Mental aspects of weight loss

When your body is getting the nutrition it needs from the protein and fat(the fat soluable vitamins are co-factors to using the amino acids from the proteins) it recognizes that it has sufficient raw materials to do repair and rebuild of muscle and bone and vital organs. Your body then goes to work with a vengeance to take care of issues that have been sidelined due to insufficient nutrition coming in from low calories or high carbs(which don't contribute to muscle, organ or bone repair and rebuild) Carbs also don't have the fat soluable vitamins necessary to work together with the essential minerals.

When the body has enough assets to work with, it can jettison extra water from potassium/sodium imbalance. It can shuttle calcium into bone and teeth and out of soft tissues(blood vessels and arteries) with the aid of the fat soluble vitamins A, D and K and all these things become in better balance enhancing your health status. So, I think high calories with the right macro ratios is an investment in longterm health. It kind of sad in this day and age that we can starve for real nutrition on a biochemical level while taking in below subsistence level calories believing that we are making ourselves healthier. Our bodies, now more than ever before in history need highly concentrated and available nutrients to combat our present day toxic world. 

Our bodies are crying out for nutrition and we mostly give them empty calories to only care for the heat/energy output(calories in/out theory) but not the nutrition for essential repairs. Calories burned is not the health benchmark it has been made out to be. Repair and rebuild is the language our bodies understand and we are not currently speaking our bodies language. We have gotten lost in translation, our bodies are asking for useable construction materials and we are giving them the wallpaper and paint. You can't build a house from paint and wallpaper, you have to have the structure built soundly to base the decoration on. If we fail to recognize this we get older faster and sicker sooner. If we continue to go on these assumptions(that cellular repair and rebuild is not the key to health but that calories(the paint and wallpaper) are the be all and end all, we will paying into our own early and sickly demise.

This reminds me that I need to eat for nutrition with a purpose not just to supply sufficient calories to generate heat(calorie burn)  That just causes the body to hunker down into literal survival mode, robbing one vital area of nutrients to supply a more vital area for short term survival.  When this goes on long enough, our longterm health is what will suffer.  Disease and degeneration that could have been prevented earlier in life just by eating enough of the correct nutrients for repair and rebuilding of all the body tissues. These are just my own thoughts to remind myself that I'm not doing this for weight loss but for body health.