Your metabolism is your chief operating officer (COO) let it take the place of your EGO and do its magic.
Paying attention to your own internal COO!
I’ve been thinking about the best ways I can share a message about your unique metabolism. And yes, it is totally unique to you, like mine is to me.
Naturally you’ll eat to whatever “moderation” looks like for you, based on your:
- PHYSIOLOGY (e.g. reproductive years or post)
- PYSCOLOGY ( e.g. identical twins who have the same DNA don’t come out identical. You have your own randomness.
- PERSONALITY (e.g. your openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness)
- PREFERNCE (e.g. carnivore, vegetarian, vegan)
- PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e.g. single, in a relationship, kids, no kids)
At this point, I could ramble on about the science of metabolism and the family of hormones that control hunger, appetite, cravings and satisfaction but it’s not really the point of this item.
See, for years I never paid attention to those 5 key P’s above. My favourite P was PERFECTIONISM! If my weight was stuck, I would max out the burn and diet until the weight was back down to ‘ideal thin” (not my unique physiology but that of an advertisers ideal).
There is no room for this P in the above weight minders list.
INTERNAL METABOLIC COO METAPHOR
I want to present a metaphor to describe an aspect of metabolism. Think of it a bit like the Chief Operating Officer of a company, a majority shareholder, who is a wise leader. Like all good leaders this COO can help you progress and understand yourself better. Therefore, living as fabulous as you are. If you ignore it, you will lose. That’s because it will do anything just so as you can survive long enough to reproduce. Even beyond those years!
When you are paying attention to this internal COO, you will be acting on internal unique bio feedback and adjusting as a result of the feedback.
Here’s a couple of tips for you:
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PRO TIP 1
Hungry? – Eat until you are 80% full. What does this feel like? What is your COO messaging to you?
It feels like you are getting full but not until the point you are undoing the top button of your trousers and pulling down your zip 4 inches. Yes, you could eat more but you are not going to.
PRO TIP 2
No Energy? – You’ve got a foggy brain, you cannot recover from one workout to the next, instead you come back and do mind numbing things and put other projects on hold. Your COO is forcing you to sit down because you are not recovering. You are most likely not eating enough for your energy expenditure aka classic diet deprivation mentality. The COO will force feed you by increasing your hunger and cravings.
Just think of the times you have done a lot of crazy exercise! Then you might fight back by going on yet another fruitless diet without any due consideration and respect to what the COO is alerting you to.
Think about how you are working out and the energy you have to do other activities in your life.
Is it balanced?
Let’s say you start listening in to your own bio feedback, you ate moderately yesterday. You were able to feel satisfied and not stuffed (ate to 80% fullness), if you were able to take bites of things and not beat yourself up, amazing. Congrats, you’re on the journey to getting to know your intelligent boss a bit better.
The elementary version, listening to the “gurus” is a 1.0 version can be an okay place to start, but learning to work alongside your own metabolic COO is real self trust. Simple but never easy. Easy has to be earned.
I practice listening to my metabolism and really diving in these past years. I have not turned out like a marshmallow, and I am full of energy these days. It is truly quite remarkable what can come up for you when you get to know your body’s metabolic COO.
TDEE
I say the majority shareholder because 70% of your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure is BMR (basal metabolic rate) is purely down to every reaction needed to keep you alive day to day. The rest is made up of NEAT, non exercise activity thermogenesis 15% thermic effect of food 10% exercise activity thermogenesis 5%.