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.