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Weight loss with fast math, fats. This is a day to reach the mass of the masses. Losing weight can be an impossible-seeming feat. As we have discussed before, each libra of body weight is another 7,000 miles of extra blood vessels demanding innervation and perfusion. At a mildly 15 lbs extra, this doubles our already 100,000 miles at our reasonable weight level depending on our height.

So, this extra weight can literally crush our body and make our existence in this fleshy bag of fluids and air a miserable condition. Nobody wants to be miserable! What do we do?

Nobody may like hearing it, but the answer is eating less. We must make our caloric intake less than our basal metabolic rate of caloric expenditure. A calorie is a measure of energy. We get these calories to create energy from food.

We can work out all we want, but that’s only 20% of weight loss. 80% of the work happens in the kitchen.

Carbs break down over 1-3 hours.

Proteins break down over 3-6 hours.

Fats break down over 6-9 hours.

Keeping our macronutrients balanced with emphasis on filling up on fats and proteins will make this seemingly impossible starvation experience not only possible, but enjoyable with some focused training. Be grateful for the food you have. Practice gratitude for the ability to choose the foods, and you will find this an easier feat than you realize.

Smart ways to practice gratefulness are to extend patience beyond reasonable measure. Grasping a cool and calm acceptance of the extreme bounds human agency reaches provides that peace we all seek. There are limits to the human body. There is no limit to the inherent nature of a personality. Individual confrontation of lax behavior and dejection in one’s mind allows freedom to change what we control and accept the futile work that is belligerent actualization.

Agitation comes from the spirit. Let the chips fall as they may and remember to make sure reality is under review. Blame only what we can address within ourselves. An internal locus of control is necessary to confidently take all difficulty in stride.

Sleep, perchance to dream, is a magnificent recovery process. This comes easily after shaking a leg. A tired body makes a rested spirit. Sound body = sound mind. Adversary is a necessary stress to build strength.

On top of the world, we will find ourselves with these lines walked and tightropes traversed. Back to the wall, miles above the abyss – this is the human condition.

This is a 900-lb man’s MRI.

Switching gears to bitch about statins. I can’t stand statins. They turn our body into a toilet bowl of fluids mixed together all willy nilly. They “lower cholesterol” by reducing the part of the body that creates cholesterol. HMG- CoA inhibition is the process. Side effects include poisoning your live, weakening all your muscles sometimes to the point of what’s called rhabdomyolysis, making you sick to your stomach, giving you cataracts and possibly diabetes.

Sounds terrible, and it is. They weaken the most essential part of our body’s cellular structure, the walls. Each human cell has a phospholipid bilayer responsible for keeping your bags of fluid intact and apart from the others.

This class of drug, long hailed to help lower bad cholesterol and prevent atherosclerosis which leads to heart disease and stroke, turn our body’s into the character from the x-men who gets changed into a mutant and eventually melts into a big puddle of water.

However, as always, this information is meant for education and entertainment purposes. Follow your medical professionals expert recommendation and always comply with your personal plan of care.

But hey, ask some questions. Get some answers. It’s a product you’re deciding to buy after all.

Next week will focus on how to get to Carnegie Hall- practice, practice, practice.

Four things that show direct benefit to the conditioning of good habits and the practice of doing things that are rewarding to the individual life we all lead.