Why Toxic Food Makes You Fat

Lets be clear from the start – your body wants to be lean!

It’s a myth that your body clings to fat. It’s not the way evolution designed it to be.

Your body’s natural state is lean and healthy.

Fundamentally, your weight and health are not separate issues. Being overweight is a symptom of being unhealthy. If you focus on health, weight-loss (or more specifically fat loss) will happen as a consequence.

To become really healthy involves a multi-faceted approach including exercise and a healthy lifestyle but it is clear that there is no greater influence on a person’s health than the foods they eat day-to-day.

If the foods you choose to eat a wholesome and nourishing you’ll have a lean and toned physique. However, if the foods you choose to eat are processed, sugary and lets be frank toxic, then your body will store fat.

I have spent years studying nutrition – and observing my clients – and you can absolutely lose weight eating low fat so-called health food and diet coke. But, you will struggle to maintain it due to the toxic nature of the foods you have consumed.

You need to understand that animals store toxins in adipose tissue (in layman terms body fat). If your body is clinging onto fat chances are you are eating toxic food. Therefore if you eat toxic food you will find it hard to lose weight and keep it off.

If you are consuming toxins your body will store more water in an attempt to dilute the toxic foods you are consuming. Hence the reason in the first week of a diet you could drop seven or eight pounds of water.

So what constitutes a toxic food and what constitutes a clean food? Toxins can be commonly found in sugar, alcohol and processed foods, but due to the delicate nature of human biochemistry you can often find a person has sensitivity to caffeine, dairy and wheat too. Hence the reason when starting a diet plan I encourage my clients to eliminate all of the above.

Furthermore, I persuade them to tread cautiously with saturated fats, as like humans, livestock will store toxins in fat, and so if you are indulging in a juicy steak you could inadvertently be taking a bite out of something less than cool. Hence the reason if you are going to cough up your hard earned cash on organic foods it can be a good idea to start by buying organic meat as it’s typically better reared.

Now, my approach to personal training involve working with principles not methods so rather than stipulate high carb, low carb, low fat or high fat I choose to give people more freedom about what to eat based on the above parameters.

This might seem a little dramatic to some but do you really think that it is so bad to encourage people to eat natural nourishing healthy food? I think not. I’m sure most people recognise that foods that last for months and months on a supermarket shelf can’t be good for them. I’m also sure that most people realise that consuming foods that have an unpronounceable or unrecognisable name are not right for them even if it is spuriously labelled as a health food.

Cut out the toxins in your diet COMPLETELY and see what happens.