The Scale Conspiracy

Gluttony and Vacation

2012-01-29T00:13:00.000-08:00

Aloha,

I awakened at 7:00 am with incredible pain in my knee. I slowly limped to the elevator and went to the 26th floor owner's lounge to video tape an introduction for the scale conspiracy web page. I was sure that I'd have another miserable day with my bum knee. Unfortunately I was too late and the lighting was wrong for make the video so I limped back to the room and had a very light breakfast with Nancy.

We took a nap and hung around the room until about 11:30 am. I wanted to walk along the beach and get some video of Royal Hawaiian Hotel (the pink one) before we left. Nancy didn't want to walk on the beach because of the sun--she hates exposing her skin to the sun. But eventually I chided her into a walk on the beach. Much to my surprise as I left our resort my knee got better and better. It was like an instant improvement--pain gone. Just a few hours before with every step I had radiating pain in my knee muscles. I'm not ready for jogging yet, but boosting glutathione has saved my vacation.

But Nancy still didn't want to walk very long on the beach. I got my video of the Royal Hawaiian--which is practically next door to our resort--from the beach and then we walked through the Royal Hawaiian to the street and continued on to the public Waikiki beach where I took more video.

Afterwards I wanted to go a block further inland and check out the stores for a wind breaker, but Nancy didn't want to. She wanted to go to a Chinese restaurant at noon for lunch. It was our first disagreement for the week. She walked into a store while I commandeered a seat along the street to wait for her.

When she finally came out of the store--she seems to get mesmerized in stores and rarely buys anything after spending eons of time trying on clothing--I said, "We have an issue. You don't want to go with me and I don't want to go to a Chinese restaurant. I'd like to walk from Kakalaua Ave over to Kuhio Ave and go back to the beach and later hang out under the tree at the beach"--(there's this fantastic low hanging tree that makes great shade right on the beach.) "So why don't you do what you want to do and I'll do what I want to do and we'll meet at the resort in two hours."

She decided to go with me and we found some neat stores--she almost bought a stupid Betty Boops clock but at the last moment decided not to. An hour later we happened upon a lunch buffet and decided that we'd go for gluttony. The buffet featured shushi which we enjoyed very much. And with all the food I was amazed that we ate moderately compared to how we could have gorged ourselves. We had basically planned on a lauau which never happened. It was the last food for the day and our only buffet for the week. Later we enjoyed the best sunset of the week and then walked through the streets that were blocked off for the Pro Bowl celebration.

Tomorrow morning we'll be leaving for a week on Maui so this may be my last post for a week as I'm not sure if I'll have access to the internet there. The good news is that so far we are on target with our food intake and enjoying the best of food that we can find.

The good news is that we did not feel that we were our own worst enemy when it came to food but instead lived with it and enjoyed it. Yet I know many of you may feel that when it comes to food that you start the day out with great intentions and perhaps eat little if any breakfast. Likewise at lunch you may eat very little, come home and plan on having just a little of something for dinner. That "little something" turns into a little something more, and then you have a little of something else and by bed time you might have polished off a bag of chips and feel gorged wondering, "What's wrong with me? I'm my own worst enemy."

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More vacation and food

2012-01-28T00:25:00.001-08:00

Aloha,
Aloha means affection, peace, compassion and mercy. I was hoping to share a few photos of Waikiki with you but unfortunately, my wife's new I phone is in Chinese as she is Chinese and she doesn't yet know how to send emails from her new I phone. I have been downloading some video to my computer and if I'm lucky you'll be able to see sunset at Waikiki beach. My apologies, I'm uploading the video but the link isn't happening--you're supposed to be able to click on Waikiki beach in the previous sentence to see the video.

Today I awakened with incredible pain in my knee as I tried to walk. We stayed in and had a small breakfast with coffee, banana nut muffin, danish and toast--a high carb breakfast. Then we took my knee to the hot tub and that did little good for it. Then we took my knee to pool side on the 27th floor and I wrapped it in ice and that did little good. I've been tripling my MaxOne Glutathione accelerator hoping that it will shorten the duration of the agony. Only time will tell.

For dinner I limped along with my wife a short block away to PF Changs. We've noticed that restaurant absolutely full of patrons every night and decided we'd have to try it out. I ordered Nancy a strawberry daiquiri but she's not big on alcohol so I ended up drinking most of it. We skipped appetizers and went straight for the entrees. Nancy had an eggplant dish in soy and I had a steak dish with water chestnuts and snow peas. The portions were just right.

The waitress brought us a chocolate cake for desert--it was eight layers--over a foot long with ice cream. Don't worry, we passed it up and settled for one small--actually it was kind of tiny--container of chocolate mousse.

Afterwards, we went to a nearby shopping area where I hung out sitting on a carved out huge block of wood. Nancy put in her order for a Louis Vuitton Bag for Christmas. I limped back to our resort where we went to the owner's lounge and enjoyed a couple shows on the wide screen tv.

I was amazed that I was free of temptation to eat in response to my agony all day long. I generally am tempted to eat more in response to being happy. But that 's not always true, I remember just last week going through some unplanned eating because of a major disappointment--emotionally I was very frustrated. What emotions do you find the biggest challenge? Let me know. The secrets to dealing with these emotions are in my book--The Scale Conspiracy in E-book form for only $14.95. Soft cover is $19.95 plus $3.00 handling and shipping and includes a free copy of the e-book--scroll down for the buy button

“If every overweight patient learned all of the lessons in this magnum opus, the success rate in treating their obesity would be dramatically improved.”

Warren M. Levin, M.D., F.A.A.F.P, F.A.C.N

World Health Medical Group

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Eating on Vacation

2012-01-26T23:44:00.001-08:00

We met our new friend for breakfast at Moose McGuillyCutties. It was a large delicious breakfast and I saved my banana nut muffin for breakfast tomorrow.

A couple days ago I pulled a muscle in my right knee while getting up from my beach towel. I'd been nursing it along since then, but as we were having breakfast it somehow became aggravated and when I got up to leave my knee was in agony. It reminds me of the intense pain I had in my other knee for over a year before I began using the glutathione accelerator that finally gave me relief.

We didn't take any long walks for the remainder of the day. I treated my knee to the hot tub for a while and babied it the rest of the day around our resort. We combined lunch and dinner and shared a Caesar salad with chicken and an order of pulled pork, Hawaiian style.

I was hoping for another gorgeous sunset, but it was not to happen. In fact the weather report is calling for stormy weather tomorrow.

I was tempted to have some dried pineapple chips after dinner and decided to take my disappointment with my knee straight rather than dilute it with calories. Disappointment is not a feeling that I like and it's real tempting to dilute it with food. Yet, it is my choice. How do you deal with disappointment?

Tomorrow's plan is to have a very light breakfast with banana nut muffin. Depending on how my knee is tomorrow and the weather will determine what ventures we undertake.

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“If every overweight patient learned all of the lessons in this magnum opus, the success rate in treating their obesity would be dramatically improved.”

Warren M. Levin, M.D., F.A.A.F.P, F.A.C.N

World Health Medical Group

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Vacation Plans Change

2012-01-25T23:50:00.000-08:00

Today we were going to have a small breakfast and be gluttonous for dinner at a lauau. We got up early, spent some time in the hot tub, and then hung out for a half hour at the pool on the roof. Then we had our tiny breakfast as planned so we could be gluttonous later in the day. But, our plans changed. We ended up going to Helio Hattie where we sampled some tasty macadamia nuts in chocolate and then had vanilla pineapple soft serve. We immediately decided to delay the lauau to another day. We missed our trolly by just a minute. While we waited a half hour for the next trolley we met a lady from Tennessee who lives on a farm and has six horses which my wife would love to ride. We might have breakfast with her tomorrow.

Our next stop was at Moose McGillyCuddy's for a Mai Tai--one was sufficient and then we shared one entree of Korean beef/chicken with lots of vegetables at a near by food court. We then returned to our resort and watched an incredibly beautiful sunset from the top floor of our building. My wife bet me $5000 that the sun would disappear behind the clouds and the sunset would be a dud. She will never pay up.

We capped our evening off by sharing a cup of lava flow (chocolate and coffee with a little whipped cream on top) as we watched a local street show of hula dancers. The good news is that we're handling the welcome emotions that go along with being in Hawaii and are managing and enjoying our food intake.

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“If every overweight patient learned all of the lessons in this magnum opus, the success rate in treating their obesity would be dramatically improved.”

Warren M. Levin, M.D., F.A.A.F.P, F.A.C.N

World Health Medical Group

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Challenge of Staying Thin On Vacation

2012-01-24T23:12:00.000-08:00

Vacation can be a challenge when it comes to keeping off weight that has been lost.

Here I am in Hawaii on vacation--a great place to be. We're staying in Waikiki and there is food everywhere.

It's amazing how many people invest months and months to get rid of their excess weight and then at some point after they succeed they go on vacation. What happens to their diet? It's real easy for the diet to go out the window. And then when they come back home, they step on a scale and find that they gained five or more pounds.

Rather than treat the five pounds as a "day tight compartment," they get disgusted with themselves and continue gaining more and more weight until they gain most or all the weight back. And yes, it may have taken them two or three months to get rid of the weight and they end up gaining it all back in a month or so. Why?

Answer: It's important to realize that being on vacation brings a totally new set of emotions than we're accustomed to. I mean, how many people actually go on vacation to lose weight? In all my years as a weight management coach I have never heard a client say, "I went on vacation to start my diet." No, diets and weight loss programs are generally started at home in familiar surroundings and familiar life stressors. So you kick in your diet or weight loss program and start losing weight. There is discipline. And the discipline and determination brings success in losing weight.

Then we introduce vacation and we have a totally new set of emotions--many of them varying degrees of happiness. The days are not filled with chores and work, but instead the main chore is to fill the day. There is a lot more time to fill the day with food. Many opportunities and it's easy for the pounds to start accumulating.

If one is able to recognize these dynamics, one can identify the new different emotions that come with vacationing, take them straight, and leave the excess food out of the vacation. On the other hand, one can choose to be gluttonous knowing that when vacation is over, so is gluttony.

Both approaches are effective to enjoying vacation and staying thin. On the other hand, guilt sets in, self loathing sets in and all the weight is gained back.

The good news is that when you connect emotions with the desire to eat, you can take the emotions straight and leave food out of your life. Yet, while there are many coaches who deal with emotional eating, they generally have difficulty explaining the relationship between food and various degrees of happiness. Want to know more? Pick up your copy of the Scale Conspiracy which gives you the keys to dealing with the full range of emotions--not just the undesired emotions.

Now back to vacation. Tomorrow we're skipping breakfast and will choose to be gluttonous at a Luau. And then we'll chose to skip breakfast the following morning. My wife is a skin care specialist so she avoids the sun like the plague. Fortunately, we found this incredible tree right on the beach which provides an abundance of shade. So far we've seen two gorgeous sunsets and plan to soak up every moment while we're here. I can definitely say one thing. The last time we were here was three years ago just as Obama took office. This town was depressed and the restaurants and stores were empty. Today, the Waikiki is buzzing again--restaurants full and stores loaded with shoppers. It's a night and day thing in just three years.

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“If every overweight patient learned all of the lessons in this magnum opus, the success rate in treating their obesity would be dramatically improved.”

Warren M. Levin, M.D., F.A.A.F.P, F.A.C.N

World Health Medical Group

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Losing Weight--Thinking Problem

2011-12-09T19:05:00.001-08:00

Losing weight is actually an easy thing to do when you know a few basics. In this and up coming posts we will explore these basics.

The brain is very much like a computer. It's hard to believe, but it will do every thing you tell it to do.

If that's true, then why haven't you been able to get thin and stay thin? Obviously you've been thinking to yourself that you want to lose weight. So why is it that you're still overweight?

Maybe what you've been telling yourself has been confusing the brain or actually telling you to gain weight or stay heavy.

For instance, the thought, "I want to lose weight." Can you see how that suggestion, thought, or affirmation could actually contribute to you gaining back weight after you'd maybe had some success or actually keep you from getting rid of any weight? It's actually a hypnotic suggestion to gain weight. Why? Stay tuned for the next post and the answer. It's really very obvious.

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“If every overweight patient learned all of the lessons in this magnum opus, the success rate in treating their obesity would be dramatically improved.”

Warren M. Levin, M.D., F.A.A.F.P, F.A.C.N

World Health Medical Group

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Scale Conspiracy Published

2011-03-15T20:40:00.000-07:00

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The Scale Conspiracy is about handling emotional eating. It is the first of it's kind. Other books about the subject deal with the stress that leads to emotion and totally ignore the fact that the resultant emotion is often times more stressful than the stress that causes it.

By managing emotions you truly manage your life.

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Confusion About Emotional Eating

2010-05-26T10:10:00.000-07:00

Emotional Eating is a very misunderstood term and everyone and absolutely everyone is jumping on the band wagon. I wouldn't be surprised to see Dr. Phil jumping on too. And absolutely no one understands it. Yet, everyone has advice which is recycled fad diet era advice.

This is what I mean. Emotion is a result of how a particular stressor is perceived. This being said, all programs add 2 + 2 and think the answer is 5. Because the emotional eater eats when an emotion is present, they focus you back on to dealing with the stressor. Obvious right? Way wrong.

The stressor isn't the real stressor--it's the emotion resultant from the stress that is the stressor.

Everyday I read post and article after article and post and they all have the same lame advice--exercise more, call a friend, meditate, eat cabbage instead of chocolate (made that one up) but you get the idea.

Finally I read an article that makes sense and it's backed by research. In the study they worked with individuals suffering from amnesia. The invoked a stressor that elicited an emotional response. Guess what the amnesia sufferers remembered?

They totally forgot what the stressor was but remembered the feeling of the emotion.

Let me repeat, they remembered the emotion but forgot what the stress was. To read about the study, click here.

Now this only becomes more pronounced for someone with normal memory. They not only remember the emotion, but also the injustice or aggravation that lead up to the emotion which becomes a vicious circle of creating more and more of the same emotion which they have no idea as to how to handle. But no problem. They are so caught up in the injustice or event that they never focus on the emotion and just eat and eat to dilute it.

Of course this is also true for situations and events leading to happiness as the primary emotion.

Sure the stress always passes and is forgotten but until the individual becomes "flat" with the emotion it lingers and lingers and is generalized to other events leading to more and more binging and emotional eating.

Prescription for Emotional Eating--Mother's Day

2010-05-04T18:07:00.001-07:00

A prescription for emotional eating:

Being around mother can certainly stir up some emotion--all kinds of emotions. If you've had a great relationship with your mother, there's joy, happiness, a feeling of well being.

If on the other hand your mother has been a critic, then there's defensiveness, annoyance, confusion--maybe some anger.

In either situation--it's a prescription for emotional eating. The mind is focused on the emotion and the mouth is engaged diluting them. But the problem is that the mind is not really recognizing the emotion. You're not saying to yourself, "I'm happy being around my mother, " or, "I'm feeling defensive being around my mother."

No, you're into the joy and aggravation and the mouth is engaged. After all, what else is there to do?

Why is this so?
Have you ever driven to work and when you got there, you didn't remember the streets you passed, or the lights you went through, or the land-marks you passed? Of course, it happens to all of us. Emotions are like this, we're so accustomed to them that we don't even recognize that we're having them.

The first step is to be aware of the emotion/s. I'm feeling (whatever the emotion).
Then, how do you feel about this emotion? Some emotions you like and some you don't.
The goal is to get beyond any beliefs you have about the emotion and "take it straight."

"I feel happy and I like feeling happy and I'd like to forget about food and take the happiness straight."

or

"I feel defensive or angry and I hate these feelings because (what ever the reason). I prefer to take these feelings straight, effectively express myself and leave food out of the situation.

I have two great programs for dealing with criticism and expressing yourself. Criticism is a game--those who criticize only tell you more about themselves than they do about you.
Effective communication, though, is something most of us could use some help with.

But if for some reason, you see a lot of red (anger) and have trouble dealing with it, then learn how to benefit from anger.

Feel the emotion, take them straight and forget about food--that's what can happen.

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Emotional Eating Tip?

2010-04-29T18:19:00.001-07:00

Go to your library and read about emotional eating? That's a tip given in an article about emotional eating. The article is titled Control Binge Eating - Start Getting Control Over Your Life

Other tips are to discipline yourself, choose healthier foods, be aware of the thoughts you have before you eat, and drink two glasses of water and eat a huge salad instead of the comfort foods.

No mention of dealing with the emotions--simply recycled old hat advice.
It's the inability to recognize the emotions and deal with the stress of the emotions that leads to binging. And yes, binging is emotional eating.

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How to Deal with Emotional Eating

2010-04-10T21:10:00.000-07:00

Emotional Eating is best dealt with by dealing with the emotions. We can talk all day about where the habit of overeating in response to different emotions has come from as another article I found. While quite interesting, none of these articles go into the actual stress of the resultant emotions from various stressors. They never talk about how to actually deal with the emotions--how to embrace the emotion and leave food out of it.

We may have a lot of experts about stress, but we don't have many experts who know how to deal with the stress of all the different emotions such as happiness, frustration, boredom, confusion and so on.

One other point. One of recent post was about using a glutathione accelerator to relieve physical discomforts that stand in the way of focusing on the stress of emotions. Turns out that glutathione is also important in shedding weight. Without sufficient glutathione losing weight becomes nearly impossible.

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Swollen painful joints keep you from losing weight?

2010-04-06T11:29:00.000-07:00

Do swollen painful joints keep you from focusing on your weight loss goals?

A couple years ago I started with a swollen painful knee that made me feel like it was time to start looking for a wheel chair. It was certainly difficult focusing on managing my food intake with all the discomfort.

I tried glucosamine, boosting my vitamin C to 8,000 mg per day, and expensive enzymes with no relief. I actually found that cat's claw that I was taking for Lyme disease made my knee worse.

I went to my doctor and she had no idea what was causing it--thought for some reason that I might be pre diabetic and ordered the three hour glucose tolerance test.

Before I got around to subjecting myself to that test someone sent me a cd about a new supplement--a glutathione accelerator. I listened to the cd, never even thought it might benefit my knee, but being a sucker for something new that made sense I accepted a free two week trial of the supplement in exchange for being enrolled in the company's preferred customer auto ship program.

Initially I didn't notice much of any change whatsoever and figured when my first month was about to expire I'd call the company and get refunded my money.

But then I noticed my knee feeling normal again. It was and is like I have a new lease on life.
That was nearly three months ago and since then the glucosamine, supplemental vitamin C, and expensive enzymes have become history saving me $150 per month. I'm also about to kick out the Super Beta Prostate supplement as glutathione reduces swelling not only in knees and other joints but also in every cell including those in the prostate--that's another $35/month. By the way, the glutathione accelerator (Max GXL) is only $65.00/mo plus shipping.

Email me at knic at comcast.net with glutathione in the subject line (don't worry about how it's spelled) and I'll send your the same cd re glutathione to see for yourself.

Suddenly it was a lot easier to stop eating because of discomfort and pain. But then the joy and happiness set in and it became a challenge to deal with emotionally eating joy and happiness.

It was easier to deal with those emotions as I am now 19 pounds closer to my goal with only 6 pounds to go--according to the stupid scale. And of course I say "stupid scale" because many times I thought I had dropped pounds only to find that I remained the same.

That's why my book is called The Scale Conspiracy because if I didn't know better I'd think that the scale is sometimes conspiring against me.

It is the best and most entertaining self help book written since Wayne Dywer's Erroneous Zones.

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Losing Weight

2010-02-23T19:53:00.001-08:00

Losing weight--it's been about a year since I was in that mode. And yes it's a different mode for me than staying with constant weight.

In my last post I wrote about dealing with the sensation of hunger. Yes it's a reality and probably the biggest reason why many people don't get serious about losing weight. But let's face it--it's a reality. You can either be afraid of it and stay heavier than you want to be or you can learn to get comfortable with it.

Me, I'd rather get comfortable with the sensation. Of course it's helpful for me to understand why the sensation is there. It is not "hunger" as I was led to believe as a youngster. In fact it could take as long as six weeks of complete absence of food before I'd be experiencing "hunger." Don't believe me, ask anyone who has been on a diet for longer than a couple days and they will tell you that there is no longer any feeling--not that I'm recommending fasting. But then there's nothing wrong with fasting for a couple days like over a week-end. Many say it's great because it gives the liver a break so it can detoxify.

Back to the feeling, what is it? When you consume fewer calories than your body needs to maintain it's body weight, your liver has to change its way of operating and get calories from stored fat cells. But rather than simply doing this, the liver creates a sensation that mislabled as hunger. I use an analogy of a squirrel storing away his nuts for winter and then when winter comes the squirrel has to take them out of storage, but before your liver (the squirrel) changes its way of operating, he questions you with this sensation--after all he can't speak.

So it's your liver's way of asking, "Do you know what you are doing? You've had me storing these calories away for years and now I have to go to the storage unit and take them out. Are you sure this is what you want me to do? Are you sane?"

It's my job to recognize this and say to myself, "yes, this is what I want--totally what I want." And as a result of it get excited about feeling that sensation because there's only one thing that's happening and that is those fat cells are being used.

Now as my blood sugar changes over from calorie supplied blood sugar to fat supplied blood sugar I might experience some nervousness for a few moments. So it might be helpful to avoid challenging my brain with a lot of thinking chores and instead take a break from doing stressful chores for a half hour or so.

The amazing thing is that I can get comfortable feeling the sensation and then much to my amazement it disappears. And this gets easier everyday. I'm down 5 pounds this week and have another ten to go.

What does this have to do with emotional eating? Not much. This is all about a shift in my attitude. Emotions come into place and tempt me to satisfy my squirrel and it's my job to take them straight.

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Gaining Weight

2010-02-20T18:58:00.000-08:00

Just got back from a week in Las Vegas--had a great time. There's lots to do there and lots of food too. In fact too much food. I ate my trip and gained back 5 of the 15 pounds I had lost ten months ago.
Well, I had ten more pounds I wanted to get rid of anyway so what better than to use these 5 pounds as motivation to get rid of them plus the additional 10 pounds that I've been putting off.

Getting in the grove is a challenge to lose weight. For me its about a commitment to feel the hungry sensation for a good part of the day. Of course there are the emotions of life that cry for soothing, but it's to convert that feeling that feels like hunger into a sensation that I'm happy to feel. For only then do I know that my body is using up excess pounds and converting them to blood sugar.

What interesting is that I still have my desert--only about a third of what I usually would eat. So putting the two together is the key for success for me, i.e. looking forward to that sensation and taking whatever emotion life throws at me straight.

The amazing thing is that when I get comfortable and look forward to that sensation, I forget it's there. and then when I do eat, I eat sparingly and properly, i.e. sitting down and relaxed.

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Negative Calories Help Lose Weight

2010-01-11T18:30:00.000-08:00

Found an interesting article--see below. It has nothing to do with emotional eating except that 90% of those who write about emotional eating suggest eating celery when you feel hungry. Thought you might like to know why in case you already didn't know. Unfortunately his website is no longer active. I googled "negative calorie foods" and then found a site that claims that there is truly no negative calorie food except for perhaps cardboard which can't be digested properly. However, foods that are claimed to be negative calorie foods are:

asparagus, beet, broccoli, green cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery root, celery, chicory, hot chili peppers, cucumber, dandelion, endive, garden cress, garlic, green beans, zucchini, apple, cranberries, grapefruit, lemon, mango, orange, pineapple, raspberries, strawberries, tangerine,
lamb's lettuce, lettuce, onion, papaya, radishes, spinach, turnip.

I can understand the vegetables as being negative calorie foods, but most of the fruits?

Here's the article.

The Thermic Effect of Food & Negative Calories

The concept behind the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) and the idea that it is possible to eat Negative Calorie Foods is the fact that eating any food causes your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) to increase because you use energy to eat, digest, and metabolize the food you�ve just eaten. The rise occurs soon after you start eating and peaks two to three hours later. This rise in the BMR can range from between 2-3 per cent, up to 25-30 per cent, depending on the size of the meal and the types offoods eaten. The idea of Negative Calorie Foods is based on the belief that there are certain foods, which use more calories to digest than the amount of calories actually contained in the food! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though different foods may contain equal amounts of calories, in Negative Calorie Foods much less of these calories turn into fat, as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This allegedly gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

The Theory of How it Works

There are six essential nutrients that the human body requires to keep it nourished and healthy; these include; protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Foods have a macronutrient (carbohydrate, fat, and protein), caloric (calories) and vitamin & mineral content. Vitamins stimulate living tissues to produce enzymes that breakdown the caloric nutrients of that food. It is generally accepted that the various categories of macronutrients that are present in the diet will increase BMR by different amounts as shown below:

� Fats - raise the BMR 4 per cent

� Carbohydrates - raise BMR 6 per cent

� Proteins - raise BMR 30 per cent

(It is suggested that hot spicy foods can also have a significant thermic effect: for example foods containing chilli, horseradish and mustard). The overall �Thermic Effect of Food� is considered to utilize roughly 10% of the total calories of food ingested in the �average� diet. However, Negative Calorie Foods are supposed to contain enough vitamins & minerals to produce enzymes in quantities sufficient to break down not only its own calories, but additional calories present in digestion as well. This is the �secret� of The Negative Calorie Foods and the reasoning behind why Negative Calorie Foods may be regarded as �Fat burning Foods� (The Negative Calorie Foods will tend to have maximum benefits when eaten without any �empty calorie foods� i.e. junk foods).

There is much disagreement about the negative calorie diet and some experts are unconvinced about the claims made. Some believe the amount of energy used may be relative to the amount and complexity of the meal ingested. In other words the energy used to digest and absorb may be set as a general percentage of the energy contained in each specific food, thus there cannot ever befoods with negative calories. However, some research has proved that celery does cause a negative energy intake but this is mainly because the energy is "sealed" making the digestive system work harder to obtain its energy content.

It is unclear therefore as to whether negative calorie foods are fact or fiction. There needs to be more research done in order to prove or disprove the theory. Although it seems reasonable to believe that if negative calorie foods help people consume fewer calories AND eat healthier foods, then including lots of these foods as part of an overall balanced diet, can be a positive start to permanent weight loss!

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Motivational thoughts for the New Year

2010-01-10T17:07:00.000-08:00

Motivational thoughts for the New Year--Stress Management for the new decade to Stop Emotional Eating.

It seems that every year is met with the same disappointment for the past year and then hope for the new year for those who want to lose weight. The disappointment for the past year seems to be directly proportional to the amount of uncertainties experienced in the previous year.

And those uncertainties are generally proportional to the financial and personal losses suffered during the previous year.

Yet, if we can live in the moment, the financial and personal losses don't impact our attitudes and we can win at emotional eating and overeating.

It's like the study psychologists did with two ten year old boys. One boy came from a well-to-do background and the other ten year old was from a poverty background. The psychologist put the boy from a well-to-do background in a room full of the most advanced toys and the boy from a poverty background in a room full of broken toys. They left the boys alone for a half hour after which they found the boy from a well-to-do background sitting in a chair kind of disappointed. They asked him why he was disappointed, and he replied, "I already have all these toys, I thought you'd have something new and neat."

They found the boy from a poverty background excitedly going through the broken toys and were surprised. They asked him why he was so excited and he replied, "With all this crap around here, there has to be something good someplace and I'm going to find it."

This is truly a model for any stress management training exercise. You add this to the basic stress management techniques such as deep breathing, muscle awareness, exercise, and so on.

I like to remember that story and often wish I could be more effective myself in adopting that attitude on a day-to-day basis. It truly is the challenge and if each of us could do it, we'd be much healthier and happier. Of course you might think it's impracticable, but I suggest that that is merely your limiting beliefs forming that attitude.

We start off each new year with hope and promise that somehow gets side tracked a few months later because we are deficient in motivational thoughts.

Ultimately the answer is in creating a shift in our attitudes so that in the midst of "crap" or disappointment, we can we can be excited about finding something good.

From a stress management training basis, there are two basic things that stand in the way of our doing this:

1. Our self limiting beliefs such as not deserving or our inability to do something.
2. Lack of using affirmations or tools to develop prosperity consciousness. Being in prosperity doesn't mean that disappointments don't happen, it's that instead of being drowned by disappointment that instead we capitalize on them.

What about the stress of dealing with uncertainty? Answer: As you acknowledge it and choose to embrace it you use your affirmations to navigate through uncertainty. The end result is that instead of being glad to get rid of last year, you're pleased and happy with last year. Sure you look forward to the new year--but it's with the same excitement that you looked forward to in each of the last 52 weeks.

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Of course famous resolutions for the new year are to lose weight and stop smoking or some other hurtful habit. Instead of doing it with hope of something like medications or shakes/gum doing it for you, look to affirmations--not that you won't also use the shakes or gum.

A New Years' resolution that can't lead you astray is to use affirmations--motivational thoughts--every day--they reprogram your intelligence and vibrate with source to provide prosperity and health--the best sort of stress management training so each new year brings you the best of the year possible.

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Does your GPS Call You a Stupid Ass?

2010-01-05T09:42:00.000-08:00

Then why should you?

I was thinking today, as I was using my Tom Tom GPS unit to find a new destination, that I was lucky. Lucky that the Tom Tom doesn't say things like "You stupid ass, you're going in the wrong direction."

But isn't this how many who are overweight talk to themselves? Instead my Tom Tom says, "Turn around when possible," or "Recalibrating." Tom Tom simply doesn't know how to do "put downs" and wouldn't we all be better off is we stopped or forgot how to do "put-downs" whether to ourselves or others.

Can you imagine how you would feel if your GPS system said, "You stupid ass, I told you a mile ago to turn right and no, you just turned left. You're lost and I'm not going to help you! You deserve to be late getting there. "

Self respect is a big part of losing weight (getting where you want to go) with regard to emotional eating and weight loss. How can you lose weight if you treat yourself like a bratty three year old?

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How Can You Stop Emotional Eating?

2010-01-02T14:06:00.000-08:00

Emotional eating is totally misunderstood. Everyone who writes about it and everyone who is in practice working with overweight people blames the eating on the stress causing the emotion.

And their typical solutions are to:
1. listen to relaxing music
2. count to ten before doing anything
3. take a deep breadth
4. drink plenty water
5. call a friend for support
6. go for a walk or exercise
7. tackle the stressor causing the emotion
and the list goes on and on, but isn't this (except maybe for the last one) the same old same ole advice that's been floating around since the beginning of fat being an issue? It's not that you might not do one or more

So if it's not the stress, what is it?
Answer: Its the stress of the emotion itself. If the emotion can be truly felt and experienced, there's no need to dilute it with food.
Do you like to feel bored, down, upset, confused, uncertain and so on? The more you resist these basic emotions the more you eat. It's that simple.
And what about happiness, excitement, love, and so on? Yes, people resist the true form of these emotions too.

You stop emotional eating by learning to become comfortable with the emotions that trigger your eating.

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Getting Motivated in 2010

2009-12-28T14:50:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year.

Getting motivated to lose weight and put emotional eating in its place is the first step to success. Life can be full of, "I'll start my diet tomorrows." But of course with New Year's day gone, it's time to get in gear, right?

But are you motivated enough to finally do something about it?

And yes, you can be an expert on emotional eating and still stay stuck in gluttony. Oftentimes anxiety stands in the way of getting things started. Sometimes it has to be like an alcoholic waking up to realize that his/her life is passing by and unless change is effected, this is how life will end.

For some emotional eaters they reach a point of being extremely overweight--some a hundred or more pounds before they become motivated. There's got to be more to life than eating and self hating for all the pounds of fat and missing out on who knows what. It's a point of getting fed up with their relationships and careers suffering.

Once they get that motivation, they usually latch onto one thing as the route to success and their success depends on the ability to stay on that focused path--like a horse with blinders. Many get into exercise, some get into a particular diet, some get into a program like Weight Watchers, some get into doing the shakes.

But if you're an emotional eater, wouldn't it make sense to learn as much about it as possible while you're getting into your path to lose weight? How does embracing and experiencing emotions keep you from gluttony?

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Attitude

2009-12-19T15:48:00.000-08:00

Found this quote, "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of Attitude
on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It
is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what
other people think or say or do. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a
company, an organization, a home. The remarkable thing is
we have a choice every day regarding the Attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change the past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our Attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our Attitudes."
- Charles Swindoll

How are you doing with your attitude? Do you need an attitudinal adjustment?
Losing weight and controlling emotional eating is a challenge. But how do you create a great attitude when you just don't truly feel that way. Isn't it a lie?
Having a great attitude begins with acknowledging how you really feel. If you truly feel depressed and disappointed with your situation, that's where you start. You start by acknowledging your true feelings and then recognize that your feelings are a conclusion that your intelligence has arrived at given what conclusions you've come to about your surroundings.
To go beyond what you are feeling, you first stop resisting what you are feeling, let it be OK, and then point your intelligence in the direction you want--you create your new attitude to lose weight and handle your emotional eating.

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The Real Holiday Stressor

2009-12-14T12:33:00.000-08:00

In my last post I identified uncertainty as the real holiday stressor that leads to emotional eating which of course makes losing weight difficult. So what does one do with uncertainty? This is where you will find the weight loss experts totally with their mouths hanging open and a quizzical look on their faces.

Unlike boredom where they have tons of advice, uncertainty is an unknown. I've never heard a weight loss expert talk of it or even write about it. It's easier for them to think of it as worrying so their advice would be something like:

1. Don't worry so much, everything will work out.
2. You just have to trust your self.
3. When you notice yourself worrying, rub a worry stone.

Think about it. These and a hundred different other options boil down to one thing and that is "do something about uncertainty." Escape it, run away from it, convert it to something else.

It all makes perfect sense, right?

Maybe I can put a slightly different twist on uncertainty. Uncertainty is the result of:
1. fear of plans falling through
2, poor or inadequate planning

And if we can not let it be that our plans might fall through or that we have poor planning, we will feel uncertain.

As opposed to denying it, trying to escape it, or convert it to something else (any one of which we might eventually do) let's first acknowledge it and how we feel about it.

"I'm feeling uncertain and I dislike it or hate it."

Now if you can not let it be that you are uncertain, you'll do something about it and what you've been programed since childhood to do about uncertainty is eat. That's right, eat. Not to rub a worry stone, trust yourself and so on--no you'll grab a comfort food.

This is all because we resist uncertainty. When you allow you to feel uncertain, it disappears and you no longer have to use comfort foods to dilute it.

Ok, so let's just experience and feel uncertain. But it's not that easy. We've also been programed since childhood to avoid uncertainty at all costs by worrying. Programs such as:
1. If you're not worried about something, then it doesn't mean anything to you.
2. It's not worth doing unless you worry about it.

You can make up your own lists of beliefs you have about uncertainty. It's these beliefs and attitudes that you have about uncertainty that make it difficult for you to feel and experience uncertainty.

The good news is that as soon as you allow you to experience uncertainty, it disappears, but as long as you resist it, you will have to do something about it such as binge eating.

Let's take it to another level! Now if you can not let it be that you are uncertain and you munch, what are you eating?

Symbolically you are eating the event that's associated with your plans.

Sure the end result with feeling and experiencing an emotion might be that you end up trusting yourself or something else but it won't be to escape uncertainty, it'll be as a result of having faith that you'll handle anything that comes your way.

Now if the end result is the same, you might ask why deal with uncertainty? It's because to be successful with uncertainty, it's important to acknowledge that you are diluting the emotion by eating the planned event. You then have an opportunity to move beyond "I have an eating problem" to "I have a problem trusting my abilities to handle future problems that might occur."

You are now directed to the stressor itself and can stop blaming your over weight condition on food. Plus when you actually experience uncertainty, it's gone and so is the need to dilute it.

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The Real Holiday Stressor

2009-12-09T12:22:00.000-08:00

In my last post I looked at eating boredom. But with the holiday season rapidly approaching, boredom (although an issue for many who are alone) is not an issue for the majority emotional eaters who are planning holiday gatherings, busy buying gifts, and so on.

The predominate emotion to deal with emotional eating during the holiday stress is uncertainty. Sure there is the hurridiness, the pressure to get something done, and the anticipation, but aside from all that is uncertainty. Uncertainty that all your plans will work out well and everyone including you will be happy as a result of all that you are doing. Uncertainty that you'll get the right gifts. Uncertainty that you'll project a great image at the company Christmas party. Uncertainty that you'll even find the gifts you're looking for. Uncertainty as to how you'll pay for them or what you can afford. Uncertainty as to whether you remembered everything you had on your "to do" list.

Unlike hurridness, frustration, anticipation, and the pressure (or anxiety) to get something done that are fleeting feelings, uncertainty is an emotion that lasts 24 hours a day seven days a week until the plans are all finished and the holiday season over.

A close running emotion is anticipation which I'm sure you can see can be closely tied into uncertainty. Anyway losing weight or experiencing weight loss is but impossible unless these raw emotions are dealt with.

In fact you don't have to separate them, you can pretty well lump them together. But the bigger question is, "OK, how can we isolate them and extra food consumption out of the equation?" which will be the subject of the next post.

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This book will get you a head start on what you can do with this blog. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

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Eating Boredom

2009-12-01T19:39:00.000-08:00

Emotional eating applies to many different emotions. One of the easiest to understand is boredom. And boredom is one of the biggest reasons why most people can't lose weight. It makes losing weight a real problem.

So what does one do with boredom? This is where you will find the weight loss experts replete with tons of advice such as:
1. call a friend
2. go exercise
3. have celery or some very low calorie vegetable to chew on
Think about it. These and a hundred different other options boil down to one thing and that is "do something about boredom." Escape it, run away from it, convert it to something else.

It all makes perfect sense, right?

Maybe I can put a slightly different twist on boredom. Boredom is the result of:
1. plans falling through
2, poor or inadequate planning

And if we can not let it be that our plans have fallen through or that we have poor planning, we will feel bored.

As opposed to denying it, trying to escape it, or convert it to something else (any one of which we might eventually do) let's first acknowledge it and how we feel about it.

"I'm bored and I dislike it or hate it."

Now if you can not let it be that you are bored, you'll do something about it and what you've been programed since childhood to do about boredom is eat. That's right, eat. Not go exercising, or calling a friend or grabbing celery--no you'll grab a comfort food.

This is all because we resist boredom. When you allow you to feel bored, it disappears and you no longer have to use comfort foods to dilute it.

Ok, so let's just experience and feel bored. But it's not that easy. We've also been programed since childhood to avoid boredom at all costs. Programs such as:
1. You shouldn't feel bored with all the things you have to do.
2. Boredom is no fun.
You can make up your own lists of beliefs you have about boredom. It's these beliefs and attitudes that you have about boredom that make it difficult for you to feel and experience boredom.

The good news is that as soon as you allow you to experience boredom, it disappears, but as long as you resist it, you will have to do something about it such as munch.

Let's take it to another level! Now if you can not let it be that you are bored and you munch, what are you eating?

Symbolically you are eating the clock (time that's been planned).

Sure the end result with feeling and experiencing an emotion might be that you end up calling a friend, going to exercise or something else but it won't be to escape boredom, it'll be as a result of planning.

Now if the end result is the same, you might ask why deal with boredom? It's because to be successful with boredom, it's important to acknowledge that you are diluting the emotion by eating the clock. You then have an opportunity to move beyond "I have an eating problem" to "I have a problem when plans fall through or planning activities."

You are now directed to the stressor itself and can stop blaming your over weight condition on food. Plus when you actually experience boredom, it's gone and so is the need to dilute it.

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Thanksgiving and Turkey Soup

2009-11-30T11:28:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

And now the left-overs. At our house it's been turkey soup and turkey salad. Fortnately we found a small turkey this year so the left-overs are minimal.

I must say I went bizerk on pecan pie and made the mistake of buying a big one at Costco. That along with the carrot cake I made led to some emotional eating. Of course I made the carrot cake with a combination for millet and dark rye flour and used honey instead of sugar.

Fortunately the carrot cake was a big hit with the family and I ended up eating very little of it. I minimized the impact of emotional eating with the pecan pie by reducing it to mainly pecans and threw away the gouie part along with most of the pie crust.

So effectively I offset my emotional eating by sticking to two moderate meals each day plus a helping of pie and or cake.

Then yesterday, after my son and I dealt with all the fallen leaves, I went jogging to balance out my week. The cork track I ususally jog on was not accessible so I went to a nearby park instead.

Much to my chagrin I made it only a mile before my legs began to complain.

Lately, one knee has been somewhat swollen--nothing like it has swollen months ago. It's condition is greatly improved since I now use a combination of enzymes and vitamin C to deal with the swelling. The best enzymes are Vitalzyme--just google the name to find suppliers. I generally take two to three capsules mornings and night to eliminate swelling and should it start to swell, I increase to 4 or 5 capsules morning and evening and within a few days everything is normal. So the discomfort I noticed jogging could have been from the slightly swollen knee or maybe it was from the extra sugar in the pecan pie that is usually absent from my diet.

Foods that Appear Healthy but Aren't

2009-11-26T17:53:00.000-08:00

Losing weight and controlling emotional eating is enough of a challenge, choosing healthy foods should be easy, but there are some deceiving foods and drinks.

You would think that vitamin water would be a "no brainer" as a healthy choice, right? Not really. Read the label and you'll find that they contain sugar and the listing is usually per serving and each bottle may contain two or three servings.

Why not simply take a great multivitamin such as the Complete Nutritional System available in all health food stores--it's the best you can take. They recommend three tablets per day and even if you took just one per day you'll be doing better than if you take any other vitamin or drink the vitamin water.

If you're looking to boost your water which is a great idea (one that I use daily) I recommend boosting it with minerals by using a product called Xooma. Xooma is added to your daily supply of drinking water and provides you with all the minerals you need for the day. The advantage is that the minerals are completely bioavailable in ionic form.

More jogging to Lose Weight

2009-11-21T12:13:00.001-08:00

Wow, it's been almost a week since my last post and a lot has happened since my last post. I'll start with the latest. I went jogging again. If you read my last post you'd think I'm a glutton for punishment as opposed to a glutton for food. Yes the first time I went jogging last week (well it was the first time in about a year of so) it was totally exhausting, but I made it a mile. And while I still don't think exercise is necessary to lose weight or control emotional eating, it is very important for many other reasons. But you have to find the exercise that's right for you. For instance walking doesn't do it for me, but jogging on a cork track (easy on my joints) does work.

Today, the first quarter mile was much better than last week and I went on to go a mile and a half--a half mile further than last week. And what's most interesting is that all the minor pains I felt last week were gone. I probably could have made it two miles but I decided that an extra half mile was sufficient--no need to be a fanatic. I feel that if I can jog a mile and a half to two miles a week, I'll stay in great physical shape.

Now was it the jogging I did last week that improved my legs and joints or was it the glutathione I started taking about ten days ago? Glutathione as I understand it is produced naturally in our cells but it's production can diminish with age. Ironically it's the substance that keeps us young and without it we age faster. Can it help you conquer emotional eating? Maybe if much of what you eat is your physical condition. For instance, my mother is 84 yrs old and I've been identifying with her pains. I shouldn't be feeling these pains for another twenty of so years--certainly a good reason to emotionally eat. But rather than be stuck in "I have an eating problem" I am open to doing new things and old things to improve my physical condition and forget about emotional eating.

So was it the jogging or the glutathione that has made a big change in how I feel physically? I think both have made a significant contribution and I'm unwilling to stop either one to find out.

More about this exciting week in my next post. If you're looking for a source for glutathione email Elizabeth at ewilson@wisdirect.com and she'll get you a free sample supply for a few days to see for yourself. Mention my name, Richard Kuhns.

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Jogging to Lose Weight and End Emotional Eating

2009-11-16T11:41:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I went jogging. It was the first time in about a year. I had been jogging regularly for many years on a weekly basis and then I stepped off a stool and tore a ligament in my ankle.

The ankle specialist told me that I needed an operation but since I was over 60 he didn't recommend it and simply thought I should get used to the idea of no more jogging.

After all the swelling and pain in the ankle subsided about eight months ago, I'd on occasion try a short run on the ankle and it didn't feel good at all. I thought that maybe the doctor was right--no more jogging.

But lately I noticed my ankle feeling better and my knee on the other leg feeling somewhat painful. I've come to a conclusion (right or wrong) that I need to jog to keep my knees in good shape so yesterday was my maiden day.

I was amazed as to how "out of shape" I had become and I believe my blood pressure is probably telling me a similar story. It' s always been around 120 over 70 tops. Lately in just the last year the diastolic (the lower number) has crept up to 80.

I like to jog at my local high school track--it's cork--and the first quarter mile was really difficult. My knees and ankles had minor pains but I was really huffing and puffing.

I remembered the first time I ever jogged over fifteen years ago when I only was able to make it a half mile and thought that if I even made it a quarter mile it would be ok.

Fortunately the minor pains in my ankle and knees didn't escalate and I found a rhythm and finished a mile--certainly no speed record. Before my ankle injury I usually jogged two miles each week. It's amazing how I took that for granted all those years.

Will I go jogging next week? Don't know yet. Today my ankle is complaining some. I have to see how it recovers, but I feel I will be jogging again in the next few weeks.

It's amazing how good I feel after I jog--totally energized and completely disinterested in food.

But do you need to exercise to lose weight or deal with emotional eating? Not really. But for may other reasons, it's beneficial to exercise.

Little by Little to Lose Weight

2009-11-11T20:44:00.001-08:00

Inch by inch life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. Author unknown

How true is this rhyme? Certainly it's easier and more productive to deal with emotional eating and lose a few pounds a week than it is to crash diet and try to lose ten pounds per week. Basically, expectations can destroy success.

But I find it more effective to focus on getting rid of the weight--make it a project.
It's to acknowledge what you have been really eating, and go to a level of "I have stopped eating (whatever it was). For me this is to eat two moderate meals per day and nothing after dinner. I can drop about a half pound or so a day with this approach. Of course, using self hypnosis helps me get to that point a lot faster.

Then I can go back to normal eating--desert after dinner. Why can I do that? You could too! If you're over weight up to 50 pounds and your body weight has been constant for a period of time, then you can lose all the weight and go back to eating just as you are right now.

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Overcoming Failure to Lose Weight

2009-11-05T19:05:00.001-08:00

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently--Henry Ford

Someone also said you can only fail when you refuse to learn from your mistakes. The point is that when we miss our mark or target, we can take another shot. Unfortunately, when it comes to losing weight many go into despair instead of simply looking at it as an opportunity to do it differently. And that may be because we often don't know what we are doing. I mean if we think we have an eating or a food problem or a weight problem then we keep trying to do it the same nonproductive way. And strangely that's the definition of insanity--doing the same thing the same way expecting different results. But when we stop looking at it as a weight problem or a food problem, or a weight problem and look at it as an emotional stress related problem, then we will be tackling the real problem instead of a lie.

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Re Liting Your Candle to Lose Weight

2009-11-01T10:39:00.000-08:00

Sometimes our candle goes out, but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.~Albert Schweitzer

How true is this? You can be in despair, depressed, and over weight and if you're open to possibilities, you can encounter someone who will cause your candle to light. Some people find this in religion, others in special people that they meet or even in books that they read.

And it doesn't have to be someone who is better off health or wealth wise than you are.

It goes back to the last quote which is about dancing in the rain. If you're not
"dancing in the rain" you may never meet that person.

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Waiting For Things to Get Better

2009-10-29T19:43:00.000-07:00

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain.~Vivian Greene

Does this make sense? Absolutely and it's what overweight people are often guilty of--waiting for things to change.

All the while eating the things that do not change. Yes, there are many things beyond our sphere of influence and if we sit around and wait, what can be do but eat the uncertainty?

Alternatively we can "dance in the rain." This is what I call "Options"
It would be normal to say, "I feel (stuck here) (at the effect of) (limited by) and I dislike it. I'd like to take the emotion straight and you my creative intelligence:
1. figure out a way to profit by it
2. move beyond it
3. learn from it

This is dancing in the rain.

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Are You Eating Your Job?

2009-10-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

What do you do when you discover that you're eating your job, your loss of income, and being where you don't want to be? How do you learn to change things?

First there are many others who have job problems, have lost income and are not where they want to be and they are not all over weight or using food. What I'm saying is that it's totally possible to have all these problems and be thin. To get rid of the weight which might be limiting many of your options it's important to notice that what you are eating in excess looks like food, tastes like food but is your job, not being where you want to be and lack of income.

See the question is, "how much time do you spend berating and putting yourself down because you over eat food? Now you can stop that because you are not eating food--you're eating your job and so on. You can now focus on dealing with your job and be open to opportunity. I bet there are opportunities that you don't even notice because you've been too busy putting yourself down.

The most important question is, "Does eating your problem do anything to solve them?" Of course the answer is "No" meaning that there are more effective ways of dealing with these problems.

This means that in time you will become "fed up" (pun intended) handling the same problems the same nonproductive way--eating them.

Now if you have opportunities and are somehow messing them up, i.e. not focused, forgetting and so on, then you need to focus on why you are sabotaging your opportunities. There may be a fear of success. Afraid that if you were able to move to where you want to move, have a better job, and be thin, life still might not be so great. In which case you're eating fear of the future. Make sense?

Again, fear of the future is something every human being experiences and there are more productive ways of handling it than eating the fear.

Now all this is a lot to deal with at one time and all that we are really doing is to open the unconscious mind to the creativity to solve life's problem while we switch the focus from food to dealing with the problems.

How about emotions, you might ask? Well, you get them everyday from things that do and don't work out. You even get them from reminders of things that didn't work out the day before. If you can not let it be that something did or didn't work out, you'll have an emotion and if you can't let it be that you have an emotion, you'll eat.

Ultimately you'll embrace the emotion and take it straight. If you have the cd's you also have the e-book. I'd suggest that you reread the chapters on emotions and self defeative eating and keep using the cds in rotation. In the meantime you'll be eating your problems until you're totally fed up with handling the same problems the same nonproductive ways and then you'll say to yourself, "That's it, I've stopped eating my problems, I may be uncertain as how to solve my problems, one thing I know is that I've stopped eating them."

And you do this one day at a time. This gives you the best opportunity to separate your stressors from eating and also move towards solving your problems.

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Hypnosis for Weight Loss

2009-10-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

A few posts back I wrote about hypnosis, NLP (neuro linguistic programming), and EFT (emotional freedom technique) to lose weight.

A most recent comment asked about hyposis to lose weight and asked about how long as it was possible she didn't give it enough time.

Let me say that hypnosis is the most powerful tool one can use. Yet there are many people who have misconceptions about it. There are two parts to hypnosis which I define as the "art of suggestion." First there's an educational component where the suggestions are explained to the person to be hypnotized in the full awake state. Then there's the part where the person closes his/her eyes, is relaxed, and listens to the suggestions.

This is true of all hypnosis. The difference lies in the nature of the suggestions. For instance, I could say, "As long as you avoid stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, you'll forget about food." You might think this a stupid suggestion, but if it were true that a scientific study indicated it to be true, then it would be a good suggestion as long as I explained to you how the study was done and the findings of the study. But the bottom line is that it's a stupid suggestion and it's highly unlikely that it would be accepted by anyone of normal intelligence.

For months I've occasionally written about band-wagon techniques applied to emotional eating. In other words, everyone (and mean everyone) whose article or book I've read basically uses recycled advice left over from the fad diet era and apply it to emotional eating. Well, hypnotists are the same in that they use this same old recycled advice in the form of suggestions. And yes, it works for a period of time and then an emotional stressor occurs and the person gains back the weight. As I've often said, there's nothing wrong with these suggestions that they use as long as they don't proclaim to be helping you deal with emotional eating. And yet, by the same token, unless they deal with emotional eating, they are just playing a game.

What I do is entirely different. For instance, in my book I thoroughly educate the reader in how to deal with emotions--something I haven't seen anywhere else. Now this is the first step in hypnosis--educate the conscious mind. The suggestions are then formed as to dealing specifically with habitual and emotional eating.

The last question asked was about how long it takes. For some people all they need to do is have the conscious mind educated (some of what you're doing by reading these posts) and they have instant results as it's like "all of the pieces of the puzzle come together." But I never expect nor do I suggest anyone expect results this fast.

Hypnosis is the planting of suggestions likened to the planting of seeds in a garden. You prepare the soil (educate the conscious mind) dig a hole, plant the seed and cover it (you're exposed to the suggestion) and then it's watered and nourished with fertilizer (simply the continual use of the suggestions as in self hypnosis).

It takes a period of time to germinate the seed and for it to pop through the soil. To dig it up a few days later (question the suggestion), might destroy the seedling (interrupt with success).

My book is written in such a way that what is said makes total sense, is logical, and hypnotic in its nature. Because of how the suggestions are used, once you've read it, you can never ever cheat with food again. Now that sounds preposterous, but if you've been following my posts, you are not eating food--you're eating something else which is not food. So how can you cheat with food, when you are not really eating food?

So unless you outright lie to yourself and tell yourself that you are eating food, you can never cheat again.

Back to the question about how long. Another way of answering the question is to point out the obvious. For perhaps years you've been suggesting to yourself that you've been eating excess food or have an eating problem. Follow my posts or read my book and you'll see that's an out right lie. So now for the first time in your life you begin telling yourself what you are really eating and at your own pace you will creatively discover another way of dealing with what you're really eating and forget about food. Now this might take a few days, weeks or even months. Oftentimes having someone with whom to discuss these issues can speed up this process or at least validate the journey as being the right one.

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What are You Really Eating?

2009-10-14T20:39:00.000-07:00

One blog reader wrote me to tell me that after a week there's been no change. She's been visualizing the food she eats as being the particular stressor.
Now I must ask how long does change take? Let's put this in perspective. If you're about a hundred pounds over weight and you've been telling yourself that you're overweight because you've been eating too much food for the last ten or so years, it may take a bit of time for the brain to catch up to reality.
As I shared before in previous posts, I had been depressed for about two years because of some bad business decisions that resulted in near bankruptcy. I gained about twenty pounds and even though I knew I wasn't eating food--I was eating the stressors that led to my depression it didn't make much difference--I still gained the weight. But at least I wasn't lying to myself about it being a food problem or a weight problem.

And yes, before I got through the depression, I stopped eating my stressors and dropped fifteen of the twenty pounds. The point is that rather than focus on food, I focused on dealing with my life circumstances which began with me be totally at the effect of other events to gaining a sense of mastery in my life situations.

The goal is to focus on what you're really eating. Not what it tastes like or looks like.

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Advice Runs Like Water

2009-10-12T19:12:00.000-07:00

Advice on how to reduce or control emotional eating runs like water. Click here for an interesting article and after you read it--interesting captivating photos--ask yourself what it has to do with dealing with the emotions that result in emotional eating. Sure the advice is fine as general advice but this article is about emotional eating so wouldn't you expect some direction to handle the emotions associated with emotional eating?

I wonder how the person who is eating Florida is doing? What are you eating? Remember it looks like food, tastes like food, but has nothing to do with food.

Example, this week-end my fiancee and I visited friends. I noticed that on our vacation a week ago that we were free of eating the vacation and did a great job of planning our eating. But with our friends, it was too easy to be influenced by their suggestiveness and we ate our visit for a day and a half. But rather than look at it as food, I looked at it as eating the visit. I acknowledged that I was eating the visit with our friends and that I'd like to get beyond eating the visit and forget about food. Fortunately the visit was for only two days and now it's back to life as it was.

What are you eating? Does this make sense to you? Can you see how this different approach can make a big difference?

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Vacation Eating

2009-10-05T18:12:00.000-07:00

I'm back from the sun and fun of Aruba--a much smaller island than I expected. Sometimes I get caught in the "all you can eat buffets" and eat my happiness of being on vacation--in other words, the vacation--for several pounds. Yes we did one buffet and enjoyed gluttony for one evening although I was hoping for some chocolate deserts that weren't there, but I didn't let that stop me.

Overall we planned our meals, had a great time and forgot about food in general. On the next to the last day, we found a local restaurant instead of the hotel and tourist's restaurants. Our plan was to simply eat a late lunch for the day and have a big breakfast for the last day. We both ordered fish and seafood with rice and potatoes. I watched the server pile the rice onto a plate and then the potatoes thinking that it must be a small piece of fish since there was no room left on the plate. Instead it was two plates of food for each of us--one with rice and potatoes and the other with fish and seafood.

The amount of food was overwhelming and my first thought was to be gluttonous and eat the entire two plates of food. I soon changed my mind and we took half of our entrees to our suite.

We microwaved it for a late dinner (absolutely delicious) and skipped the buffet breakfast we had planned for our last morning there.

How have you been handling your emotional eating? Can you visualize or imagine what you are actually eating? If you're not sure what I'm asking, please read my last two posts.

Although you can see and do most of the things in Aruba in two days, it is a great place to go to unwind, relax and enjoy great weather.

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