Scale Conspiracy Published

Yes, it's finally happened. The Scale Conspiracy is now published and also available on Amazon.com You can get you autographed copy--the listed pricing is $26.95--for just $19.95 plus $2.38 postage.

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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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