TO DIE-T OR NOT TO DIE-T THAT IS THE QUESTION?Tom says “Nothing will kill you sooner.” I didn’t get it at first either! It has been said that approximately 90% of those who follow a calorie controlled diet regain the weight they lose in a short period of time and often put on more weight. In fact that’s probably true of most diets – diets really don’t work. So why bother, especially if by following a calorie controlled diet you lose not only fat but muscle tissue too which is not good news, in fact it’s considered dangerous. Also when we regain weight we gain more fat tissue but have less of the important muscle tissue. Doesn’t sound like a healthy option to me but being overweight isn’t a healthy option either. Using Mind Harmony 4 Life techniques, methods we use ourselves and some of the information we have gleaned from a variety of sources (click on some of the following articles) we can show you how by using your mind (changing your thoughts and beliefs) you can gain control over your weight, permanently!
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Lose Wheat, Lose Weight in In this book it says survival is the most important priority for the body. Apparently our metabolic system has adapted throughout the years coping with periods of food shortages but it’s a whole different kettle of fish when it comes to a deliberate attempt to lose weight. Two of our metabolic processes often sabotage any attempts to lose weight and so we quickly lose our will power and give up dieting. Firstly we usually lose a reasonable amount of weight (including some excess fluid) during the first couple of weeks of a calorie-restricted diet but then we often reach a plateau and that’s because the body has adapted to the lower calorie intake. The body very quickly reacts to the change in calorie intake; it knows to preserve the fat stores to compensate for the calorie reduction. Secondly we have what is known as ‘the set point'. The main objective of the ‘set point’ is to keep the body’s weight at what it perceives to be ‘normal’ which means that whatever weight you’ve been for the past 6 months for example is what the body perceives as ‘normal’. Therefore, even if you are overweight and this extra weight is actually unhealthy for you, the body’s survival mechanism will ‘fight’ to keep you at this weight. Apparently there are ways to change a person’s set point and calorie counting obviously isn’t one of them but you’ll have to read the book to learn more how! YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT – DR GILLIAN McKEITH This book explains the importance of eating healthily and how damaging eating the wrong food (and drink) can be, apart from being overweight we will also suffer from mood swings, depression, low energy levels, feel bloated have food cravings and anxiety, plus there are also links to poor mental and physical performance. In addition you will suffer from digestive problems, gas, cramps, poor immune system, headaches, asthma, increased pain and swelling of arthritis and that’s just for starters. There are more serious issues regarding excess weight; an unhealthy diet adds to the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and infertility. Isn’t that enough to make us eat healthily? Wheat isn’t good for us – especially in the form of white bread! The bread here in Turkey is very hard to resist, especially served fresh from the oven with lashings of village butter but apparently we are eating too much wheat and in particular too much white bread. If we eat too much it can have a negative effect on our blood and organs leading to food intolerance and allergies. I read recently that somewhere in the region of 30% of Italians has gluten intolerance. EAT RIGHT 4 YOUR (BLOOD) TYPEI really enjoy toast for breakfast but had no idea it wasn’t good for me. I used to puzzle how I could have such a good, long sleep, have breakfast and then feel tired again, so much so I was tempted to go back to bed. Reading sections from the above-mentioned books I decided to stop eating bread and was surprised when I lost a few kilos within a week and didn’t feel tired after breakfast. Then when I read Eat Right 4 Your (Blood) Type which says I shouldn’t eat wheat at all for my blood type (0) and there are a lot of other foods I need to cut out of my diet, even things that I thought were healthy such as cauliflower. Aubergines and olives are out too but there’s a limit as to how strictly I am prepared to follow this method with all the delicious dishes that include aubergines here in Turkey! By removing anything containing wheat, pasta is out, plus most of the cereals I had for breakfast as an alternative to toast, I can’t even have bacon and eggs as pork is off my list - so now my visitors are asked to bring rice pasta instead of packs of bacon! I am only supposed to eat rice 2 or 3 times a week and potatoes are a big no no too (I make up for it when in Australia because I can eat sweet potato which I like very much), so it might be worth following the food combining way of eating as well seeing as potatoes, rice and pasta shouldn’t be eaten with protein, so just meat and veg for me, oh and don’t forget salad! Note: Anthony Robbins says about not eating starchy carbohydrates and protein at the same meal, “Do you wake up tired in the morning, even after six or seven hours or eight hours sleep? Know why? While you’re sleeping, your body is working overtime to digest the incompatible combinations of food you’ve put in your stomach. For many people, digestion takes more nerve energy than almost anything else. Also read the chapter The Fuel for Excellence in his book Unlimited Power. You might be shocked to learn that it’s uric acid that gives meat its taste (see page 184) or that Dr William Ellise, a great authority on dairy products and how they affect the human bloodstream, states that if you want allergies, drink milk. If you want a clogged system, drink milk. The reason, he states, is that few adults can properly metabolize the protein in cow’s milk. ..... So now I’ve reduced my dairy intake but I really like cheese, so now it’s sheep or goat’s cheese, goat or soya milk ...... Maybe wine isn’t so bad for me after all (one list says it’s ok another says it’s not – you can guess which list I am following) but it wouldn’t taste so good on my cornflakes – oh I forgot I can’t have corn either ....... Unfortunately Tom is a different blood type (B which he claims is special, so special that he’d get phone calls in the middle of the night from the local hospital asking him to give blood immediately), he’s not supposed to eat tomatoes or chicken – so that’s the main ingredients for virtually all the meals I cook knocked on the head ...... unless I’m selfish and simply cook for myself! However, on the whole, we have found that eating right for your type does make a difference, you do become more aware of the foods that aren’t suitable for your type, we feel healthier, certainly have more energy so much so I’ve finally managed to get out of bed 2 hours earlier so that we can take a power walk before it gets too hot. Wonders will never cease, my Mum’s still not recovered from the shock that I am getting out of bed at 7 or earlier, she thought 5 minutes before 9 was a miracle! Nik Speakman (Nik & Eva from the TV programme A Life Coach Less Ordinary) used to be vegetarian which he thought was the healthy option but he found he had less energy than Eva. When he too discovered Eat Right 4 Your Type he realised he should eat meat for his type and his energy increased once he’d changed his way of eating. Nik and Eva recommend that you have a cheat day, a day when you can eat all the things you shouldn’t, not only the things you shouldn’t eat for your blood type but any type of unhealthy food such as chocolate and crisps. They believe it gives your metabolism a kick-start. So don’t despair if you want to lose weight, you don’t have to give up chocolate, cake, crisps permanently, you are just going to restrict when you eat them and knowing that you can have them at some point can actually help with cravings, knowing that at some point in the week you can have whatever you want. Nik said he might eat 6 bags or crisps in one day but we don’t go mad, we head to Louise’s cafe or Gerda’s for delicious cake and coffee and try to make sure we eat at one of our favourites places so we can enjoy the fresh bread and butter ...... oh and one other thing, I get up early that day and stay up until midnight, I want to make sure I get the most out of my cheat day! It’s worth taking a look at the photo’s of blood cells on this website. If you see what your blood cells look like when you eat the wrong food for your blood type (see first photo showing cells in clumps) and see what it should look like (see second photo of blood cells flowing individually), it might persuade you to eat for your blood type too. I’m not sure that I should share this secret with you but it’s been proven that when you eat the wrong food, if you tap on certain meridian points (ie use EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques, which basically is like acupuncture but you simply tap the meridian points rather than use needles – or Meridian Tapping as it’s also known as now) you can also change your blood cells. The changes are immediate too; so don’t be surprised if you see people tapping after they’ve eaten something they shouldn’t. MIND OVER WEIGHTPsychologist, Dr Stephen Guilo says “The diet industry has a 95-97% failure rate”. He has studied the 3-5% who lose weight ad keep it off and now helps clients to do what to most is impossible, lose weight and keep it off. But he doesn’t do this through dieting, he says “I aim to change not their size but their attitude, so that they feel not deprived but liberated from a life of failure.” Note: Read notes about Failure …. He also says it’s not about how many calories there are in one cookie, it’s about how many cookies you eat. We have to learn what our temptations are and take steps in advance to avoid giving into them. If you have a bad history with a food ie you cannot stop eating it, you need to “box it in or box it out”.
The quote below is taken from the website detailed at the foot of this page which is a about attracting what you want into your life such as a new house, job or even money. I think it’s also appropriate for what us to think about in terms of losing weight. If you're thinking you have to
get this in order
to be, do, Why do you want to lose weight? Some people mistakenly think it will make them happier, improve their self-esteem, give them confidence and a whole lot of other feelings. But why do you need to lose weight to give you these feelings? Why not be happy now? How confident are you that you aren’t confident – if you are confident about not being confident then you are obviously confident about something!
Why do you have a weight issue? What are your thoughts and beliefs about your weight issue? Do you think it’s because you’ve had children, it’s that time of life so it’s harder. Perhaps you’ve lost weight before and put it back on, that’s what you always do so why bother again – even though you want to lose weight – or you think it’s hard. Very often the first thoughts about losing weight is thinking about all the food that we love that we won’t be able to eat again, so that’s our focus, we visual chocolate bars or cream cakes, crisps or some other food that we believe isn’t good for us and can’t stop ourselves from thinking about it! We feel deprived even before we’ve started the diet, no wonder we soon give up or succumb to eating a bar of chocolate and then we feel guilty or ashamed, think that we’ve failed again, so why continue?
Dieting is mental torture! Note though that the torture is self inflicted! Take control of your thoughts, change how you think and feel about food and you will have overcome a huge obstruction to reaching your target weight.
EFT (see contents list above) is an excellent tool to help you lose weight and to help you understand your thoughts and beliefs that are holding you back. This might seem astonishing but it’s true ie it isn’t just what we eat that causes weight issues but our thoughts and beliefs too. We think about the weight we want to lose (so in fact we are focusing on the negative aspects thinking of the weight we don’t want rather than focusing on what we want) whereas it is much better to think about getting slimmer or even lighter and, more importantly, the weight we want to be. Initially the thought of the weight we want to be might seem too far removed from where we currently are, so take smaller steps instead. Therefore if you are of thinking of decreasing from 90 kilos to 65, think of smaller, more easily achievable, increments such as 5 kilos. Once you reach your first target, set the next one – one you’ve achieved your first step then you know it’s achievable which makes it easier to reach the next step. It’s much more satisfying than reducing from 95 to 90 knowing that you have another 25 to go!
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES (ALSO KNOWN AS MERIDIAN TAPPING) EFT has been proven to be an incredible tool to help you to lose weight and more importantly permanently lose this weight. It’s a great technique to help you dull those cravings and prevent you from raiding the fridge, especially when you aren’t really hungry and you are particularly looking for something unhealthy like chocolate or biscuits instead of fruit! Many of us are emotional eaters but aren’t aware of it and that’s where EFT comes in as one of the best techniques because it’s the perfect technique to remove the emotional issues that cause you to eat, even when you aren’t hungry, or to eat chocolate, biscuits, crisps etc. You might need to do a bit of detective work to discover the root cause of your weight but there’s a whole lot of material readily available to help you. Carol Look, EFT Master, regularly submits articles to the EFT website (www.emofree.com) and does teleseminars (tapping workshops/seminars conducted over the phone or via the internet) with huge success. She has also devised a very useful CD to help you work on your issues yourself, The Key to Losing Weight. There are a whole range of questions you can ask yourself such as when do you overeat, what are you feeling when you feel the need to raid the biscuit tin? We might no know the answers initially but once we know the questions we start to notice, start to observe our behaviour. We might have created unhealthy habits without realising it such as having a biscuit with out coffee every morning, shopping during our lunch break (when we are hungry) and so we buy food that we desire at that moment in time, rather than what we need. We might be skipping breakfast and think that by missing a meal we will lose weight, or we might be eating too late at night, not knowing the consequences: eating late at night is recipe for weight gain! No wonder the Australians we’ve met so far are surprised at how late we eat here in Turkey. Away from the big cities in Australia we were surprised when people made arrangements to meet at 11.30 for a 12.00 lunch and to meet at 5 or 6 for an evening meal – the restaurant was empty by 8! We made the mistake of seeing an early movie and when we came out of the cinema about 8 pm found there was nowhere open. Home for beans on toast wasn’t an option, well not using the type of rye bread we had found in Aldi that was suitable for our blood type! Rebecca Fine is the founder of The Science of Getting Rich Network where you can download your free copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic, The Science of Getting Rich. http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net ©2004 Certain Way Productions Inc. HEALTH - click here for the links to purchase any of the above books
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