Back in college my friend John and I would go to the Old Spaghetti Factory in downtown Tacoma. We would eat basket after basket of bread, and then order our spaghetti.
They had a special deal: for an extra $1.99 you could get “hearty size” portions that were DOUBLE the size of the regular portions. We’d both eat that PLUS re-order another $1.99 hearty-sized portion.
We’d eat every last bit. Which meant that for just an extra $3.98 we had carb-loaded on FOUR times the amount of pasta of a normal-sized plate … plus baskets of breadsticks … plus spumoni ice cream.
The result? A massive over-stretching of my stomach to uncomfortable dimensions in order to accommodate the 6,000 to 8,000 calories.
For those of you who have done a similar thing, you know that this isn’t all that hard to do when you’re eating grain-based food that’s been processed and has relatively little nutritional value.
But let’s flip the script ...
... Let's see what happens when, instead of choosing food with little nutritional value, you enjoy the type of food that actually trips your body’s natural satiety trigger …
… a prime rib, for example.
A massive 24-ounce cut of prime rib is a full pound and a half of fatty animal flesh. Prime rib nourishes your body with essential fats, amino acids, and minerals like selenium, magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc.
It satisfies your brain’s reward pathway and shuts off your hunger.
My wife Randel recently made me a perfect medium-rare prime rib for a special occasion. And even though I absolutely love prime rib, I literally could not finish my entire 24-ounce steak, which amounted to only 2,400 calories.
That’s because it’s impossible to overate fatty animal flesh. Your body’s innate intelligence shuts down your hunger thanks to a hormone called leptin.
Do you see the difference?
Now I’m not saying you have to go 100% carnivorous to meet your goals.
But I AM saying that Lex and others succeeding with my approach are operating on what I call the "24/7 Savanna Mindset”
Never forget that every bite of food we take has a hormonal experience.
Every bite of food causes a release of certain hormones, energy and information systems that change throughout the body: insulin, glycugon, leptin, grehlin, cortisol, epinephrine, norapeneprhine, sex hormones.
And over time those hormones are affecting your genes.
My friend named Spencer is another shining example. He’s in his mid 80’s, sharp as a tack, and has an incredible zest for life. He works full-time at one of the leading hospitals in the country and he travels to China for business on a regular basis. He has lots of friends, three great kids, in their 40’s and 50’s, several grand kids and he loves his life!
THAT’S what you get when you’re biological operating system is on the “24/7 Savanna Mode”
There’s another important piece the puzzle I’d like to talk about.
This might be the most important factor of all. That’s because if you don’t get THIS right, then you’ll never give yourself a chance when it was sitting in front of you the whole time.
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