Dr. Mercola March 18 2008 82,966 views
1. Weight loss is not about depriving yourself of food. It’s about giving your body plenty of healthy foods so that you feel satisfied. To tailor this even further, you can find out your Nutritional Type, and indulge in the foods that are right for yours.
Nutritional typing is without doubt the single most important consideration in effectively losing weight. The exact same food that will cause one person to lose weight will cause someone else to gain. Your optimal foods are determined by your individual genetics and biochemical tendencies.
2. Listen to your body’s internal cues, not external ones. It’s been said that a key reason why the French don’t get fat is because they listen to their bodies and stop eating when they feel full (rather than when their plate is empty or their TV program is over).
3. Your emotions can cause you to overeat or eat foods that are not good for you. Removing these often unconscious emotional blocks can help you to lose weight.
4. Eat slowly, and savor every bite. This will help you to eat less while more thoroughly enjoying your meals.
5. Cook your food from scratch. This way, you control the ingredients and the portions, and you eliminate all those unhealthy “extras” like MSG, corn syrup, preservatives and trans fats.
6. Exercise. In some form or another, you need to stay physically active to lose weight. But this doesn’t mean you need to be a slave to the treadmill either. Vary your workouts, incorporating weight training, interval-type workouts, and things you find enjoyable (like yoga or dancing), and you’ll meet your exercise requirements before you know it. Strength training that increases your muscle mass is another powerful way to help burn fat stores more effectively.
7. Use Your Unconscious Mind to Make Being at a Healthy Weight a Lifestyle Choice. Medical hypnosis can help you remove the programming that is causing you to remain at an unhealthy weight and replace it with the eating and exercise behaviors of a thin person. Click here to read about the hypnosis program I recommend.
Mary Anne! You rock! Congratulations!
Yes Mary Anne, I did the same thing. I decided that if it wasn't a food a hundred years ago, then it's probably not a food. This is what I go by everyday. I eat Millet every morning with melted Coconut oil on it, then only real food, when you cut out soda pop you will loose weight, it is the worse thing you can do to your health!! I have lost 30 pounds, I am 59 years old, 5'7" and weigh 127 pounds, this is just from eating real food, no preservatives or additives, no POP!!!!! Beleive me it works, and I am never hungary
My poor niece took ritalin for a while, she became obese very quickly and is still quite over weight, she lost her balance and could not even ride horse any more until she got off it. She is now very down on her self and feels worthless, Weather or not you can blame ritalin is agrueable, but she was a happy, balanced, average weighted, very confadent kid.. Before. I was so mad at my sister when I found out she had let the school put that perfect little girl on that drug. But it was too late then.. It has been years and I really think it effected the rest of her life. She was so smart then, now she has flunked out of college, and is taking classes at a small school trying to get enough edicuation to at least get a fair job.
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Drugs do have their place, but I had a pair of sibling foster kids.. They put the boy on drugs because he was violent, he went to counceling.. Well his sister was so MESSED up that she drove him to hit her. I wanted to hit her.. (I did not but wanted to more than once) I told them while he did need counseling for what his Dad had done to him, She was the one who was really messed up and needed counseling too. They did not want to get her help. Oh they had already put them both on drugs before I got them. And just kept ajusting the drugs. I kept telling them those kids needed seperated. They said no.. Eventually when I could no longer keep them and the next person, and the next could no longer live with them in their home, they did seperate them. When they finally seperated them He got to stay in that home.. She of course has been passed from home to home and I do not know where she is now. Probably pregnant somewhere.
Foster care is nearly a ticket to jail for boys, and early pregnancy or jail for the girls. The system is so messed up, if you hear them talk it is what the parents did to them before they were put in foster care, and yes it is an issue, but the system just makes them worse.
EXACTLY, Islander! Citrus fruit doesn't come near the acidity levels of the hydrochloric acid in a healthy stomach.