OUTSMARTING THE FEMALE FAT CELL: YOU CANT COMPARE APPLES AND PEARS - THE FEMALE FAT PHYSIOLOGY WORKS
Let me give you an example of how all of the female fat physiology works in a real-life situation. You've had a tough day, you're overhungry, and you devour a fourteen-inch pep-peroni pizza for dinner. Your body needs some of these calories (maybe three slices' worth) to function, but the remaining five slices are excess calories traveling around in your bloodstream that your body doesn't need. Because your hip and thigh fat cells have the greatest ability for storage, those extra five slices are transported into those fat cells by the lipogenic enzymes. You now have bigger hip and thigh fat cells even before the chocolate ice cream dessert.
Our bodies' efficiency at storing fat goes beyond the fact that we are women with estrogen. Because of our frustration with weight loss, we have become professional dieters. I have yet to find a woman who has never been on a diet, and most women attempt at least two diets a year.
Dieting is the female fat cell's best friend. If women knew what dieting really does to their bodies, they would never, ever, even think about the new diet they plan to start on Monday. As soon as your fat cells realize that calories have been reduced, they throw a party and invite the lipogenic enzymes to store fat. Unfortunately, lipolytic enzymes are not on the guest list. Dieting simply increases the size of your fat cells, improves your body's ability to store fat, and limits your ability to burn it.
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH: MISUSE
Originally, when Alexander discovered that he was stiffening his neck and pulling his head back, and creating tension throughout his body, he thought that he was the only person to do this, but his investigations confirmed that this pattern of 'misuse' is common to the vast majority of people.
The effect of this misuse is that it interferes with the head/neck/back relationship, which means that a high degree of muscular tension is needed to maintain upright posture and for movement. This muscular tension is distributed unevenly through the body, with an excessive amount in some areas and too little tension in others, and there is a lack of interaction between the muscle groups. Obviously this brings about the very opposite of what we find with good use: being upright becomes an effort, there is a limited range of movement, the joints are stiff and breathing is impaired.
As with good use, misuse refers to our 'thinking'. It involves performing activities in a habitual and automatic way that is harmful to overall use and functioning. This could mean that we allow our emotional state to affect our musculature adversely, for example if we are worried about something we let tension build up in the neck muscles. Or it could be how we perform everyday activities. Observing people in action, we often see a great deal of effort being used, in parts of the body that are not directly involved in the activity. Check for yourself how tightly you hold your toothbrush while cleaning your teeth - or how tightly you are holding this book right now! You will probably find that, like most people, you are using an excessive amount of effort in holding what is a very light object, and in a task that actually requires a minimum of force.
People misuse themselves in different ways. Broadly speaking, a person may hold himself up with too much tension - the 'sergeant major' approach - or he may 'collapse', with over-relaxed muscles. In practice, of course, it is not as clear cut as this; both forms of misuse involve a combination of excess tension and over-laxity. For example, even in someone with collapsed posture, only some muscles are 'over-relaxed', and therefore others have to work all the harder in compensation, and are over-tense.
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