Power to Lose Weight

In the state of Connecticut in the last week of October 2011 there was a historical northeastern storm, which produced record snow…  The storm caused tremendous damage, because it happened in the middle of the fall season, when the trees still had all their leaves… The weight of the snow on the leaves acted like a heavy umbrella, and destroyed the branches, which took down a major portion of the power lines…  The power was still there, but the connection to the power was cut off for must of the states residents…

So what does this have to do with losing weight and keeping it off?   Everything, you see knowledge is power, and the knowledge to lose weight, and keep it off, is a power inside each client I work with…   The bible teaches, people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…  My role as The Loss Coach is to teach every client the knowledge to shed excess fat, without losing muscle, comes with managing their hormonal response to the quality and quantity of the foods they consume…  Once they receive this knowledge or power it is stored inside their spirit or sub-conscience, and is always turned on…  My client’s role is to consciously connect to it each day…  

So then why would someone who has been empowered with the knowledge of a great eater, choose not to call upon their knowledge?  They become disconnected their mind loses focus on what they believe, and reacts to some circumstance they are facing…   The simple truth to stay connected to the power or knowledge, is all managed with two words, act and not to react…

When my clients act out their belief of eating, they stay stable in consuming four meals in portioned amounts, using high quality foods, which manage their blood sugar levels and balance their hormone response …  The end result, muscles are well fed and their bodies become leaner…  The secret to stability at losing weight and keeping it off is a daily conscious connection to the power…

When clients react to their circumstance or storm, they are now operating in unstable behavior, causing their blood sugar and hormone response to be erratic, resulting in poorly fed muscle and fat storage…  They are cut off to the power…

So when the storms of life come, and they will, many times when we least expect them…  Those who have been taught properly have a choice to make…  They can chose to act out their unconditional belief to practice good nutrition and reap the benefits of a lean, energized body, or react to the trial and miss meals or eat poor quality foods…  The reactive choice always leading to stored fat, lack of energy and a host of many ill physical feelings…  It’s hard to debate, if we stay connected, turn on the power daily you will be at your ideal weight and enjoy long life and good health…http://www.thefatlosscoach.com

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The Power Of Rest

The Power of Rest.

My clients are always amazed when they find out that most of their muscle growth occurs while they are sleeping, and not during their workouts.  Recuperation is a subject that receives too little attention and is often misunderstood.  We are conditioned to think in order to succeed we must work hard and little value is placed on rest.

During intense resistance training there is cellular damage that takes place in the millions of myofibrils, that make up our muscle structure.  As we recuperate from our workout, the hypertrophic or rebuilding response starts to occur.  The rebuilding phase, has several stages and requires on average of 72-96 hours to complete. The phases include an inflammation stage, a clean out stage where damaged cell debris is removed and a growth stage.  So it takes three or four days before the muscle enters into an environment where growth can occur.  Each muscle group should not be worked more than once per week.  If a muscle group is trained more frequently, it may not leave enough time for recuperation, and not time for growth.

It is important to receive eight to ten hours of sleep each night, when the body is sleeping important functions for growth and recovery take place.    During sleep  growth  hormones are secreted from the pituitary gland, which aides in the body’s ability to synthesize protein to rebuild muscle tissue.  Many of the nutrients ingested during our waking hours are assimilated while we sleep.

Over training occurs when a muscle group is worked too long, or too frequent.  Training a muscle before it has fully recuperated will cause further damage to the muscle fibers.  The body will enter into a catabolic state (breaking down) and will result in loss of muscle tissue.  The body in its inability to adapt to this stress will show signs of over training.

The following symptoms are good indications you are over training.  They are lack of energy, trouble sleeping, muscle and joint soreness, no muscle growth, loss of strength and no desire to exercise.  If these symptoms occur, the best course of action is rest, a week with no training.  During this time off re-evaluate your nutritional program and training routine.  After further analysis you will find you either under ate, or over trained.

We all differ when it comes to our recuperative abilities.  Learn to listen to the messages, that your body sends.  When you experience increases in strength, energy and muscular growth, it should reinforce that your routine is working.  On the flip side, decreases in strength, energy and growth should alert you your routine needs to change.  Exercise goes against our human nature.  Less work will usually mean more results.  Learn to relax and enjoy the time away from your workouts.  If you train with proper form, with intensity you deserve all the rest you can get.

When it comes to increasing exercise performance and improving body compositiuon, there nothing more powerful than rest.  http://www.thefatlosscoach.com   

Four Stages of Successful Weight Loss

Over the last two decades when I first meet a potential new client, the most common question posed to me is, “can you help me to lose weight”?   My response puts the ball back in their court…  I can help you to solve your weight problem, if you are willing to complete four stages of behavior change…

They are surprised to learn the first two stages will take place in our first thirty-minute session together…

Stage One – Unconsciously incompetent…  I meet all new clients in stage one of the weight problem…  They are well aware they have a problem, but unaware what the origin of the problem rarely is…  Most think if they could only be taught good new eating habits, their weight issues will disappear…  They don’t realize they have an inner identity or character, which has formed to support their poor lifestyle of improper nutrition…  Their poor eating behavior goes beyond bad habits, deep rooted, unconsciously in place each day…  They have become unconsciously good at being overweight…

Stage Two- Consciously incompetent…  You enter stage two when you consciously become aware of why our bodies store fat and lose muscle based on hormonal responses to quantity and quality of foods consumed…  This is an understanding, which goes beyond our common sense ability to understand…  Common sense would lead you to believe eating less often and lesser amounts, would keep the fat from being stored…  This could not be further from the truth…  Unfortunately nine out of ten overweight clients I meet are under eaters, not over eaters…  They are taught by eating four or more meals, about four hours apart, consuming high fiber, low glycemic foods, portioned 30% protein, 50% carbohydrate and 20% fat, which will cause a slow rise and slow drop in blood sugar…  This will bring a homeostasis or balance to the pancreas production of hormones, insulin and glucagons, which feeds the muscle and reduce the fat…

Stage Three-Consciously competent…   Stage three is the daily practice of consciously eating the right foods, at proper times, in customized or fitted amounts to each individual…  The daily routine of thinking the right thought, speaking it into action, and allowing the repetitive acts to form habits are essential to be in place each day…  I believe it takes at least 21 days for these routines to form into a physical habit…  The danger is these habits are still not deep rooted into the sub-conscience…  If not consciously put into practice each day, they are very vulnerable to old behavior reoccurring…  This is most likely during some test or trial, which appears to overwhelm the new behavior…  Think of your subconscious as a forest, and every tree in the forest represent a belief or character trait concerning all the aspects of your life…  For example, one tree represents your moral beliefs, another your work ethic and so on…  These trees are deep rooted and take little conscious effort to keep them in place…  As a young boy I was taught stealing is very wrong behavior…  So when I visit the mall, I don’t have to sit in my car and go through a check list of make sure you don’t take what’s not yours, even if no one looking…  It sounds funny to even say it, because this belief is so deep rooted in me…  Well new nutrition routines are a tree, with no roots and must be watered each day…  The water is thinking it, and speaking it into action each day…  The daily conscious effort allows the roots to go deep into the sub-conscience and become like the other trees in your forest…

Stage Four-Unconsciously competent…  This is the goal of each client I work with…  To take this new knowledge of nutrition and deeper understanding of their hormonal responses, and develop into a lifestyle…  Many times a new client questions me, “how do you think I’m doing”?  Sometimes they are surprised at my response, especially if there has been dramatic fat loss…  You see I go more by how they sound, than how much the scale is moving…  I spend a considerable amount of time on the behavior modification part of my teaching, which I call the “Laws of the Lean”… I know for it to become their lifestyle, and enjoy long life and good health, they must become unconsciously successful in managing it…  So what could keep it from happening?  I think the most common mistake is the deception of thinking your in stage four, when still in stage three…  You see, it takes daily work of self-talk, positive thoughts, goal driven choices to water the tree in stage three…  So what causes the deception?  Thinking it’s unrealistic to put in all this conscious effort each day, especially when I don’t have to do it in other areas of my life, I manage successfully…  The truth is you won’t…  You only have to do it until the tree has been watered enough, and the roots go just as deep, as the other trees in your forest…  The treasure found in stage four, is it takes the same amount of conscious effort to manage your weight, as it did in stage one of not managing your weight…

So if you are really ready to see your weight problem solved once and for all time…  It starts with the word “timber”, this unhealthy tree in your forest is coming down…  We will plant in its place a healthy tree of new knowledge and behavior…  The daily watering of the tree will have it deep rooted, and like the other healthy trees in your forest…  The fruit this tree produces will last and be enjoyed for a lifetime…

10 Ways to Change Your Health TODAY

With the end of the year looming and New Year’s Resolutions around the corner, we thought we would give you a head start on 2012 goals. Our mission is to make America healthier and offer these 10 ways to change your health today:

1.     We are here for you! If you are not near our locations, please call us and find out how we can help you be healthier with a personalized plan.

2.     Eat breakfast. Your mom was right and breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. It sets your metabolism for the rest of the day.

3.     Don’t skip meals. Your body enters starvation mode when it isn’t being fed. You will store fat no matter how active you are. Eating within an hour of waking also increases metabolism.

4.     Snacks are good….if they are healthy snacks. Fruit or vegetable and protein are always a healthy choice.

5.     Put your walking shoes on and go for a walk. Even if you start by walking to the mailbox, you have started the path to healthy living. Take one step at a time and you will see results.

6.     Healthy and easy to prepare recipes are important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. If you aren’t satiated then you’re more likely to over eat the wrong foods.

7.     Stop eating at least three hours before bedtime so food has time to digest.

8.     Accountability is important. Write down what you eat and have someone you can confide in on good…and bad days. Grab a neighbor and go for a walk instead of choosing an unhealthy option.

9.     You are what you eat. It’s not just a turn of phrase, it is true. Science is providing evidence of diseases caused by obesity such as fatty liver disease. When you eat a lot of fat you become fat.

10.  It’s in the numbers. To decrease the number on the scale the energy in must be less than the energy out.

Grab your water, lace up your shoes and go for a walk. It’s your first step to a healthier you!

5 Diseases Associated with Obesity

America, we’re fat and getting fatter by the hour! The Fat Loss Coach and his team have a lot of people to reach before our mission to have a fat free America is complete. If you think “you are what you eat” isn’t a true statement you’re dead wrong. Excessive fat storage causes and is underlying to a host of diseases. Here are five diseases associated with obesity:

1.     Heart enlargement: Increasing body mass as occurs in obese patients means the heart is pumping blood to more areas of the body. As a result of working harder the heart becomes enlarged.   

2.     Diabetes: This condition is caused when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin. It often occurs when excessive fat accumulates in the body making cells resistant to insulin. In some cases diabetes can be eliminated with proper diet and exercise. The Fat Loss Coach has helped more than 800 diabetes patients beat the condition.

3.     Fatty liver disease: This condition occurs when fat develops in the cells of the liver and is irreversible.

4.     Depression: When we are active our body produces proper amounts of chemicals that keep us happy and also well-rested. They are called serotonin and melatonin. When these chemicals are out of balance patients experience changes to appetite, depression and insomnia among other symptoms. Having the proper diet and exercise program will help the body produce proper amounts of these important chemicals.

5.     Lymph Edema: Commonly associated with cancer patients who have had lymph nodes removed, this disease causes the body to swell. In obese patients this is cause by fat stifling the function of the lymph nodes effectively shutting them down.

If you have any or all of these please call us! We are here to help you learn to live a healthy lifestyle by choosing the right foods and activities. 

Fuel Your Way To Your Ideal Weight

Fuel Your Way To Your Ideal Weight


Over the last two decades after interviewing over fourteen thousand clients and having done more than seventy thousand counseling sessions you could say I have strong opinions on weight management…   My views are based on the evidence historically discovered about behavior patterns, which are common and reoccurring in individuals in need of weight loss…

I believe it will take more than some systematic plan of sound nutrition to solve America’s great weight problem…  It will take major lifestyle reformation…  Most overweight individuals I meet, have lifestyles outside their bodies hormonal design…  Though many are deceived in thinking if someone could just teach me what to eat…  The problem is with all the information they are fed, no pun intended, though media sources, they already know about what foods are right…  They just don’t know how to0 use them right…

So a large part of my teaching is to explain the biological effect the foods we eat have on blood sugar and our bodies hormone responses…  Learning how to manage these responses will do more than lose weight, it will manage body composition (muscle/fat ratio), energy, digestion, mood, recuperation, sleep and many health benefits…  he large list of benefits makes this a priority to manage…

Our perception of food is as important to change as the foods themselves…  One of my pet phases is food must become nutritional fuel…   Now I know what your thinking, here we go, he’s going to compare me to a car…  Well I guess the joke would be on you…  Most who struggle with their weight know more about the gas, oil and antifreeze purpose for their car, then protein, carbohydrates and fats role on their hormonal responses…

The shame is it’s easy to learn…  I could teach it to your six year old child…  No, really…  In fact it reminds me of a life changing counseling session I had…  The session started with a client who brought her six year old daughter …  She said the girl would be no trouble, she’ll just color as we speak…  At the end of the meeting, the woman commented, I like your scientific and holistic approach, but I don’t think I would be able to see food is fuel…  I said, “I can teach it to your little girl…  She was quick to comment, “No you can’t”…

So I turned to the little girl holding up two business cards and said, “Honey in my left hand is a ice cream sandwich and my right hand is a tuna sandwich, which one would you like?  She of course said, “Ice cream”…  I said, “I understand honey, ice cream tastes better’”…  I turned to the mother and asked, “ which of the two will manage your blood sugar?   The woman replied, “tuna”..  Which will feed your muscles?  She responded, “tuna”…  Which will supply your body with the needed vitamins and minerals?  She answered, “tuna”…  Which will get you to your ideal weight and keep you there?  She responded, “tuna’…  Which will improve your blood chemistry and stabilize your energy and moods?  Once again, she replied, “tuna’…

I now turn to the little girl and ask, “honey you can have either one, ice cream or tuna, which one do you what?  You can guess what came next, the smart little girl got it, she replied, “I’ll have the tuna”…

So if you are in need of weight loss, isn’t it time we lose our child like desires, and learn how to nutritionally fuel our bodies?  So the question is, will it be ice cream or tuna?  http://www.thefatlosscoach.com

5 Reasons Fat Loss is Good for You

Americans are getting fatter by the generation. It’s a fact. This generation of children is the first whose life expectancy is less than that of their parents. That’s to be expected since obese parents are more likely to have obese children. $34 billion is spent by Americans annually on diets that aren’t burning fat and teaching us how to live a healthy life.

That’s where The Fat Loss Coach comes in with his proven track record of helping people lose weight and live healthier lives.

Here are five reasons fat loss is good for you:

1.     10% Rule: Losing 10% of weight can mean a new lease on life for many obese and overweight people. Their medical conditions caused by their weight begin to diminish. They can breathe and move easier. 

2.     Fat kills. Morbidly obese people actually have fat on their organs! Their organs are already compromised by their obesity and adding fat to the organ causes organ failure and even death.

3.     Diabetes: Some forms of diabetes are manageable with food and diet. Often obese patients who lose weight and continue a healthy lifestyle no longer need insulin. Without the extra weight their bodies are able to function more efficiently.

4.     Blood Pressure: Beginning a fat loss plan along with being active will decrease blood pressure in obese patients who previously had high blood pressure. Often they no longer need blood pressure medication.

5.     Root Cause: Identifying the root cause of overeating is important to a sustained recovery and healthy lifestyle. Without identifying the cause patients will become obese in the future.

The Fat Loss Coach team will design a personalized plan to meet your personal needs and physical abilities. We want you to be a healthier you!

Source:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/407755_5  

Eight Things You Need to Know Before Beginning the Fat Loss Coach Program

Wake up, America! We’re eating ourselves into obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and even death. Our children are being diagnosed diabetic at early ages and at an alarming rate. The Fat Loss Coach is here to tell you there is a better way. We are here to support you on your journey and to teach you how to turn your fat storing body into a fat burning machine.  

Here are eight things you need to know before beginning our program:  

1. We’re eating ourselves to death: Americans are spending $34 billion per year on diets and 2/3 of us are still overweight, obese and morbidly obese.

2. Lifestyle: Weight loss isn’t an annual New Year’s Resolution. It is a choice to live a healthier life that starts by changing your mindset. We teach you how to eat what YOUR body needs to reach optimum performance.   

3. Focus: Our focus is on YOU maintaining healthy lean mass and losing unhealthy fat stores. We want your focus to be on YOU creating a healthy lifestyle.

4. Key to success is learning the proper way to feed your body. Many of us are under-eating which means our bodies are not getting balanced nutrition and our metabolism is slow. 

5. Muscle loss reduces metabolism creating the plateaus of fitness and weight loss that we have all experiences.

6. Finish what you start: We promise to be with you every step of the way. We want you to promise you will maintain a healthy lifestyle using the tools and techniques we teach you about healthy eating.

7. Glyco-Cycle: Through our Fat Loss Coach Glyco-Cycle three day eating plan we change your body from fat storage to fat burning without losing lean muscle.

8. Most fail on traditional diets because we’re limiting what we can eat. We teach you how to adjust what and when you eat to create a fat burning machine called YOU. We have client testimonials and the support of doctors across New England to illustrate how and why our program works. We look forward to helping you create a healthy lifestyle!

Going On Diet Is Like Eating Kryptonite

Did the Fat Loss Coach finally gone over the edge, when he recently made this statement at a seminar?  Remington said, “Going on a diet to lose weight is like eating Kryptonite…   Now most of us know Kryptonite was the substance from Superman’s home planet Krypton, which is famous for being the ultimate physical weakness of Superman…  When exposed to Kryptonite, it robbed the super hero of strength, energy and all of his super powers, and would eventually lead to his demise…

So what does Kryptonite and dieting have in common?  The way they both make us feel…  Over the last two decades when I have interviewed thousands of individuals needing to lose weight, and we go over their past diet experiences, they all say the same thing… They don’t look forward to losing weight, and look to avoid having too…  Why you ask?  Because of the way they felt on the diet…  Most reported a loss of energy, increase in hunger, mood shifts, drops in metabolism and loss of muscle tissue…  Maybe this is why the first three letter in diet spell die…  When it came to the diet foods they had to eat, many would probably have chosen the radio- active substance kryptonite instead…

So if its time for you to lose weight, be a real super-hero…  Learn to eat the right foods, in the right amounts, at least four times per day…  This will manage your blood sugar levels and your hormonal response…  You’ll lose the unwanted fat, without losing muscle, your energy will be stable and hunger and moods swings will disappear…  Learning a healthy nutrition lifestyle, won’t have you leaping tall buildings in a single bound…  You’ll just look and feel like you could…  Http://www.thefatlosscoach.com

Witness Protection Program For Weight Loss

Yesterday I received a phone call from someone interested in my help... As the conversation started the female voice said, "I need to lose the size of a person"... What she was saying is a need to lose quite a bit of weight... But my response surprised both of us... I said, "You need to lose the woman, which caused the weight problem, then you will lose the weight... Then it hit me... As a nutritionist, I would need to place this woman in the "witness protection program"... She would need a new identity, to escape from the one which has caused her weight problem...

You see over the last 20 years I have discovered, those who are overweight, have created an identity to support their poor eating lifestyle... So it would take more than teaching her what to eat... She would need behavior modification help... We would need to spend as much effort changing the way she saw herself as developing new knowledge of proper nutrition...

To many times weight loss failures are the result of new knowledge, which lacks ability to be put into practice daily... So if your attempting to lose weight and keep it off, its time to join the "witness protection program" for weight loss... Your new identity will put you on the path to a new body...  http:///www.thefatlosscoach.com

Overcoming Mistakes To Reach Your Weight Loss Goal

It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce, which counts in reaching goals…  Over the last two decades I have been asked hundreds of times, “What makes people successful in reaching their weight loss goals”?  The answer has many factors to consider, but one, which stands out is how they deal with mistakes…

Mistakes either convict us or condemn, we choose which path they take…  When we are committed to a belief, or in this case an eating lifestyle, the voice that directs us is our conscience…  The conscience guides us to doing what’s right and warns us when we are tempted to do what we now believe to be wrong…  In moments of weakness when we choose wrong, we are confronted with guilt…  Is guilt a good thing or a bad thing?  Again, this is a choice, and what separates the winners from the losers…  The winners see guilt as a good thing, and it guides them back on the narrow path of doing what they believe is right…

In my weight loss concept, I teach my clients to stay in a normal blood sugar zone every four hours…  This controls their hormonal response to their meal, and during those four hours, their muscles are well fed and their bodies stay lean…  So what happens if we leave the zone?  The simple answer is, return back to the zone in the next four hours…  It reminds me of a former client, who brought me in a bumper sticker she made which said, “I am ALWAYS FOUR HOUR AWAY FROM DOING WHAT”S RIGHT”…  She was a winner at losing…

Free From The Pain Of Yesterday

I woke up this morning with a tremendous pain in my back... I went to bed last night feeling physically fine, where did this pain come from? As I prepared to start my day, I decided I would call the doctor, the pain hurt so bad... When I arrived at work, I made a wiser choice... I sought The Great Healer God...

As I started to pray, I felt the Lord say, "I'm not going to heal your back... I already have... Then the power of God hit me... I was getting ready to ask for something, I already had... I had to make a choice... Speak words of life, or words of death... I choose life... It was amazing... The pain, which had come suddenly, left me just as quick...

The best part, God showed me where the pain came from... It was a hurt from my past, I allowed back in... Thats where the pain formed in back... Wow...

The Lord reminded me of these words, He had spoken to me... I breath My Life of tomorrow into your wound of yesterday… The hands of time will leave a scare… A touch of God will bring forth new life…

I encourage all my friends, we are free from the wounds of are past... Time is not a healer, God is... I speak the healer power of God will touch each of my friends and the chains of their past wounds are broken... God bless...

Is Something Missing From Your Weight Loss Plan?

Is Something Missing From Your Weight Loss Plan?

Its hours after completing my last seminar…  Over my career I have spoken over two hundred times, in front of audiences both large and small,  corporations, municipalities, college campuses and hospitals…  It is common during my presentation to ask this question…  What is the only aisle in the grocery store, where the food comes with any instructions?  I remind you, I have asked this question over two hundred times to thousands of listeners, and still to this day, no one has answered correctly…  How could the answer elude us for such a long time? So when I posed the question today, I was not surprised in what I heard…

Let me ask you the reader, what isle am I talking about?  If you answered the pet food isle, you are probably one of my clients…  No one else seems to know it, but more importantly no one seems to care…  There could no better example to explain the sad state of the weight loss industry… 

I come back to my office and one of the commercials from one of the so-called icons in the weight loss business is basting away…  Maybe I should not mention their name, no better yet let me shout their name, “NUTRI-SYSTEMS”, is saying no measuring, no counting, no check-ins…  All the variable which lead to long term success, and their advertising it like its their advantage over everyone else…  There are no one-size fits all approach to solve our countries weight problem…

Let me share with you this story…   I have spent a career teaching, to lose fat, without losing muscle or reducing metabolism, you must control your hormonal response to the amount and quality of the foods you eat…  This is easily done by being fitted to the foods based on your percent of body fat and activity level…  You can even customize it to only the foods you like and those, which make sense to cerate a lifestyle around…  To lose the weight as fat and keep it off, it must become your lifestyle…   So in a counseling session I had several years ago, a potential client said to me, “I like what you have to say, it all make sense scientifically and I like your holistic approach but”…  WE have all heard it, sounds like the answer I need but…  I have heard but so many times, so what was her but?  I could never weigh or measure food…

Now those of you who know me, know I’m not settling for her but, which you guessed it was causing her to have a “big BUTT”…  So I started to redirect her, to why she needed to lose weight in the first place, when what seemed like a miracle happened…  She noticed pictures of my two dogs, Cyrus and Shiloh on my desk…  She asked, “Are those your dogs?”…  They look amazing…   After thanking her, she commented she also had a dog…  I asked, “how old and what breed?  She said, “he is German Shepard and five years old’…  Now here’s where the miracle begins…  I said,  “How much do you feed him?  She replied, “two cups in the morning and two cups in the evening”…  I quickly responded,  “do you ever give him one cup, or feed him once per day?”  She said, “no never, the instructions tell me how much, and how often”…  Then she became real quite and the epiphany took place…  She realized she was willing to do something for her dog, she ignored for herself…  The best part was when I asked her, “What shape was her dog?”…  Her response, change her life, she said, “He is in great shape”…

She went on to reach her ideal weight and portioning her food was no longer a problem…  So what’s missing from your weight loss plan?  Learn to eat your meals in the right portion and the proper amount of times per day…  Maybe at my next seminar, I will no longer have to ask what isle, when all isles you will have instructions for…  http://www.thefatlosscoach.com

Keep Moving Forward

I have a simple philosophy about life…  God put my eyes in the front of my head, and He pointed my feet forward, because He intends for me to move forward…  The windshield of our cars is large and the rear view mirror small…  Why?  We are meant to go forward, and keep from going back…  There could be no getter example than managing our health and lifestyle…

Last week I wrote an article, “Better to Prepare than to Repair”…  I felt very moved and spiritually lead to do so…  It was a few days later, when a former client called wanting to meet…  He sounded desperate…  His identity is not important, because I meet so many, too many this way…  He had just left his doctors office, and had received bad news…  His total cholesterol was over 300 mg/dl, triglycerides over 500 mg/dl, and his fasting glucose over 300 mg/dl, and was being told he was now diabetic…

It had been since 2008, since I had worked with him, and I asked him to bring in his blood lab results…  I meant his current results, but to my surprise, he brought the one from 2008, the year I had worked with him as well…  He had not had his blood tested since 2008, because after our work together all his levels were in the normal range…  He had reach his weight and body composition goal, and from a blood chemistry point of view, in perfect health…

What happened, what went wrong, how could he leave the narrow path of good health and lean body, to a wide road of overweight body and poor health?  The answer is simple… He stopped preparing and was now in need of repair…  As I commented earlier, this happens far too often… 

When our appointment was over, and I had redirected him back onto the narrow path, a word rose up in my spirit…  It is a very special word for me, and one I hope you the reader have an ear to hear…  Why is it so special to me?  It was the first word, I heard in the ear of my spirit, from the heart of our God…  It would change my life, and has given me great purpose in helping the thousands in need of help…

So what did God say?  These words are not recorded anywhere, for they were written on my heart, and are the spoken word of God…  Those who know what I’m saying know them as Rhema words…  Ready, so what did God say, “Now is a time of preparation, soon you will enter into this land, I have promised…  I am burning up in you, everything not of me…  Do not return to places, I have set you free from…  As I draw you near to Me, the path of righteousness narrows, but do not be afraid for it is I who set you free”…

I still tremble when I think of this experience, and it happened over thirteen years ago…  So what does this mean?  God is saying prepare my people, so I don’t have to repair them…  My people, are destroyed for a lack of knowledge, teach them what to do…  Keep them from going back to their old un-healthy lifestyles…  Build their faith and trust in Me, for I will complete in them, that which I began…

I know this will make many of my clients smile…  For I have gained quite a reputation for taking my work very serious…  Little did you know, who I was really being commissioned by…

Better to Prepare than Repair

Food is Our Medicine - Part Two

Over two decades I have delivered a constant message to my clients.  It is far better to develop a healthy lifestyle, which prepares our bodies and prevent disease, then to repair our bodies after disease.  It makes more sense to eat foods to prevent disease, than to turn to them after disease.  What truly amazes me,, is the healing power of foods.  I have witnessed so many be healed of diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyle.  The healing process, just takes longer, than if it had been prevented with a healthy lifestyle.  There is no food source, which better represents disease prevention than dark colored fruits and vegetables.

Dark colored fruits and vegetables are part of the largest group of phyto-chemicals called flavonoids. They are characterized by dark colored fruits and vegetables and the best sources are, blueberries, strawberries, cranberries, bilberries, blackberries, apples, red and black grapes, eggplant, peppers, broccoli and onions.

There are more than 4,000 flavonoids and they are broken into subgroups called anthocyanidins, proanthocyanidins, polyphenolic acid, quercetin, ellagic acid and tannins. Studies show that dark colored fruits and vegetables are powerful anti-oxidants, some having fifty times the antioxidant activity of both vitamin C and vitamin E. Studies show that flavonoids in fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of arthritis, atherosclerosis, diabetes and cancers.

They protect the collagen protein in joints and blood vessels from free radical damage, which reduces edema, varicose veins and hemorrhoids. A recent study reported by Cornell University showed the flavonoid, quercetin found in apples could protect the brain against neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. This was a follow up to an earlier study at Cornell University by Professor Lee, who found that the photochemical in apples and berries has a stronger antioxidant protective effect than Vitamin C against colon and liver cancer cells. Blueberries have 40% more antioxidant than the next highest strawberries. Neuroscientist, James Joseph from Tufts University, discovered in addition to fighting disease and cancer, blueberries prevented short-term memory loss that accompanies aging.

Its time to prepare, than repair, and the best sources of prevention are right in the produce section of your local store.  Make time for dark colored fruits and vegtables as part of your daily habit, and you won’t need to make time for repair.  http://www.thefatlosscoach.com

Food is Our Medicine - Part One

Over a twenty year career of helping thousands lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.  The part which has kept me most excited is when the clients body is also healed in the process.  God has equipped our bodies to heal themselves, and strange as it sounds much faster than they get sick.

Plants, like humans, are susceptible to disease and viruses and have developed their own protective substances, called phyto-chemicals.. Mounting research reveals many phyto-chemicals also protect humans from cancers and diseases. The following is a list of foods, which provide protective plant chemicals and the conditions they protect us from, and the research to support its claims.

Whole Grains - The best sources are wheat, rice, barley, oats and rye. Whole grains are the seeds of the plant and consist of an outer shell called the bran, the middle called the endosperm and inner called the germ. Whole grains are excellent sources of folate, B vitamins, magnesium, iron, copper, zinc, chromium, phosphorus and Vitamin E. Folate helps decrease levels of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood. High levels of homocysteine in the bloodstream are linked to risk of heart disease.

Whole grains contain phytochemicals called phytosterols, phenolic acid and lignans. Studies have shown that whole grains reduce the risk of several cancers and type II diabetes. They lower cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease and they reduce inflammation, lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease. In a recent study at the University of Utah, Dr. Martha Slattery found that high intakes of whole grains, especially high fiber cereals, reduced the risk of rectal cancer by 31%. A high fiber diet (more than 34 grams daily) reduced rectal cancer by 66%. In a recent study at Tufts University, Dr. Nicola McKeown reported participants who consumed at least three servings daily of whole grains are less likely to develop insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome which are precursors of type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Whole grains are an excellent source of fiber, both insoluble and soluble. In a resent study reported by Harvard School of Public Health, Doctor Qi and colleagues found that women with diabetes that consumed more whole grains, bran and cereal fiber had lower blood vessel inflammation that has been linked to heart disease.

The foundation of any healthy lifestyle should be balanced nutrition and whole grains playing a major role.  Whole grains are excellent sources of B vitamins, which provide energy and help convert the foods we eat into energy.

Your Next Meal Can Heal You

Over the last twenty years most of my time and energy as nutritionist, has been teaching thousands of my clients my unique concepts of losing fat, without losing muscle.  Known to my clients as “The Fat Loss Coach”, I have developed a winning formula for losing.  Sound strange turning winning into losing, but thousands of clients are living proof, we can lose the weight, without being tired, hungry or reducing metabolism.

So it should not sound strange when I say, “are next meal can also heal our bodies”.  Bible scriptures from 3,500 years ago show man divinely inspired to write, "God would bless his food and water and take sickness from among them" (Exodus 23:25). As a nutritionist, I have witnessed thousands of patients be restored to health from disorders ranging from gastric disturbances, intestinal conditions, type II diabetes, hypertension, obesity and other diseases. By developing a healthy nutritional lifestyle we can bring a balance and harmony back to our human existence and it can begin with the next meal you eat.

To understand the healing power of your next meal, you must have a basic knowledge of the process foods we eat have on digestion, absorption and elimination. Digestion of carbohydrates begins in the mouth, both by mechanical breaking down of food and chemical digestion through the salivary enzyme amylase. In the stomach, gastric juices consisting of hydrochloric acid and pepsin start to digest proteins, and the partially digested food turns into a paste like substance called chyme. As the chyme is released into the small intestine, digestive bile from the liver, gallbladder and pancreatic enzymes, along with enzymes from the exocrine cells in the mucosa of the small intestine complete the digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. The digested food is now absorbed by the intestinal wall lining called the villi and enters into the blood stream. The nutrient void food then moves into the large intestine, where there is an absorption of water and electrolytes and the formation, storage and elimination of feces.

I have walked you through the digestive process because maintaining good gastrointestinal and intestinal health depends on proper digestion. The following factors, eating slowly, regular scheduling of meals and balanced macro-nutrition (30% protein, 50% high fiber, low glycemic carbohydrates and 20% essential fatty acid fats), can restore health to the stomach lining and improve the detoxification function of intestines. This will prevent unnecessary entrance of toxins into the blood and maintain good colon health. Each healing meal should also provide essential micro-nutrients (vitamins, minerals, enzymes and important phytochemicals from plant-based fruits, vegetables and whole grains). These photochemicals, though classified as nonessential, are receiving much of the recent scientific research moving us from the mind-set of foods preventing deficiencies, to foods healing a disease and promoting longevity.

We must buy into the big picture, we are what we eat.  This is well worth the work of food selection, portion and timing of meals.  You will be in control of your body composition, and the next meal you eat, will start to heal your body.