Hitting The Wall (March 2008)

When you eat a meal, that fat is stored in your liver for quick release of glucose. It’s like your immediate fuel tank.

When your body runs out of it, you “hit the wall.”

That’s when you reach “exhaustion” and “can’t go on.” Now, those are just words. It’s not actually true.

What is actually happening is that your body's now going to switch energy sources. At this point, you usually mentally feel that you can’t go on. And your body is responding in kind. People who train for a sport get used to this “crossover” and learn to handle the change.

What happens on the other side of this is your body switches to your stored fat cells. Each cell is like a backup battery. Most of us will really benefit from this crossover because we’re now burning off fat cells. But other than that, it’s empowering to know that we have a lot more energy in us, energy that will take us far past the point of when we “hit the wall.”

Just once again showing us (through science and undisputed proof) that we have a HUGE range of possibility.

And, once again, it opens us up to believing that this is true in so many different areas of our lives.