THE DANGERS OF COUNTING CALORIES

A Note From the Author:

There is a simple reason why our diets are not working.

We use opaque methods to quantify energy, like counting calories. A calorie is a measurement of heat transfer, which was developed originally by blowing up food inside a metal container. This measurement is primitive because we utilize energy through complex physiological mechanisms (like enzymes) that break down food – not explosions in our bellies. This one globally accepted perception may not seem that harmful, but is part of an accretion of inaccuracies that distort our understanding of our bodies. These small inaccuracies have built up to what we have now – mass confusion about diet and disease. This has left us with a plethora of commonplace, flawed solutions. Even when a niche diet helps us, we never understand why. Diets that promote principles of fasting, ketogenic, plant based, carnivore, and others, are thought to be unique, or possibly one is considered better than another. Ironically, the reason these diets can favorably work (or not work) is due to the same physiological responses. These responses are rooted in our survival mechanisms and are almost never discussed. The problem is not our metabolism; we are simply sending our bodies the wrong signals.

The vast majority of our current diets make our bodies work against desired results.

The fundamental driving force behind modern-fashionable dieting is the creation of “life-hacks” or schemes to increase exercise and decrease food. The success of these diets will be predicated on influences in our lifestyles that are far more sensitive than considered. A concept that is rarely discussed in these models is how exercise and food restriction can actually weaken (slow down) our metabolism. This may sound absurd because we are told the opposite by everyone, but it makes sense when we think about this response from a survival perspective. Nobody in our modern world wants to hold on to body fat, unless stuck in the wilderness. In such a situation we would want our bodies to preserve fat and even use muscle as energy, especially if it kept us alive. When we try to lose fat or gain muscle, our bodies don’t know that we now live in a safe and modern environment. The techniques in SIN are built around this “survival dilemma” and actually recommend the opposite. Instead of using food to influence our metabolism, we manipulate our metabolic strength to make food less important. Why diet if we don’t need to? As unrealistic as this sounds, we can achieve the impossible by dropping this domineering “calories in – calories out” ideology. SIN allows us to put our bodies into a fasted state without actually fasting, eat less to gain muscle, eat more to lose fat, eat carbohydrates to lose fat, eat fat to gain muscle, gain strength without size, gain endurance without “endurance training,” eat “junk” food to become healthier, and perform a number of actions that would go against all “commonsense” diet advice. SIN is the ultimate guide to “tricking” our bodies into performing what we actually want them to do – get leaner, stronger, and healthier.

“I guarantee that the concepts in SIN are unlike anything you have ever read, seen, or heard before.”