I want to share with everyone this great, if some what morbid web find.
http://www.yourdiseaserisk.siteman.wustl.edu/
This site asses your risks for a variety of diseases and gives you specific actions you can take to reduce your risks. For example, I could be eating more tomatoes to reduce my risk of prostate cancer, and have a low risk of melanoma.
Anyway, I encourage you to check it out.
Most books with a tough-love message want a true confession out of an overweight person - an admission that the individual is in a denial state and has an inner responsibility for being overweight. I think that approach is wrong. I think you have to put planks in a platform for success, and show the practitioner of the denial system how to move forward successfully, once that individual is out from under the spell of the denial system. However, overweight people must acknowledge the solution starts at home from within themselves, not from an outside cause. So instead of just beating you “denial system devotees” up, I will show you a practical system to defeat obesity, but damn it, don’t you dare quit on me! I won’t accept it. Stick with me and you’ll get the results, I guarantee.
In general, there are two types of lifestyles. My system is a positive Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness lifestyle for success. Those who are overweight, and don’t want to be, are living the other type - a negative lifestyle destined for failure. When someone tells a person to pursue a positive lifestyle as an option, there is an assumption that they don’t have a lifestyle. They do. It is a lifestyle for failure. No wonder so many find themselves in a position of a psychological dilemma. Follow along with me as we lay several more key planks in the platform for the successful solution to the weight problem, and more importantly, the coping with the torment of failure. Begin a positive lifestyle of quality eating habits, prescription exercise - that’s fun - and add proper scientific nutritional supplements. There is your foundation.
Remember that if you start wrong, you finish wrong. If you start right, you have at least a half-assed chance of finishing right. And I assure you, with effort based on Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy and serious focus on a positive lifestyle, I will describe in detail in future blogs, weight-loss success for you is a sure thing.
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I heard a great line the other day- “Food is not an activity.”
I thought that was some great advice on how to keep from over eating. I know that I sometimes do eat just because I’m bored during comericals.
I also try to limit my supply of junk food in my house. I find if there are chips, I will eat chips until I run out or get full. If there are cookies, I will eat cookies until I run out or get full. I fall I have is salad, I will eat salad. And I can only eat so much salad.
Do you have some tips for eating better? Please share in the comments section.
Here’s some tips from Pax:
Establish “No-Eat Zones”: This teaches discipline which is a key component of success. Not trying yields tragedy, and effort yields triumph.
Do the “Savor the Flavor” Test: Learn the art of eating slower. Practice makes perfect.
Break One Habit at a Time: You can’t stop overeating, smoking, and drinking all at once. Your initial goal is to adopt the Body for the Ages Nutrition System of eating, the initial goal is not to weight loss.
Table Eating: Only eat at the table. (Never standing, or in a car.)
Don’t Fear Failure: Everybody slips off every course they commit to… sometimes. That’s not failure. You are human. Slipping off course and then quitting - that’s failure.
Make it Fun!: Maintain a positive frame of mind. You’re on your way to building the body of your dreams!
You can’t make a Total Commitment - or even a good partial commitment - without the tools for proper motivation. A good gym or fitness health center becomes a motivating playground. Add a personal trainer or personal coach, and a transformational lifecoach, and your recipe for motivation is even richer.
Generally speaking, a personal trainer has their focus on your exercise, while a personal coach in a fitness health center can focus on your whole being. I don’t mean a certification by the group itself. Think in terms of the art and science of weight-resistance training, aerobics, nutrition, scientific nutritional supplements, the psychology of total commitment, legally prescribed drugs, and optionally, at the request of the client, the personal coach can relate to the client’s physician. Thus, the benefits of a synergistic effect.
Most gyms have personal trainers. Some are excellent, some are worse than bad. Because regular gyms sell comfort amenities, such as whirlpools, saunas and exercise classes, there is generally less emphasis on quality control over employed personal trainers. Most are not paid well.
An exception would be the big, locally owned, licensed gym chains like Gold’s, Powerhouse, or World, where personal trainers are usually independent business people, not employed by the gym. These personal trainers are excellent, but bring your wallet. Many charge over $75 per hour in major cities.
Gold’s, Powerhouse and World Gyms seem to function differently than some other big chains which have mastered the art of the hustle for memberships. The joke is that Gold’s, Powerhouse and World Gym offer a membership hoping you will show up and train. At some of the others, memberships are hustled, but if every member showed up there would not be enough space to accommodate everyone. You decide.
Look under gyms and health clubs in the Yellow Pages. Clubs that picture weight training activity, or show bodybuilders in their advertisements are the ones you want; otherwise, you could end up going to a dance studio or gymnastics center. This is even more true when you travel in foreign countries and the language barrier is a tougher hurdle than performing a record bench press.
I stepped on the scale yesterday.
I had been working hard the last week. I had been eating right. I had worked out everyday. Worn myself out lifting weights. Sleeping 9 hours a day. Eating salad for dinner. The whole bit.
And here I was looking at the fruits of my labor: I had gained a pound.
I said a less appropriate version of “Gosh darn it.”
I started getting dressed again, cursing myself and my efforts. I pulled on my be jeans and tightened my belt. That’s when I realized that I had reached a tighter belt loop.
Great reminder: one’s fitness is not just about the scale, it’s about how feel, and how you look, and your waist line.
So I was surfing the internet, like one does, when I came across this article:
Being skinny is no guarantee of a healthy heart
Serious health risks are found equally in fat and thin folks, study shows
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26143255/
Certainly, got my attention. The article references a recent study that demonstrates that ones weight does not indicate heart risks. Better indicators of heart risks are age, smoking, and especially inactivity.
“The results underscore how important exercise is for staying healthy, even for people of healthy weight” said Judith Wylie-Rosett, an author of the study.
This is something that Pax has been advocating for years. As he puts it, a healthy body is not imancipated. It’s fit. You don’t want to be merely skin and bones. You want to have muscle as well as little fat. You don’t want to look like a skeleton with skin stretched over it.
Hopefully, this study will help move the thinking in the health and wellness fields away from weight loss to exercise.
The psychological dilemma of weight loss is such a dynamic subject it is worth discussing, even if you are not overweight. The story is a prime example of the market forces of our capitalistic society becoming so powerful, they subconsciously influence the very basics of our daily lives - in this case, the necessary act of eating. We can’t seem to turn around without the billion-dollar food industry, not only trying to manipulate us, but actually succeeding to do so many times in an unhealthy direction. Or does anyone really believe a high-cholesterol, high-fat, fast-food hamburger has merit?
Here’s a choice vignette for you. I actually sat in the office of a CEO of a California supplement company dedicated to producing and marketing weight-loss products. The CEO unabashedly said that he didn’t care about the dose of his product, except that it should be relatively low, so the price would be attractive to the buyer. I asked him what the best dose was to yield successful weight loss. He looked at me as if I didn’t get the message, then replied, “No dose works for weight loss. Weight-loss products have a lifespan of about 24 months, and then the public gets wise that they don’t work. By ‘don’t work’ I mean they won’t sell, because none of them cause permanent, healthy weight loss anyway. The name of the game is to continually come up with new weight-loss products and start the promotion all over again.”
Furthermore, he acknowledged that he could only fool the public for a couple of years and then he would have to start the cycle all over again with some other song-and-dance involving another weight-loss product. The company is now out of business, but the CEO will likely surface again.
Now here, laid out for you, are necessary simplistic planks for your platform for weight loss. I have listed them in the order you should address them, because you are wasting your time seeking a positive lifestyle, if you are determined not to put forth effort in the right directions.
There is no need trying to cope with the psychological dilemma of weight loss, unless the lifestyle you choose meets the Art of Wellness above criteria, and you are ready to make a Total Commitment.