Weight Loss Reality

The Reality of Weight Loss

by Teresa Bondora

98 pgs

Table of Contents

Prologue….…………………………………………………….……..1

Chapter A Introduction………………………………………….…...2

Chapter B Eye Opener- Beginning Exercise………………..…….6

Chapter C Diets……………………………………..…………..…..7

Chapter 1 The Big Picture and Some Motivation…………………8

Chapter 2 The Basics- Nutrition…………………………………...15

Chapter 3 Some Food Science and The Food Industry………....20

Chapter 4 Diet Foods, Artificial Sweetener, and Fat Free Foods

The Lab Created Food Products……………………..27

Chapter 5 Appetite, Hunger, Food, Calories and Premature Aging…………………………………………………………...33

Chapter 6 How To Cheat and How To Eat Pizza, Burgers,

Cakes and Fries………………………..……………..40

Chapter 7 Wake Up Call…………………………………………...43

Chapter 8 Taking Time For Yourself……………………………....48

Chapter 9 Cardio Work- Aerobic Exercise……………………….53

Chapter 10 Lifting Weight…………………………………………...59

Chapter 11 The Three Other Forms of Exercise…………………..66

Chapter 12 Exercising When You Don’t Have Time………………73

Chapter 13 Choose A Sport………………………………………...76

Chapter 14 Nine Reasons Why People Fail…………………….....80

Chapter 15 Cravings…………………………………………...…....86

Chapter 16 The Mind /Body Connection…………………………...88

Appendix: An Article by Teresa Bondora

What Men Know That Women Don’t…………………………….….95

EXCERPTS

These excerpts from the book are pretty long. I just didn’t want to have to spend a lot of time dealing with complaints because everyone is looking for something different with help in losing weight. I want you to know what you’re getting. I think you will find this is the missing information you’ve been looking for that will help you understand your body and what’s necessary to stay fit and thin. I hope so.

Introduction

In this book we are going to learn about how our body uses food, how our current society is not made to facilitate weight health, myths about how we lose weight and brainwashing we have undergone in our world about it, the biology of how we hold fat, our history as hunters and how it affects our metabolism and the newest research on losing weight, aging and calories and what they all have in common. We learn the truth about diet foods, sugar and fat. We learn about our senses and how they can help us eat less, how to cook, and how the brain wires us to want to eat and NOT exercise. We will learn how the threat of famine and our body’s ability to adapt to change, keeps us fat. We will learn about how the immune system, oxidants, free radicals, calories, sweat, sugar, proteins and body systems work together to keep you fat or make you let go of fat, extend your life and trigger energy boosts. We will learn about diseases caused by or prevented simply by what we eat and how and when we move and how we can help our body keep our energy levels up and us thinner. I explain why sometimes you exercise like crazy but the fat doesn't seem to come off, why you crave food, the real biological reason why weight lost fast comes back and how to change that.

No Time

I understand many of you are very overwhelmed with being parents, teaching your children, keeping your homes, working and nurturing those in your lives. You probably do not have the kind of time you need to devote to exercise. I address this too and you’ll find that what I write will speak to losing the weight when you don’t have time because that’s how I had to do it. I just did not have time to devote to me. I also hear you, “Will this hurt, be uncomfortable, how much will I have to suffer and will I fail this time too?” Suffering is absolutely not a part of anything we will do, on the contrary. That’s just not right. You will learn how to exercise in a way that you will never hate it and it won’t be work. As a matter of fact, you’ll like it and eventually crave it.

We will study the biology of hunger, the drive to eat, eating compulsions and cravings and I’ll teach you how to work with your body, not against it, in harmony, to help it let go of fat and build muscle. ……

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About me

I am only 5 feet, one inch tall. And when I began my weight loss, I was 152 pounds. My bones are small. My joints couldn’t take that amount of weight and pressure, and my knees hurt most of the time. My neck and lower back hurt most of the time and I had frequent headaches. How did I get that way? When I got pregnant with my first child I weighed 115 pounds when it was all over, 9 years later, I weighed 120. I had been a smoker for 10 years and I quit smoking. I gained 10 pounds and went to 130. I went off birth control and went to 135. I had my son and only lost some of the weight and went to 150 where I stayed for 2 more years after having him. Over those years I had less and less time to exercise, I ate prepackaged food because my time was limited, I parked as close to the doors of wal-mart and the mall as I could because I had little time to walk, I ate lots of cookies because I had no cigarettes to keep me happy, I ate lots of food at meal times because I was brainwashed by my society what a portion was. I was addicted to fast and easy and I was paying the price for it. What’s worse is I knew better.

My Motivation

Like many of you, I had some body image problems when I looked in the mirror. When I saw myself naked, which wasn’t often, I still saw the thinner me. I saw where I was still small and where the fat had been added on. I looked at me from thin, out. Yet, most people saw an overall fat body. I had learned to stay in denial about how much weight I had actually put on. Honestly, to me, I really didn’t look that overweight. It wasn’t until I was in my sister’s wedding that things began to change.

I went for the dress fitting and I told the clerk to choose a size 10. I didn’t like the fact that I used to be a 7 and was now a 10. When I couldn’t even come close to wearing the 10, nor the 12 or the 14, but had to go to a 16, I was in shock. I reasoned it was because these were formal wear, cut large. But I’ll never forget the day the wedding photos came in. I remember looking at them and wondering what fat person my sister had in her wedding. And why didn’t I meet her, how could I be in the wedding and not meet this person who was also in the wedding? I asked her who that person was, since her face was small and hard to see. She said, “That’s you silly, who’d you think it was?” NO WAY! There’s no way that’s me, I thought. Yet photo after photo, I saw my face on THAT body. I was mortified. Why didn’t I look like that in the mirror? How in the world could I not see myself accurately? And how and when did I suddenly get so fat? I remember feeling like I was in shock and wondering why no one told me I was so fat. I was dumbfounded that I could see myself in the mirror and not see THAT. I felt shame, guilt, ugly and stupid. And I resolved that I was going to lose it.

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My qualifications

I pulled from my years of science reading, research and keeping up with the latest information, the books on fad diets people asked me to read and tell them, as a scientist, what I thought. I pulled from my 8 years in therapy, 12 journals, 25+ books, 6 therapists, and confronting my feelings and reasons why I did what I did. I pulled from the Weigh Down diet, to Atkins, from the Grapefruit diet, to pills to lose weight to natural methods, I had read and thought about them all. I knew biology. I pulled from my college degree in science with classes in anatomy, physiology, cellular biology, kinesiology (body mechanics), physics, body chemistry, and exercise physiology. I pulled from my experiences as a cheerleader in high school and college and weight training and being a gymnastics teacher. I pulled from my extensive studies of thought, herbal medicine, including meditation, yoga and breathing. I pulled from my 15 years of reading the latest research on the body’s chemistry and metabolism and how we keep, lose and burn fat. I subscribe to 4 different scientific magazines and journals. I got creative and worked with the limited money and time I had while trying to be a Homeschool, homemaker wife, in a one income family.

I built my web site during this time and invented my periodic table as well as writing the Teaching Science workshop, and I spent a lot of time sitting at the computer. But when I finished the site, the workshop and the weight loss, I was able to post my picture on the site weighing 40 pounds less than I weighed when I started and less than I weighed as a senior in high school. And I have weighed 115 lbs for 3 years now. I share my years of what I put together, and tell you the real way to let your body let go of the fat it is storing. Notice I said LET your body let go of the fat. It wants to, it’s just a matter of knowing how to work WITH your body.

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How?

It’s easier than you think. …

……There’s a reason you don’t like to move and I’ll show you how to trigger exercise cravings. You will have to challenge societal beliefs, other people’s comments on your new habits, your own feelings about why, how and when you eat. You will have to get used to being in touch with and truly loving your body again, even while it’s fat. …….

….. Instead we will spend the bulk of our time talking about how you can work with your body to transform yourself into the you that’s strong and capable and fit. While what you eat is important, it’s not so important that we’re going to obsess on it. Actually it’s important that you eat as normally and close to what you know and feel good about, as possible. I want you to cheat and eat some junk too.

I also give you tips to foil cravings and teach you about the biology of feeling full and tricks to make you not hungry and how you will feel and cycle and what your body will do to you. These things are why people fail. And if you stick with me, we’re going to stop all that. If you still want to eat according to a specific diet, be my guest. But that level of obsession over your food, feeds it and gives your appetite and cravings power and energy. …..

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What’s covered in Chapter One

Past Life and Grocery Stores

Our bodies were not made to live in this world. Our bodies are actually functioning on programming created for when we lived having to find, hunt or grow our food. Why?...

Set Points………

Energy- The Body’s Currency

Our currency is money. The body’s currency is energy. Every system in the body is made around how it uses energy and around what process and how to do it, will conserve the most energy. Our bodies even recycle…

Cycles

The earth, our lives and our bodies work and function in cycles..

6 weeks

In the human body, you will find that MOST change, real change, takes about 6 weeks. Why?....

Time

This is very important. So important that I wanted to mention it up front so that if you had a problem with it you could stop now and not waste more time on it. It takes TIME to lose weight and keep it off. I know, you can say you lost x amount of pounds on so and so diet. I can starve myself and lose weight fast. Adkins, done strictly will cause you to lose weight rapidly. Yes you can lose fast. But like you guessed, it will come back. Why? Because most people mistakenly believe that…

Why does it take 6 weeks?

In this section I describe in detail what’s happening biologically in your cells and brain that explain why weight lost quickly comes right back.

…………….. Hopefully by now you are starting to gain an understanding of why true weight loss takes time. This understanding and many other biological facts of what’s happening in your cells about how we lose weight will help you mentally as you cope with the changes you will undergo.

Life as a car wreck

For some reason, in our society, we understand the concept of illness and healing and time. But when it comes to emotions or changing bad habits or grieving or changing our body, we think….

MOTIVATION

(soapbox interlude)

The body takes weeks to adjust to a different calorie intake level, time to let go of fat, hours to experience a meal and your mind time to adjust to being without the comfort or distraction of food.

Even if you’re only 15 pounds overweight, you’re not………

Visualize

And There’s More..

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What’s in Chapter 2- Nutrition

The 6

Your body needs these 6 things for survival and optimal metabolism…..

All 6 are covered in detail

An explanation of sugars

A note about protein about Ketosis

Yeast, Carbs and Fatigue…………….

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What’s in Chapter 3 Some Food Science and The Food Industry

An eye opening piece of writing.

I am going to discuss something here that for some reason, Americans like to be in denial about. But my hope is that if you really want to lose weight and you really want to be healthy, then you are committed to learning everything, not just what is convenient.

I am going to make some very strong statements. Some you may already know, some you may fear are true and some you will find just downright impossible to believe. I encourage you to look at why you find these things hard to believe. Is it so you can continue with your lifestyle of being able to feed your family quickly and easily or consume foods that taste good but you know aren’t good for you?

If you find it hard to accept the claims I’m about to make, I encourage to just begin small and watch 3 DVD’s. These will change the way you view what some people consider “food”….

We have been brainwashed as a society to accept….

And these are not really food….

Proteins, Amino Acids and doping of food…

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What’s in Chapter 4 Diet foods, Artificial Sweetener, and Fat Free Foods, The Lab Created Food Products

This information is loaded and I could write a whole book on this topic. You will need to read the chapter on the food industry to understand what I say about these foods. If your initial reaction is anger at me or to think I obviously don’t know what I’m talking about or you get defensive, then you are probably either,

1) addicted like most Americans, to these foods, they are designed to be addictive, or 2) you are in fear of something. Most likely, in fear of thinking you will have to give up the taste of sweet or salty or buttery in your mouth.

Fat Substitutes

I want to make a strong statement here about fat substitutes…

The Real Problem

The real problem here is that…

Science is confounded by the fact that some societies use butter and oils like crazy and still don’t get heart disease. The very simple answer is that these societies do several things….

Not American Society

How do I know this? First, I’m Italian. Second, I traveled to Europe twice. The first time I backpacked around Europe eating in little mom and pop places, avoiding the touristy areas. I ate what they ate and watched their lifestyles. Unlike Americans, very few people….

We have it all backward.

I got off on this tangent to tell you that……….

What’s A Drug.

Very likely you are one of those people who judge druggies. If you ever saw someone with glassy red eyes or someone that smelled like alcohol, your immediate thought would be what a low life loser they are. Why? Because they are high? Because they do drugs and don’t have the will power to just straighten up and live right? Because they need a crutch like that and can’t grow up?

I hear you, it’s not the same thing…. But it’s only not the same thing, because you’ve decided it’s not the same thing. But it is the same thing…..

So what is a drug? It’s interesting, when I ask people that question I get such a wide range of answers. Here’s few common answers…

Free Your Mind

What I’m trying to help free your mind to understand is that we have been led to believe that…….

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What’s in Chapter 5 Appetite, Hunger and Food

Leptin- Feedback

Many of you already know and can tell that your body wants you to weigh a certain amount and that anything you do to change that is met with resistance.

Hunger

The drive to eat- How your body makes your appetite

Killing the drive to eat- how your body stops wanting food

Tricks

Snacking

Less Food

Long term

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What’s in Chapter 6 How To Cheat and How To Eat Pizza, Burgers, Cakes and Fries

I do not believe in the programs that say to pick a day and eat anything you want on that day. There’s a very serious problem with it for several reasons. ..

So you want to cheat, here’s how….

As you probably gathered above, the best way to cheat is to…

Eating Pizza, Burgers, Cakes and Fries

I still ate these things while I lost weight. I still do eat them. There’s a strategy to eating them to create the least impact on your rear end…..

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Chapter 7 Wake Up Call On Exercise

Before you hold your hand up at me, before you turn this off in your brain, before you even start with the excuses, let me say that the majority of the exercise I will teach you, will be exercise you’ll hardly notice, that’ll fit into your daily routine of buying groceries, taking a shower, playing with the baby, and running errands. Some of it will not involve getting in the car and going to a gym or even leaving the kids at home. Depending on your age, schedule and budget, all of this can be classes at a gym or all of it can be done at home and while you are out and about.

Let me also say here for the record, that pain absolutely DOES NOT have to be part of your regimen, neither does being winded and miserable, NOR does it have to be a burden and something you have to force yourself to do.

I am going to introduce you to a new way to exercise, that only recently has science begun to prove works.

America

You couldn’t have been born in a worse country for losing weight…

New York and LA

If you live in these two cities you…

As you will see, losing weight is going to be about…

Facing Our Realities

So when you consider how much our ancestors, our grandparents, moved and contrast that with how little we move, it should help you get an idea of the trouble we’re in.

Food availability

When our grandparents and great grandparents got up, they had to make more movements to get food made in the morning. They had no microwave (first domestic model in 1967, real sales in homes by 1975) , no cereal (corn flakes available in limited areas in 1906, Rice Krispies in …

One reason to exercise that you’ve probably never heard before

You know all the health reasons to exercise so I will spare you all the ones you know. I will however present you with something you probably have never thought of…

Remember, you can live to a ripe old age of 90 even after your bones and muscles became unable to move you well at 60. That’s 30 YEARS of….

Many of you know about aerobic exercise and most of you know you should lift some weight every day. But if you’ve been doing these things, you probably feel like you’ve covered all the bases. However, there are 3 more types of exercise you need to be using to maintain your ability to stay agile and with few joint and bone problems well into your older years.

What Children Teach Us

If you really want to feel young again, or want to feel really agile…

Here are the 5 types of exercise you need to be incorporating into your life…

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What’s In Chapter 8 Taking Time For Yourself

There are 7 reasons why you must take time for yourself every evening….

I know it’s very easy to keep saying ‘tomorrow I’m definitely going to take time for myself’. And you want to, but very important things keep happening and before you know it, it’s 10PM and another day is gone. I know, I’ve been there. And I understand. However….

It is also very easy to slide into resentment…

If you are reading this book because you just had a baby and just want to get your body back, then…

Of all the things you will do as you lose weight, this one is the most important…

Getting Support...

How Much Time.....

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What’s In Chapter 9 Cardio Work- Aerobic Exercise

6 reasons we have to do this

You know that you must do cardio work, or aerobic exercise. But do you know why? We all know that it’s supposed to be good for your heart and arteries, that’s why its called cardio. And we know that we will burn fat that way too. These are true but there are much more important reasons we need to get our heart rates up, 4 more to be exact. You need to know these reasons.

Many people wonder why they lose weight so slowly even when they do their cardio work and many people exert way too much energy in this type of exercise than they need to, causing them to really hate doing it, resent the slow fat burning and cause negative feelings about the whole thing. Keep reading, I’m going to eliminate all of this for you…

Don’t you ever wonder why so many people have so many strange illnesses and health problems today that were rare or unheard of just 50 years ago? Most of them can be traced to….

If you’re like most people, each time you ingest something you know probably isn’t good, you just assume that your body will deal with it. You are strong and your body isn’t that sensitive that it can’t process a few things. That’s very true. The problem is that…

Are you tired of being tired? Luckily, there are several things you can do.

The first is to begin to…..

SO…what happens when you exercise that is so important here? Remember our bodies are made to…

So how much would you pay for something that can do all this? But Wait! We’ll also throw in better brain function! As luck would have it when you exercise, it changes the chemical messengers in the nerve cells in the brain that control…

How to do it so that it’s actually painless and fun?

So, you know you have to do cardio work. BUT you HAAAAATE it. Yep, I used to also, when I used to do it like I was told I had to do it. But then one day I had an epiphany. And I went with it. To my surprise for thei first time in my life, I started burning fat faster than before. Turned out, 2 years after this Ah-Ha I found a research article that backed it up!

If you learn nothing else from this book, I hope it is to learn to….

Forcing fat burning

Let’s get back to the big reason why you want to do aerobic work, FAT BURNING!

So how do you force your body to use fat instead of sugar or protein as a fuel source? ….

If you don’t feel at all like moving your body…. There is a biological reason why you do not want to right now. ….

So there’s a strategy to making sure your body uses fat when you exercise…

Another good tip most people don’t realize is once you start burning fat…

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What’s in Chapter 10, Lifting Weight

4 Reasons Why You Must Lift Weight

You must throw in some weight bearing work. Why?

As women, we still have testosterone. But it too declines. We can actually increase levels of this hormone by…

Why increase testosterone? Studies show 3 very important reasons why we need to keep our levels of testosterone up, the first and most important one is the prevention of cancer. The other reasons…..

Cell Biology 101

In every cell in our bodies we have little structures called Mitochondria. It is in these mitochondria that….

Time out----DON’T JOIN THE GYM YET!----

I have a word of caution here. If you do not yet belong to a gym I wish that you would wait to sign up. The big problem…

How To Lift Weights

I’m sure you think there’s just not much to know about lifting weights. I can assure you, there’s much to know. And yes, even you need this information. Even with my exercise physiology background, I continued to learn as science learned more and more about how our muscles break down and how they rebuild. Just in the past 2 years there has been a huge change in the understanding we have about it and a shift in the way coaches are coaching their athletes. Stick around- it is very interesting!

The big NO-NO is…

What you want to lift will depend on what your goals are.

If you want a very lean body that’s thin and slender and feminine and you want your muscles to do basic work, lifting a kid, carrying groceries, you’ll do the following…

If you want some curve to your arms and legs, a little muscle that looks nice and tight but still on the feminine side then you will do the following…

If you want to be muscle woman, want to compete or will be involved in a sport where strength is the main thing, then do this…

Core Muscles

Everything revolves around the core muscles. Most people don’t even think about them and when they lift weights they focus on arms and legs. Big mistake!!! The core muscles are all the muscles that serve to keep you upright. They include…

Injury Prevention

When you break down connective tissue, you leave your nerves open to damage, especially in the back. You DO NOT want a nerve injury. Ask anyone who’s had one. You’ll learn a whole new meaning of pain that will put childbirth to shame. Hmmm, I wonder how I know? Unfortunately I made every one of these mistakes. And I will spend the rest of my life preventing more pain and nurturing the results of my mistakes. And I knew better. Please use this as a cautionary tale.

Rest and Repair

A lot of research has come out in the past few years about rest and the repair of muscle tissue. Basically, rest should be seen as an integral part of the muscle building process because it is. But in your mind, days off need to be understood as very important days for continued growth and development of body tissues and repair. During rest days you need...

The bulk of research now shows that intense training cycles…

The important thing to know is that you don’t have to be training for the Olympics to apply the knowledge gained from research. Why not use it?

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What’s in chapter 11 The 3 Other Forms of Exercise

One of the first things people notice about me is my strong sense of self esteem or awareness. They say I have an attitude of strength and self assuredness along with my happiness and sense of well being. They say I command attention because I seem so very present and hard to miss. This certainly wasn’t the case when I was overweight. I wanted to fade into the background and did so well. But after you read this chapter you will begin to pull all the information together in this book and start to see how I got this strong sense of well being. Cardio and weight work act on your body and help you start to feel strong and sexy again. But the following 3 things act on your mind to change you into the strong human who fills a place on this planet, completely. We had this as children and when you watch them you see it…

But the wonderful thing is that once you feel comfortable with these exercises, you will......

When you do that, the fat starts to fall away faster..... . Your body will get that and will let it go easily and quickly.

The Other 3 VERY Important Types of Exercise to facilitate weight loss are…

For those of you who have not taken yoga it’s hard to explain the amazing benefits of it. For those who have, there’s an unspoken understanding....

But for now I will tell you 6 very important changes yoga makes to your body….

When I started taking yoga, I did it because I was several months into weight loss and had been only lifting weights and walking at home. I was ready to leave home several nights a week and have some alone time. This became my time, twice a week to leave every single bit of my life at the door and do nothing but yoga. I truly did not expect what happened to me within a very short time. .....

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What’s covered in Chapter 12 Exercising When You Don’t Have Time

Like many of you, when I first started losing weight I was swamped with things to do, was still nursing my son and changing diapers. I didn’t have the money for a gym membership nor did I really have the time to devote to it. Even now while I have time to exercise or rather make time, there are still times in my schedule where several weeks will go by where I just can’t seem to make it to the gym. When that happens I do what you will learn in this chapter.

There are many wonderful things you can do to lift weights and get some calorie burning into your schedule but it will take remembering to do them. My son loves doing these with me. It will also require that you re-think some old habits and patterns of moving…

Body Mechanics

Notice when you bend over to pick things up. If you spread your legs wider or if you hang on to something as leverage, stop doing that! Bend at the waist and MAKE your hamstrings carry all the weight of holding you and lifting you back up. Every time you catch yourself using help of any kind.....

Shopping

Kids

The Shower

Cooking

Mail and Trash

Lifting weights without weights

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What’s covered in Chapter 13 Choose A Sport

One of the best things you can do for yourself is ....

When you do this, you begin to play again and exercise becomes secondary to the playing. This will be very important to you staying focused and losing weight and then to your keeping it off after you’re done….

One of the main reasons why women don’t stick to exercise is that .....

I tell you this because ........

Read this list and start trying these activities…

What’s covered in Chapter 14 Nine Reasons Why Some People Fail

There are very real physical and mental reasons why people fail when trying to lose weight. I know we all understand the common ones like cravings, holidays and special occasions. You know about will power and lack of motivation. But other than these there are deeper stronger reasons why diets fail and why people who are overweight stay over weight. Until you understand and address these issues, you may very well continue to stay at your current weight. Just knowing they happen and expecting them can sometimes make the difference in your ability to cope with it. So what are these 9 things?...

As you lose weight, your body slowly burns this fat tissue and releases into your body, whatever you were burning, using, taking, eating and doing when that fat was stored originally. This can cause many responses in your tissues and in your behavior. For example…

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What’s covered in Chapter 15 Cravings

There’s much to be said about cravings and people have theories they like to hang on to. The truth is that, like many other things, there are no pat answers or a single answer. There are at least 5 very real reasons why you have cravings.

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What’s covered in Chapter 16 The Mind /Body Connection

There are entire libraries of books written on this subject. It has been studied and backed up in medicine and in therapy and spiritual fields. If you want more proof you can go to any bookstore or library and browse many books on the subject. For the purposes of weight loss I will give you some basics here.

Nerves

Our nerves are not only the ones that feel pain in our body, but also the ones in our brain doing our thinking and the spinal cord that connects our body to our brain. We also have a mid-brain that is hardwired to deal with things like hunger and thirst and sex. All of this goes through our emotional center as well. Science knows that all is connected. But the part you may not realize is…

There have been many studies done on the effect imagining something has on the body and the brain…

The results of the studies were astonishing. Hooked up to electrodes researchers mapped the brain’s function while athletes…

More studies, showed that if they took people and showed them a video of a skill then asked them to do it…

This is astonishing medicine and information. But it explains why people have been able to cure themselves of diseases with their mental imagery…

Pain-

Did you know that pain is actually a very complex thing in our body? We know the nerves pick up the pain signal and send it to the brain. But did you know that…

Waking up in surgery

In 2005 while cooking I accidentally stabbed myself in the palm of my hand severing an artery and nerve. I had to have surgery on it. During the surgery I woke up. My eyes were taped down, the medicine that paralyzes you was still working so I couldn’t move and I couldn’t see. But I could hear everything and feel everything. They had no idea I was awake…

Logic

Our brain will dismiss something we feel strongly about simply based on something like we might be laughed at if we act on this or we might hurt someone’s feelings if we act on this information. Our thinking brains can take information meant to save our lives and it can reason us out of taking action. For example, you’re on an elevator, getting dark outside, a person gets on that instantly, for some reason you get a very bad feeling about. But you don’t’ get off the elevator because you’d hurt his feelings. So he starts talking to you and he’s really incredibly disarming and complimentary, and his smile is nice. But that feeling inside you grows worse and you want to run. But your thinking brain says, don’t be ridiculous. You’re being scared because you’ve watched too many movies. See how nice he’s being. And listen, he’s married and he has flowers for his wife. No one that caring would hurt you. At the parking area, he gets off the elevator, you go to your car and you go home. No big deal. The next day at work you learn…

The data of the subconscious

Remember that our subconscious mind has all the information we have ever seen, even if we didn’t take notice…

The rules

Unlike the thinking brain, the subconscious brain has a different set of rules. They may seem strange to you compared to what you know about the only brain you’ve probably paid attention to. Unlike the thinking brain, our subconscious…

So How Do We Use This Information?

Choose your words carefully

Next is to make sure you use words that speak to YOU. In our language we have many words that say the same thing, but not exactly. The differences in one word over another are very subtle but they may have huge connotations for you. When doing important work like this, why not chose what’s going to work faster for you?

For example….

Because our subconscious can listen to words or concepts and images, we can practice losing the weight with our mind…

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What’s covered in the extra article at the end of the book called:

What Men Know That Women Don’t

As women we understand very well what it feels like to be very animalistic, at our very nature, when our bodies are not our own during pregnancy and what it feels like when the body takes over and makes you push. We know what it’s like to nest and nurture. We understand and think we corner the market on pain and its equivalent pleasure of birth and we feel honored to be the bearers of this knowledge. We have learned to be humble at the experience of how powerfully our bodies can rule us and cause very deep sensations that are hard to put into words.

But men understand this also, in a way that’s almost the antithesis to women’s. They understand another type of pain and a pleasure associated with it. They have the gift of…

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