Your Secret Weapon in the Weight-Loss Battle

Ice Bath Weight Loss Your Secret Weapon in the Weight-Loss Battle.

The first thing, of course, is to commit to losing weight. If you're uncommitted, then no system will work, and it's probably why you are still carrying the fat and maybe adding to it. First, you have to decide that you are fed up (ha!) with lugging it all around and having clothes look lumpy, and having bathing suit season bring on feelings of terror and desperation, and feeling ashamed and guilty about your fat.  You absolutely must commit to the idea that you are in control of what goes into your body. Once you do that, the rest is amazingly easy.

Commit

A few honest soul-searching minutes naked in front of a mirror will help you get started. The harder you find this is to do, the happier you will be with the outcome it's going to give you. Take handfuls of your fat (yes, I mean it) and see how you feel about it. Imagine the fat gone. Imagine the body underneath the fat, the you that is cloaked in this overcoat of fat, and decide that you're going to set it free. Whenever you feel yourself wavering in confrontation with a bread basket or a platter of fried chicken, summon up this moment. Rekindle your commitment to the emerging you.

Study

At first, don't change anything. Spend a week paying attention to what you eat, when, and how much. Observe the situations, times of day, or particular foods that trigger you to want to eat. You now know these are your hot zones and you can be prepared to win in your encounters with them.

Think about these questions:

• How do you behave around second helpings or the second dollop after the first spoonful  has landed on your plate? It doesn't matter why you feel you need it, just notice if you do feel you need it.


• How do you feel about leaving food on your plate? How you feel about food left over? Do you feel  some tension around food left uneaten, whether it's on your plate or still on the platter or in the pan?

Your observations during this week are going to show you your strategy for your weight-loss campaign. You will know where your enemy (your appetite) is weakest.

Now Act

• Begin your campaign -- and this is a campaign --  by making your first portions smaller. Not a lot smaller, just a very little bit smaller. Do the same with your second portion, if you take one. Do it for everything, including vegetables for now, until you begin to see smaller portions as the normal size for you. You are training your eyes and your stomach to have new expectations. Continue reducing you portion size just a little bit every week.


• Start listening to your hunger center. As you adjust to smaller portions, you will begin to be aware of signals that you're actually getting full. You will find that as you eat less, you also need less to feel satisfied (particularly as you begin to enjoy the satisfaction of seeing your body change).


• When you notice yourself being regularly satisfied with eating less, you can experiment with making your meat or main portion even smaller and add a bit to your vegetable portions. This will keep you eating the same amount of food but will give a little beneficial shift to the calorie count.


• Make adjustment to your portion size as you begin to lose weight, until you feel you are eating a quantity of food that feels like enough but that still allows you to continue losing weight.

There you are. That is all you have to do. No calorie counting, no pills, no giving up your favorite foods, nothing but just slowly making your portions smaller until that becomes normal eating to you. Stick with it until you are the weight you want, and keep on eating this way, being mindful of how much you put on your plate. Don't go back to your old ways and you'll never have to worry about weight again.

Tips:

1. Use small-sized dinnerware. I'm serious. The eleven inch dinner plate that is now our standard tableware is designed to hold a huge amount of food, especially great slabs of meat. It's almost impossible to resist trying to cover all that blank space with food.  Fancy restaurants will fill in around a small portion of precious entree with sauce swirls and artistic food decor because a big empty plate makes us feel like we're not getting enough. Get smaller plates and bowls for your regular use. You'll be amazed at the difference it will make.

2. Practice "Forget You!"  Decide that  for you, for now, certain foods simply do not exist. Put your most serious food threats into this category. Once Iyou have decided to make a certain food  off limits, it will cease to be a threatening temptation to you. It doesn't exist. The only time you allow it back into your  world is when you know for certain that this is going to be a uniquely superior version of it, or it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Don't reject a chance at something really great. This strategy will save you over and over every day but will let you have the really good stuff when you're sure it will be the really good stuff. Look at that piece of cake or those fries: how good, really, is it going to be? Is it worth it?

3. Develop your inner smug. This is your most effective weapon against the people around you urging you to ignore your program and have the chocolate cake or the deep-fried ice cream or whatever. While telling them  no, thanks, just keep repeating to yourself the mantra "Better you than me", and you'll get through the situation just fine.

This plan is simple, easy to follow, allows for backslides and mistakes, is non-shaming, and can accommodate any additional wholesome changes in your eating habits you might like to introduce. Once you have dealt with your weight to your satisfaction, you might give some thought to how healthful your food habits are in terms of nutrition for the long haul. Corny as it sounds, you really are what you eat.

Good luck, and hang in there!

Ice Bath Weight Loss.

Your Hidden Weapons of Fat Destruction

Ice Bath Weight Loss Your Hidden Weapons of Fat Destruction.

You have weapons of fat destruction. And you are hiding them - probably unknowingly. This explains why your waist is being overcome by enemy number one: unsightly belly fat. Are you ready to obliterate it?

As a biochemical evil-doer, belly fat slowly destroys quality of life.

Among men, it yields boobs. It keeps your soldier from standing at attention. Among women, it stores the "junk-in-the-trunk". It smothers sex drive. It zaps life-giving energy. It disrupts mental focus.

This evil-doer is very demanding. Belly fat screams for ice-cream and soda without warning. If you don't yield to its desires, it holds you prisoner by making you feel edgy, light-headed, and generally pissed off until you give in.

This evil doer is a liar. Almost hourly, it tries to convince you that, "One more soda isn't gonna hurt you". At night, it whispers, "Everyone in America is eating chocolate right now, you should be too". When you wonder if you should be exercising it tries to convince you that, "Exercise is not important".

Perhaps the most insidious characteristic of belly fat is its ability to keep you in your comfort zone -your fat comfort zone. Today, 60% of Americans are fat. Our children are following in our fat footsteps. And few people are doing anything about it. Instead, they hold tight to the myth that "carrying belly fat is genetic or a normal part of aging". Wrong.

At 30% body fat, I reveled in my own comfort zone for an entire year before I decided to take military like action. Once I uncovered my hidden weapons of fat destruction, I descended to 11% body fat and gained about 10 lbs of muscle in 90 days and have kept it off ever since. I've seen worse case scenarios do the exact same. In addition to ridding themselves and man-boobs and belly fat, some cured type II diabetes!

Forget about fad diets. Forget about fad supplements. Forget about fad drugs like Synthroid, Xenical, Meridia and the newer Accomplia that have side-effects worse than obesity. Forget about eating some exotic algae or fancy fruit drink to lose fat. If these mass produced and mass selling products were effective we wouldn?t be the fattest country in the world.

As a pharmaceutical chemist, I've uncovered a trove of fat destroying weapons that would make a fat military general envious. Under the proper lifestyle and dietary circumstances the arsenal can be employed by your own body. Is Michael Moore reading?

Human Growth Hormone (hGH), Leptin, IGF-1 and Testosterone

I'm going to spare you the biochemistry lesson. All you need to know is that in addition to being weapons of fat destruction, the above hormones are great for living young, building muscle, obtaining vibrant looking skin and ensuring that your bedroom energy is rockin'.

Unfortunately, if you are sporting belly fat, you probably have very little of them courtesy of surging insulin levels. Insulin prevents your body from unleashing these vital fat destroyers.

The only way to get your weapons of fat destruction back on the front lines is to "increase insulin sensitivity". Don't fret over the science jargon, just keep reading.

Insulin sensitivity is the opposite of insulin resistance (type II diabetes). Sensitivity to insulin means that you won't have much of the fat storing hormone in your fat belly. You will live thin and slim.

Insensitivity to insulin means that your body is resistant to it and therefore does not use it up fast enough. As a result, your belly bathes in it. You get fat.. Simple right? Don't worry, medical doctors usually choke on their words when trying to explain it to patients (future drug eaters of America).

To increase insulin sensitivity, do the following:

1. If it tastes sweet spit it out. Don't complicate this one. I don't care about the mom-in-a-thong promoting the newest health/sports bar. I don't care about the dumb-jock on the verge of "roid-rage" promoting a sweetened protein shake. And I don't care about how scrumptious that organic apple looks. If it tastes sweet spit it out. Maybe save it for birthdays. You'll be having many more by sticking to this rule.

2. Eat three meals per day and space them out by 4-5 hours. No snacking. Meals should be 50% healthy fat, 20% low glycemic carbs and 30% protein.

3. Key nutritional supplements can also be used. Among them are cinnamon (2-6 grams daily) and banaba leaf containing 1% corosolic acid (50-250 mg daily). The best time to use is 30-60 minutes prior to meals. These supplements are safer and more effective than any prescription drug. In fact, using "combinatorial chemistry", drug labs are trying to make a synthetic copy-cat of both as we speak - they've been failing for years.

4. Expose that white belly to God's healing rays! Showering 85% of your body to sunlight for 20 - 45 minutes three to five times per week will increase insulin sensitivity while controlling sugar cravings. Skin damaging sunscreen is not allowed.

5. Use my free, insulin controlling workout (sign up for my free Secret Cures eLetter above) to ensure that you pack on that dormant, sexy muscle.

Some readers will have a momentary lapse in judgment. They will continue to hide their weapons of fat destruction and instead choose to be a "drug eater of America". This is futile and dangerous. Not a single prescription drug address - insulin sensitivity. This is the primary reason none of them reverse obesity, insulin resistance or type II diabetes. They just mask symptoms. This is a stark reminder that Mother Nature provides the best medicine.

Cute, Dimply Fat Eradicated

The above tactics will bring hGH, leptin, IGF-1 and testosterone front and center. Insulin will decrease (along with blood sugar) and your weapons of fat destruction will emerge. No matter how cute, squishy and dimply your fat might be, it will be eradicated. The shock and awe that follows will leave your peers secretly wondering, "Wow! What did they do to get rid of all that unsightly belly fat?"

But, But, But?

"But, my doctor told me to stay on my med's and that they would control my weight, am I supposed to get off my drugs?"

"But, I heard that Xango would cure my obesity and my toe fungus. Are you saying to stop drinking it?"

"But, I've been overweight my whole life, it runs in my family."

Stop! Don't say another word. Your fat cells are eating your brain. Use your hidden weapons of fat destruction before your quality of life is destroyed.

Ice Bath Weight Loss.