THE FAT BLOCKER DIET: TO MAKE MATTERS WORS

There are other reasons why many of us have difficulty losing weight. To begin with, we’re bombarded with enticements to eat. Billboards, television commercials, and magazine advertisements constantly encourage us to pig out with their mouth watering images of

delicious-looking, high-fat foods.

To make matters worse, we’re eating larger portions than ever before. For example, yesterday’s regular order of french fries at McDonald’s is today’s small. The large fries introduced in 1970 are now called regular. And big has become really big, as in the popular “Big Gulp” size soft drinks, which can be as large as half a gallon! Incredibly, many of us seem to have no problem gulping down all that food, because we are lucky enough not to suffer from bad teeth, incurable stomach ulcers, various gastrointestinal
infections, or other ailments that might keep
us from eating our fill. Perhaps worst of all,
evolution works against
us.

We were genetically
programmed to want to
eat more than we
needed when food was
abundant. This way, we
could build up reserves
for times when food was
scarce. That’s why we
have a tendency to store
up excess fat and hang
on to it tenaciously. In fact, our bodies are willing to part with those fat reserves only if we are
close to starvation. The “saddle bags” on the upper thighs and / or the fatty bulges on the underside of the buttocks are especially difficult to reduce.