2 types of fatty acids.
True
Try again.
False
Correct! Your body automatically balances essential substances. These include at least minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids, water, and calories.
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Support
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Celebrate
Nice job! Here’s some recommended eating and reading to help you celebrate.
Recommended Eating
Pea Protein
Recommended Reading
Tips to Make Eating More Green Veggies…Transcript & Show
