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Weight loss, weight gain and weight maintenance are talked about like they are completely different states. I tend to disagree with this premise.

I think weight maintenance includes both weight gain and loss, but at a different degree and rate than what we would traditionally think of with a weight loss diet or gaining weight.

In this video I’ll try to explain my theory of weight maintenance vs weight gain and weight loss and hopefully you’ll see how they’re the same thing just to a different degree.

The freedom to pick and choose what foods to eat and when to eat them is a relatively new development in human history and reserved for the new rich nations that have a modernized industrial supply chain.

Some of these foods simply do not grow in Canada, yet I still have access to them 12 months per year!

I live in southern Ontario Canada and for half the year we’re buried under snow. If it weren’t for the modern industrial revolution and food supply chain I wouldn’t have access to things like oranges, apples, strawberries and black berries in the middle of February.

If I had to live on local food supplies I would be eating preserves and frozen items all winter long and would have never tasted a grapefruit or an orange or a tangerine ever!

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The science of nutrition is a relatively new field and there is much to be learned. Ancel Keys did some of the seminal work on calorie restriction and the relation of fat to obesity and cardio vascular disease. At the time of his work technology was limited and it wasn’t even possible to measure the various forms of cholesterol (LDL vs HDL) which are now a standard blood test item.

Wedding cake isn't a regular item for this squirrel, but he's gonna have a ball eating it!

The point is scientists do the best they can with the given technology they have at the time.

At the beginning of his research Keys was only able to measure total cholesterol and determine that lowering cholesterol through a low fat diet was the best way to eat for heart

When you hear someone say “I’m on a diet” you probably have some automatic assumptions about the food they are likely eating and more importantly all of the food they probably have completely cut out of their diet.

The standard diet fare of acceptable items would look something like this:

After a while eating like this gets really boring.

Leafy greens

Veggies

Fruit (and for some totally obsessive compulsive people even fruit is a no no)

Chicken

Fish

Eggs

Rice

and a few other designer grains that have just as many calories per gram as wheat or rice but for some reason are believed to be ‘better for dieting’

Then comes the enormous list of items that are off limits for a diet which includes…

Everything else!

Setting things up with a strict black and white, good vs bad mindset will lead to feelings of deprivation and eventual failure of the

A friend of mine told me an interesting story today about a conversation she was eavesdropping on while she was out for dinner.

Everyone needs support to lose weight.

Sitting at the table next to her was a party of 10 people (most overweight) and one male at the table announced that he wanted to lose weight for his upcoming wedding and that he was intending to ‘go vegetarian’ to accomplish his goal.

At this point the rest of his friends and family proceeded to tell him about all the reason going veggie will be bad for him, and how he won’t get enough protein and how it’s not the right way to lose weight…keep in mind that all of this advice is coming from people who are obese.

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