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 Changing Your Shape Means Changing Your Life
Obesity has become an epidemic in this country, along with most other countries throughout the civilized world. As such, an industry was born to cater to the population which it effects. Weight loss is estimated to be a $40 billion industry, whose executives would be most unhappy if people really did lose weight. If their diet plans worked, we would surely have a population of fit, healthy, and slim women; and the industry would be self-terminating. It would have served its purpose. Instead, we have two and six week diet plans which help women to lose a small amount of weight (usually less than 10 pounds) to soon regain it with even more. This is actually part of the business plan, for the money of this industry is made from people being unhealthy, and miserably staying that way. Diet products fail because that is part of their design, just as the medical industry has no cures for its cash cows, and will make certain that it never does. There is no money to be made from healthy people. Meanwhile, surgery-enhanced celebrities create a facade of how women should look.
The western world has adopted an unhealthy approach to eating, which would have been considered gluttonous in the not-so-distant past. We pay little attention to the amount that we eat, and often stare at entertainment throughout our meals; neglecting meaningful interaction with others. The great irony is that we are overweight as a nation because we are starving for nutrition. We are deficient of magnesium, the B vitamins, Vitamin D, and almost every trace mineral, due to our synthetic fertilizers having depleted the soils, and our chemically "refined" foods. Our foods are so deficient that the more we eat, the hungrier we tend to become, as our bodies struggle to make use of the empty calories. It is like the case of the early American settlers, who lived on a diet of corn. A huge portion of those settlers died of starvation and illness, while being incredibly obese.
Mental And Emotional Barriers
Most of our failures throughout life are due our own internal self-sabotaging tendencies. For instance, many people remain overweight because they have such a low self esteem that they actually feel unworthy of being fit. It demonstrates a self-destructive tendency, and this is often literally part of a deeply buried unconscious suicide wish. Some of us were taught as children that food is a comfort to life's tough problems, and this training still resonates unconsciously through us into adulthood. Some of us were taught that food is something we reward ourselves with whenever we have accomplished a goal, as is the case with celebration dinners, and birthday parties. Food is our sustenance, and we bear massive problems whenever we perceive food as either a punishment or a reward. Unfortunately, almost all of us have fallen into this trap, and it happens purely unconsciously.
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Winning the victory over one's own mind is the most important step to success. For instance, it is certain that you will fail if you already believe that you will fail. Your issues and beliefs determine your future reality, because you will unconsciously transform them into self-fulfilling prophesies. You will unconsciously work to prove yourself right without ever realizing that it was you causing the problems ― that the failures were caused by a long chain of self-sabotaging actions. If you begin demoralized, and impeded by your own internal issues, then the war can be lost before the first shot is fired.
For these reasons, we recommend that people with a serious weight problem first see a hypnotist to uncover and deal with any unconscious barriers to successful dieting, as well as get themselves reprogrammed to be positive about managing their health, while considerably increasing their will power overall. Hypnosis works powerfully, and it is probably the wisest first step that a person can take before beginning a serious life transformation, and permanently improving one’s well-being requires nothing less than a life transformation.
The Truth About Beef
Eating nonorganic meat while trying to lose weight is a huge mistake. The greed of large corporations has destroyed most traditional farms, and transformed healthy foods such as beef into something sickening. The great majority of meat in the United States is fed on an unnatural and deficient diet of genetically engineered corn products, instead of grass. This was exposed in the hard-hitting documentary, King Corn. Corn causes animals to become fat quickly, but the quality of meat produced is grossly second rate when compared to meat produced by traditional methods.
Current U.S.D.A. standards allow the ground meat of today to be up to 30% fat. The average amount of beef fat has increased 10% since 1985. The Journal of Animal Science (1952) reported that beef in the 1950’s was between 2% and 7% fat. At that time, cows were allowed to range feed on grass, as was natural for them to do.
Today, most herds are cruelly fed corn mixtures in sickeningly unhygienic group cages, where antibiotics are routinely administered to suppress the constant diseases caused by these conditions. This is called factory farming, and its sole purpose is to extract the most profit from each cow, without regard to the consequences. The corn that is fed to cows is usually genetically modified, and this “feed grade” corn is laced with pesticides. Mad cow disease got its start from mixing decaying blood and waste body parts from other animals into this ‘food’. Modern cows are also pumped full of growth hormones to force them to mature faster, and antibiotics to suppress the diseases this lifestyle fosters.
Yet, there is still more to report about the perversion of beef. When butchered, meat is usually saturated in nitrate salts to preserve it for an extended period. These nitrate salts cause a number of very serious health problems, including cancer. Nitrate salts are known to be poisonous, and this is why they are used to kill bacteria and fungi on meats. Although, safe alternative preservatives do exist. The inflammation caused by these poisons in conjunction with the unnaturally high fat content found in modern beef feeds both heart disease and obesity.
Despite all of this, beef is so beneficial that we recommend it in moderation for every diet, and we strongly encourage our readers to seek organic meat whenever possible. Beef is actually a healthy food whenever it lacks industry enhancements.
Egg Rolls With That?
The Chopstick Diet now exists to force people to pay attention to how much they eat, and at what pace. It has been a resounding success, in contrast with most diets. While it may be fairly impractical for most people, it does point out that there are many paths to weight loss that are free of chemical aids. However, most of the modern diet plans involve taking pharmaceuticals to drop the pounds.
Collectively, as a society, we are forever searching for miracle cures for obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. While we acknowledge that such miracles would be wonderful, these are nevertheless unattainable dreams. There is not a single drug, other than antibiotics which can cure anything, and there can be serious long term consequences to using antibiotics. In other words, we should breakout of our delusion that there is a quick and easy fix for our problems in the form of a pill.
Yet Another Pharmaceutical “Miracle”
Alli has become one of the most popular diet pills due to its ability to limit the absorption of fats. It has been marketed as a miracle drug, which is, of course, the standard marketing procedure. Alli promises to allow dieters to eat all that they wish, and yet still lose weight. It was approved by the F.D.A. despite its deplorable set of ingredients, and a rather interesting set of negative side effects.
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Around 50% of Alli users experience extremely loose or oily stools, gas, oily spotting on the underwear, or incontinence. This means that taking Alli pills gives you a 7% chance of needing adult diapers, and probably some counseling. These chances increase with the length of time that this miracle is used. Incontinence has a huge impact on the confidence, career, and social life of a person. It can be especially traumatizing to dieters, because most dieters already experience self-esteem issues. It is usually their main motivation for losing weight.
 Alli’s ingredients are ones that we have never before seen in products intended for internal human consumption. Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, used as an industrial engine degreaser, floor cleaner, and as the oil stripper of most shampoos was found in the inactive ingredients. Alongside it was “talc”. Talc was discovered to cause cancer; so now corn starch is recommended for infant diapers, instead of it. In 1971, a group of researchers found that particles of talc were embedded in 75% of the ovarian tumors studied. What possible purpose could two such dangerous chemicals have in a product marketed to improve health, and what special F.D.A. science was used to demonstrate that this industrial crud is "safe" for human consumption?
Many of the weight loss plans are not merely regimens, but they also provide their own proprietary, patented formulas that are promised to yield a miracle effect. It is not surprising that companies are trying to make as much money as they can from dieters, but the ingredients of these formulas are truly appalling. Diet foods are the most unhealthy foods that a person will ever eat, yet the deceptive marketing on these products leads dieters to believe that they are eating healthy snacks containing everything that their bodies need.
Artificial sweeteners are frequently used alongside the infamous Monosodium Glutamate (M.S.G.), an excitotoxin, which directly causes weight gain, Alzheimer's, heart disease, juvenile asthma and cancerous tumors. Public pressure urging removal of this ingredient has caused some companies to start disguising M.S.G. under the names “Yeast Extract”, “Sodium Caseinate”, “Hydrolyzed Protein”, “Autolyzed Yeast”, “Glutamic Acid”, "Calcium Caseinate", "Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)", "Textured Protein", "Monopotassium Glutamate", "Hydrolyzed Plant Protein (HPP)", "Sodium Glutamate", "Glutamate", "Autolyzed Plant Protein", "Yeast Food", "Yeast Nutrient", "Glutamic Acid", "Sodium Caseinate", "Vegetable Protein Extract", "Soy Protein", "Hydrolyzed Corn Gluten", "Natural Flavor", "Artificial Flavor", "Spice", and the newest and ugliest one: "Senomyx". Look for, and avoid these. MSG has the capability to mask rancid flavors in processed foods, and is therefore marketed as a “flavor enhancer”.
Diet foods usually contain sodium aluminum phosphate or titanium dioxide. It is ironic to consume these foods whilst trying to lose weight, because heavy metals like these are stored inside the fat cells of the body, which makes losing weight immensely more difficult. The human body attempts to store toxic heavy metals inside of fat cells as a matter of self defense, which is why a heavy metal detox is an important part of a successful diet plan.
Unfortunately, these are not companies which really care about their customers’ health, or long term success. They care about a continued revenue stream, and that means keeping their customers fat.
“Sugar Free” Usually Means “Extremely Fattening”
Sugar is usually removed from diet products, under the guise of helping dieters to lose weight. The sugar is replaced with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (‘Nutrasweet’ or ‘Equal’), Saccharin, or Sucralose (‘Splenda’). All of these sweeteners have been proven to actually cause weight gain by stimulating carbohydrate cravings.
It is believed that these sweeteners successfully confuse a body into believing that these drinks contain glucose, so a person experiences an increased and artificially induced sugar crash ― only it is worse because there never was any real sugar. Call it nature’s revenge, if you like. Until artificially enhanced foods and drinks, there was no sweet taste without calories, and a body does not understand how to regulate these artificially sweet substances. The proponents of these artificial sweeteners pretend that these chemicals do not effect insulin, but the carbohydrate cravings prove that they do, and a body really needs carbohydrates or sugar to compensate for the imbalance caused. The help from these sweeteners is the primary reason why both dieters and diabetics have such difficulty overcoming their problems.
Created by chlorinating (bleaching) some of the molecules in sugar, sucralose has been proven to worsen diabetes (which many overweight people suffer with), abort pregnancies, and enlarge the liver and kidneys. All of these are signs that sucralose is a toxic substance, yet it is the least studied F.D.A. approved artificial sweetener. Aspartame and saccharin are much worse. Yet, these sweeteners compose just one category of ingredients that are used in weight loss foods.
“It’s only been relatively recently that foods have been introduced that violate those kind of relationships, such as something very sweet that has no calories.”
― Susan Swithers, PhD., Purdue University
So-called “Natural” Diet Aids
All natural weight loss aids can also seem desirable, but these typically deceptive products are most often created by drug companies, not naturopaths. Fortunately, it is possible to attain long lasting weight loss without a chemical corporation. Be sure to only use these aids alongside your regular dieting and exercise plans. Do not rely on them, or anyone else to manage your health for you.
Many herbal formulas were among the list of weight loss aids recalled by the Food and Drug Administration in December of 2008. These products were discovered to be laced with pharmaceutical drugs, one of which is known to cause anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and aggression. This is yet another reminder that we must check the integrity of the companies that we buy from. Trust only companies that are dedicated to delivering natural products. In other words, don’t trust GlaxoSmithKline for your echinacea. The following statement was posted on the F.D.A.'s website:
“An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an antiseizure medication), phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent) and bumetanide (a diuretic).”
A Health Wyze Diet
Losing weight effectively cannot be done in a two week program, but it can be done. Holistic health advocates look for the root causes of health related issues; but with excessive weight, there are many possible causes. For some, a toxic diet in childhood is to blame (chemicals, heavy metals, sugar, carbs, processed foods, liver, or undercooked meat), so they have consequently been overweight from a young age. Others eat excessively due to their depression, and some people have hypothyroidism (the thyroid does not produce enough hormones, and produces a slow metabolism). For people who may have a sluggish thyroid, we recommend adding externally applied iodine, and internally consuming cold-pressed virgin coconut oil. It is highly recommended that, if possible, you work with the root causes of your weight problems, alongside your plan.
As mentioned earlier, most American dieters have problems losing weight because their fat is a storage place for the toxins in the body. While we would like to immediately recommend a heavy metal cleanse, it could be counter-productive in some people who already have yeast overgrowth; which is most of the population. The heavy metals in your system constantly kill the bacteria and any parasites that are inside of you. In theory, that would be a good thing; if the metals were not also toxic to your brain, kidneys, liver, almost every other organ, and hinder your weight loss efforts. So, before you do anything else, some big changes in eating habits are necessary to suppress your candida (yeast). The extent of these changes will depend on your current diet. If you are not prepared to commit to this, then successful dieting is just not for you. Successful weight loss takes commitment, effort, and some food-based sacrifices. While this is only step one of the program, you are likely to lose weight all the way through. For the first two weeks, we recommend:
Step I: Destroy Intestinal Yeast (Candida) By Starving It
- Eliminate all sources of refined ("white") products like white flour, white sugar, white rice, and table salt (sea salt is recommend)
- Limit carbohydrates
- Get plenty of sunlight (vitamin D)
- Eat 2 tablespoons of organic plain yogurt 2-3 times daily
- Curb sugar cravings with fresh fruits
- Avoid all soft drinks (especially so-called "diet" drinks)
- Incorporate daily fruits and vegetables into your diet
- Drink plenty of mineral rich spring water or well water
- Avoid yeast by avoiding breads, mushrooms, and alcoholic beverages
- Buy organic foods whenever possible (More nutrients, and less antibiotics, pesticides, growth hormones, fertilizers)
- Eat many small meals instead of 3 large ones
- Consume ½ teaspoon of cold pressed virgin coconut oil daily
- Do not use anti-bacterials like colloidal silver, because this will kill the beneficial intestinal flora that you are trying to rebuild. You must not do anything that would hinder the good bacteria, and therefore, pharmaceuticals could be a show-stopper.
Additionally, read the ingredients on all of the foods that you eat. As a general rule, every unrecognizable ingredient should be avoided. Those are the foods which have been designed in a laboratory, and are often preludes to cancer, diabetes, and all other epidemics that are growing in this country today ― including obesity. Do not be fooled, these diseases are not normal or natural. They are the result of malnutrition, and chemical poisoning through our food and water supplies. Do not be afraid to drink lots of water, but avoid tap water, and water from most plastic bottles as they leach hormones and toxins. Water will not make you fat, and it is needed to flush out toxins.
A Short Term Juice Fast Is Recommended
 Purchasing a juicer or blender would prove to be a great investment, as they make the intake of lots of fruits and vegetables easy, give you the option of greater variety, and there are hundreds of free recipes all over the Internet. However, this is not essential. Exercise is strongly recommended, and is a crucial aspect of losing weight. The first few days of this plan may leave you feeling fatigued, as the candida fights to stay alive by scavenging all the sugars it can. Do not get disillusioned, for this is only temporary, and is a sign that it is working. You will soon return to feeling better than you have in a long time. Fortunately, this initial fatigue will only appear in those who suffer from a particularly bad case of yeast overgrowth.
Step II: Cleansing Time
After a dedicated two weeks of this, it will be time to remove the heavy metals that have accumulated throughout your life. Your body cannot successfully eliminate certain heavy metals without aid, so depending on the quality of your old eating habits (and whether you have silver dental fillings), there could be massive amounts of heavy metals stored in your excess fat. This step will make any attempt to lose weight much easier. There are several ways to do a heavy metal detox, and I will recommend a couple of them here.
The following may be used together for approximately 10 days to detox:
- N.A.C. amino acid supplement (N-Acetyl-Cysteine)
- Selenium
- B complex vitamin (food-based)
- 5-HTP
- Garlic
- Regular Exercise (Sweating helps to expel toxins, and exercise is the only way that the lymph nodes can expel toxins)
Blend these together, and take one teaspoon every day:
- ½ cup of cold-pressed extra virgin organic olive oil
- 1 large bunch of cilantro
- 4 large cloves of garlic
Your local health food store will also have heavy metal detox kits available, if that approach is more desirable to you. Please read the ingredients of those kits carefully, instead of trusting their cover marketing, because every company wants to sell their product. While going through a heavy metal detox, it is likely that you will go through some behavioral changes, as stored toxins and metals begin migrating through your bloodstream again. Therefore, a warning to your loved ones may be in order, before you begin a cleanse. Warn them to expect some flaky behavior and abrupt mood swings. These side effects are especially noticeable for people who have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, since these are conditions primarily caused by toxic and allergic overload. There may also be some mild flu-like symptoms for the first couple of days showing that your immune system has detected the presence of toxins moving in your body.
Step III: Begin The Diet and Begin Feeling Great
This is the easy part. Purchase a food-based multivitamin from a health food store, and take it each day, alongside apple cider vinegar. Those who have had a bad diet usually have reduced the acidity of the stomach, making it more difficult to absorb the nutrients that they need. Taking apple cider vinegar with vitamins helps ensure proper absorption. This is particularly important later in life.
- Add plenty of lean proteins to your diet. This will eliminate hunger without providing fat. Along with regular exercise, it will help to replace lost fat with muscle. This includes eggs, chicken, fish, beef and nuts. Always avoid pork.
- Supplement with selenium to neutralize mercury found in fish or dental fillings.
- Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. They will provide energy and vital nutrients.
- Do not consume synthetic energy drinks, even if they mention natural ingredients in the marketing.
- Avoid all artificial additives (colors, preservatives, sweeteners, etc.)
- Eat plain organic yogurt regularly.
- Avoid "white" processed foods (e.g. white rice, white bread, white sugar, and "table" salt)
- Use sea salt
- Avoid “enhanced” fruit juices containing sugars or high fructose corn syrup
- Eat many tiny meals instead of a few large ones
- Drink plenty of mineral water and organic green tea with honey and lemon (that you brew)
- Nuts have natural properties to curb appetite, so use them as snacks.
Following this advise will make you look and feel dramatically better, regardless of whatever the scales read. It is likely to get you off the pharmaceutical treadmill as well, to finally realize good health. Stop hopping on the scales each morning, and torturing yourself over pointless numerical values. If you really need to torture yourself about something numerical, then count how many fruits and vegetables you eat each day. Any lack of success on the scales only leads to depression, which contributes both directly and indirectly to weight loss failure. It is very self-sabotaging, especially when done regularly. Our advise is to throw your scale into the trash, if you plan on having success.
There are lots of natural supplements which can assist you, but they will be ineffective if you do not make the effort. Feel free to pick and choose from these lists. Combining herbs together will not produce negative effects. These can all be found at health food stores, or on the spice rack.
Appetite Suppressants:
- Chickweed
- Cumin
- Evening primrose oil
- German chamomile
- Peppermint
- Ginseng
- Hoodia
Metabolism Boosters:
- Dhea (avoid if suffering with adrenal fatigue, or male pattern hair loss)
- Nettle
- Dandelion
- Cayenne
- Ginseng
- Tyrosine
- Guarana
- Coconut Oil
Kola nuts are a natural stimulant, appetite suppressant, and they enhance mental and physical performance. Drinking herbal teas will also help you to lose weight. They are very popular throughout alternative medicine, and in particular, we recommend yerba mate, red raspberry leaf, and especially green tea. They are natural appetite suppressants, and will boost your metabolism. Green tea is always encouraged, as the health properties seem to be virtually limitless, and these include weight loss. Meanwhile, St. John’s Wort can help alleviate depression, a common underlying cause of obesity. It is also rumored to play a direct role in weight loss. St. John’s Wort is not recommended for pregnant women, but of course, most pregnant women should not be trying to lose weight.
Good Dieting Is A Journey ― Not A Destination
 It is easy to conclude that diet miracles are simply scams advocating the continuation of a bad diet, but they may initially cause some weight loss through chemically-induced starvation. Gaining weight all over again is inevitable, because whenever real food becomes a part of the diet once again, the body will immediately store it as fat, because starvation will have tricked the body into believing that there is an emergency state of famine. Storing fat is the body’s emergency response mechanism, and most diets trigger it. This is one of the reasons why we advocate many more small meals, instead of less meals.
Many diet plans insist on regular exercise throughout the program, which makes it impossible to credit lost weight to the proprietary foods that were eaten, since it is most likely that exercise is what was really needed. This is good news for the natural dieter, for it means that weight loss can be achieved without the help of chemicals. Losing weight using natural methods helps people to keep it off, since they attack obesity at its root cause ― poor and toxic lifestyle.
The motivation for weight loss should be much deeper than the desire for a better appearance. True health goes beyond the cosmetic. We live in a society which is sinking in a sea of disease, and sickness. Every American knows of somebody who is fighting cancer, or diabetes, or heart disease, and maybe even Alzheimer’s. Obesity is just a symptom that identifies a person as a future victim of diseases due to their toxic lifestyle.
We have only two choices for maintaining our health: we can do it the natural way, or take the quick fix to become victims to the laws of unintended consequences, like the story of King Midas.
Begin your journey of self improvement today. You will find it to be naturally good. We wish you great success.
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