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The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss - Part 7

Here are the final set of actions to ensure you can achieve your ideal body size and shape:

Hormone Balance

 

1. Get your hormones checked. Ensure you are checked for DHEA, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, cortisol and melatonin
2. Receive help from a trained professional to help re-balance any hormonal imbalances
3. Incorporate all the other advice given on the other nine secrets to weight loss.

 

 

Sleep Patterns

 

1. Get to bed by 10-10.30pm and sleep for eight hours each night
2. Sleep in a totally dark room. Use black-out curtains
3. Avoid any electrical sockets near your bed
4. Avoid bright lights after 8pm
5. Avoid stimulants after midday.

 

So there you have it. For those of you who have wondered why you can’t lose weight even though you've tried everything, this should help you to understand why.

 

If anyone wishes to find out more information as to why these factors are important, please feel free to contact me by posting a response on this blog.

The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss - Part 6

Here are your action steps seven and eight:

Detoxification & Elimination

 

1. Ensure you are hydrated by following the recommendations above under ‘Hydration’.
2. Ensure you are passing at least 12 inches of well formed, earthy (not stinky) smelling stools per day.
3. Obtain professional on how to use coffee enemas, herbal colon cleansers, and liver/gall bladder flushes two to three times per year.
4. Avoid toxic substances like non-organic foods, processed food, tobacco, alcohol, mercury from fillings, non-stick cookware, tap water, non-organic toiletry and cosmetic products.
5. Perform ‘breathing squats’ daily to help the general flow. Breathing Squats can help with constipation.

 

Exercise

 

1. Exercise every day
2. Find out the right kind of exercise for you. If you are under a lot of stress, you will need to focus more on ‘working in’ than ‘working out’. Working in exercises include Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Walking Meditation and  Yoga
3. If you’re able to work out without getting exhausted, weight training is the way to go. Lift heavy weights and change your programme every three to six weeks. Train hard, then rest hard!
4. Avoid too much cardiovascular exercise unless you REALLY love it and are prepared to do a lot of it to keep the weight off. Interval type training is preferable over long steady state training for weight loss.
5. Increase your activity as much as possible. Walk where you can instead of using the car, use stairs, not escalators, clean the car, clean the house and walk the dog. Go for a short walk each lunchtime

Stay tuned for the final installment next time...

The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss - Part 5

Here are your fifth and sixth secret tips:

Digestive System Health

 

1. Ensure you’re hydrated prior to a meal. Drink two glasses of water 15 minutes before you eat. Do not drink during or for up to one hour after eating
2. Chew your food until liquidised
3. You may require digestive supplementation such as hydrochloric acid and enzymes in accordance with your metabolic type®
4. Obtain a gastro-intestinal test to identify whether your organs of digestion require support and to establish whether you have any fungal, bacterial and parastic infections
5. Avoid all processed, packaged and fast foods and minimise refined carbohydrates like sugar and flour.

 

Immune System Health

 

1. Obtain an intestinal barrier test to see how well your immune system is doing
2. Avoid stress as much as possible.
3. Use stress relief techniques like meditation if required
4. Avoid toxic substances like non-organic foods, processed food, tobacco, alcohol, mercury from fillings, non-stick cookware, tap water, non-organic toiletry and cosmetic products.
5. Get to bed by

   10.30pm

   and sleep for eight hours each night.

Stay tuned for secrets seven and eight...

The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss - Part 4

Here are your third and fourth action to follow:

Hydration

 

1. Drink at least 0.033 litres of good quality water per kilogram of body weight
2. Good quality water includes Evian, Vittel and reverse osmosis filtered water. If buying bottled water, glass bottles are better than plastic. If using reverse osmosis filtered water, add a pinch of organic sea salt per litre of water.
3. Eliminate fizzy drinks, diet drinks, fruit juices, alcohol and pasteurised dairy
4. Don’t drink tea or coffee after 12pm midday

 

Nutrition

 

1. Only eat organic meats and vegetables and wild fish.
2. Eat according to your Metabolic Type®
3. Obtain an MRT® Test. This is the most advanced and accurate form of food sensitivity testing. This will help you to avoid foods that could be causing your excess weight
4. Use only natural supplements in accordance with your metabolic type®

Stay tuned for steps five and six next time.

The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss - Part 3

Here are your first two sets of actions to follow:

Thoughts and Emotions

 

1. Write down your goals
   1. What will you look like when you are successful?
   2. How will you know when you are successful?
   3. What will your waist measurement be?
   4. When will you achieve it by? What date?
2. Plan/write down what you are going to do every day/week to ensure you achieve your goals
3. Plan/write down what you are going to have to do less of or give up in order to achieve your dream
4. Say to yourself at least once every day your goals in the present tense, e.g. “I look lean and trim and I have a 28” waist, I look and feel fantastic”.

 

Breathing Mechanics

 

1. Spend at least 10 minutes per day focussing on your breath as described below. Just before bed is a particularly good time.
2. As you breathe in your abdomen should move outwards and as you breathe out your abdomen should move inwards
3. Breathe in through your nose as much as possible. If you cannot breathe through your nose, consider taking the MRT® Test (described below). Keep your tongue on the roof the mouth behind the front teeth.

The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss - Part 2

OK, so as promised, here are the 10 secrets of weight loss.

They are:

 

1. Thoughts and emotions
2. Breathing mechanics
3. Hydration
4. Nutrition
5. Digestive system health
6. Immune system health
7. Detoxification & Elimination
8. Exercise
9. Hormone balance
10. Sleep patterns

 

Whilst I can and probably will write a book on this subject, I will summarise in future blogs some brief actions that you can incorporate to achieve your ideal size and weight. Just don’t try them all at once...

The 10 Secrets of Weight Loss

Having worked in health and fitness since 1996, I have worked with hundreds of clients looking to lose weight.

 

I have learned through thousands of hours of education and thousands of hours working with my clients what is required to achieve long term sustainable weight loss.

Long term weight loss is not just about exercising more and restricting calories! THAT DOES NOT WORK for most!

Reducing calories beyond which your body needs is the general recommendation to lose weight, right? We are told, “To lose weight you must consume fewer calories than you use”. For sure, in the short-term, you are likely to lose weight if you continue to restrict calories. But what happens in the long term?

After eating a calorie reduced diet for long enough, the body will begin to breakdown proteins from your muscles for energy. This slows down your metabolic rate and you will begin to increase weight on a reduced calorific intake. So you’ll be eating less, yet putting on weight. So, do you restrict your calories even more? If so, where do you draw the line?

When you restrict calories, the body becomes very efficient at storing body fat, because your body thinks it is starving to death and needs to survive the famine! It does this by increasing the amount of lipogenic enzymes. At the same time, the body reduces its ability to use fat as fuel by reducing its lipolytic enzymes.

Not only that, but when you restrict good dietary fats, especially saturated fats (no they’re not dangerous) your body’s delicate hormone balance will be disrupted. I will discuss this in more detail later.

When you restrict calories and are hungry all the time, your blood sugar drops, you can’t function properly, you can’t think straight, you become agitated and aggressive. Is this the way you wish to live your life?

The only way to achieve a lean body is to optimise your health. You cannot carry excess body fat and be healthy. Symptoms (excess body fat is a symptom) are signs to your conscious mind that something is out of balance in your fundamental homeostatic control systems and needs to be put right.

In order to be healthy and have a lean body, 10 factors need to be addressed.

Tune in next time, when I will uncover the 10 secrets...

Childhood Obesity is Linked to Lifestyle, not Genetics!

Childhood obesity could be linked to parents' weight problems in a gender-specific way, research has suggested.

Obesity 'could be hereditary'

Girls whose mothers were clinically obese and boys whose fathers had the same condition were more likely to follow suit at a young age, according to a study.

Researchers from the EarlyBird Diabetes Study found the trend did not exist between mothers and sons and fathers and their daughters.

This suggests behavioural rather than genetic factors could hold the key to finding out why so many British children are obese, scientists claimed.

This research supports my long held knowledge that obesity is a man-made disease. Children today are often fed milk formulas (which are nutritionally deficient) and fed a diet far too high in carbohydrates. A growing child requires a high amount of fat in their diet to help aid growth and brain development. A diet too high in carbohydrates doesn't get used due to the lack of exercise and voila, you have an over-fat child.

The study also suggests that children follow their same-gender parent. This suggests that they take on the same behavoiurs and lifestyle which further suggests this problem is due to lifestyle and not genetics.

If you wish for your children to be fit and healthy, you can not tell them how to do it, you have to show them by be a shining example of health.

Free Fat Loss Webinar

Free Fat Loss Webinar

 

Achieving Long Term Fat Loss -

No fads, no quick-fixes, just the truth

 

 

Over my career in health and fitness since 1996, I have helped many people achieve their fat loss goals and help them to build a body they are happy with.

 

However, there have also been a number of people who have not been so successful. Whilst I have always given the best knowledge and experience available to my clients, I can see why many of them did not achieve success.

 

I know one thing for sure. Long term weight loss is not about exercising more and restricting calories! IT DOES NOT

WORK

!

 

The only way to achieve a lean body is to optimise your health. You cannot carry excess body fat and be healthy. Symptoms (excess body fat is a symptom) are signs to your conscious mind that something is out of balance in your fundamental homeostatic control systems and needs to be put right.

 

In order to be healthy and have a lean body, 10 factors need to be addressed. They are:

 

1. Thoughts and emotions
2. Breathing mechanics
3. Hydration
4. Nutrition
5. Digestive system health
6. Immune system health
7. Detoxification
8. Elimination
9. Hormone balance
10. Sleep patterns

 

To register for this webinar, please email info@bodychek.co.uk. Register to join in this free Webinar on 22^nd July at

7pm

BST. There are only 25 places available and most of them have already gone. Register today to avoid disappointment.

 

Cancer / Obesity Link

"Almost 19,000 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with cancer that could have been prevented if they were a healthy weight, an expert says.

Professor Martin Wiseman said if everyone had a body mass index (BMI) under 25 it would make a big dent in the incidence of cancer.

Cancers of the breast, bowel, kidney, pancreas, oesophagus and womb lining are among those linked to obesity.

Professor Wiseman is an adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF)." To read the full report on the BBC news website, click here.

This link between cancer and obesity is no surprise to me. Why? The reason it is no surprise to me is the fact that the body is under the control of a number (we know of 11) of homeostatic control systems. When one or more of these control systems are out of balance our bodies are unable to handle the stresses placed upon it and a disease process is set up.

The homeostatic control systems can be disrupted due to a number of different factors. Some of them include:

• negative mental / emotional stress
• poor breathing mechanics
• dehydration
• not eating right for your metabolic type
• eating processed foods
• eating non-organic foods
• toxicity
• poor posture and spinal misalignment
• poor sleep patterns

The disease process then takes hold and progresses through the following stages:

1. Deviation from homeostasis
2. Pathophysiology
3. Pathomorphology
4. Symptoms
5. Death

It takes somewhere between 10-20 years to progress from homeostasis to symptoms. So if someone is over-weight or has cancer, they have had an underlying imbalance in their fundamental homeostatic control systems for some time. For many, simply eating less and exercising more doesn't work. Modern medical practices will not identify a disease state until symptoms exist. At this stage it will be much more difficult and sometimes too late to bring the control systems back into balance.

Check out a previous blog to find out how to identify an imbalance in the homeostatic control systems long before symptoms occur and how to return to or maintain balance within your fundamental homeostatic control systems by clicking here.