How Your Body 'Loses' Weight

The first week of dieting usually produces the most dramatic weight loss. When you start dieting, your body uses up its glycogen stores before it begins to burn excess fat for fuel. As you use the glycogen stores, your body sheds the water that was bound to the glycogen. Once glycogen stores are depleted, the body shifts to burning fat stores for energy. Losing fat is a much slower process. (Luckily, Skinny Fiber helps boost the body's metabolism and helps it use up the fat stores for energy).

Sensible, healthy fat loss is in the range of 1-2 lbs (0.5 - 1.0 kgs) per week. If you try to lose more quickly, a number of undesirable effects can occur.

• You will burn up lean body tissue rather than fat stores, leaving you with less muscle and more fat.
• Your metabolism will switch to super-efficient mode, making it more difficult to lose weight.
• The more extreme the diet, the greater the likelihood that you rapidly gain back any lost weight (Again, using Skinny Fiber is not dieting because you have to take it 30-45 minutes before your meals, that way your body gets used to having meals and eventually when you have achieved a desirable weight goal and stop using Skinny Fiber the weight still stays off.) 

So, there you have it. Losing weight is easy but dieting really doesn't help your body and the more you starve, the more weight you retain. In the next post, I'll be sharing with you 5 tips that can aid you achieve success in your weight loss journey. Tchao!

This is how you become fat

Facts about Fat

• The fatty layer beneath our skin helps conserve body heat and regulate body temperature. It also provides insulation against cold.
• Fat placed around our joints helps as a lubricant in allowing smooth movement.
• Our vital organs like liver, heart and brain are all cushioned by fat to prevent injury.
• Cholesterol is an important type of fat which is a part of each cell and is important for its functioning. It is a precursor of vitamins, hormones and bile acids. Bile acids help in digestion of food in the body.

To control excessive fat in the body, nature has given us a hormone called leptin. This hormone plays an important role in obesity. Leptin helps in controlling hunger, burning of calories and aids in better metabolism.

When you eat a diet with a lot of refined sugar like sweets, chocolates, aerated drinks, and desserts, this can cause obesity even without overeating.

A high fat diet makes the body shift its metabolism towards storing fat, instead of burning fat for energy. Lipase, an enzyme which breaks down fat molecules, helps storage in your body's fat cells. The more fat eaten, the more its storage, particularly around the abdomen and hips. When you reduce fat from your diet, you first lose fat from the abdomen.

If you keep over eating, your fat cells grow larger. You also start forming new fat cells and gain weight. If you decrease your food intake, the size of the fat cells decreases but the number doesn't (so, it's better not to allow those new cells form in the first place!). So in addition to feeling hungry, your body thinks you are starving and tries to compensate by slowing down your metabolic rate. When your metabolic rate becomes slow, then your calorie burning also slows down.

Overweight and obese people have a higher rate of multiple medical problems like:

• Cardiac: High blood pressure, heart failure, heart disease
• Gastrointestinal: Gall stones, recurrent heart burn
• Endocrine: Diabetes, high lipids, menstrual irregularity, infertility
• Pulmonary: obstructive sleep apnea
• Musculoskeletal: Degeneration of knees, backache, disc herniation, osteoporosis, pathological fracture of bone
• Skin: various disorders (usually due to accumulated toxins in the fat cells)
• Cancer: various organs

Being overweight may be killing you slowly, but there is hope and help. If you are obese and need the services of a health coach to help you through this phase, send me a mail at essentialweightloss@gmail.com and if you are overweight and want to order Skinny Fiber to help you start your weight loss journey, click here

5 Steps to Wellness - Step 5 (Detoxification

While the previous steps of the 5 Steps to Wellness Series set the stage for wellness, the human body is currently exposed to a variety of toxins with which it was not designed to deal. These toxin categories accumulate in the body and eventually reach levels that cause all of today’s pain, sickness and disease. 

Toxin categories include: 

- chemical toxins

- food origin toxins

- environmental toxins

- cosmetic toxins

- medication/narcotic toxins

- metal toxins, injected toxins

- pathogens, arthropod toxins

- structural/surgical toxins

- electromagnetic toxins

- emotional toxins, and 

- inherited toxins. 

If you have any health challenges, or desire to maintain health, the toxin accumulation must be identified and eliminated. This is one of the most important facets to overcoming disease.

Elimination of these toxins is what allows the body to achieve its God-given miracle to heal. When the toxins are removed, the body is able to make new healthy cells rather than the same diseased duplicates. Think of it in terms of a wound with a splinter. You can take pain pills, antibiotics or even natural supplements every day, but if you don’t remove the splinter from the wound, the body will not be able to heal. 

Cleansing of toxins is THE KEY to maintaining or achieving health and wellness.

Keep in mind that the cleansing methods described in Step #4 can be done at home. They are designed to eliminate general toxic waste, poisons and toxins from the body. Many of the cleanses listed have done absolute miracles for many. Some toxins, like vaccine origin toxins, may be too specific for general cleansing methods to eliminate. We encourage you to do any of the cleansing described in Step#4.

Now, there you have it! You 5 steps to wellness. You can start reducing the amount of toxins that enter your body. But always remember that no matter how wonderful your diet and lifestyle has been or is now, there is no way to avoid all the toxins that are constantly being exposed to the body. No matter how sheltered or sterilized your living habits are, there is no way of avoiding all the toxins that eventually create the diseases that claim so many lives. If you are mindful of the choices you make each day, incorporate a moderately healthy diet and lifestyle and follow the 5-steps, you can attain and maintain great health. Begin your journey today, and live long enough to fulfill your destiny!

5 Steps to Wellness - Step 3 (Elimination)

If the body cannot eliminate waste normally, that waste will eventually accumulate into all areas of the body and be used as host material for the toxins listed in step #5. Elimination of waste is very important to health. Waste is created during the digestive process and the metabolic process, not to mention waste formed from all the foods we eat. Waste is also created when toxins accumulate and interfere with normal cellular functions. In today's society, with today's habits, normal waste is produced faster than the body can eliminate it.

When I talk about elimination, I am referring to bowel health. I don't want to say bowel movements because everyone thinks they are normal. That cannot be the case since colon cancer is the number one killer disease.

It has been stated that if the bowels eliminated all the waste material it received, the body would never have any pain, sickness or disease (Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, by Bernard Jensen). In this light, how many people have a healthy bowel? Keep in mind that healthy does not mean a bowel movement every morning, it doesn't even mean several bowel movements. The word "regular" means at least one bowel movement for each meal eaten, but even this rate of movement does not indicate "healthy" elimination. Just because the bowels are moving does not mean the bowels are releasing or dumping all the toxins accumulated in there.

According to Bernard Jensen's research, if the bowels eliminated properly and the environment of the intestine remained healthy (sufficient fiber, water and exercise), there would be little or no disease. The main cause of ageing is actually an excessive amount of toxins that accumulate and begin to stifle cellular regeneration. Many people believe acidophilus (also known as flora or good bacteria) to be of main importance to colon health and while it is extremely important (and included in step #4) flora will naturally replicate and be healthy if the environment of the intestine is good. 

Many people suffer with yeast or candida infections and most of that is what we call Opportunistic yeast. That means that it is fungus that is supposed to be in the large intestine as acidophilus. When the environment of the colon gets bad, these little guys leave the area. When they do this, they cause infection known as candida. So the greatest fix for most candida is actually bowel health.

Modern medicine has found that by the age of 50, the average person has accumulated 50 pounds of sludge in the large intestine. This is due to a lack of stimulation in the intestine. We have seen countless people increase energy and stamina and loose much of their belly weight and fat simply because they got rid of the extra sludge in the intestine. If you think about it, most people gain their weight around the waist and while people tend to think it is fat, much of it is nothing more than backed up waste that never found its way out of the intestine. The body knows that too many toxins will damage tissues, so it will begin to store extra toxins as fat and even tumors. If the environment of the intestine becomes healthy, much of that fat and misc growths just disappear into the toilet. All the extra toxins in the blood put extra stress on the liver, kidney and spleen, and keep the lymphatic system from draining. The lungs also suffer as they are the paired organ to the colon (five element theory).

It is important, no, it is vital, that your intestines are moving on a regular basis, which means at least once for every meal eaten, and that all the waste is exiting the body. Technically speaking, 95% of the food you eat should be coming out of the body. The 5% that is left is supposed to be the nutrition the body extracts from the food as it passes through the intestine. Of course, in today’s world, it is doubtful that 5% of what we eat is nutritious. Maybe fillers, colors, dyes and pesticides, but I doubt 5% of it is actually nutrition unless your diet is made primarily of fruits, vegetables and grains, so maybe we should expect more than the 95%. If any part of elimination is not functioning well, the body cannot detoxify and detoxification (step #5) is probably the single most important precursor to achieving true health.

Culled from HCMI

Watch out for Step #4. Healthy living is a process. Read on