If you are like me engaged in years of clinical observation, you can intercept philosophical and transactional fallacies from a great distance. If you have the means and the associated affective temperament, you can advance a corrective.
Speaking of Corrective, I shall spend a brief moment addressing what fitness trainers pretend does not exist in the world of health and fitness. I can take liberty to interrogate fallacies in the wellness space because I am a research scholar in Health Education. I can see the health field as though looking through it; and the general public is going around in circles without the faintest clue.
It is obvious, if you are paying attention, that so many people are tortured around the vortex of weight loss and food consumption. Which actually is the simplest thing in the world if you are balanced. That could start another conversation - I know.
But why not deal with that conversation. Because, that is the missing link. Everybody seems to be stuck on everything else except the central concept of BALANCE.
If you could resolve the gravitational disorientation engendered by the absence of balance, you would be shocked to discover that so much is organized around that hidden yet magical conception of balance. There are so many examples one could advance to explain this.
To be centered is to inhabit a specific state of orientation. If you are existentially sensitive, you understand that with absolute immediacy. If you are superficial, sensorially unaware it goes over your head. Deep awareness is acute. Most people exist devoid of it.
If you are a trainer, instructor or coach, you are remiss if you fail to explain to your students and clients why they are doing what you are directing them to do. You should not expect them to comply with your directives without understanding why. There are clear reasons most people in the United States are out of form. Some Americans already understand why. Most others are completely inured.
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO EAT RIGHT AND LOSE WEIGHT, YOU ARE IN THE REALM OF ART.
The problem is that you are unaware of that. Look around you. Most humans you see are ordinary. The idea of internal re-organization is what people do when they are on a self-developmental course-correction. Most people couldn’t give a flying fuck. They are not going anywhere! The reason they are not in a hurry to get healthy is, in the main, because they have subconsciously pledged allegiance to the herd. Imagine the power of mimesis - of mimetic desire. But the tragedy of mindless imitation.
There are those who believe that they should lose weight and be in top shape. They are convinced they deserve it. To which I say: No you don’t. What makes you think you do? If you live in America, you should work twice as hard to be in good shape - harder than Europeans, Australians, South Americans and others. You live in one of the worst places to eat food and you probably, like a lot of folks, lack a sense of measure. Looking and feeling healthy works against you in America. The Food and Drug Industry has you hooked and essentially inextricably bound to their tentacles.
Which is exactly why you must rise above America itself, transcending it, to find yourself. If you cannot do that, you have not even begun. Sailors understand that to fix the ship when something goes terribly wrong, you must, of necessity, get off the fuck’n ship to fix it.
I used to have friends while at the University of Rome who would remark: L’Italia e rovinata, andiamo via. It loosely translates: Italy is fucked, let’s get the hell outa here. Problem was, Italy is among the most gorgeous places on the planet and the food is amazing. Dove andiamo? Where shall we go?
These are places where being overweight is considered an aberration just as overeating is considered obscene. Quite the reverse is the case in America. Pizza in America is laughably gross - yet a thin crust in Italia; drinks are humanly normal size in Italia but grossly super, super-sized in America with tons of sugar; yet the daily allowance is 25 grams of sugar daily for women and 35 grams or so for men daily. People easily down up to 100 grams of soda in one sitting in America. Are you serious?
With such bizarre nutritional behavior, what could the trajectory possibly be?
America is not a classical culture, it is not an aesthetic environment and certainly not body-aware. And finally, its anti-intellectualism robs its populace of the lyricism of beauty’s appreciation. Beauty is form. And if that is true, then the real conversation has not even begun.
THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOOD CONSUMPTION AND HEALTH
THE STRATEGY OF ONE MEAL A DAY (OMAD)
The stringent modality of food consumption known as OMAD has been around for thousands of years. Modernity and industrial human evolution in dynamic transaction has changed the old practice. The practice existed for as long as it did because no choice existed for many. And, it worked at a very organic level. People could practice temperance in an atmosphere of food scarcity.
If you are interested in One Meal A Day, ask yourself why you should embark on plying its path. Plying this course can be an inexorable travail for an unbearably great number of people. Frankly, I am fascinated by people’s fascination with the practice - because there is, truthfully, NOTHING to it. But that’s beside the point.
Here’s the point. If you are ONLY seeking to lose weight by the application of this modality, I would counsel you to seek a different modality and here is directly why: You will not get anywhere ultimately unless you acquire a philosophic and psychologic understanding of OMAD and the larger contextual scheme within which the practice exists.
You are, no doubt, puzzled by that claim. As you should be. Let me share this. People will try anything to lose weight when they are desperate. But desperation is not enough. A lot of trainers will say: Do this and this and this. But what they almost never ask new clients to do is Gain a Clear Conception of THIS. You see, losing the weight is not ultimately the goal. It always SEEMS so.
What your object should be, is to adaptively BECOME the type who has a mastery over weight management, power over food-related impulses and unquestionable personal control.
It is important to be advised that although OMAD features as a great alternative to arbitrary, unregulated consumption, it requires an understanding of key features of how it actually works. This is a stringent practice that is designed to curb consumptive dysregulation and does, in fact, help take people out of the circularity of eating for the sake of eating.
If you are the type of person with a penchant for constant mastication which is a proclivity toward chewing on food all day long, this is not going to work. If you are the type who complains about low blood sugar and dependent on food to lift your blood sugar every other hour, look elsewhere because this is not it.
One Meal A Day, like fasting proper, requires disciplined comportment around food. I should remind readers that many people consider OMAD as a form of fasting, by the way. I DO NOT. I see it as a lifestyle and a simply intelligent one.
An interesting tit-bit for those petrified ones reading this, is the following: People who are not initiated often wonder how they could possibly eat one meal a day. Until they do. You see, built into the human psychic system is the capability to go without food for an inordinate length of time. You wouldn’t know it but the idea of eating 3 times a day is a modern invention that has no actual utility. For my part, it is completely unimaginable to me. It makes no sense to me on any level - biologically, psychologically, intellectually. That’s just too much food to put the human body through. Even if the consumption were rather small tiny portions, why three times?
DISCIPLINARY DEFICITS AND ITS PERILS
I will be the first to break it to you and I will. Did you know that you can still gain weight on OMAD. Yes it may seem unprecedented but it’s true and here’s why: Adaptation is a bitch! Neuroscience has begun to understand adaptation and its workings. The term is neuroplasticity. Neural adaptation is a gradual decrease over time in the responsiveness of the sensory system to a constant stimulus. There comes a time when you get used to eating one meal a day to the extent that it simply becomes a habit. That’s a great thing because it explains the fact that it is completely possible to lose weight, change a habit, form a habit, etc.
It is also possible to ramp it up and start packing in more food even if just once a day. Bear in mind that people can sometimes use eating a single meal a day as excuse to over-consume. If your body gets habituated to one meal a day and then you ramp up your food intake, you are going to gain weight. The object is to recognize that you must remain disciplined regardless of being on the OMAD regimen. This problem is rife within intermittent fasting. People can begin the fasting and find themselves feeling entitled to elaborate consumption because they are fasting. Bad idea.
Still, it is important to bear in mind that losing weight is principally contingent upon the classical equation: Reduction of energy consumed ultimately equals expended energy. This is what’s great about OMAD. You will need consistency. The progress is also gradual. If it took you years to gain weight, you are a fool to expect massive weight loss returns in a week - like THIS question demands. Many questions about weight loss are outright puzzling - making some people sound as though they live outside their bodies.
OMAD AND WEIGHT LOSS
Which brings me back to the question we are tackling: How much weight can you lose on OMAD? I have had to lay the narrative down for the uninitiated as a set of guiding principles. Weight management must be understood and initiated as a lifestyle. There are really no isolated diets as such. And there are no mechanically conceived numerics by whose measure you must judge intelligent food consumption. Being healthy is not a game of numbers; but rather the acquisition of intelligent behavior. In essence diets are not the problem. The requisite IMPULSE MODULATION is the central paradigm at the core of the weight loss drama. Simply: Weight Loss is Behavior-Bound. It’s a habituation to a newfound MINDSET.
If weight loss is to be experienced as a revoking of a body-type for another more ideal kind, would it not follow that the psychology of the bearer must, as a material consequence, lead the way? If that were not the case, I am not convinced that the intention ever existed to propagate the change. You must first reformulate self-conception and the associated behavior reformation as a principled purpose toward which an outcome is directed. It is clear that the reason a lot of people toy with weight loss and fail, is because they are not equal to the desired intent. Form a mental image of that for a trifle moment. Doesn’t that make sense?
In your estimation, what is the point struggling to lose weight when the self-concept and the behavioral patterns that engendered the weight gain remain exactly the same? Result is invariably inextricably bound to highly defined and specific Causation.
You see, a lot of people are overweight not just because of the love of food; but more likely because of a pathological relationship with food. Pathological fixation is not love. It’s a circular pattern of addiction. You must first BREAK THE BOND to heal the relational misalignment.
Thenceforth, you are free to choose a balanced relationship with consumption. If it were merely effort-bound or predicated upon the will, most people questing for weight loss would’ve had no problem at the first try. In a fractured state, we are not healed. Our choices are disembodied. To organize our choices around a clearly defined center, we must be WHOLE.
CONCLUSION
If I were to compose a weight loss symphony in 3 movements, the first stanza of the first movement would stipulate a psychic restructuring; the second movement would be to fabricate an infrastructure for the intent; and the final movement would evolve a nutritional landscape upon which the intent would ultimately thrive.
Best wishes,
Godfrey Silas
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