Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

The FAT Programs: The Real Reason You’re Fat

you, the chances of escaping are slimmer. In these circum- stances, your body would want to be thin because being thin is the best way to keep you fast and therefore safe. In this case, being thin could save your life. In each of these examples, your chances of surviving are very much dependent on how fat or thin you are. Most living environments in our past had some combination of the big three threats—starving, freezing, and being eaten—and it was up to your body to decide the perfect weight that would make you the safest in any given scenario. You did not want to be so thin that you could not survive until your next meal, and you did not want to be so fat that you could not escape an attack. This is where our body’s brilliant logic was essential. Our bodies could quickly determine how much fat would be the ideal amount for us to carry around in any living condition, adjusting this “ideal weight” as situations changed. Our body’s brilliant adaptability is the reason we are here today. This amazing flexibility protected our ancestors successfully from threats since the dawn of time. For this, we should be eternally grateful. Unfortunately, this is all irrelevant today. In today’s world of excess, fat doesn’t make us any safer in the least, as I’m sure you consciously know. But our bodies don’t know this. They still have the same genetic programming. The problem is that the stresses of modern day life produce chemical signals in our bodies and brains. Sometimes those chemi- cal signals are the exact same chemical signals that are produced when we are starving or freezing. If those chemical signals are the same as those produced when we are starving or freezing, our bodies will be “tricked” into thinking that we need to be fat in order to be safe, causing our bodies to activate the FAT Programs. This is what is happening to you. The stresses and struggles of modern day life are tricking your body into activating your FAT Programs. In a sense, when you try to force yourself to lose weight while these programs are operating, you’re violating your body’s natural laws. Your body is trying to make you fatter and you are

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