This may come as a surprise to you, but there isn't any such thing as an ancient weight loss secret.
In ancient times, cavemen and cavewomen wouldn't have had any trouble maintaining a healthy bodyweight.
How do we know this? Because they lived a very manual lifestyle. Their entire lives consisted of traveling long distances, slowly, by foot and laboriously hunting wild game or picking their fresh fruit and vegetables themselves by hand.
They may have each had certain tasks to do, but there certainly wasn't anything like the life-sucking cubicle desk jobs of today. They couldn't go to the grocery store to buy their food, they would need to get it for themselves or they would end up starving.
Their diet was also vastly different than ours is.
Cavemen didn't subsist on heavily processed foods with dozens of preservatives and artificial flavorings. They ate whole, natural foods that were optimized for their body -- and yours.
Believe it or not, but you can eat massive amounts of whole foods like lean meat, veggies, and fruits and never gain body fat. You won't be hungry, your body will get the nutrients it needs to thrive, and you won't gain unsightly body fat.
In fact, cavemen didn't eat high glycemic index foods like grains at all.
Humans as a species only began eating grains at the start of the agricultural revolution approximately 12,000 years ago. Prior to that, the knowledge of processing wheat, corn, legumes, and related crops into food for consumption just didn't exist.
Because of this, it's likely that not only did cavemen and women have healthier body weights, but they also would have had no experience with ailments like Type 2 Diabetes or Celiac disease which are directly related to consumption of these foods.
The best way that you, as a modern human, can take part in these ancient weight loss "secrets" is to engage in a whole food diet such as the Paleo Diet.
