UNDERSTANDING YOUR METABOLIC HEALTH /"FITNESS"

​Metabolic health or what I call fitness is a concept that I have been using in my health, wellness and weight loss coaching as a part of what I believe is crucial in losing weight for good and/or gaining or even optimizing health via the process of UNDIETING. Undieting is a method I use to help people lose weight for good and keep it off while gaining, instead of losing health, which often happens in the process of wanting to lose weight as fast as possible. Trying to lose weight as fast as possible, in fact, most of the time backfires or comes back with a vengeance. It is something that is backed up by science, but many people sadly do not "bother" to understand because it takes time that does not translate into immediate gratifications. Who has time to 'undiet' if our human nature seeks out immediate gratification!?


Undieting takes time nobody wants to take and it involves a mindset shift and switching the focus from what is on the outside, and for example the external fitness (what we look like and how physically we are), to what is on the inside, and what I call our INTETRNAL FITNESS. Internal fitness is how we feel and how our body is functioning and METABOLIC FITNESS is one if its most crucial components. This mindset shift, which happens through self-awareness and proper often basic knowledge, is the foundation of my coaching. It is something that will set the trajectory of your health, wellness and weight loss up for success and not yet another failure.


It is the reason why while on a health, wellness and weight loss journey with me, I make sure people understand the concept of INTERNAL and METABOLIC fitness as it is something that in fact, drives their weight and chronic health issues and will be the foundation of their weight loss transformation or health and wellness optimization. If people do not prioritize it, they will eventually end up making it so much harder on themselves to lose weight at some point when they are "finally" put on medications and when they will have "finally" acquired ICD 10 - coded ailments. It is your choice if you want to start NOW or wait till then.


Internal fitness, and especially metabolic fitness, is so important in longevity, health, wellness and weight loss. While fitness awareness, as a part of the diet culture we are living in, has been on the rise and everyone understands the benefits of exercise for healthy weight especially, barely anyone focuses on internal fitness thinking it is their doctor's job. I like to think that I am here to help you make an educated decision because diet mindset and the actions that follow are taking people further and further away from their goal and losing weight and gaining health!


In fact, 3 trillion dollars are spent on what can be mostly prevented with lifestyle interventions and on chronic conditions and who knows how much on weight loss drugs that have quickly become the blockbusters people are willing to pay much more than what they would spend on a healthy lifestyle as a result of the "diet culture" we are living in. The World Obesity Federation (2023) predicts that 51% of the world will be obese or overweight within the next 12 years! Do you want to be the 51%?


Do you maybe want to be the 88% of the American population that displays at least one biomarker of metabolic dysfunction such as blood sugar, LDL or triglycerides levels, which means that only 1 in 8 people is metabolically healthy? Even those who are thin, and who exercise, have issues that are often a result of over-exercising. Amenorrhea or lack of menstruation, fertility issues are often a result of women’s unhealthy relationship with food and exercise.


It is thus not only those who are lazy, unmotivated that suffer from poor metabolic health. In fact, it is mostly not laziness and lack of motivation that contributes to the dysfunction, but lack of awareness, knowledge and the environment that enables the behaviors that bring on poor internal and metabolic fitness that leads to poor health and weight issues. Once you understand this and start taking proper steps towards your improved internal and metabolic fitness, your body will thank you for it as well. You will naturally and without dieting look better, but as a pleasant side effect.


If you are sick and tired of dieting or yoyo-dieting or if you are sick and tired of not being able to lose weight in spite of trying, it is adamant to understand the concept of metabolic health or fitness. Understanding it and being able to see beyond weight issues, could not only finally help you lose weight once and for all, but also change many aspects of wellness including your physical, emotional and mental health.


It is because a disturbed metabolic function leads to hormonal imbalances, inflammation, oxidative stress and brings on diseases and weight issues. When this happens, your energy producing pathways, and how your body generates energy from glucose (blood sugar) mainly, and sometimes from fat, to power every single cell in our body, no longer runs smoothly. This can manifest itself as not feeling or sleeping well, not being able to sustain energy throughout the day aka energy slumps, constantly feeling hungry or angry, having brain fog and headaches, mood swings, skin issues and of course extra pounds.


The sooner you realize you are in poor metabolic health or on the way to be, the better, but it is never too late to start addressing it. By doing so, you will be able to prevent many conditions that are a result of genetics, but also your own personal choices. Even if you are already under your doctor’s care for your metabolic conditions, it is not too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle with mindful action steps to help the treatment. These steps should include a holistic wellness approach and:

• making right nutrition choices, not counting calories or not even carbs, and not only focus on macros, but also and especially on micronutrients and their effect on your internal and metabolic fitness.
• proper exercise that will help your hormones instead of messing them up, which often happens when you overexercise or do not exercise properly.
• getting enough quality sleep
• learning how to manage stress better.
• avoiding toxins that disrupt metabolic function by avoiding alcohol, cigarettes, and using healthy beauty, skincare (such as www.dermattude.com ), as well as cleaning products, and consuming organic non-GMO and without pesticides non processed foods.

Sounds easy, but only 6% of the US population eats and sleeps well, exercises for health, and does not smoke nor drinks. We all can make healthier and more educated choices. If you would like to work with me or any other coaches who understand metabolic health, let me know. My coaching focuses on embracing health, wellness and weight loss holistically and prioritizes metabolic and internal fitness not all the coaches and/or especially fitness trainers understand. As a result of UNDIETING with MAR, you will:

• lower our risks for chronic conditions, such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, fatty liver disease, heart disease, stroke, dementia and more, which are brought on by excess glucose in the bloodstream which causes inflammation or oxidative stress and hormone imbalances or glycation that makes everything stick in our body and throw things off.
• improve our immune system.
• have sustained energy throughout the day. 
• better memory and less brain fog
• better and stable mood
• less anxiety and depression
• healthy weight
• less wrinkles
• fertility and sex drive
• look and feel your best.
• and more.

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Yours in health and metabolic fitness,
 Marta or MAR
www.MindsetActionResults.com