Week 1 Day 4 The 50 Million Pound Challenge

Sacred and Fit requires new healthy habits and healthy habits call for order and organization.  This week we are organizing ourselves for success.

The Homework this week involves an examination of the “50 Million Pound Challenge” website.

The 50 Million Pound Challenge provides some information and services that may be of value to our Sacred and Fit community. It is offered as a suggestion, only. You don’t have to use it to get the benefits of Sacred and Fit.   The website does allow you to keep track of your Body Mass Index, which is a more accurate health indicator than weight alone. However, there are other sites on the Web that do that also. And of course, you are keeping a paper copy of this data in your S&F notebook. 

The 50 Million pound challenge encourages community building and sharing via small groups. A community of support is important to any long-term behavioral change. That is why Sacred and Fit includes personal coaching and conference calls.

The Challenge website also has good nutrition information.  However, for those who are no longer interested in dieting, the menus may not work for you. The diet looks like a lot of food. It is. The diet was designed by a medical doctor, Dr. Ian Smith and there is a physiological reason to encourage overweight people to eat 4 times a day. It seems like that would be defeating the purpose but that is not the case.

   Let’s suppose that in the earliest days of human beings, there were times of feast and famine. During the feast time, the body stored fat. During famine the body lived off of the fat reserves. The primary signal for a famine to your physiological systems is lack of food. When you don’t eat enough nourishing food, the signals turn on. Your body thinks there is a famine and holds on to fat. (The same type of thing happens when you are stressed, since fear of starving or being killed were probably the original stressors for the caveman or woman.—More about the impact of stress later.)  In the past, before Sacred and Fit you may have been feeding your body but not nourishing your body, so the famine signals were still activated.

 Now, our goal is to retrain your physiology by introducing nourishing food and lots of it. Eating 4 nourishing meals, 2 nourishing snacks and at least 8 glasses of water per day is the new message to your physiology….”You can release the fat, now. All is well.”