Ever get envious of those Peoples who are healthy and smart without putting in any effort at all. You can blame their genetic trait, but don't forget, genes can be tamed, according to Lamarckism theory of organic evolution. So tame your body, tame your genes. Evolution is a slow process, but believe me, your next generations will celebrate your fore-sighted decision
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So here are some habits of naturally lean and healthy people you should work on, and once your genes catch on to them, you would not even have to think about them to get them done.
1. THEY HAVE AN EATING ROUTINE
Routine have two benefits. First their body get into habit of preparing itself for food every day at the same time, resulting in better, stronger digestive system.
Secondly, when it's not eating time, their body don't crave food, so they dont get between-the-meal-food-cravings, resulting in intermittent fasting (another bonus). Just think of their body going through deep cleaning process everyday.
2. THEY ARE NOT THE FOODIE TYPE OF PEOPLE
Because of their eating routine, they are not always thinking about food thanks to their food clock, they don't get greedy around food. Eating slowly makes them to eat less untill their appetite timer turns off .
Remember, no mater how fast or slow you eat, your appetite timer turn off at its own pace. So eating slowly really helps in eating less.
And even if they don't eat to their fullest at meal times, they dont carve more in between, because their body recognize its food hours.
3. THEY ARE DOWN TO EARTH IN THEIR FOOD CHOICES
They prefers whole grain over polished flour, homemade over processed, simple over fancy, mellow over lavishingly spiced, organic over genetically beautified.
Chemical loaded food may look and taste great, but they are not nice to your body. Homemade french fries is a better healthy choice then diet cola, trust me. So give up your lust of branded foods and be natural as you can be.
4. THEY ARE NOT SUGAR SWEET
Yeah, you may call it impossible or unbelievable, God gifted or whatever, but they are not into sweet that much. They may have an apple rather than an ice-cream tub.
5. THEY ARE EAGLE NOT VULTURE
They like to eat fresh like an eagle. They are disgusted by long shelf timer calories junkies, that are over loaded with sugar or sodium or other chemicals, to lengthen, you know, their plastic life.
Never the less, they learn to cook, and take pleasure in it. Eating fresh homemade means nutrient rich and easy on stomach. So stay away from processed food, take away, and snack foods junks.
6. THEY EAT 2 HOURS BEFORE THEY SLEEP
That's a golden rule for a good night sleep. Not so late that you need another snack and not so early that your stomach is still struggling to digest all that's in it.
7. THEY LOVE A BIG BREAKFAST
Eating two-hour before bed, make it almost 10 hours of intermittent fast. They wake up really hungry, so to break-fast, they eat the biggest meal of the day, that super charge them for the whole day.
And always remember, what you eat in breakfast is less likely to get store in your body as fat, because your metabolism is at its peak. It means your body is in the mode of breaking up the calorie to pursue you to take action, Whereas in evening when your metabolism is slowing down, it like to store it.
8. THEY EAT BUTTER EVERY DAY
They loves butter. Butter in on the bread butter on the mashed potatoes. Butter every where. Butter has more tendency to make you feel fuller for longer time. And thanks to its higher caloric value per gram, it make you feel fuller early and helps the stomach to shrink. You heard that, Small stomach, small appetite, small craving throughout the day.
9.THEY DRINK WATER LIKE A FISH
You know when you feel like eating something, 75% of the time it's just water that your body needs.
As a good rule, drink water three times, and go for calorie at the fourth time.
10. THEY ARE LARKS
Larks activity runs with the sun. Sun is up, they are active. Sun down, lark down.
According to a research, larks have a better quality of sleep than an owl. They have more accurate body clock, and better hormonal levels. The secret to sweet life.
Their sleep time is usually late evening, when you don't even call it a night. It will be hard for you to change at first, but you will get used to it, and you will never want to turn back.
11. THEY CONTROL THEIR STRESS HORMONE
Emotions are their slave, not the vice versa. And they know, that dark negative emotions will make their soul darker. So they keep their mind clean. The are hard to get angry, or depressive, or impulsive. Because of their emotional stability, they have a balanced personality and tend to have big social circle.
Stress hormone aka emergency hormone, gets high when you are filled with negative energy. It make your body store more fat, Make hormonal sea in your blood, that you don't consume, your body tire easily, and make you crave more calories.
12. THEY LOVE NATURE
They love nature more than their screen time, to be exact. Instead of spending 10 more minutes on their phone-net, they will scroll through the streets, when they are on the way to the nearby market. They love to breathe in fresh air, have a good amount of sunshine, burn some calories.
Instead of a weekly shopping, take 2 or 3 small shopping trip, just to have some sweat running off and stretch your legs. It is a great anti depressive, mood boosting dode. Try it.
Comment me, if you have any other healthy habit In mind.
