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Chapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really WorksChapter 2: Secrets of How the Body Really Works
different kinds and amounts of foods, do exercise, and (usually unknowingly)
ingest poisons, heavy metals and toxic chemicals.
Metabolism, Weight Loss, and Hunger 
The first topic we will address is metabolism, hunger, and the truth about how
and why the body adds fat and burns fat.
MYTH‐CONCEPTION: 
You should be hungry all the time to lose weight 
This is false – in fact, just the opposite is true!
I've emphasized that the Theta*Genix program is about lifestyle transformation,
which means that the changes you make to your diet and exercise routine should
be things you are comfortable with and desire to maintain for the rest of your life.
And who wants to be hungry for the rest of their life? So for this reason alone, it's
not a good idea to be hungry all the time in your quest to lose weight.
However, there is also a good deal of scientific evidence that being hungry is not
a good way to lose weight! To understand exactly how and why being hungry
actually works against your goal of weight loss, we need to explore metabolism
and how the body takes in and uses energy.
This section provides an oversimplified model of how the body works in terms of
calories, and how this results in weight gain or weight loss. But please be aware
that this model is greatly oversimplified, and the truth of how your body works is
more complicated than a simple matter of counting calories in and calories out!
However, we need to start somewhere, and this simple model will serve as the
basis for everything discussed in more detail later in this chapter. We will borrow
a term from physics and call the information in this section the “standard model of
calorie counting” of calories, food, exercise, and weight management, aka the
“standard model.”
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