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I figured that would get your attention. Here’s the deal. Unfermented soy products, such as soy milk, soy ice cream, or soy nuts, are endocrine disrupters and mimic hormones in your body. They block the receptor sites in your cells for naturally produced hormones to lock into and interrupt the feedback loop throughout your entire endocrine system.
There’s a little thing known as pleasure that is highly underestimated in the world of weight loss, and I have to admit, I’m guilty of teaching it but not necessarily practicing what I preach.
In my last blog post, Sleep Time is Realignment -of- Energies Time, I talked about one of my most effective strategies I use to keep my energy aligned so that I am able to stay consistent with what I want to attract to me. Another strategy I use that I again borrow from Abraham-Hicks is the Upstream Downstream process.
Defensive driving is driving characterized by prudence, diligence and reasonable cautiousness with the goal of making the road a safe place not only for a defensive driver but for other people as well. Anyone who holds a driver’s license should be well-versed in this concept. So how in the world does it apply to eating? Well, considering the fact that the North American food supply has become tainted by genetically-modified organisms, chemicals, and processing, let me count the ways.
Most people think so, but I have an entirely different take on this topic which is nothing new because I’m generally the misfit in most circles. But I do consider myself the Queen of Cravings, or at least I used to be. I’ve craved it all. Sugar, chocolate, carbs – just about anything that’s associated with cravings I’ve craved. I’ve even had nonfood cravings such as cravings for new shoes, jewelry, and pocketbooks.
People really want their sleep ... Who could blame them? When I’ve experienced bouts of sleeplessness, it hasn’t been pretty. I’m a bear. Plus, it makes me manic and those around me aren’t all that happy about it either. Sleep is so fundamental to health. It effects brain function, cognitive ability, even your weight.
Summer’s almost over and soon we’ll be back to jeans, sweaters and for some of us, snow shoes. As with every change of season though comes the dreaded fear of whether your clothes from last season will fit or not. I know I’ve certainly felt this way before. It never fails to cross my mind if my jeans from last season will be too snug or if my favorite corduroy skirt will still fit, or if I’ll be reduced to buying a whole new wardrobe so I don’t have to endure the unsightly muffin top edging out over the top of my pants.
I was out to lunch last week with a friend who was complaining that she gained 4 pounds because she stopped counting calories and therefore fell off the proverbial wagon. She’d been logging her food religiously, right up til Christmas, and then, as she put it, “All hell broke loose.”
For a long while, I’ve been on a quest to prove what my mentor, Marc David, taught me about pleasure. He swears by Vitamin P (p for pleasure) and claims that without it, it’s virtually impossible to lose weight. As a culture, we are programmed to believe that the more punishing our lifestyle, as with exercise or depriving ourselves of foods we love, the more rewarding in terms of weight loss, yet the concept of pleasure completely turns this belief upside down. Even though at first I was skeptical, I have to say that the more I study it, and apply it, the more I agree.
Do you ever feel trapped, in a relationship, in a job, or even in the confines of your own mind? Setting boundaries is a big topic, one that deserves a lot of attention, and means a lot to me personally, because I used to never do it. But now, I consider it my #1 strategy to remaining calm and maintaining focus so that I don’t take on anyone else’s issues that aren’t mine to take on.
A recent post on Facebook got me thinking. A “friend” who sells a popular MLM product that promotes weight loss listed “appetite suppressant” as one of the benefits of using the product, which prompted me to ask, “Why would you want to suppress your appetite?” Interestingly, she never answered me back.
Milk. It does a body a good. Doesn’t it? For the past 6 months, I’ve been dairy free – for the most part. Sometimes it sneaks its way in unbeknownst to me. As diligent as I am about reading food labels, there are occasions when I miss an ingredient and before I know it, I’m eating it again.
In my work as a Certified Mind-Body Nutrition Coach, the one aspect I see consistently amongst my clients is how their emotions impact their eating, and yet most times they are completely oblivious to it until I point it out to them. When people approach me about working together, they almost always cite their lack of exercise and overeating as the reasons why they're overweight, and it never ceases to amaze me how naïve they are about why they're doing what they're doing, or not doing.
Who’s really at the table when you’re eating? Is it the adolescent you? The teenage you? The rebel? I find that one of the most overlooked aspects of eating is knowing who is in charge at meal time, yet undeniably there’s more than one identity involved and determining who they are and what drives them can help dissect your eating behaviors.
Have you ever noticed how easy it is for pets to lose weight? I have, and I’ve always been envious of it. A few years ago, my cat, Molly, who has since passed on, had a few extra pounds on her. She was a petite-sized cat and a few extra pounds on her was like 50 on me, but it always struck me how it never even bothered her. An extra 50 pounds on me would bother me, no doubt, but her 3 extra pounds – the equivalent of my 50 – were never top of mind for her. She ate and ate and ate, basked in the sun, and chased cat toys around the family room to her kitty heart’s delight.
I got the impression growing up that the only way someone would love me was when I was perfect, and that included my body. So to gain weight was really scary to me. I literally felt like no one would want me, especially men, unless I was supermodel thin, so every time I gained weight, I panicked.
Typical weight loss regimes involve pushing, forcing and shoving your way to success, coupled with denying yourself pleasure from food along with your natural instinct to slow down. As a culture, we tend to seek out low calorie diets, or the latest fad, vowing each time will be different, and punish ourselves at the gym as payback for our indulgences because for so many, enjoying food is a crime.