Our Past

Update:

Weight: 252.2 lbs
Net Cal: -737 cal
Waist: 49 1/2 inches
Exercise: walk the dog 10 min x2, 35 min walk at lunch

I had dropped the twins off at their daycare today and as I walked back alone I saw the wind rustling through the trees.  As I watched the leaves rustle, I said to myself  "no wonder the ancient people of the world thought that trees could talk".  How many things around us seem so magical? 

Thinking back to the ancient days, I have to agree that our bodies were designed to eat a different diet than we have now.  I look at races that have stayed closer to their original diets, there are not as many diseases like Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Obesity.  I do feel that the researchers looking at the diets of our ancestors are onto something.  Our bodies adapt, but evolution takes generations.  Our society has moved so fast, our bodies have not been able to keep up.  We have adapted to keep our species alive, but we are not evolving. 

How much of our health issues are because our bodies have not evolved to handle our diet?  So is survival of the fittest through obesity and obesity related diseases?  I don't know how to look at a specific ancestry diet.  There is looking at the blood type and ethnic background.  I'm not sure that our diets are driven by our blood type.  There are people of every race that are type O positive, yet African Americans have a greater rate of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.  I don't see how blood type would work.  The ethnic diet makes more sense based on where your ancestors lived.  Though here in the US, we are very much a hodgepodge of ethnicity.  I am Irish, French, English, German, and suspect some Native American.  So which should I follow?  There are different diets for Native Americans and the Irish.  Us here in the USA are very rarely completely one ethnic background.

I keep coming back to, eating right, exercise, and moderation (the trio) are what I need to keep going.  While looking at some of these theories for ideas that can be incorporated, it is important to keep the trio in mind.

Successes: Began to change my internal dialogue from projecting my negative talk on others (look at that fat ass, she should move faster) I now project, good for her getting out and walking.  Walked at lunch.  Thanks to Kat, I am not sore today from my walk yesterday.

Barriers: Still resistant to measuring food.