I'd like to know:
1. Can you tell me that long distance running or perhaps
cardiovascular exercise or ANY other type of activity will
definitively cause a more healthy distribution of fat, or will it
definitely not do anything more than reduce overall fat in keeping
with the way my body is programmed to store fat???
(if you can answer this question alone, you will get the money. but
if you can answer it then you'll probably be able to answer the
following two questions, which i include for specificity:)
2. is there a known chemical in the body that explains how the body
chooses to alter fat distribution from the basic genetically
programmed distribution? probably not. if you find nothing to
answer this aspect, that's totally OK.
3. is there some mechanism that can explain body fat distribution
such as mine or that of paraplegics?
oh, pardon, let me explain...
i have a problem-- a lifelong battle really.
it's a terrible, terrible problem.
i can get any girl with my dashing good looks, unless my face is gaunt.
i walk down the street and the prettiest girls all sneak stares--well,
when i look healthy... but i'm a worm to them when i'm skinny.
i'm a 24 year old male whom everyone thinks is lean, by the way. i
don't have trouble controlling my weight. i have trouble controlling
my two weights. two weights, one for the stomach, one for the face,
so to say.
you see, my lifelong battle is between my stomach fat and my face
fat: when i have a healthy looking face, i must put on weight in the
stomach or be in the process of putting on weight. if i want a lean
stomach, i have to lose all my fat, including from my pretty face,
with terrible-looking consequences. my nose appears to stick out,
cheeks are flat against my skull. it's not the type of skinny a
person can think is not awkward and unrespectable-looking.
i have most currently decided that if i have to choose then i'd
choose face and sacrifice my hot, hot body. when i'm skinny my
stomach looks like a "greek statue" or "the perfect male form," so i'm
told, but now i look like a 40 year old, out-of-shape man.
i hate this. you know, i took a whole class at berkeley, Nutrition
10, ONLY to find out how to get around this problem, but the
professors couldn't tell me what to do or exactly what was going on.
As i say, I don't have a problem with controlling my weight--i can
get skinny or fat at will, and i have very little appetite. i'm
frequently surprised every time i ask someone if they would rather
have to eat to live or have to never eat to stay healthy, and they'd
choose to have to eat because they like it, even with all its expense
and time. but i digress, the point is, i'm not a stupid animal who
can't control his eating.
What i want to know is how the body works and what will work for me,
and i'm going to ask about Cortisol and Relacore even though they're
most likely dead ends. I'd like to know if my problem can be solved by
altering the way i eat, the way i exercise, or who knows. i want
someone to finally provide definitive answers about the mechanism of
my problem.
so the reason i'm writing is because i suspect that it's not an
insurmountable tradeoff. i think this because i noticed something
peculiar about a class of people. about whom? ... cripples.
paraplegics in particular. i've noticed that most paraplegics have
very large guts, like big big bowling balls, and their wrists are
skinny as hell and their faces tend not to be fat at all.
--maybe i should describe myself now. my wrists are skinny--skinnier
than most women's wrists, with no fat at all on them. my arms and
upper shoulders are quite fatless, and the same goes with the knees
down. the problem is the stomach, lovehandles and all that. --what i
began thinking was perhaps there was some mutual causation behind this
correlational similarity. i am rather sedentary and don't usually
work out or jog or have a gym membership, but i'm not a potato. i try
to eat well but sometimes have only two large meals in a day. i've
tried to figure out if these two things were contributing but i
haven't been scientific enough. that's where you come in.
what i've been hypothesizing ever since my observation was that
there is a chemical in the body that controls fat distribution
according to some specific type of exercise, and that young
paraplegics are growing fat in unusual ways because their inactivity
causes their bodies to release or not release that chemical.
But i'm wondering if that chemical has been found out already.
[now, this is probably a dead end but Relacore makers claim that it
reduces Cortisol in the body, which contributes to stomach fat. I
don't want to waste money experimenting with some medication,
especially since it appears that the main way cortisol contributes to
stomach fat is by compelling a person to binge eat or to gain stomach
fat in conjunction with stress. i'm not
stressed out in the first place-- in fact people sometimes say that
i'm unstressed to a fault. What i am slightly interested to know is if
lowering Cortisol in my body will make that critical amount of
difference so that i don't have to keep gaining weight for my face to
get the girls. but if you completely ignore this part of the question,
that's fine.]
Maybe that chemical is released with stretching or something; i'm
under the impression that stretching might do some good with the way
the body distributes fat on onesself, though i don't know why that
would be the case--it's just something that i noticed that might be of
help to you.
anyway, my body fat isn't a horrendous problem now but it seems that in order
to keep the face nice, i have to be constantly gaining and i reckon
i've got 8 or 10 pounds too many on my mid-place-a-ma-jig. about an
inch thick on top of my perfectly cut abs.
So i guess i've stated it all and i'll state it again: I'd really
like to know, is there a known chemical in the body, or a mechanism, that can
explain the paraplegic correlation--explaining the body fat
distribution of them or me??
MOST IMPORTANTLY, CAN you tell me that cardiovascular exercise (or
maybe vigorous excersise until you feel that itchy numbness in your
gums) or any kind of behavior will definitively cause a more healthy
distribution, or will it definitely NOT do anything more than reduce
overall fat in keeping with the way my body is programmed to store
fat????
if it can be altered, what ought i do?
I beg you! beautiful, brilliant girls (--for me!--) are on the line! |
