My 15yo daughter, Lily, recently qualified for Olympic Lifting Nationals.
In June, she'll compete with the best in the nation. Last year
she placed 15th. This year, her qualifying lifts put her in top 5.

...but she has to make weight.

This doesn't mean cutting weight.

It doesn't mean going on a traditional diet.

It means that she has to live, eat, and train damn close to
the weight she competes at, which is 116 lbs.

So in addition to her luxury soap business (www.handmadesoapclub.com),
rocking her job at the coffee shop, and competing in track while also
getting an A in high school chem...she must master eating.

And to do that, I taught her the 4 types of hunger. While all hunger
feels the same, only one is real hunger...and that's the one you should
answer with food...otherwise, you will eat yourself into obesity.

Most people think that hunger has everything to do with your stomach. When
there’s food in your belly, you feel full. When your stomach is empty,
you feel hungry. This is physical hunger.

Physical hunger is the feeling you get several hours after a meal, after a
long day of work, or after an intense exercise session. Your stomach growls
and you might feel tired, irritable and have difficulty thinking. This is
caused by your body’s true physical need for nutrients and energy.

But your feelings of hunger are affected by many factors beyond whether
your stomach is full or empty. In fact, we often feel “hungry” again,
soon after a big meal. Or we experience sudden, strong cravings, especially
for sweets and carbs.

This is what I call hormonal hunger, and it has little to do with how much
you’ve eaten and everything to do with hormonal ignorance – your
satiating hormones are either not working or you’ve become insensitive to
them...sugary foods and drinks are notorious for cranking up hormonal hunger.

The cravings caused by hormonal hunger can overcome even the staunchest
willpower, and can lead to intense mood swings, fatigue, and a near
constant desire to eat, regardless of being “full.” This is the most
common cause of “eating too fucking much.” It’s gluttony at it’s
worst!

And it's the main reason Lily doesn't drink juice, Gatorade or fruit...

There's also “nutritional hunger.” Since most food today is nothing
more than a pile of food-like substances void of nutrients, your hunger is
truly never satisfied. Therefore, after a crap meal, you’ll be hungry in
hours due to your natural craving for nutrients. But rather than eat
nutrient rich food, 99% of people today will simply eat more crap – eating
themselves into the obesity history books without knowing why…

When your diet consists largely of grain-based carbohydrates and other
processed, refined foods, your body is missing out on hundreds of critical
vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and enzymes. As a means of survival, it
will continue to send hormonal signals to your brain to “EAT, EAT,
EAT,” even when you have consumed far more calories than you need for
basic energy requirements.

So to recap, there's physical hunger, hormonal hunger and nutritional
hunger...And finally, there is learned hunger.

Learned hunger can begin at childhood and haunt you forever.

Since eating elicits a flood of feel-good molecules, the brain will “learn”
when and how the food was obtained as a survival method to obtain more
in the future. In its most benign form, learned hunger arises at meal time.
And since 1pm – lunchtime – comes around only once per day, its fine.

But, in its most malignant form, learned hunger can force someone into
overeating based simply on bad eating habits. For instance, if someone eats
multiple times per day (bodybuilders and athletes) or while watching
television (Kids), learned hunger can set in and force them to become
hungry each and every time the situation presents itself.

Athletes who eat every two hours, are simply training their body to become
hungry despite no need for nutrients. Same for children – or anyone else
– who eat in front of the television. Subconsciously, associations will
be made based on learned hunger and forced overeating.

You see, the hunger that most people feel has nothing to do with a real
need for food, physical hunger. Most of the time your hormones or brain are
lying to you, or your just eating food-like substances that aren't satisfying
your need for nutrients.

Understanding how the three types of hunger can fool us shows why it’s
not fair or prudent to tell overweight people to simply eat less – it’s
virtually impossible without teaching them about which hunger is real and
which one is fake.

If eating is driven by lying hunger signals, “eaters” are eventually
severed from their longevity hormones! Therefore, the only true way to
make weight is to eat nutrient rich food, three times per day, spaced out
by 5 hours.

Lily typically eats eggs, sausage, Whey Advanced (www.getwheyadvanced.com),
mixed veggies, spaghetti with egg-noodles, seeds, nuts, humane-raised
beef, chicken, cottage cheese, yerba-mate tea for appetite control and
energy and avocados.

Sports bars, Vitamin Waters, and whatever other shit kids drink these
days under the guise of health are OFF LIMITS.

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Dare to live young!

The People's Chemist