I've been saying it for years. Up until a little over a year ago.
I don't know if there is an easy way to say this because so many people use this excuse. I think deep down inside they know it's not the right explanation. Or maybe they just don't know what to do about it. Either way, nobody that says this is alone.
When we hurt for no reason. When we finally admit that we've gained a lot of weight. When we start forgetting things.
I'm getting old.
That's what we say. I'm getting old. Except most of us are only in our 30's when we say that. That's not old. And that's not why we hurt, gain weight or forget things.
I see it more often now when someone isn't feeling right. They ask what they can take to help fix the problem. Everyone seems to be looking for an external solution. A drug of sorts to help them feel better. Perhaps the right question would be to find out what's causing the bad feeling. Why do you hurt all over? Why are you all of the sudden gaining weight? It very well may not be that you "broke" something that needs a quick fix. It's more than likely that something is not working properly. Overuse is most likely the culprit. Being broke and not working properly aren't the same. When something is broken, it should be discarded or made into something new. When something isn't working properly, it can most likely be fixed.
Lets start with weight gain, it doesn't happen overnight. But something happened over the past ten years. And it's not because you aren't as active anymore. You didn't exercise enough back then to keep weight off either. It's not because you are getting older. It's about hormones and your body. They wear out. But not with age, but with the amount of work you request of it. If you want to lose weight you've put on over the past ten years or so, you need to control insulin. Our bodies were NEVER designed to process the type and amount of foods we eat as part of a "Standard American Diet". SAD for short. The amount of sugar and grains is insanely high causing your blood sugar to spike, triggering a release of insulin from the pancreas to take that glucose from your blood stream and transport it to your liver and muscles for energy storage. Except your muscles have a no vacancy sign on them. Why? Because you aren't depleting those cells any more because you can't move due to the inflammation caused by the foods that made you gain weight. So the glucose in your blood stream is then stored in your fat cells. Chronic carbohydrate consumption leads to excessive weight gain and causes you to become insulin resistant. This leads to Type 2 diabetes and other autoimmune disease.
Oh...the the hurting. It's also caused by a SAD diet at well. It's inflammatory.
There is NO requirement for carbohydrates. NONE. No such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Now, you may function well with carbohydrates from natural sources like vegetables, nuts, seeds and a little bit of in season fruit. But grains, bread, wheat, added sugar, sugar.....stop eating it. For your own good.
And the memory thing. Alzheimers is now called type 3 diabetes.
This is a very dumbed down version of what's happened. But basically what I'm saying is that most likely your diet sucks. Even if you have good intentions. Even if you exercise. Athletes are not immune to type 2 diabetes. In fact, the more you exercise as a sugar burner the more careful you need to be that you aren't asking to much of your body to process all the added carbohydrates for "carb loading" and "refeeding". Most people don't even track how many carbohydrates they are ingesting. You really should. Your body can only store between 300-500g.
Bottom line. If you want to lose weight. You need to control your insulin. You can't exercise and maintain your same eating habits. It will not work. In fact, if you do it right, you won't even need to exercise to lose weight. If you want to control your insulin, you've got to ditch the sugar, grains and excessive carbs.
It's science.
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