Weight Loss and Mind-Set: An Encounter with Penny Wise Pound Foolish

The other day, a woman who happens to be my pastor friend's mother inlaw showed my all her laboratory tests after her doctor's visit. "The doctor advised me to lose weight," she told me. She also showed me a diet pill she bought on the recommendation of someone which promised to make her lose weight. Of course, the diet pill did not work because weight gain is a multi-factorial problem. A simplistic thinking or a magic pill will not cut it.

I looked at the lab results and saw that she was not just over weight but she also had insulin resistance judging from her HbA1c. By the way HbA1c measures your blood glucose control over a long haul like two or 3 months period unlike the daily fluctuations of random blood sugar. Well, I told her what to do to lose weight; the heartbeat of which was for her to change her diet. There's no change without exchange. Switch to raw wholesome green super food. I advised her to get a grinder/blender. This is because she is in her sixties and digestion and absorption is a factor in weight gain and must also be a factor in her weight loss program. Also I noticed that her systemic weight gain is due to hormonal factors like excess estrogen which has caused inflammation in her body. I also advised that she need aggressive detoxification and cleansing; otherwise the weight will not come off. Anybody with a lot of weight shows that she has been accummulating toxins and must start with colon cleansing.

I gave her a recipe for cleansing and detoxification. She is not willing to change what she is doing which is the main reason she gained the weight in the first place. Going through her dietary history, I noticed as usual that her food was inflammatory like fried wheat based products, roasted nuts, chips, cookies, fried plantain etc, She pretty much eats what other younger members of her family (like her children and grand children) are eating and there was no discipline in eating; or knowing the right and nutritious food selection.

Now here is where the problem is...I told her that she needs to pay for her supplements which cost $87.00. She was not willing to invest in her health to save her life. She was rather complaining of her utility bills and other problems she needed to take care of. This is exactly hte attitude and behavior of most people when it comes to weight loss and fitness. They pay to fix everything else except for their health. The same women paid about $500.00 the previous week to fix her car. Yes, we always give priority to what is of value in our lives. I could not help but wonder within me: "when she is gone, who is gonna drive the car?" My point here is that what we ignore the most is what comes back to bite us the most. When people are younger, they sarcrifice everything at the altar of their health and when they get older, they sarcrifice everything to gain their health back. Remember all the health and longevity benefits or weight loss? Can you place a price tag on your life? This is what I call penny wise pound foolish!

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Weight Loss Psychology: You Must Think Thin to Grow Slim

"Weight loss starts with your dominant mindset. It is the psychology of your thinking that generates the power, the focus and the mental discipline for sustained weight loss. If you don't work on your mind, your weight loss effort will not work or be sustained. Reprogram your mind from 'I want to lose weight to I want to eat right. Eat right and nature will choose your ideal weight for you without all the hassles and rituals. This is simple but many weight watchers don't get it." --Uzo Onukwugha, MD

I always say that weight loss starts with the correct mindset. People's mind sabotage their weight loss efforts which is kind of unconscious. You see, what runs our life is not rational thinking but emotional input which is ingrained subconsciously in the emotional brain called the hypothalamus. It is here that you have the actual location or an association area of the appetite center for food and the thirst center for water. Both centers are close to one another. This is why most people mistake thirst for hunger and vice versa.

Now you can say that man is not a rational animal but an emotional being. We make decisions emotionally and rationalize logically. So is weight loss or whenever we decides to lose weight.

Going deeper than psychology is spiritology. We are spiritual beings trying to have a human experience. Therefore, if pressure or decision to lose weight do not come out of your heart, you are bound to fail. You must make that spiritual shift from your heart before external circustances line up to support your deep seated decision to lose weight. If the decision comes from your spouse, relatives or friends, it is bound to fail. Trust me this has happened again and again. Yes, this people may support your weight loss effort but the decision must come from your deeper mind or the mind of your spirit.

Subconsciously or unconsciously, we have an image of our ideal weight in our deeper mind which happens to run the script intalled in the hard-drive of our life that runs the movie of our destiny including the decision to lose weight. Whenever you make a rational decision, you must develop new mental disciplines to confront the new challenges that will be generated by that change; Otherwise the weight loss decision falls to the ground or when you start, you may not finish it or the weight loss patient may end up in a plateau. This is a situation where you don't know if you will go on or not with the weight loss program.

You must understand that the invisible rules the visible. The unseen world of ideas, thoughts, concepts, belief systems tend to cause an invisible glass ceiling or psychological glass wall that hinder our weight loss efforts.
Most people don't think about these new set of mental disciplines before starting a weight loss program or depriving diet regimen to lose weight. You must change your mindset about weight loss because the mind can be a treasure or it can become a thrash. The change in thinking will lead to change in action and behavior because you behave the way you think. You also think the way you eat and eat the way you think. If you doubt me, watch yourself closely especially the list of food items in your shopping cart.

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Fat Loss to Weight Loss: Reverse the Causes of Fat gain to Achieve Weight Loss

Many people make unsuccessful attempts to lose weight without knowing the causes of systemic weight gain in the first place. First, if you must achieve natural, gradual and sustained weight loss, you must know what caused or contributed to your weight gain so that you can lose fat sensibly, systematically and permanently.

This is the main reason why weight loss fads, programs, pills and diets don't work; neither is the weight loss gurus. Any diet that deprives you cannot be sustained. And any plan that excludes your favorite food without giving you healthy alternatives is bound to fail. Therefore, the first attempt at weight loss is to change your mindset about weight gain and its management. Know that weight gain is a systemic problem that require a comprehensive systematic approach from various perspectives to address all the contributing factors. These factors include proper and balanced nutrition, cleansing and aggressive detoxification, metabolism(calories), glandular problems(sluggish thyroid or liver), water(hydration and dehydration), exercise(fat burning), hormonal(endocrine issues) and digestive problems including introduction of fiber to the diet.

Here are summary of cardinal causes of weight gain that must be addressed in any effective weight loss plan:

• Nutrition--the quality, quantity and caloric value must be addressed to achieve sustained weight loss.
• Cleansing especially of colon and the liver is the key to permanent weight loss program. Detox always comes before diet.
• Address problems with sluggish organs like thyroid gland, liver, adrenals and the pancreas. Insulin resistance is epidemic.
• Hormonal issues must be addressed otherwise all your efforts at weight loss will fail.
• Water is often a missing culprit in most weight loss programs. Aggressive hydration is key.
• Exercise comes after diet, calories and hydration has been addressed. Please don't start with exercise without first addressing the nutrition imbalance.
• Digestion is part of drainage. Enzymes must be included to make all the nutrients work and to help digest, eliminate and drain away toxins and debris from the body.
• The issue of fiber must be address. They are the intestinal broom that sweep out unwanted debris, sludge, pollutants and toxins from the intestines.
• Perhaps the most important aspect of any weight loss program is the psycho-spiritual component. You must have the mindset, discipline, the focus, the resolve before you create the result of sustainable weight loss. I call it having the mindset to finish what you started: the head and heart of a finisher is a must if you must achieve sustainable weight loss. The problem is not losing weight; the problem is always how to keep it off which requires discipline and mental toughness.

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