Blog: Fat under Our Skin Theory

(part I of III)
                                         
                          Part I:  (Fat cells)

You have skin, fat, muscle and then bone. Notice how the fat sits between your skin and your muscle.The more fat you have, the less visible your muscles are. 

How your fat cells grow/shrink depending on what you eat:

Our bodies have billions of fat cells. When we gain weight, we gain size in "each" fat cell in a sense. When we lose weight, we lose size in "each" fat cell. 

Think of a single fat cell as a lower case "o". 

Let's say that this is the size of a fat cell in an average person that is not too far overweight.

Now, look at a person who is, for example, 150

pounds over weight. Think of "each" of their fat cells to have grown from a lower case "o" to 

an upper case "O".        

Keep in mind that each fat cell grows at the same time. 

The more we eat foods that have no real nutritional 

value, the more "each" fat cell grows. The more we eat 

healthy food, the more "each" fat cell "shrinks" back to 

it's normal size (or even smaller).

When we go overboard by eating foods that are of no real nutritional value, we take the chance of causing individual fat cells to get so huge that the old (maximum capacity fat cells) create new fat cells causing excess fat and "blubber". 

                More Coming Soon! Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3:

Part II 

(Nutrients: Protein, Carbohydrates, Fats)

Part III 

(The Inside Workings of Nutrients - 

Let's See What's  Taking Place While 

Eating a Bag of Potatoes Chips)

How Stomach Fat can Trigger Back Pains

  *The Update 12/1/13*

   Lets first look at our tummy (stomach). No matter how big or small it is, it grows in one circle. The only part that we normally see as it grows, is the front part of that circle (your belly). The back part of the circle grows and pushes outward on our spine.

      That's why sometimes when we stand too long our lower back began to hurt. This is from a combination of pressure from the tummy pushing on the spine and the lower back muscles being too weak to withstand all the standing. 

As we stand, our body is balancing itself from tipping over and that means that our lower back is constantly playing an integral part in that balancing act (like you are trying to balance a pencil on a saucer or something---the center of your finger (in this case your lower back) is doing the constant work.

Let's get to the lower back.   

The lower back has some of your body's strongest muscles. Normally, the bigger ones are strong and can withstand stuff. The lower back muscles (the one just above your cheeks), however, just sits there and are super weak if you do not, or have not ever done lower back workouts. All of the other muscles are connected to that muscle by your ligaments and things. The other bigger back muscles are strong even without working out. The strong other back muscles (using your ligaments and stuff), pull that poor lower back muscle in any direction it suddenly wishes and the weakling back muscle "tries" to stay ready.

 HOWEVER..

A sudden movement, jerk, reach downward, or even a "bump" into your body and a permanent back injury could take place. 

Most of the time the poor lower muscle is just pulled out of whack and heals. However, a lot of time it is pulled all-the-way out and BAM! Back injury for life. :(

To prevent most lower back injuries you MUST MUST MUST work that poor little back muscle at least two times per week. 

Do This..

Make a muscle with your arm and look at the muscle. Now stretch your arm back out. Now make the muscle again. Now stretch it back out. 

See how your arm muscle formed when you made a muscle and then went back down after that?    Now this is how we work that poor little lower back muscle to get it stronger than never before. Then when the big muscles, or sudden movements, tug and pull on it it can just sit still and go with the flow STRONGLY. 

How to Make the Lower Back Muscles Stronger... 

1.) Stand up

2.) Picture your lower back and focus on that area.

3.) Lean back and tighten your lower back only (just like when you make a muscle with your arm)
 

4.) hold it tight for two seconds

5.) now stand back straight up

(the workout above if a half of a dead lift in weight-lifting terms)

Each time you do steps 1-5, it counts as one rep

Do 3 sets of 10 to 20 reps three times each week and watch all lower back problems go ways!

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Will Not Eating Help Me Lose Weight??

Never go hours and hours
without eating... Why??

     This causes your body to eat itself and save all fat just in case you are planning on trying to starve yourself (or if you are actually in a situation where you are being starved).
     During starvation, our bodies are so intelligent that it automatically halts all use of using regular energy sources for bodily functions, and it eats off of all that good protein we have in our muscles. IT STORES ALL OF THE FAT THAT IT CAN because it does not know how long this so called starvation period is going to last. In addition, it slows your metabolism down sort of like an energy saver on an electronic item. This causes your fat to just sit and sit and sit without being burned/used.

 Think of your body as being a little paranoid when a few hours go by and no food has come in. Immediately, it gets scared and starts holding on to all fat "just in case". This is not good. Why? because at the same time it feeds from your muscles. That's what creates the no muscle and all fat look.

    Not only must you eat, you must eat foods that are nutritional at this stage because any food that comes in after your body has went into "hold all fat mode", will be at up by the body and stored in its proper "compartment". Protein is stored in the muscles, carbohydrates are stored for energy use, and fat is stored as FAT. If you eat something full of fat, you just defeated the purpose of eating for health, basically. You just added more fat to the "fat reservoir" and in a few minutes, the body will continue eating from your muscles as it was doing when it thought you were starving it!

   Did you know that eating small portions every 3 hours can actually help you lose fat by keeping your metabolism working at a steady rate all day?

So..Instead of starving yourself, EAT!!

Check out our earlier blog for more information about this!

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(stay tuned for related post on the inside workings of bad food and the actual fat)

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