DAY 55: ...Fudge Rounds MUST cross the blood brain barrier...

THE LOST WEEK: DAY 5

After NOT sleeping very well, I got up at 6am to take Billy to the airport for a trip to New York!

Glad to help, but 6am? Oy vey.

He was Bitchy…and burning through our “friendship currency” like mad this morning…but he has the currency to burn, so go for it…hehe

I got back home and cleaned the house for an hour. Chiva and Pavarti are arriving soon! (My brother in law and his husband)

I did a massage at 930a, and it was wonderful.

From beginning to end it was a great experience: My client showed up on time, was happy to see me, enjoyed the work, paid me well, and rescheduled!

I LOVE my clients! I treat them like gold…I mean, they are my living. I just need MORE of them is all…

(To remind you, Chiva is my brother in law, and Pavarti is his Husband. Aliases, of course)

Hubby, Chiva, Pavarti and I all went to Dimsum, and it was good.

A little too good.

I ate a lot. But I wanted to help my headache…it’s going on day 2 now…

SOMETHING in those Fudge Rounds MUST cross the blood brain barrier and hijack my chemicals pretty directly, because my head feels like it has a construction crew living inside of it!

Anyway, Leo looked cute today…I put one of his GAP polos on, for my in-laws visit. Awww…

We all went to La Jolla to see the tide pools, then to the aquarium, and then to SoupPlantation where I again overate, and snuck 3-4 chocolate chip brownies…)

Anyway, their visit was a success, and tonight was just about playing on the computer.

Oh, and our downstairs storage closet kind of flooded…that was fun.

The storage unit next to us REALLY flooded…so we helped our cute neighbor to move his stuff out.

Tomorrow is the big trip to see Hubby’s family in the OC, then to Simi Valley to see my Godfather who’s dying of cancer, and then all the way home to San Diego.

I’m worried about my Godfather. He’s going through radiation and chemotherapy…I hope he’s not in a lot of pain.

So to recap the part that you’ve been waiting for, namely “How the hell does all this apply to a blog about weight loss”, here it is:

• I am in complete meltdown regarding my health
• I’m going on a road trip with no food plan
• I’ll be going to my Father in-laws house, who generally hates me
• Then I’ll see my dying Godfather, whom I love very much

Um…yeah. The emotional eating, stress and bad planning should all come together tomorrow for a beautiful day.

Night for now.
Jayson.

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Fresh

Tomorrow will be my fresh start at weight loss.

I have lost count of the amount of “fresh starts” I’ve had, but this time I am serious. Yea right.. why this time? Well last night I was at my grandmothers for dinner and there were pictures from my uncles birthday party.  I saw a photo of me, with a chin the size of the grand canyon. I wanted to hide, run, die.  It was beyond mortifying. So after a horrible feeling of dread for the rest of the evening I decided I really, really, REALLY need to do SOMETHING.

I am not 100% sure on what that SOMETHING is. I want to do some type of diet, but not so much a diet as a lifestyle change. So for the next 2-3 weeks, I am going to research and try a few different “diets” and decide which would be best for my life as of right now. I am not saying one is better than the other, but rather what is better for the person and their life at the moment.. if that makes sense. The one thing I’m sure of is, I will be exercising.. A LOT. I really do believe exercising is the key to a healthy successful lifestyle change.

I want to find a balance, a harmony of myself. I want to be able to have my cake and eat it too. Hopefully with this new blog chronicling my weight loss journey, and this new found self dread of certain features of my body I will be able to find the power to really do this.

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Some of the Benefits of Exercise

Walking prevents type 2 diabetes. Walking 20 minutes per day and losing just 7% of your body weight (12-15 pounds) can reduce your risk of diabetes by 58%.

Walking strengthens your heart. Women who walked three hours or more per week reduced their risk of a heart attack or other coronary event by 35% compared with women who did not walk.

Walking is good for your brain. In a study on walking and cognitive function, researchers found that women who walked the equivalent of an easy pace at least 1.5 hours per week had significantly better cognitive function and less cognitive decline than women who walked less than 40 minutes per week. Think about that!

Walking is good for your bones. Research shows that postmenopausal women who walk approximately one mile each day have higher whole-body bone density than women who walk shorter distances, and walking is also effective in slowing the rate of bone loss from the legs.

Walking reduces the risk of breast cancer. Women who performed the equivalent of one hour and 15 minutes to two and a half hours per week of brisk walking had an 18% decreased risk of breast cancer.

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What is a slow metabolism, really?

Slow Metabolism

People who do not know about metabolism think that everyone who is overweight is so only because they eat too much food. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Really, even having problem with your spouse or significant other can make you overweight.
Obesity and the statistics for overweight are increasing. According to national studies, more than 65% of our population is overweight. It’s a problem that affects even our youth- childhood obesity is increasing at a fast rate.
While this situation gets worse, more people are complaining each day of having a “slow metabolism”. But, what is a “slow metabolism”?
The word “metabolism” is composed of the prefix “meta” that comes from the Greek and means “movement of change”. It’s like when we say “metamorphosis”, it means change of form; or when we say “metastasis” indicating a cancer that is in “movement”. In conclusion, “meta” indicates movement or change. Metabolism has to do with the movements or changes that occur within the body in order to generate energy to survive. A “slow metabolism” is a real condition in which the body becomes inefficient in its internal changes and movements to produce energy.
Our human body can be compared to a motor that creates energy for life. The nutrients and the oxygen we breathe are the gasoline for our bodies. People who complain of having a “slow metabolism” have noticed that for whatever reason their bodies are not generating enough energy. Not only do they have a strong tendency to gain weight, they generally feel tired and without energy. When your metabolism is slow, you get the feeling that you are gaining weight just by “looking at the food”. Meanwhile, there’s always one of those very thin people around, the kind that can eat as much of anything they want, and they never gain weight!
The human body seems to have two possible uses for the food we eat: either it converts the food into energy to survive or it converts it into energy for storage. We call the energy for storage “fat”. When you have a slow metabolism, a portion of the food you eat is converted into fat, energy for storage. People who have a slow metabolism are accumulating, little by little, body fat while at the same time they feel without energy to exercise or move their bodies. They may look “lazy” but they are really weak because they lack energy.

If you have a slow metabolism, you won’t have any desire to exercise your body. There is a reason for this which is generally unknown: lack of energy. One of the worst mistakes that could be made is to think: “so and so just needs to eat less and start exercising”. To illustrate this lets imagine for a moment that you are going shopping to the store. Now, it would be advisable that before you begin to write checks, you make sure to have enough money in the bank. Asking a person with a “slow metabolism” to exercise is like writing a check knowing you don’t have enough money in the bank to cover that check. In order to exercise, you must have energy! People with a slow metabolism have very little energy and thus they tend to fail in all their attempts to keep an exercise regime n. Before exercising, you must have enough energy to spend. It does not work any other way.
On the other hand, the general perception is that everyone who is overweight or “chubby” is in this condition because they eat too much. There is nothing further from reality! In fact, many of these people who suffer from a “slow metabolism” are unjustly accused of gluttony. The truth is that there are overweight people who eat very little while there are also other thin people that can abuse the consumption of candy and sweets without gaining an ounce! It’s a ’slow metabolism” problem! It’s a problem that can’t be resolved by eating less or counting calories. It is strictly a metabolism problem.
There are various factors that reduce the metabolism and which have already been identified. These factors have nothing to do with food. Factors like: stress, hypothyroidism, diabetes, hypoglycemia (low sugar), dehydration, antidepressant medication, infections of candida albicans yeast , hormonal deficiencies, and several more. I recommend my book The Power of Your metabolism for a more complete discussion on the reasons behind a “slow metabolism”. The truth is that you will only be able to help a person if you focus on the reasons behind their slow metabolism.
There exists a new science about metabolism. But, more importantly, there exists positive help for people who suffer from a “slow metabolism”. The only way to help these people is to understand the true causes of their slow metabolism. Only when you work with the real root reasons behind the problem can you resolve it.

Frank Suarez

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Moderate Intensity Day

I slept well and long last nght, nearly 9 hours. This afternoon, after looking for some furniture with LEB for MJB’s bedroom, I did my second Bodyweight Blueprint for Fat Loss moderate intensity workout. I started out with an Intu-Flow joint mobility warm-up. Then I did five rounds of the following staggered set of strength exercises.

1. Kneeling pushups 45 seconds
2. Rest 45 seconds
3. Hip Bridge 45 seconds
4. Rest 45 seconds
5. Side Plnnk on elbow and knee 45 seconds per side
6. Rest 45 seconds
7. Modified 1 leg squat 45 seconds per side.
8. Rest 45 seconds and repeat entire sequence 4 more times.

I finished my workout with the Prasara Yoga cool down and stretching sequence. Read and followed the directions this time around! This is the best all around workout program I’ve done in a long time. Turbulence Training is great, but I think the combination of Intu-Flow, bodyweight strength exercises, Prasara Yoga and varied intensity levels address all my fitness needs in a systematic fashion.

As I mentioned before I was trying to create such a system myself by combining Turbulence Training with Tai-Chi and Yoga on my off days. I never quite got consistent with the Yoga and Tai-Chi though and last summer my joints, particularly my knees were complaining loudly! to prevent any such recurrence I’m icing my knees right now. I’ll likely get back on the TT 6 month bodyweight workout at some point in the future in order to keep my workouts fresh and interesting.

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Swinging and lifting heavier kettlebells

Nothing ventured nothing gained should be my motto this week. I decided to try to swing the 32kg again on Sunday and have reintroduced the 16kg into my presses.

My workout on Sunday was very Rights of Passage based as I find this a really effective program for becoming confident with a new weight.

I started with clean and press ladders 1-5 . On the first rung which is just one clean and press I’m using the 16kg. The aim of this is to regain my confidence and eventually lift this weight. At the moment I need a bit of a push on the right and the use of a helping hand on the left. When I can lift without these aids I’ll move onto 2 reps. The rest of the ladders use a 12kg and concentrate on not moving my hips out to support. I just about managed 5 sets before form went.

The next stage of this ROP day is swings. I decided to take another shot at the heavier kettlebells because I can’t quite believe how easy I found those swings last week. Again the 20kg,24kg and 28kg were fine. By this time on a sunday most people are tucking into sunday roast and the gym is very quiet. So I picked up the 32kg- made sure form was good and swung! I manged 3 swings and then stopped just to make sure I didn’t hurt myself.Wow that feels good. After this I went back to timed swings with 16kg. This is much harder than I expected so am building up 1 min at a time.

Finding time to train during the rest of the week was hard because my day job is so  demanding  - leaving home at 7:30am and returning at 9:00pm for three consecutive days really hit me hard. I did manage a quick workout using one of Chuzzy’s strength workouts  (Dble chest press, rows,squats and swings) midway through. But no decent workout until Thursday.

Thursday and Friday were ROP days. C&P ladders 1-4 and swings on Thursday and snatch ladders on Friday using the 16kg-I managed 3 sets of ladders 1-5 this week , some more heavy swings (5 with the 32kg) and 12kg TGU. Friday I also ran round the school field with 6 classes in turn- making around 8-10 laps for Sport Relief. At one time I would never manage this but now barely break a sweat! Just as well because I had some pretty intense meeting commitments after that.

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Hypnosis - For Faster Weight Loss

Did you know that Hypnosis has been proven effective  method to loss weight? Yes! And you too will be amazed of this fact as you go over the information from the research below.

Research demonstrates a significant effect when using hypnosis for weight loss. Weight loss is one of the major applications for Hypnotherapy and here is some relevant research data on its successful use.

In a 9-week study of two weight management groups (one using hypnosis and one not using hypnosis), the hypnosis group continued to get results in the two-year follow-up, while the non-hypnosis group showed no further results (Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985).

In a study of 60 women separated into hypnosis versus non-hypnosis groups, the groups using hypnosis lost an average of 17 pounds, while the non-hypnosis group lost an average of only .5 pounds (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986).

In a meta-analysis, comparing the results of adding hypnosis to weight loss treatment across multiple studies showed that adding hypnosis increased weight loss by an average of 97% during treatment, and even more importantly increased the effectiveness POST TREATMENT by over 146%. This shows that hypnosis works even better over time (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996).

HOW DOES IT WORK ?

Your mind is the key to everything in your life.  Your mental outlook toward life colors your life so completely, that it is only natural that changing your mind about anything, changes everything.  Hypnosis will help you to change the way your body metabolizes food, and it can help you to change the foods you desire, and it can also help you to develop a true enjoyment of exercise.  Naturally, weightloss would result from that.

HOW MUCH WEIGHT CAN YOU LOSE ?

In this case, the sky is the limit.  As you “change your mind” through the use of Hypnosis about the way your body metabolizes food, and about your food choices,  you change everything.  Although Hypnosis is not usually a really quick weightloss method, depending on the amount of weight you want to lose, and depending on how often you experience Hypnosis, you may be very pleasantly surprised at how effortless the process of weightloss can be.

ARE THERE ANY SIDE EFFECTS ?

In a world that is rich with pharmaceutical solutions to all of our problems, it’s natural to wonder if there are any negative side effects to the use of HYPNOSIS.  Fortunately, there are not.  In fact, using Hypnosis for weightloss, may lower your blood pressure and improve other aspects of your general overall health because of the deeply relaxing nature of Hypnosis.  Now we are not suggesting that Hypnosis CURES any physical conditions, but since stress has been proven to be deeply involved with so many illnesses and body imbalances, I’m sure you can imagine that the reduction of stress, can help the body to thrive.  It’s only logical.  So, no, there are no negative side effects to Hypnosis.  Only positive ones.

Here are some of the studies:

Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 489-492.

Kirsch, Irving (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments–Another meta-reanalysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 517-519.

Allison, David B.; Faith, Myles S. Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for obesity: A meta-analytic reappraisal. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 1996 Jun Vol 64(3) 513-516

Stradling J, Roberts D, Wilson A, Lovelock F. Controlled trial of hypnotherapy for weight loss in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. International Journal of Obesity Related Metababolic Disorders. 1998 Mar;22(3):278-81.

Indeed Hypnosis plays a significant role for a healthy, safe, and effective diet. So rather than spending more money for diet pills, nor starving yourself, try Hypnosis method instead and guarantee a happier lifestyle.

Related Resources:

New England Institute of Hypnotherapy

Weightloss Hypnosis

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