Quick Rant time: Psychological or physiological stress leaves a biochemical trace in the brain - a residue, a memory. This is why you can accumulate the effects of training over time. You can also accumulate the effects of dieting over time. And in the same way that a physical injury leaves the body with a long term stamp of remembrance, so does a diet injury insulting the system with an extreme excess or extreme deprivation of food, too often/for too long. And since you and I are beings caught in a nexus of psycho-physiological feedback (and feedforward?) loops of causes and effects, these physiological injuries and insults come with accompanying psychological compensations and changes that will make it harder to progress or maintain your aesthetic and athletic fitness, if not impair it to the point where the cost isnt worth the benefit. What should you do? DO NOT listen to your body ALONE - hire a coach to dance to the tune of your biofeedback with you. Alone you will either do too little or too much most of the time --- and your subjective interpretation will cognitively bias your actions according to your emotions and moods, rather than guide to results your physical actions and foods. --- Amir
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 08:04:34 +0000