The lazy man's way to lose weight part two

Our bodies are anachronisms.  We as humans popped onto the scene about 50,000 years ago, and 50,000 years later we still got the same bodies.  If macro-evolution were true,  we should at least have wings or at least an extra eyeball on the back of our head so no one can sucker punch us.  But we got nothing, zilch, nada.

The reason I bring this up is I'm trying to lose fat because I have too much of it.   But since my body is still stuck in the time when I would have to go out and run around a forest to catch my dinner, and the reality of my present situation has a meal as convenient as going through a drive-thru window, I have a bad habit of overeating and gaining body fat.  

My remedy for my obesity is to basically starve myself.  In the morning I eat breakfast. Four hours later for lunch I swallow three fish oil pills and one multivitamin.  Then I wait until six or seven or eight p.m. to eat dinner. So if you were to deconstruct my plan of action it could be thought of and desimplified as two meals separated by two fasts.

My logic is my breakfast will carry me to at least 10 am or maybe later. Then when I feel hungry I take my (4) 1200 gram fish oil pills and (1) multivitamin and that will hopefully curb any hunger pains I may experience and carry me to dinner. 

The fish oil pills are quite a useful weight loss aid.  Try this as an experiment:  drop one fish oil pill into a glass of water and watch it as it expands to three or four times its original size. 

That's also the action that takes place in your stomach.  The fish oil pills expand and provide a feeling of fullness which staves off hunger. 

The fish oil pills also don't raise blood insulin levels which in turn increases blood glucagon levels.  You want to maintain that low insulin blood level because that's the on/off switch for your body to feel hungry.  If you keep your insulin level low, you will not feel hungry for at least three to five hours.

The fish oil pills work because there's no carbohydrate in them, so they have no insulinogenic response in the body's bloodstream.

 Fish oil also works because they have a slight thermogenic effect on the body as well. When I say "slight", the effect is only one or two degrees difference in body temperature. You want the temperature rise because that means your body is expending energy, i.e. burning calories, to make your body warm.  So you're sitting there doing nothing while you're burning calories -- the perfect scenario for a person who hates getting on the treadmill at a gym and running like a gerbil for a fifty dollars a month or even higher gym membership.

You can experiment with the timing of the fish oil pill cocktail ingestion.   You could as I did last night, eat breakfast and lunch and then when you feel hungry for dinner take your fish oil pills but it does make your sleep at night somewhat uncomfortable because you're extending the fast to at least sixteen hours assuming you take lunch at 2 pm and eat breakfast at 6 am the next day.  It could even be longer between meals depending on when you time your lunch and breakfast for the next day.

That's why I keep it at twelve hours between breakfast and dinner.   The fasting times are shorter and I sleep better at night with a full stomach when I eat a big dinner.

Now that I've been doing the fish oil pills for a couple weeks my body is getting used to the fasts and occasionally I skip the fish oil and wait until dinner.



Your enemy:  the scale


The weight scale is not your friend when trying to lose weight. Scooby of YouTube fitness fame did a video on digital scale inaccuracies.  He took his weight on a digital scale at different times of the day, and at each interval the scale read something different.   You see how the scale plays tricks on you.

Also a scale won't tell if you're losing fat or muscle or water.  Most of the time you'll be losing water weight. The only problem is the volume of water your body holds at any given time vacillates erratically throughout the day. The more accurate method of weighing yourself if you must absolutely do it and ignore my advice is to let a couple months pass between body weight measurements.

The only true way to gauge your weight loss is to go by how your clothes feel on your body.  If tight fitting pants a month ago now hang loose around your hips, you've probably lost abdominal fat -- the crap you want to get rid of. If you couldn't bend over and tie your shoe a month ago and now you can, guess what? That's right you've probably again lost abdominal fat.  That's how you gauge fat loss. Ditch the scale.

The lazy man's way to lose weight

I'm on a diet. Before I tell you what kind of diet I'm on,  we have to define the word diet.

Diet is basically being in a caloric deficit.  Any caloric intake which is  below your basal metabolic rate will put you in a caloric deficit.

My baseline calorie intake requirement for a 24 hour period according to an online calorie bmr calculator is around 2200 calories. This means anything below 2200 calories for my daily caloric intake at my present weight will produce weight loss which is the main goal of any diet.  Sounds simple right?

The problem is your body doesn't live off convoluted caloric deficit bmr calculators. Rather, the body is a  closed loop system that operates off of specific hormonal sensors. If you eat carbohydrates, it will be released into your blood stream as glucose which will trigger an insulin response.  Then the glucose will either be stored as glycogen in the muscles or as fat in the body's fat deposits.

Your basic goal in weight loss is to hack that insulinogenic response of the body.  Obviously you want to take in less calories if you want to lose weight but if you cut your calories without addressing the hormonal response of your body when you eat food you will fail miserably at your weight loss goals.

Now I'm going to give you the solution or the "hack" that should be applied for your weight loss, and it is fish oil pills. The cost is about ten dollars for around five hundred tablets at your local grocery store.

The way you implement them into your diet is by doing this. First when you wake up in the morning, eat your breakfast. You want to include protein for cell regeneration, carbohydrate for sugar supply to the brain, and fat for satiety.

Next step.  Now wait for four or five or three hours until you get so hungry you can't ignore it.

Third step. Take (3) or (4) 1000-1200 mg pills of fish oil and one broad spectrum multivitamin that contains all soluble and insoluble vitamins and minerals necessary for basic bodily function

This step is your key to weight loss.  Each fish oil pill is around twenty calories and each multivitamin is approximately five calories.  This means you're going to survive on sixty-five calories for the next five or four or six hours or however many hours until you're hungry again for dinner.   The fish oil pills basically shut down the hunger response created by certain hormones like leptin and glucagon.

Now you're probably crying like a little bitch because you can't stuff your face like you usually do at lunch.  It requires a lot of discipline to not eat for the ten or so hours between your breakfast and dinner.  You'll probably be lethargic and weak when you first start out but eventually your body gets used to an essential part of any diet -- the fast.

The fast is not only about not eating but it's also about teaching your body to function without caloric intake. The fast is also about teaching your body to use your stored reserves of fat for energy.

If you've experimented with ketogenic diets, you probably know that it is possible to live off of ketones which are derived from fat cells.  The ketones then enter the Krebs cycle whereby ATP is created to feed body cells.

That's the basic step in your weight loss -- to fast enough times and for an extended amount of time to force your body to use the fat that's stored on your body.


There are certain complications with fish oil pills. Some people have adverse dietary reactions to them.   In that case you may want to use flaxseed oil pills.