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 You’ve tried every diet out there, starved yourself for weeks, and exercised your social life away, but
still you struggle to lose those unwanted lbs!
- Did you know that if your body is holding
toxins, it is not able to burn those extra calories and fat?
- Did you know, if your body is deficient in just
one vitamin or mineral, your body’s ability to metabolize food may be
compromised?
- Did you know certain foods actually help you
lose weight?
The reasons and methods for losing weight varies for each
individual, however, the starting point is one and the same.
BEGIN BY KNOWING YOUR BODY’S NEEDS
Before you begin any weight loss program, we suggest that you check with your physician. There’s a reason for this. He wants to be sure your
body has everything it needs before you begin.
A great starting point is to have your personal Health Assessment done.
This will indicate if you are deficient in a certain vitamin or mineral, or
need to detox before beginning your diet. Many people have lost weight just
adding supplements to their diet and/or doing a detox.
Get your Free Health Assesment. Fill in our form and find out what you can do to protect your health!
LOOSING WEIGHT…START
WITH A MATTER OF THOUGHT.
Dieting your butt off, but still not
able to lose all the pounds? It could be you're eating more than you realize! How is that
possible, you say? Experts report it's easier than you think, thanks to our "hefty habits" -- unconscious pairings
of food with activities that sometimes cause us to eat more than we
realize.
Too often we eat on 'auto pilot' --
we associate food with certain activities or even times of the day, and without really paying
attention to how much we're consuming, we overeat
Whether it's subconsciously
crunching chips while surfing the Net, grabbing that 20-ounce bottle of soda every time the phone
rings, or sometimes, just automatically pairing two foods together -- like reaching for a
chocolate doughnut every time you smell your morning coffee. Experts say old habits die hard,
even when we're on a diet.
Your brain stores things
in a way that makes life easy for you, so if you do things in a certain manner a number
of times your brain says, 'OK this is how we do things.’ When those habits include
food, overeating can become a simple matter of unconscious association, But it's not just
associations that are set in our brain. It's also cravings. That if, for
example, we have that coffee and
doughnut together enough times, not only are we
conditioned to reach for those two items together, our brain actually sets up a craving
system to ensure that's what we do.
This means if you have coffee and a
doughnut every morning for 90 straight mornings, on the 91st morning when you pour that
cup of coffee, you are going to be craving a doughnut because those two foods are linked
in your brain.
Cravings, are not random,
but rather learned. You never
crave foods you have not tasted. You have to learn certain things in order for your brain to
crave it, and when you repeat something
enough times the craving becomes part of your brain's repertoire.
PAINT THE PICTURE….
Because the first step to
breaking any habit is a desire to break it, it's important to understand why you
want to change.
"The building
platform is always motivation. And in order to make it work, the motivation must be intrinsic. The change has to
represent benefits you want. If you're simply trying to
please a spouse, a parent, or even your doctor, success will be harder to
achieve.
OVERCOMING FOOD HABITS…PRACTICAL THOUGHTS.
While changing the way
we think -- and the associations we make -- may seem hard, changing our actual
behavior may be easier than we think. To help you get started,
here are six things you can do right now to put change in motion.
1. Eat anything you
want -- but always do it sitting at the kitchen or dining room table. Changing not the foods
you eat, but where you eat them, will help break some of the association with that
food, which in turn may help alter how much and how often you eat it.
2. Change anything
about your food habit you can, including the way you eat it. If you always hold the ice
cream spoon in your right hand, hold it in your left; if you always eat out of the container,
put it in a bowl. The idea here is to take yourself off autopilot so you begin to think about
what you are eating and why you are eating it.
3. Avoid visual cues
that tell you to eat. If you always think of eating a candy bar every time you pass the
vending machine, consciously go out of your way not to pass the vending machine. The
same is true if TV is your food trigger. Make a point not to eat in front of
the television -- or change the channel away from the show you always associate with that pizza
or bowl of chips.
4. Institute the '15
minute' rule. As soon as you get a "cue" to eat, train yourself to
wait just 15 minutes before
you do. This will help break the automatic response cycle in your brain
that, ultimately, helps cancel out the old associations.
5. Don't try to break
all your nasty food habits at once. If you do, your level of discomfort will grow so
high that your brain will immediately regress to that state which is most comfortable. At the
same time, working on just one or two food habits will allow your brain enough
of a comfort zone to allow you to cope with, and eventually learn, the new behavior.
6. Make eating a sole
focus activity and give it your full concentration. Put down the sandwich, step away
from the computer, get off the telephone, and just concentrate on eating, The more you
disassociate food with other activities, the more likely you are to not
allow outside cues to dictate where and when and how much you eat.
Healthy Alternatives has researched many weight loss plans
and found the HEALTHIEST, MOST EFFECTIVE, EASY TO FOLLOW Weight loss Program…
It’s A CINCH
SO ARE YOU READY TO LOSE
THOSE UNWANTED LBS. AND FEEL BETTER THAN EVER?
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR….
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