the best weight loss system in the world...
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The Best Weight
Loss System In The
World
By Oge Agwany and Joe Okoro
www.WeightLossLetters.com
Table of Contents Introduction
Part One: Cleaning Your Gut
The REAL Reason Why Many Women Who Try To Lose Weight Never Succeed,
No Matter How Much They Diet Or Exercise! Too Bad, your Doctor doesn’t
know this.)
The Famous Quote By A Russian Scientist Who Won The Nobel Peace Price
For Medicine In 1908 (heeding the advice contained in this quote will
extend your life by another 10 years)
Why A Clean Colon Is The First Step To Losing Weight (Ignore This And
Remain Fat Forever)
The Secret But Never Told Reason Why You Should DO THIS FIRST - Before
Exercising Or Dieting Or Taking Any Weight Loss Supplements.
The =N=10,000 Supplement that Detoxes 900 Yards of Toxins from Your Body. All you need is One Tablespoon!
How To Clean Our Colon Without Making Any Mistakes (Many Women Do This
Wrong And End Up With Even Dirtier Colons And In Effect More Fat)
Part Two: How to Get in the Best Shape of Your Life in Only 7 Minutes
Why Many Women Hate Exercising, And The One Simple Program Invented
To Make Exercising Exciting (Once You Get Started On This, You‘ll Want To
Do It Every Minute. The Results Are Incredible!)
The 7-Minute daily Sweet Exercise Routine That Requires No Equipment, No
Gym, No Running, And No Hard-Work On Your Part (You Can Do This Easily,
Inside Your Own Room No Matter Your Size)
How To Never Train For More Than 7 Minutes Every Day And Still Lose 5- 10
kg Per Day GUARANTEED!
Part Three: How To Eat To Lose Weight – The Slow Carbs Miracle
How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days Without Exercise
How To Prevent Fat Gain While Eating Too Much At X-Mas, Holidays, And Parties (Or Any Other Time You Do Eat Too Much)
Diet mistakes many women (and men) make that store fat in their bely, arms and buttocks.
Part Four: Other Exciting Stuff About Weight Loss
A Weight Loss Trick Used By Sufi Muslims In Turkey To Get Slimmer, Have Amazing
Energy And Stamina And Even More Beautiful!
How An Organ In Your Body Is Wrecking Havoc In Your System Making It
Impossible For You To Lose Weight, No Matter How Hard You Try. (In Some
Women, This Organ Even Causes Them To Add More Weight, Even Without
Eating!)
The 20-Second Bathroom Trick for a Super-Charged Metabolism and a Flood of Energy
The =N=100 miracle weight loss food you‘re not eating and why you should go look for it immediately
The Ultimate 3-Second Fountain of Youth ―Neural‖ Fat Loss Exercise
The 15-Second ―T-Tap‖ for Overcoming Hypothyroidism & Sluggish Energy
How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
INTRODUCTION
Part One
Cleaning Your Gut
The REAL Reason Why Many Women Who Try To Lose
Weight Never Succeed, No Matter How Much They
Diet Or Exercise!
(Too Bad, YOUR DOCTOR DOESN’T KNOW THIS.)
You know the REAL REASON why most women who try to lose weight never
succeed? I‘ll tell you.
In one word, it‘s …
Dirty Colons!
Check out this picture below...
The ‗before‘ is before the colon was cleaned. The ‗after‘ if after the same colon was cleaned. Did you notice the difference?
The Famous Quote By A Russian Scientist Who Won
The Nobel Peace Price For Medicine In (Heeding The
Advice Contained In This Quote Will Extend Your Life
By Another 10 Years)
―Fat can kill you but death begins in the colon!‖
This statement comes from a Russian scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1908... and... it is very true!
There's no getting around it, if you want to live a long and healthy life... the most important thing you can do is... make SURE you have a clean and healthy colon.
Have you ever wondered if your body is as clean on the inside as it is on the outside?
We shower or bathe every day.
We brush our teeth on a daily basis.
Most of us shampoo our hair every day, too.
We even have manicures and pedicures to make sure our fingernails and toenails are clean and attractive. But most of us fail to make sure our insides are clean... until... we develop some symptoms or a disease which gives us a wake-up call.
The truth is, our digestive tract (especially the colon) is the "sewer system" of our body. This means it‘s the ―gutter‘‘ through which all the impurities in our body pass through to be excreted. If you are to enjoy good health and especially lose weight, that system requires regular cleaning.
If you suffer from:
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Constipation
Stomach Pain
Lack of Energy
Digestive Problems
Over-Weight
It's almost certain you have an "unclean" and toxic colon. In fact, a toxic colon probably contributes to almost every disease suffered by the human race.
Why A Clean Colon Is So Important!
We are all exposed to thousands of toxins and unhealthy chemicals on a daily basis. We take them in from the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the prescription medications we take.
These toxins and dangerous chemicals, along with the "typical" American diet lead to poor digestion, constipation, weight gain, low energy, headaches, and many other horrible human maladies. Believe it or not, autopsies reveal the colons of 80% of people who have passed away, are clogged up with waste material.
This waste material gives parasites an ideal place to live. These tiny creatures are alive, and all too often they severely damage every cell in our bodies.
A Clean Colon Is The First Step To Losing Weight!
Cleansing your colon acts like a "reset switch", restoring balance and proper function to your digestive system. With a clean healthy colon, bloating due to gas from delayed digestion goes away. Your stomach feels firmer and noticeably flatter.
You will find that you have more energy. That's because your system will more efficiently convert the food you eat into usable energy. Which means you can eat less to satisfy the calorie count you need each day. As the food you eat burns faster, it converts into muscle rather go into the fat cells. As a bonus, you'll enjoy clearer, healthier skin.
The =N=10,000 Supplement That Detoxes 900 Yards of Toxins from Your Body.
All You Need is One Capsule!
Ayurtox is an Indian natural supplement manufactured using Ayurvedic medical practices.
It is geared towards detoxifying your body and enriching your overall health. It will:
• Remove Toxins and Body Waste
• Promote Healthy Liver, Kidney, and Colon Functions
• Improve Digestion *very important)
• Elevate your Energy Levels
• Increase Immune System Response
Ayurtox supports your detox system by eliminating toxins to increase the effectiveness of all other supplements.
All you need is just one capsule per day and you‘ll see the magic it‘ll work in your body.
How To Have A Healthy Clean Colon (DO THIS FIRST!)
To cleanse your colon, (and you MUST do this before you try any other thing to lose weight), you have to follow a regimen of taking native bitters and a mixture of ground charcoal and water.
Yes, unpleasant I know but trust me, this works. Just do it. Below is a time-table.
A Daily Routine For Colon Cleansing:
Morning
Afternoon Evening
7 AM – One capsule of Ayurtox on an empty stomach. (This helps
dissolve thick mucous and dislodge "gunk" in the
system).
1 PM – Charcoal with EnteraKlenz which is 2 heapings of tablesalt
7 PM - Charcoal in water only
8 AM – One capsule of Ayurtox on an empty stomach. (This helps
dissolve thick mucous and dislodge "gunk" in the
system).
2 PM – Charcoal in water only
8 PM - Charcoal with
EnteraKlenz which is 2 heapings of tablesalt in water as a "slurry." (this
binds up toxins and junk).
9 or 10 PM (bedtime) - Charcoal).
11 AM – One capsule of Ayurtox on an empty stomach. (This helps
dissolve thick mucous and dislodge "gunk" in the
system).
5 PM – Charcoal with EnteraKlenz which is 2 heapings of tablesalt
tablesalt in water as a "slurry." (this binds up
toxins and junk).
The food you eat at this period, should be light --- mostly fruits and vegetables; fish pepper soup, little protein. Super Slim Shakes can be used to insure adequate protein intake, but most people can easily go for 3-5 days without protein while the body uses up some of the "junk" protein in the gut.
This should continue for a minimum of 5 days. After 5 days, you can add more food back in but continue the cleanse for another 5-7 days. Sometime during this process you may pass an unusual-looking stool, and that's fine. On the other hand, you don't have to see an "alien" in the toilet bowel to have an excellent bowel cleanse!
There are a lot of expensive "bowel cleansing kits" on the market. They usually include a fiber formula to bind toxins (nothing is more powerful a "toxin binder" than charcoal). They also include an herb formula to increase bowel movements (the LBC-Lax does that). Some include herbs that are supposed to be "anti-parasite" formulas. Most of these are too weak to actually do anything AND you shouldn't take a strong anti-parasite medicine unless we know you have parasites for a fact, so I consider this a "bogus" part of some cleansing formulas.
One thing that NONE of them (that I've seen) include is Bitters or other digestive enzyme formula to help dissolve excess mucous in the intestines. Bitters will also dissolve the protective coat from around bacteria and parasites so that the body can eliminate them.
Try this routine - Your Gut and your body will thank you!
This is a before and after picture of a human colon.
Colon Cleansing Mistakes You Must Avoid
There are many people who do not really take into consideration the importance of cleansing their colon. I would suggest that you get online and learn about a bit and learn about what might happen if you do not care about it.
Let me tell you just one outcome of an unhealthy colon;
Colon Cancer
Once you know that cleansing your colon should be done right away; there are a few mistakes to avoid so your colon cleansing program can start and end nicely and effectively.
On top of all others, there is the first common mistake of making an assumption about colon cleansing; it is a cure for all the health issues going on with you. Many people think that colon cleansing is a magical method to get rid of several problems immediately. This type of assumptions is wrong. There are many companies which are scams and make false statements; you need to avoid getting into the trap laid by such companies.
Let me give you an example; colon cleansing of course helps in getting rid of weight but if you are not really taking care of your diet and exercise and only using colon cleansers, how would this help?
A colon cleanser needs some more aid from regular exercise and proper diet in order to give an effective and healthy weight loss. So, you must avoid purchasing cleansers or products from the companies that make false claims and statements.
Also, several people mix up colon cleansing with fasting; many celebrities prefer fasting when they try to lose weight but this has nothing to do with cleansing your colon and flushing out the impurities you have inside your colon. You should also not make a mistake of going for medical colon cleanse method that are too expensive to carry out plus, you would also be not sure of the fact that whether the procedure would be carried out professionally or not. So try to with natural colon cleansing methods which can easily be carried out from the comforts of home.
Lastly, avoid making the mistake of buying colon cleansers considering their prices only. People end up buying a scam or something that has harmful chemicals in it
only because it was 5 bucks cheaper from a good one. Both price and quality should be kept in mind along with not buying anything that carries chemicals in it; especially Senna or Psyllium.
Part Two
How to Get in the
Best Shape of Your
Life in Only 7
Minutes
Why Many Women Hate Exercising, And The One
Simple Program Invented To Make Exercising Exciting
(Once You Get Started On This, You’ll Want To Do It
Every Minute. The Results Are Incredible!)
Some studies annoy me, some delight, and most often, they make me roll my eyes
a little. But a new one from a UK mental health charity ‗Mind‘ just makes me
really sad: According to their survey, nine out of 10 women over 30 won‘t exercise
outside because they‘re ashamed of their bodies.
And the worst part?
The majority of them also felt that, if they showed up to a group exercise class,
other women would be unwelcoming and exclusive. To which I say: Boo.
Women were worried about everything from their appearance to their ability to do
a workout well. Of the 1,450 women surveyed by Mind, two-thirds felt self-
conscious about their bodies while working out in public, 65% thought they
wouldn‘t be able to keep up in an exercise group, and 60% were nervous about how
their bodies react to exercise (sweating, passing gas, turning red, etc.).
These stats are obviously bad news for women‘s physical health, but they‘re also
pretty discouraging for our mental health. Despite the fact that outdoor exercise
can be as effective as many antidepressants, most would choose the following
activities over exercise when feeling depressed:
Eating comfort food (71%)
Being alone (71 %)
Social networking (57%)
Going to bed (66%)
Listening to sad music (32%)
And of the women who do choose to exercise, most are so preoccupied with
feeling ashamed about their bodies that they limit themselves to working out at
home or out-of-the-way places, or during very early or late hours when fewer
people will be around to see them.
Granted, this study is a limited sample of women, and it was conducted in the UK.
But the numbers are too extreme to ignore…and perhaps the most discouraging
thing about the entire survey is the fact that women think that other women will
judge and exclude them when they show up to work out. Only 6% of women
thought they could make new friends from trying a workout class or group; two-
thirds thought they‘d feel unwelcome. Beth Murphy, head of information at MIND,
said in a statement:
At these times you can feel like the only person in the world experiencing this, but
Mind‘s research highlights that far from being alone, 90 percent of women are in
exactly the same boat. It‘s time we start talking about how exercise makes us feel.
We urge women to take the first step, invite a friend on a nature date and begin to
support each other in taking care of our mental well-being.
I know for a fact that women are supportive of each other online—just look around
at Pinterest, Facebook, and Tumblr for the vast networks of women who are into
working out…and supporting other women who work out. But if the idea is to get
off our computers and into the outdoors, exercise classes, and gyms, then it seems
we have some more work to do.
Introducing. . . The 7 Minute Workout Exercise!
The 7-Minute Daily Sweet Exercise Routine That
Requires No Equipment, No Gym, No Running, And
No Hard-Work On Your Part (You Can Do This Easily,
Inside Your Own Room No Matter Your Size)
Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want
someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice.
An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine‘s Health &
Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a
wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a
long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort —
all of it based on science.
―There‘s very good evidence‖ that high-intensity interval training provides ―many of the
fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,‖ says Chris Jordan,
the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla.,
and co-author of the new article.
Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions
shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your
maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of
several hours of running or bike riding.
Interval training, though, requires intervals; the extremely intense activity must be
intermingled with brief periods of recovery. In the program outlined by Mr. Jordan and his
colleagues, this recovery is provided in part by a 10-second rest between exercises. But
even more, he says, it‘s accomplished by alternating an exercise that emphasizes the
large muscles in the upper body with those in the lower body. During the intermezzo, the
unexercised muscles have a moment to, metaphorically, catch their breath, which makes
the order of the exercises important.
The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each,
while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr.
Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after
seven minutes, you‘re done.
Here‘s what the exercises look like.
How To Never Train For More Than 7 Minutes Every
Day And Still Lose 5- 10 kg Per Day GUARANTEED!
I found a website timer for you that helps you keep up with the 7 Minute Work out time
limit.
It‘s called 7 Minute. Apt name, eh?
The timer can also be downloaded as an iPhone or iPad app. You‘ll have to sign-up to get
the app though.
Get it here.
http://www.7-min.com
Part Three
How To Eat To Lose
Weight – The Slow
Carbs Miracle
The Slow-Carb Diet
How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days Without Exercise
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
—Albert Einstein
It is possible to lose 10 kilograms of body-fat in 30 days by optimizing any of three
factors: exercise, diet, or a drug/supplement regimen. Twenty kilograms for most
people means moving down at least two clothing sizes, whether that‘s going from a
size 14 dress to a size 10 or from an XXL shirt to a large. The waist and hips show
an even more dramatic reduction in circumference.
The changes are large. The diet that I‘ll introduce in this chapter—the Slow-Carb
Diet—is the only diet that has produced veins across my stomach, which is the last
place I lose fat.
There are just five simple rules to follow:
RULE #1: AVOID “WHITE” CARBOHYDRATES.
Avoid any carbohydrate that is, or can be, white. The following foods are
prohibited: all bread, rice (including brown), cereal, potatoes, pasta (macaroni or
spaghetti), tortillas, and fried food with breading. If you avoid eating the
aforementioned foods and anything else white, you‘ll be safe.
Just for fun, here another reason to avoid white foods:
Chlorine Dioxide
Chlorine Dioxide is one of the chemicals used to bleach flour (even if later made
brown again, a common trick), combines with residual protein in most of these
foods to form alloxan.
Researchers use alloxan in laboratory rats to induce diabetes. That‘s right—it‘s
used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything white or
―enriched.‖
Don‘t eat white stuff unless you want to get fatter.
RULE #2: EAT THE SAME FEW MEALS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat-
loss, eat the same few meals over and over again. There are 47,000 products in the
average market, but only a handful of them won‘t make you fat.
Mix and match from the following list, constructing each meal with one pick from
each of the three groups. I‘ve starred the choices that produce the fastest fat-loss
for me:
Proteins
Egg whites with 1–2 whole eggs for flavour (or, if organic, 2–5 whole eggs,
including yolks)
Chicken breast or thigh
Beef (preferably grass-fed)
Fish
Pork
Black beans
Pinto beans
Red beans
Soybeans
Vegetables
Spinach
Mixed vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, or any other cruciferous
vegetables)
Green beans
Eat as much as you like of the above food items, but keep it simple.
Pick three or four meals and repeat them. Almost all restaurants can give you a
salad or vegetables in place of french fries, potatoes, or rice.
Most people who go on ―low‖-carbohydrate diets complain of low energy and quit
because they consume insufficient calories. A half-cup of rice is 300 calories,
whereas a half-cup of spinach is 15 calories! Vegetables are not calorically dense,
so it is critical that you add legumes for caloric load.
Eating more frequently than four times per day might be helpful on higher-carb
diets to prevent gorging, but it‘s not necessary with the ingredients we‘re using.
Eating more frequent meals also appears to have no enhancing effect on resting
metabolic rate, despite claims to the contrary. Frequent meals can be used in
some circumstances (see ―The Last Mile‖), but not for this reason.
The following meal schedule is based on a late sleep schedule, as I‘m a night owl
who gives up the ghost at 2:00 A.M. at the earliest, usually with wineglass or book
still in hand, à la heroin addict. Adjust your meals to fit your schedule, but make
sure to have your first meal within an hour of waking.
Meals are approximately four hours apart.
10:00 A.M. — Breakfast
2:00 P.M. — Lunch
6:30 P.M. — Smaller second lunch
8:00–9:00 P.M. — Recreation or sports training, if scheduled.
10:00 P.M. — Dinner
12:00 A.M. — Glass of red wine and Discovery Channel before bed
Here are some of my meals that recur again and again:
• Breakfast (home): Scrambled Eggology® pourable egg whites with one whole egg,
black beans, and mixed vegetables warmed up or cooked in a microwave using
Pyrex® containers.
• Lunch (Mexican restaurant): Beef, beans and mixed vegetables
• Dinner (home): Beef, Amala, and mixed vegetable soup.
Just remember: this diet is, first and foremost, intended to be effective, not fun.
It can be fun with a few tweaks (the next chapter covers this), but that‘s not the
goal.
RULE #3: DON’T DRINK CALORIES.
Drink massive quantities of water and as much unsweetened tea, coffee (with no
more than two tablespoons of cream; I suggest using cinnamon instead), or other
no-calorie/low-calorie beverages as you like. Do not drink milk (including soy
milk), normal soft drinks, or fruit juice. Limit diet soft drinks to no more than 16
ounces per day if you can, as the aspartame can stimulate weight gain.
I‘m a wine fanatic and have one to two glasses of red wine almost every evening.
It doesn‘t appear to have any negative impact on my rate of fat-loss. Red wine is
by no means required for this diet to work, but it‘s 100% allowed (unlike white
wines and beer, both of which should be avoided).
Up to two glasses of red per night, no more.
RULE #4: DON’T EAT FRUIT.
Humans don‘t need fruit six days a week, and they certainly don‘t need it year-
round.
If your ancestors were from Europe, for example, how much fruit did they eat in
the winter 500 years ago? Think they had Florida oranges in December? Not a
chance. But you‘re still here, so the lineage somehow survived.
The only exceptions to the no-fruit rule are tomatoes and avocadoes, and the
latter should be eaten in moderation (no more than one cup or one meal per day).
Otherwise, just say no to fruit and its principal sugar, fructose, which is converted
to glycerol phosphate more efficiently than almost all other carbohydrates.
Glycerol phosphate → triglycerides (via the liver) → fat storage. There are a few
biochemical exceptions to this, but avoiding fruit six days per week is the most
reliable policy.
But what‘s this ―six days a week‖ business?
It‘s the seventh day that allows you, if you so desire, to eat peach crepes and
banana bread until you go into a coma.
RULE #5: TAKE ONE DAY OFF PER WEEK.
I recommend Saturdays as your Dieters Gone Wild (DGW) day. I am allowed to eat
whatever I want on Saturdays, and I go out of my way to eat ice cream, Snickers,
chocolate, and all of my other vices in excess. Drink some beer if you want to.
I make myself a little sick each Saturday and don‘t want to look at any junk for the
rest of the week. Paradoxically, dramatically spiking caloric intake in this way
once per week increases fat-loss by ensuring that your metabolic rate (thyroid
function and conversion of T4 to T3, etc.) doesn‘t downshift from extended caloric
restriction.
That‘s right: eating pure crap can help you lose fat. Welcome to Utopia.
There are no limits or boundaries during this day of gluttonous enjoyment. There is
absolutely no calorie counting on this diet, on this day or any other.
Start the diet at least five days before your designated cheat day. If you choose
Saturday, for example, I would suggest starting your diet on a Monday.
That‘s All, Folks!
Followed to the letter, I‘ve never seen this plan fail. Never.
When you feel mired in details or confused by the latest-and-greatest
contradictory advice, return to this short chapter. All you need to remember is:
Rule #1: Avoid ―white‖ carbohydrates (or anything that can be white).
Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again.
Rule #3: Don‘t drink calories.
Rule #4: Don‘t eat fruit.
Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts.
How To Prevent Fat Gain While Eating Too Much At X-Mas, Holidays, And Parties (Or Any Other Time You
Do Eat Too Much)
Sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner or butter cookies at Christmas?
Sounds like a binge. That, in and of itself, doesn‘t need to mean horrible guilt and extra fat rolls afterward. If you plan ahead of time and understand a little science, it‘s possible to minimize the damage. I eat whatever I want every Saturday, and I follow specific steps to minimize fat gain during this overfeeding.
In basic terms our goal is simple: to have as much of the crap ingested either go into muscle tissue or out of the body unabsorbed.
I do this by focusing on three principles:
PRINCIPLE #1: MINIMIZE THE RELEASE OF INSULIN, A STORAGE HORMONE.
Insulin release is minimized by blunting sharp jumps in blood sugar:
1. Ensure that your first meal of the day is not a heavy meal. Make it high in protein (at least 30 grams) and insoluble fiber (beans will handle this). The protein will decrease your appetite for the remainder of the binge and prevent total self-destruction. The fiber will be important later to prevent diarrhea. In total, this can be a smallish meal of 300–500 calories. 2. Consume a small quantity of fructose, fruit sugar, in grapefruit juice before the second meal, which is the first crap meal. Even small fructose dosing has an impressive near-flat-lining effect on blood glucose.
I could consume this at the first meal, but I prefer to combine the naringin in grapefruit juice with coffee, as it extends the effects of caffeine. 3. Use supplements that increase insulin sensitivity: make sure any supplements you take has AGG as a component in it. Just read the label or packaging. This reduces the amount of insulin the pancreas releases in spite of mild or severe glucose surges. Think of it as insurance.
4. Consume citric juices, whether lime juice squeezed into water, lemon juice on food. PRINCIPLE #2: INCREASE THE SPEED OF GASTRIC EMPTYING, OR HOW QUICKLY FOOD EXITS THE STOMACH.
Eating too much is a rare circumstance where I want the food (or some of it) to pass through my gastrointestinal tract so quickly that its constituent parts aren‘t absorbed well.
I accomplish this primarily through caffeine. I consume 100–200 milligrams of caffeine, after eating too much food.
PRINCIPLE #3: ENGAGE IN BRIEF MUSCULAR CONTRACTION THROUGHOUT THE BINGE.
For muscular contractions, my default options are air squats, wall presses (tricep extensions against a wall), and chest pulls with an elastic band, as all three are
portable and can be done without causing muscle trauma that screws up training. The latter two can be performed by anyone, even those who have difficulty
walking.
But why the hell would you want to do 60–90 seconds of funny exercises a few minutes before you eat and, ideally, again about 90 minutes afterward?
Short answer: because it brings glucose transporter type 4 (GLUT-4) to the surface
of muscle cells, opening more gates for the calories to flow into. The more muscular gates we have open before insulin triggers the same GLUT-4 on the
surface of fat cells, the more we can put in muscle instead of fat.
The Secret Herb Found Only In India Formerly Prescribed To Cure To Joint Pain,
But Which Has Been Found To Speed Up Digestion When you Overfeed.
Cissus quadrangularis (CQ) is an indigenous medicinal plant of India, used in Ayurvedic medicine and fracture repair. It became clear that there were implications for preventing fat gain during overfeeding.
In rural China, where I continued experimentation with CQ, provided high-volume rice meals combined with sweets at mandatory sit-down meals, 3–5 times per day. It was the perfect fat-gaining environment.
CQ preserved weight loss, helps you lose even more fat-loss and has anabolic effects once you reach 2.4 grams (2,400 milligrams), three times per day 30 minutes prior to meals, for a total of 7.2 grams per day.
And guess what? The supplement I talked about in Part 1 contains Cissus quadrangularis!
Diet Mistakes Many Women (And Men) Make That Store Fat In Their Bely, Arms And Buttocks.
Mistake #1: Not Eating Within One Hour Of Waking, Preferably Within 30
Minutes
Skipping breakfast is also closely associated with overeating in the evening.
Don‘t skip meals.
You have no appetite in the morning? No problem. Keep it small and protein-rich,
then: two to three hard-boiled eggs sprinkled with white salt.
Skip breakfast, forget to eat within one hour of waking, and you will fail.
Mistake #2: Not Eating Enough Protein
Get at least 20 grams of protein per meal. This is absolutely most critical at breakfast. Eating at least 40% of your breakfast calories as protein will decrease carbohydrate impulses and promote a negative fat balance. Related problem: not eating enough food. Do NOT try to restrict portions or calories. Eat until you are full, and eat as much as you like of the approved foods.
If you don‘t, you will either downshift your metabolism or cheat between
meals with banned-food snacks.
MISTAKE #3: NOT DRINKING ENOUGH WATER
To ensure optimal liver function for fat-loss, increased hydration is a must.
Insufficient water intake (―I just don‘t like drinking much water‖) seems to be particularly common among women.
Make a special effort to drink more water on your cheat day, as the carbohydrate overload will pull water to your digestive tract and muscle glycogen. If you don‘t get enough water, headaches will be the result.
MISTAKE #4: BELIEVING THAT YOU’LL COOK, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A BACHELOR
In a sentence: if you don‘t normally cook, get canned and frozen food for the first few weeks.
Don‘t buy a bunch of food that requires cooking skills if you don‘t have them. Don‘t buy foods that spoil if you‘ve never prepared a proper meal. Unfounded optimism will just result in rotten food and frustration.
PART 4
Other Exciting Stuff About Weight Loss
Weight Loss Trick Used By Sufi Muslims In Turkey To
Get Slimmer, Have Amazing Energy And Stamina And
Even More Beautiful!
How would you like to lose weight spinning around like a kid. I‘ll show you how.
I‘m going to explain how you can spin around in circles (just as kids love to do) in order to help you change yourself in three unexpected ways:
1. You‘ll lose weight!
2. You‘ll re-energize your body!
3. Your overall health should improve! Yes, I know it seems kind of weird and strange. Please keep an open mind. Sometimes some of the most obvious things are overlooked. For example, I recently saw taco shells for sale where the bottom ―folded‖ edges were flat so the taco wouldn‘t fall over on the plate and spill out. Why didn‘t anyone think of this obvious answer decades ago? No, taco shells aren‘t the healthiest food around but it‘s an example of things that are right in front of us that nobody considered... until somebody considered it. Then it seems easy and obvious. Spinning, just as kids do it, is one of those things that seem obvious once you understand what really takes place when you do it. Surprising but true. I‘m amazed it hasn‘t been part of a healthy workout regimen for ages. Hopefully it will be now. I‘ll explain the logic and rationale behind spinning. I‘ll show you why spinning around actually works for the health benefits that I just mentioned. And, if you still don‘t believe me after all that you‘ve read, then, I simply challenge you to spin around (as I outline) for 10 to 14 days and prove or disprove it to yourself. That‘s not much to ask, is it? How I Learned About This I like to read. I read just about anything and everything when it comes to health, exercise, nutrition, or other strange things that makes me curious. My clients, readers, and my own family benefit from any tool I can add to my healthy arsenal so I stay on top of things closely. How I learned about spinning was purely accidental. The source that triggered it all came, of all places, from my reading about Sufi Muslims living in Turkey. They are called ―Whirling Dervishes.‖
The spinning around thing that they did fascinated me. I had to know more about ―why‖ they did it. The more I read about them and their spinning practice, I began to understand not just why they did it, but also why the actual spinning itself produced the effect they sought. I won‘t get into the religious aspect of it all. That‘s unnecessary for our purposes here. I will, however, say that the Sufi Muslims spin around until they reach an ecstatic state of mind as a show of love and a drama of their faith. That is the ―why-they-do-it‖ part of this. That doesn‘t account for any health benefits, however. This is what caught my eye the most the more I learned, read, and saw of them in my research of the Whirling Dervishes: All of them were thin, showed amazing energy and stamina, and were youthful looking (compared to their actual ages). I’ll Take It for a Spin Myself! So I thought to myself ―Hmm, okay, what the heck. I‘ll spin around and see what the big deal is about.‖ I did it. Just once. Wow... was that quite an experience. I‘m glad I was alone! I nearly knocked over a lamp after spinning around 20 times. I had to just sit and then lie down on my couch to normalize myself. I rested and felt normal after a few minutes. Most important for our purposes though is that I also felt energized. More than usual. And I‘m a person with lots of energy due to my lifestyle. Again, this really was something new. As I said, I exercise often and I feel energized from exercising, but this was a different type of energy that I felt. I had a tingling sensation feeling in my head and heart. A lightness that‘s hard to explain was there too. I felt more alive than before. I felt good! I wanted more. This was too good to stop now. I needed to take it to the extreme to see what the fuss was about. I always want to push things to the limit to find out as much as possible. So, I spun around again... this time 15 times. I didn‘t want to get too dizzy. I spun around and on my final spin I just spun right onto my couch lying down right away. I was kind of delirious with excitement. Like a child with a new toy. Or like the feeling after a fun ride at an amusement park.
It‘s a good thing nobody could see what I was doing I realized. Let‘s face it; it‘s weird to see a grown woman spinning around like a little kid. In mulling over everything, spinning around those 15 times did feel like too much for me. Still, I wasn‘t going to let that stop me. I spun some more. By the time I stopped doing the spins, 30 minutes had passed. I must have done 10 to 15 sets of spins and I never did fewer than 10 spins each time. More Research Was in Order That‘s how I began this quest to see why the spinning did what it did. I also wanted to know more about the health effects. Did spinning help me or do something I‘d rather not have done? If the spinning did contribute to the Sufi‘s thin waistlines then exactly how did that occur? I‘m positive spinning didn‘t burn more calories than jogging or other traditional exercises. In fact, I suspected that spinning burned very few calories, period. I wanted to know what was going on inside when I spun around. I wanted to know what gave me the uplifting sensations as well as how those spins affected my weight and well-being. Findings from Research Honestly, after that first day, I was hooked. I devoted myself to doing the spins each day. And I wanted to know more about what I was getting myself into. So I dove into doing more research. I ended up learning some fascinating things. For example, I learned that those Whirling Dervishes would spin hundreds of times non-stop. By over-spinning, they‘d create a huge burst of ecstatic energy that put them into an almost delirious state of mind. Note: I never do more than 20 spins in a set and you shouldn‘t either. Stop after 20 and rest for at least one minute... Always! I wasn‘t after the ecstatic different state of mind thing. I like to keep my senses as I‘m sure you do too. I wanted the health benefits, especially since I always seemed to get a little sluggish in the mid-afternoon. But there was something else that I found out. Even though the Whirling Dervishes got huge bursts of energy, they would also have their energy come crashing down within a few hours. I experienced this too. This is not good in my opinion. I didn‘t want a boost only to come down lower than I began. I wanted a nice even, all-day energy-boost. I didn‘t want to have an energy-boost that was followed by a state of tiredness or exhaustion. Fortunately for me, I never went above 20 spins at a time because who knew? Maybe I‘d throw up or something. I just didn‘t know. This was all new to me and I was testing various things. So I put my heart into spinning, but I still kept limits.
More Findings I felt great, had an extra bounce to my step and had the energy of a 4-year old child without having an energy crash by doing too many spins as the whirling dervishes do. Happily I also noticed I had become more toned than usual. Keep in mind I‘ve always been in good shape because that is my job. I train and advise people on how to stay healthy and lose weight. I‘m a diet and exercise info junkie and my clients and readers learn from what I learn. I‘ve always thought ―outside the box.‖ I‘ve always done things my own way when it comes to training and consulting people for weight loss. If the whole world does something (such as extended aerobics, ugh!), then probably there‘s a better, easier, and healthier way to approach it. Understand that I already had a grab-bag of ―tricks‖ and ―tweaks‖ to exercising and dieting that gave people miracle results for weight loss and health. But the spins – what began for me as a way to boost my energy levels – soon proved to be another weight loss ―trick‖ I could add to my arsenal. But I wanted to be sure. I thought I better find out if this really works for weight loss for most people and not just for me. This was when I approached some of my personal weight loss clients and explained the spins to them. Besides the laughing I usually got to begin with, along with the ―you‘re crazy‖ looks when I mentioned all this to them, I made them do it. It was my feeling that, ―Geez, if kids do this naturally, what harm could spinning do to grown women?‖ The proof is in the pudding as they say. Are you interested in my clients‘ results? There was 100% success with only a few bumps along the road. The Successes After 14 days of spinning, all my clients had more energy, felt better, looked better, lost a few pounds (some more than others), and acted more youthful. Note: Think about all that. Even if my clients didn‘t lose weight, spinning would still be awesome for all the other benefits they experienced. I consider any weight loss an extra benefit of spinning. Are you going to lose 10+ pounds in two weeks from spinning alone? No. That won‘t happen. NOTE: If you want to learn how to lose weight fast, check out some of my other books and reports here:
http://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Jolan/e/B004V1ZAB8/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1362756256&sr=8-2-ent. But I don‘t want to get sidetracked. I want to focus on you spinning around like kids. So, back to our regularly scheduled program... My clients loved the spinning and they got great results. To this day, they continue to get great results from spinning. Spinning has been a success for my personal clients. I first released this report to the public in a smaller, less detailed format. Since then, over 120,000 people have learned and enjoyed great health and weight loss results from spinning around in a circle. The Few Bumps in the Road Are Simple to Cross There were a few bumps along the way and it‘s my duty to share those with you too. The feedback I‘ve received from some of the women shows that perhaps you should ease into doing the spins. In other words, don‘t attempt to do 20 spins your first time. Build-up to 20 and use 20 spins as your goal. Note: You‘ll build up quickly. You should be able to do 20 spins easily in less than two weeks. Why should you build up to twenty spins? Some of the women became too dizzy and had a hard time getting normalized from the dizziness. They simply overdid the spinning. It was too much, too soon and they were unaccustomed. Their body/mind link couldn‘t keep up with too many spins. Two of the women got sick from nausea. (There are solutions! I‘ll tell you about those in a few moments.) The women who got too dizzy and the two women who got sick did end up getting used to spinning within one to two weeks. They didn‘t give up and I was proud. They were rewarded for their persistence with better health and weight loss. They love spinning now! There was a happy ending even for those few problem cases. Some Background on Your Body’s Reaction to Spinning Before I get to the outline of how you should spin, I want to explain some of what I found out about the dynamics of why spinning helps people lose weight and gain energy. Also, there is a simple explanation as to why spinning actually makes you younger at a ―cellular level.‖ It all centers around your endocrine system.
Your endocrine system consists of seven glands:
Your endocrine system is vital because it controls your metabolism. Metabolism is the key to either weight gain or weight loss. Your metabolism regulates your growth and development, controls your hormone levels (extremely vital), and plays a part in your mood. Staying Level Your endocrine system controls your overall well-being in that it helps keep your body in a constant state of homeostasis, or in layman‘s terms, your endocrine system wants you to stay on an ―even keel.‖ You want this for the most part. You never want to be too hungry, too cold, too hot, too lazy, too energetic, and so on. With rare exceptions you want to feel as though you‘re in control and you‘re doing just fine in every way. Many times in life we want to feel more extreme, and many times in life we accept those feelings as natural. It‘s natural and healthy to feel sadness at the loss of a friend or family member. It‘s natural and healthy to be completely turned on by your spouse. It‘s natural and healthy to feel elation when something good happens to you such as paying off a big debt or seeing a child‘s accomplishment. But none of us want those extreme feelings to last forever or we couldn‘t function in our other duties. If sadness takes over long after a sad event ends, we find it difficult to get the energy to work or to be secure and joyful with family whom we love. If we are too energetic at all times we have difficulty sleeping well because our thoughts are ―racing.‖ Our endocrine system is monitoring us constantly and is the reason we go from normal to extremes and also why we can return from the extremes to normal. (We return from the extremes when our endocrine system is functioning well.) Our endocrine system secretes whatever hormone our body needs at the time in an attempt to maintain a normal, healthy level of living. It‘s almost like a beautiful
ballet act that constantly goes on inside our bodies without us really being aware of it most of the time. I realize you don‘t want to be bored with anatomy details, but I want to mention the background behind it all. Those seven glands I mentioned earlier are energy centers for your body. The cell signals revolve in place at each of the seven locations. They do this in a circular motion. When I say circular you probably are beginning to realize why spins can affect our endocrine system. When cell signals sent by our endocrine system are revolving in place, the signals either revolve fast, slow, or somewhere in-between. This is important because when they are revolving fast, you‘re in good health and have lots of energy. Everything is going good with your body. When they are revolving too slowly, you aren‘t in good health and you don‘t have much energy. Too slowly means that you generally just don‘t feel good. Again, our goal is to be somewhere near the middle most of the time, but that doesn‘t seem to be the case if you look at others walking down the street and if you listen to others talk about the way they feel. Basically, most people aren‘t at optimal health. They‘re closer to poor health. Obviously this manifests itself in lack of energy and obesity. Their endocrine systems are overworked and overwhelmed The good news is, spinning speeds up your endocrine systems ability to send cell signals. Repeated spinning daily helps to reset your revolving speed upwards. This is good for your health, good for your energy, and good for weight loss! I hope I explained all of that clearly enough without throwing too many boring details. I want you to understand that spinning can have a powerful effect to alter your health, energy, and weight positively. Now that you know the reasoning behind spinning benefits, let‘s move on. Oops, I Left Out Important Information... I got so caught up in my excitement about spinning that I left out an important piece of information. This comes up more than I expected as I explain to students and clients about the benefits of spinning. Note that you can spin either way: clockwise or counter-clockwise. The Whirling Dervishes spin counter-clockwise. Me? Personally, I prefer to spin in a clockwise direction. It just feels more comfortable. But either way, it doesn‘t matter which way you spin.
Try both ways and see which direction you‘re most comfortable with. If you want to see how the Whirling Dervishes spin around, just do a Google search on them and go to the many images and videos you‘ll find. Note, when you watch the videos you‘ll see that they tilt their heads while they spin. I do not want you to do that. Remember, they‘re doing this to get extremely dizzy to the point of delirium. This not only can make you sick to your stomach and make your head spin, but it‘s simply too much and overflows your equilibrium and your endocrine system‘s mechanics. You‘re not doing this to achieve delirium – you‘re spinning for better health and weight loss. Keep your head straight up like normal. Don‘t tilt your head... keep it straight. Another thing you may see the Whirling Dervishes do that I don‘t recommend is they hold their arms against their chest when they start spinning. Don‘t do this either. For your arms, put them out as if they were airplane wings: straight out at shoulder level. Then just start spinning around like kids do it. It‘s fun! Your Spinning Routine Above, I described the correct way to spin around. Head straight up and your arms out like airplane wings. Now, here‘s how you should start out spinning. Day 1 Begin your first day with spinning around just five times. Faster is not necessarily better, but your goal should be to spin around on the faster side as long as you remain fairly comfortable with the speed. Five times is a base level to try. If you really want to see the ―real‖ effects of spinning, try 15 to 20 spins. If you‘re hesitant and don‘t want to risk extreme dizziness or nausea, just spin five times on your first set of spins. I don‘t want you to have a rough first time and be afraid to spin in the future. Once you do this, think through how you feel. Any problems with completing your goal? How did it go? What is your body telling you? You goal is this and only this: spin only until you are slightly dizzy. That is your only goal for each set of spins. That is all you need to do to benefit from spinning
and improve your health as well as lose some weight. The slight dizziness means you affected your equilibrium some, but you didn‘t overdo things the first time. Note: Excess dizziness can make you feel not-so-good the rest of the day. Obviously. Just do yourself a favour and trust me. Take it easy and ease into it. Start with five spins and rest at least a minute before trying to do more, such as a second set of spins. Pace yourself and take a real inventory the first time. If five spins didn‘t really affect you and you‘re not close to being slightly dizzy, try ten or more spins in a row on your next set. Keep repeating this until you‘ve done at least fifty total spins. Remember, this is just day one. I want your body and you to get a ―feel‖ for spinning. If you need a few minutes between each set of spins, take a few minutes. If five spins didn‘t do anything for you, do more. How many? Use your good judgment and guess. Pace yourself while taking constant inventory of your body and mind. Practice. Remember:
Slightly dizzy
Slightly dizzy
That‘s what you want.
Days Two through Five Gradually challenge your body more as time goes by. Complete more spins per set, spin faster, and rest less between each set. Build up to what your body reacts to well. Note: Each person is different so, as with most routines, don‘t get caught up with the numbers. The only number that is important is the total number of spins you do each day. Eventually you‘ll want to build up to 100- 200+ spins a day. But that may take a week or two or more for some people. And that‘s fine. Progress is more important than speedy progress. Now, understand that 200 total spins each day is your ultimate goal.
However you go about this is fine, I just don‘t want you to quit during the first two weeks. I am positive that if you do the spins for two weeks, you will be so happy with the results and you‘ll be more than happy to do these spins daily for a long, long time. How I Spin Each Day My daily spin routine is simple. I usually spin 20 times for each set. I do 10 to 20 sets daily for a total of 200 to 400 spins each and every day. That probably is on the excessive side, but I enjoy doing them. They make me feel awesome and help tone me up. (My children love to spin with me also!) I usually do three to five sets right when I wake up. After that, I just do them whenever I get the chance throughout the day. Basically I do them when I have room to spin, and about 30 seconds of free time. I don‘t feel guilty watching TV here and there throughout the day because I get in a lot of spins during TV commercials also. So, I personally aim for 20 sets a day, but I usually end up doing 10 sets of 20 spins a day... and that is more than enough. I‘ve turned them into a habit, so I don‘t need to think about it. I just do them when I get a chance. This makes it easy since I don‘t have to stress out about how many sets I‘ve done and how many more I need to do. I simply have the habit of doing my first three to five sets when I wake up and then
the rest will come throughout the day whenever possible.
How An Organ In Your Body Is Wrecking Havoc In
Your System Making It Impossible For You To Lose
Weight, No Matter How Hard You Try. (In Some
Women, This Organ Even Causes Them To Add More
Weight, Even Without Eating!)
Hypothyroidism Do you know what that means? I‘ll tell you. Fatigue-related thyroid problems are grouped together into a category known as hypothyroidism. Hypothyroidism is the result of an under-active thyroid that produces too few thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism, therefore, is a deficiency in thyroid hormones. You can exercise all day but you just won‘t lose weight or keep it off if you have a hypothyroid problem. Your body won‘t allow proper weight loss because your body cannot properly regulate itself. There is just not enough thyroid activity to metabolize the fat.
Women are especially prone to hypothyroidism and get hypothyroidism almost ten-to-one over men. The most common age range is in the 40‘s where hypothyroidism seems to flare up the most. As you age, you naturally move less. You can stay active if you consciously exercise and eat right, but life often makes that a challenge about the age of 40 and hypothyroidism problems begin to rear their ugly head. By moving less because you feel so tired, you don‘t get the daily benefit of normal caloric burning through movement as much as you would if you were more active. Hyperthyroidism Your thyroid doesn‘t just cause problems by being sluggish. The opposite of hypothyroidism is hyperthyroidism. That is when your thyroid goes into hyper-activity. At first you might think hyperthyroidism is beneficial because if hypothyroidism makes you gain weight, then shouldn‘t we all strive for hyperthyroidism? No, not at all. We should all strive for a balanced thyroid. We want our thyroid hormone group to be at its optimum level the way they were designed to be. The autoimmune disease known as Graves Disease is a type of hyperthyroidism. Fortunately, only a small number of people are susceptible to hyperthyroidism, around 2% for women and only about 0.2% of men. Excess sweating, hypersensitivity to heat, severe weight loss, and diarrhoea can be present in hyperthyroidism‘s symptoms. You might note these are almost the mirror-image of hypothyroidism‘s symptoms of being cold all the time, weight gain, and constipation. You want neither hyperthyroidism not hypothyroidism. Since hypothyroidism is the more common of the two problems by far, the next trick is a way to help side-step possible hypothyroid problems, or at least reduce its effects. Just Give Your Thyroid 15 Seconds of Attention Although hypothyroidism is often discussed when targeting weight loss, I want to target hypothyroidism to help your overall energy levels. More energy is almost always welcome, especially as we age. So this tip isn‘t just a dietary tip, it‘s an overall well-being tip for helping your thyroid that may cause you to feel sluggish and run down. Doing this routine takes only 15 seconds or so at a time. No excuses! The Routine
Your thyroid gland is located on the lower-front part of your neck. This is where
the
All you need to do is tap your thyroid. I call this the T-Tap. This physical tapping of your thyroid gland stimulates an under-active thyroid to become more normalized. Take one or two of your fingers and tap your thyroid with your fingertips for 15 seconds at a time. Repeat this throughout the day as you think of it. I recommend you do the T-Tap for a total of about three minutes, in 15-second intervals, each and every day. You will need to do these neck taps daily and for at least a few weeks. They‘re easy and quick so do it. I recommend that you do them every day for the rest of your life. You can do it whenever and wherever, even when you‘re watching TV, so make an effort to do them so your thyroid can get back to a normal functioning level. The T-Tap may not solve your Hypothyroidism all by itself, but at the very least it
most definitely will help.
The 20-Second Bathroom Trick for a Super-Charged
Metabolism and a Flood of Energy
Cold water, hot water, steam, and ice all produce different reactions from your body and your internal organs. You can leverage this knowledge to increase your energy and improve your metabolism with virtually no effort. Cold Water Does It For the purposes of this report, we‘ll concentrate on cold water because it‘s considered ―alive‖ as opposed to hot water which is considered ―dead.‖
Cold water energizes, invigorates, and fortifies your body. Cold water creates circulation and overcomes sluggishness while unblocking any energy barriers within your body. One of the reasons cold water works so great is because it stimulates the body into a reaction. I‘ll explain this further shortly when we talk about the details of cold water treading. Cold water treading literally turns your body into a fat burning machine. The reason is simple. The cold water stimulates your body to heat up. Your body raises its core temperature as a reaction to the cold water which is in effect forcing your body to a lower core temperature. Shivering for Success Think of your natural reaction when you‘re cold. You shiver. That‘s your body‘s way of creating heat to warm you up. This is very similar in nature. It‘s basically a fight between cold water and your body. Your body is saying ―Uh, nooooooo, I‘m going to internally heat up to fight you. I won‘t allow you to change the core temperature.‖ You can take advantage of this bodily reaction to cold water. Here is how you do cold water treading to force your body into a higher internal temperature that helps burn fat better. Note: This is possible only if you have a tub/shower combo. Keep reading and I‘ll show you and even more powerful 20-second version than the cold water treading. Simply take your normal shower. Once you finish, plug the bathtub up while turning the water to as cold as possible. Once you get about three inches of really cold water, stop the water and start walking in place in your cold water. This is often called cold water treading. Keep up your cold water treading for three minutes after your shower. Stepping Up Your Success Now, I‘m going to tell you something that is even better for fat loss and general health. It‘s harder, but the results are even better: Take a cold shower… I mean a real cold shower. The shower should be so cold that you have a hard time breathing. Every second feels like a minute to you. Cold showers are better than cold water treading for general health and weight loss. A cold shower is more immersive and lasts longer than cold water treading. In spite of its advantages, most people won‘t do them. I have a hard time consistently doing them myself. I understand. And women seem to have more difficulty standing in cold water than men. I will admit that I don‘t do cold water treading simply because cold showers are better and produce better results. But I don‘t use cold water for my entire shower. I‘m realistic and know most people won‘t do cold showers all the time, and neither
do I except on occasion. That is why I started off this report with the next best thing: the cold water treading. Here’s My Routine So here‘s exactly what I do. I take my normal shower with the water slightly colder than I prefer. I used to take a regular shower using fairly warm water. Going from that to a half minute or longer of a cold shower was just too much for me, especially in the wintertime. So I began taking ―regular‖ showers, not using cold water, but using cooler-than-normal water. This helps my body ―ease into‖ dropping its core temperature at the end. I find that within about five seconds of entering a slightly cool shower, I no longer notice its cooler than I used to require. Starting at a cool temperature really helps me succeed at the end of the shower where I crank it down to as cold as possible. After I‘m done with my normal shower in slightly cool water, I turn the water to as cold as possible and let it spray all over my body for 20 seconds. That‘s it. Just 20 seconds. Note: I can stand the cold water much longer in the summer, especially if I‘ve been working outside and am hot and miserable from the heat. After my cold rinse for 20 (or more) seconds, I turn off the water and get a towel and dry off as quickly as possible! Again, some days I just can‘t bring myself to do this especially on dreary, cold, winter days. You know what I mean right? But I can consistently do this about four days a week, especially when it‘s not the dead of winter. One thing to keep in mind is that once you do the cold shower or cold water treading, do not use hot or warm water on your body for the next 20 minutes. You will be tempted to do this! But doing so just ruins everything. The warm water will cancel all the effects your body wants to do to warm you up. You want to give your body a chance to react to the cold. It is that reaction you need for a metabolism boost. The metabolism boost remains after the cold shower unless you shower in hot water. You‘re going to first yell and curse my name when you try the cold showers, but you will soon think I‘m a genius once you see the results. Try them. See for yourself. It‘s 20 seconds of torture, but it‘s worth it. More Advantages to Cold Water
The list of advantages of cold water on our bodies is quite extensive. Here are some of the things:
Enhances your immunity against infections and possibly even cancer
Gives glands (thyroid, adrenals, ovaries/testes) a boost, improving hormone activity
Jump-starts mood and motivation
Cranks up metabolisms to fight problems such as type-2 diabetes, obesity, gout, rheumatic diseases, depression, and more
Helps to normalize blood pressure
Decreases chronic pain
Trains and improves blood circulation
Detoxifies your body
Fights fatigue
Strengthens exhausted, irritable nerves (this one can really come in handy some days!)
Rejuvenates, heals, and tones our skin
Deepens our breathing
Helps with insomnia
Improves kidney functioning
Reduces swelling and edema
Improves lymphatic circulation, thereby increasing the ability of our immune systems
Reduces stress by regulating our autonomic nervous systems
Regulates temperature which in turn helps to fight chronically cold hands and cold feet and excessive sweating
Keeps our hair healthy
Helps our bodies guard against hemorrhoids and varicose veins
Reduces typical aches and pains From personal experience, I must say I cannot disagree with this list. For example, I‘ve taken a cold water rinse right before bedtime and I do sleep better. Perhaps it‘s because we sleep more soundly in a cool room, so by cooling down our bodies before bedtime, we kick-start our sleep cycle‘s response. In addition, I can go through times where my body just won‘t warm up or cool down. All women can relate to this at one time or another. Assuming there isn‘t a hormone problem going on, I did begin to notice that my seemingly-always cold hands and ice-cold feet didn‘t seem to happen as frequently as they used to before the cold rinsing.
And who wouldn‘t benefit from a little less depression from time to time? Consider this research from the Department of Radiation Oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine: ... indicates that short cold showers may stimulate the brain‘s ―blue spot‖- the brain‘s primary source of noradrenaline — a chemical that could help mitigate depression. I guess a bout of the blues isn‘t so bad after all. Good News for Men! Men have been told from time to time to, ―Go take a cold shower.‖ It‘s often said to rev down his engine. What may surprise you is the Thrombosis Research Institute showed that taking cold showers can: ...actually increase testosterone production in men. Increased testosterone levels not only boost a man‘s libido, but also his overall strength and energy level. If you‘re looking to increase your testosterone, instead of juicing up like Mark McGwire, hop into a cold shower. If you‘re a woman and going through fertility counseling right now, this might be a tip to tell your husband about. Medically, the reason a man‘s scrotum hangs down is to keep his sperm count slightly cooler than his body‘s core temperature. The little swimmers do much better in a slightly cooler environment than a warmer one. This is why couples having fertility issues are told that the man should always wear boxers to give more room for ventilation down there. The cold showers certainly don‘t do any harm in that area either. Experiments done in the 1950s showed that hot baths for men were an effective contraceptive. Those men who took a half-hour hot bath every other day for three or more weeks were statistically infertile for as many as the next six months. Recently, the University of California at San Francisco studied this same issue using men who were exposed every week to a half hour of ―wet heat.‖ Wet heat primarily included hot baths. Keep in mind, this was only once a week but when the men eliminated this exposure, their sperm count went up by almost 500%! Not only that, the sperm‘s motility improved too. While switching from a hot to cold shower may not have quite as dramatic of an effect, if you‘re trying to help you two create a new little life together, those cold showers surely won‘t hurt. Conclusion The bottom line is this: although nobody likes to begin the day with a cold water shower, and almost everybody hates taking cold showers from start to finish, and even cold water treading is difficult for some to endure for just 20 seconds, the wide range of benefits that cold water treatments can have on us makes it worth the effort to see just what we can reasonably take.
Remember, it does get easier so don‘t judge your long-term success by your first attempt or two with cold water. You can get used to more than you think. And your skin and the rest of your body will thank you for it! If possible, consider doing these 20-second cold water shower rinses twice a day
for even more health benefits.
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Eating And Why You Should Go Look For It
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Many of the detoxing methods and supplements and elements remove specific toxins from
specific areas of your body. This is fantastic because many toxins sink into your cells and need to
be grabbed out by any means possible.
Still, for the most part, your body does a good job at detoxing itself. When you eliminate urine
and waste, your body has placed toxins in that waste. This is a perfect avenue for toxin
elimination.
When you breathe out, your mucous membranes secrete toxins that leave your body through your
exhaled breath.
When you sweat, your sweat glands are secreting waste out your skin‟s pores. Exercising will
improve the flow of those toxins, both from your sweat glands and through your intensive
breathing.
It turns out your skin is a major toxin remover. Not only do your sweat glands secret toxins, but
waste can leave any pore in your body. Cellular and other bodily waste is eliminated through your
pores.
The Helpful Clay
As you can see, without doing anything you are a detoxing machine. The problem is that
depending on your lifestyle and the food you eat, the toxins catch up to you. Even before the
somewhat dangerous and low-nutrient modern-day food supplies, and before the industrial
revolution added pollutants into the air, and before plastics, pesticides, and other containments
entered our water supply, our bodies would still get sick every year or so to perform an extra-
powerful detox.
But today‟s world and our typical bad eating habits and bad food supplies means that for many,
even a once a year sickness and routine bodily removal cannot keep up with the toxins that enter
our systems.
Some of the symptoms of routine toxicity are:
Mental dullness
Aching-stiff joints
Gas and bloat
High acidity
Digestive problems with the stomach and colon
Acid reflux
Fatigue
Let‟s get back to our skin. You might already know that our skin is the largest organ of our
bodies. The reason it‟s large is not due to its thickness but to its surface area. Throughout our skin
on every part of our bodies are pores that help keep us as clean as they can. And we can tap into
those pores to enable even more toxins to leave through our pore through the use of clay,
bentonite clay to be specific.
More specifically known as Calcium Bentonite Clay therapy, the application of bentonite clay is
one of the least invasive and safest means to detox that has been found. Plus, bentonite clay has a
high negative ionic charge and is highly effective in pulling the toxins out your skin like a magnet
pulls metal filings.
Clay is alkaline-based, whereas we typically consume far too much acidic substances in our diets
and on our skin. So after bentonite clay therapy, our skin not only has released extra toxins over
the amount it released by itself, but our skin feels nice and clean afterwards and leaves us often
feeling refreshed like a swim can sometimes do. The clay‟s alkaline property works to balance
our skin.
Note: Clay is often used for acne treatment.
Detoxing through the use of clay is nothing new. As a matter of fact, it may be one of the oldest
detoxing methods known to man. Indigenous tribes have been using clay for skin therapy
thousands of years as have more advanced civilizations.
Note: Clay is even used to treat radiation exposure.
Clay as a Catalyst
As well as clay works on our skin, bentonite clay is also taken internally.
Both on our skin and when we consume it internally, clay is a catalyst. By that I mean it becomes
active in the removal process of toxins from our bodies. Technically, a catalyst boosts chemical
reactions and does so efficiently. Clay‟s catalyst action is so efficient it can remove toxins from
our lower colons before they enter our bloodstream. This frees up nutrients to repair and
revitalize our bodies.
In addition to its detoxing benefits, is clay actually the foundation of eternal youth too? Dr.
Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research seems to think so based on his
experiments from way back to the 1900‟s. Years to Your Health explained Dr. Carrel‟s study this
way:
“He managed to sustain the life of cells from a chicken embryo by immersing the cells in a
solution containing all the nutrients necessary for life and changing the solution daily. The cells
took up nutrients from the nutrient-rich broth and excreted their wastes into the same solution.
“The only thing Dr. Carrel did each day was discard the old solution and replace it with fresh
nutrient solution. The chicken cells lived for 29 years until one night Dr. Carrel‟s assistant forgot
to change the polluted solution! We do not know how much longer the cell‟s life could have been
maintained. Dr. Carrel concluded at the end of his experiment that the cell is actually immortal. It
is merely the fluid in which it floats which degenerates. “He is quoted saying „The cell is
immortal. Renew this fluid at intervals gives the cell something on which to feed and, so far as
we know, the pulsation of life may go on forever.‟ The average chicken lives about 7 years. His
detoxified, properly nourished chicken cell lived for 29 years.”
The upshot was that Dr. Carrel believed we don‟t get old because of time. Instead, we get old due
to toxin build-up at the cell level. As it builds and our bodies cannot keep up, cell breakdowns
begin to cause “aging.”
The Clay Therapy
Ran Knishinsky, author of The Clay Cure, is an advocate of eating or drinking clay daily. He
states some of the benefits reported by people using liquid clay for a period of two to four weeks
include:
Improved intestinal regularity
Relief from chronic constipation
Diarrhea, indigestion
Ulcers
A surge in physical energy
Clearer complexion
Brighter, whiter eyes
Enhanced alertness
Emotional uplift
Improved tissue and gum repair
and increased resistance to infections.
Clay works on the entire organism. No part of the body is left untouched by its healing energies.
AboutClay.com suggests taking clay daily to maintain a good, clean digestive system. For adults,
a normal dosage would be to take one to two ounces daily. When taking clay internally, keep
your body hydrated by drinking eight to ten glasses of filtered, non-chlorinated, non-fluoridated
water daily. The water helps to soften and loosen impacted fecal material lining the walls of your
small intestine and colon. This material is then absorbed by the clay and removed from the body
through normal elimination.
Note: For an initial detox, take a higher dosage as follows: three ounces three times a day for four
to six weeks and then gradually reduce to one to two ounces daily for maintenance.
One of the best clays available is the local type found in every market in Nigeria. Just ask for it.
Ibos calls it Okete.
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You’re Not Eating
Drumroll… The avocado. All That to Talk about a Little Green Vegetable? Yes. Just as the egg – when it comes from a free-range chicken – is one of the most perfect proteins available to us today, the avocado is one of the most perfect vegetables. I‘ll just say the statements up front and let you research their authenticity:
Avocados are full of fat.
That fat is healthy fat – extremely healthy fat.
Eating an avocado daily will – assuming you lay off the starchy carbs, sugars, most grains, pastas, and reduce fruit consumption – help your body shed weight. Note: Avocados are usually about 50-cents each. Fortunately, their thick skin protects you better from pesticides that growers put on the non-organic versions. It‘s probably always best to buy organic avocados if you have a choice and if you have extra money, but if not, their protective thick skins will make conventional, non-organic avocados okay for you and your family. Skip the packaged snacks and buy four or five avocados the next time you‘re at the store. Your body will thank you. Read that last bulleted item once more:
Eating an avocado daily will – assuming you lay off the starchy carbs, sugars, most grains, pastas, and reduce fruit consumption – help your body to shed weight. If you don‘t eat avocados but do the other things (lay off the starchy carbs, sugars, most grains, pastas, and reduce your fruit consumption), you will lose weight if you‘ve been overweight until then. I am going the extra step though. I‘m trying to state clearly that if you do those things, and you should, if you also add avocados regularly to your diet your results will be better than if you don‘t eat the avocados. But “I Hate Those Things!” Don‘t like avocados? Heaven forbid! If you hate avocados, then don‘t eat them. If, however, you do hate their taste (I can‘t imagine that, but a small percentage of people do), try to find some way to enjoy them other than eating them raw. For example, do you like guacamole sauce? If so, most guacamole sauce is 100% healthy and good for you and encourages weight loss, so get your avocados there. Note: I‘ll include a few avocado recipes a little later that you can – and should – try. I usually eat an avocado with my eggs. What They Do For you Serotonin is a brain hormone that has been called The Happy Chemical because higher levels of serotonin make you more joyful and confident. People who find they need an emotional boost often are low on serotonin. One kind of fat that benefits and stimulates serotonin production is the fat from an avocado. The avocado is a vegetable but unlike most vegetables avocados are also wonderful sources of fat. Get avocados. Try to find organic ones but lacking those, buy the conventional ones. Eat as many as you want but at least one a day. Note: Remember I said the egg is a perfect food? Want to improve on perfection? Eat a half an avocado with your morning eggs. Delicious! Add some beans and you even improve upon that perfection due to all the protein, fats, and fiber in the meal. Keeping Them Fresh Avocados do go soft and mushy quickly. At the store, buy firm avocados so they last at home longer.
To stay on top of things and make sure that you eat just-right and just-ripe avocados, determine how many you and your family eat daily. Get a brown paper bag. Each day, put the next day‘s avocados in the bag and leave it overnight. By the way, it‘s a myth that you shouldn‘t keep half-cut avocados in your refrigerator. Avocados do stay good in your refrigerator. This is important if you have a half of one left over and want to eat it the next day. To save the uneaten half, keep the big seed in the half you save, put it in a baggie, and place that in the fridge. It‘ll store nicely in your fridge for the next day, or even two or three days without mushing up too much. Cutting Them Properly The way you get to the edible center of the avocado affects the nutrients that end up in your body when you eat it. To preserve the area with the highest concentration of nutrients such as antioxidants, you want to peel the avocado with your hands, as you do with bananas, like this:
Cut the avocado length-wise, around the seed
Holding each half, twist the halves in opposite directions. This separates them from their seed
Remove the seed
Cut each half lengthwise
Use your thumb and index finger to peel the skin off each piece More Advantages to this Perfect Vegetables Dr. Joseph Mercola, M.D., often discusses the avocado as a healthy vegetable, citing how that under-utilized veggie can help with:
Cardiovascular disease
Weight loss
Diabetes
Improves your body‘s ability to absorb nutrients from other sources And the avocado is full of its own nutrients and healthful ingredients without adding fructose to your body as so many fruits will do. The avocado is known for supplying you with these and more:
Fiber
Potassium (more than twice the amount found in a banana, I‘ll talk about this more in a moment)
Vitamin E
B-vitamins
Folic acid
In more stunning news, Dr. David Heber, M.D., PhD reported in Medical News Today the following: The researchers observed a significant peak (approximately a 70 percent increase), of IL-6 four hours after the plain burger was eaten, but less effect on IL-6 (approximately a 40 percent increase) over the same time period when fresh avocado was eaten with the burger. Additionally, the study found that when fresh Hass avocado was eaten with the burger it did not increase triglyceride levels beyond what was observed after eating the burger alone, despite the extra calories and fat from the fresh avocado... The pilot study also reported that the difference in peripheral arterial blood flow (the movement of blood to different parts of the body, as measured by PAT), a predictor of vascular health, after eating the hamburger meal compared to the hamburger-fresh avocado meal was approaching statistical significance... PAT scores significantly decreased (signifying reduced blood flow) only after the plain burger was eaten (approximately a 27 percent drop, on average) compared to a burger with fresh avocado (approximately a 4 percent drop, on average, signifying less reduction in blood flow You may have heard that salt is bad for you. This is simply untrue. What is unhealthy is an imbalance in sodium compared to potassium. If you up your salt intake, but also increase potassium, you will rarely have any problems from the salt. Note: Plus, using a good sea salt in its natural form (it comes packaged as a non-bleached rough-looking salt such as that sold by Real Salt), you improve your health even more. Your body requires sodium and sea salt is by far one of the most excellent ways you can give your body what it needs. Avocados are high in potassium and low in sodium. Therefore an avocado a day helps improve your sodium/potassium ratios, keeping your body‘s ―electrolytes‖ in balance. Raw or Otherwise, They’re Delicious!
There are so many things you can do with this ultra-healthy, high-good-fat vegetable. So many people fail to understand how vital these are to our daily diets. Given how good the fat in an avocado is, for example, use an avocado as a fat replacement in your baking. Replace the fat called for (like oil, butter, or shortening) with an equal amount of avocado. You can also use the soft avocado as a first food for babies. Rotate the avocado with other kinds of early baby foods. (If you must use store-bought baby food, always get organic.) (In an unrelated note, never give your baby water tainted with fluoride.)