The Human Body

Is Yours at Risk?

You are not alone. There are billions of people worldwide in the same sinking boat.

The State of the Union

As a nation we are getting bigger and not necessarily better. We are challenging death with every extra pound. It’s not pretty. The CDC reports an increasing trend of obesity during the last three decades. Look around you. We have become convenience junkies. Fast food is easy and, you know, fast. We park as close to the door as we can. Restaurant serving sizes could feed a small starving nation. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but you get the point.

We eat too much, move too little, and then complain because we can’t see our toes. We don’t feel good. We’re tired, discouraged, depressed.

I Got Your BMI Right Here

Overweight and obesity are measurements along the same continuum. The most commonly used measurement is the body mass index (BMI), an estimate of body fat based on height and weight. Lower BMI good, higher BMI bad. Click here to estimate your BMI.

What is considered overweight varies by ethnicity. According to the World Health Organization, Asians with a BMI greater than 22.9 are overweight and all other ethnic groups with a BMI greater than 24.9 are overweight. As if that weren’t enough, and it hardly ever is, anybody with a BMI greater than 30 is considered obese. What's your BMI?

Health Risks

Before we run down this miserable list, consider how you feel about yourself. Good? Lousy? Avoid mirrors? Isn’t that reason enough to make a change?

If you are overweight, you run a higher risk of the following, in no particular order:

What to do?

Let’s keep this simple. Enough already about having “big bones.” Other than medical and/or genetic reasons, most of those extra pounds come from an energy imbalance –- we take in more calories than we burn.

We Eat too Much

We eat to feel good by distracting ourselves from some uncomfortable feelings, whether it’s stress, boredom, anger or any other unpleasant thought or feeling. Or, and this is my favorite, we eat to reward ourselves. Many times after a particularly hard day I have said, “There will be chocolate tonight!”

“Diet” is a four-letter word, headlining a $40 billion/year industry. Diets that have you counting, or limiting, or banning, or adding, or eating only their food products don’t work for overeating issues or long-term success.

Dieting often results in gaining back all of the lost weight and more in the longer run. Been there, done that? “Yo-yo” dieting, repeatedly losing weight and then gaining it back, may do more harm than good.

Please don’t buy those miracle fat burning pills. You’ve all seen these ads. Take a pill and the fat melts away, they claim. Do they work in the long run? Not for us, but those companies are laughing all the way to the bank.

I have a suggestion that is cheaper, easier, and works for the long term. Hypnosis is a very effective way to deal with overeating and weight loss.

We Move too Little

The recommended exercise guidelines keep changing. It gets confusing. Just know that doing something is better than doing nothing. Gentle lymphatic exercise is best for burning fat. If whatever you are doing causes you to pant (or worse, gasp), you are burning sugar, not fat. How about that? No need to strap on your shoes and run a few miles.

How many times have you told yourself you are going to start an exercise program? Did you start? How long did it last? Starting is not the issue, is it? You may have heard it takes 28 days to create a new habit, if you act consciously and consistently. Notice the emphasis.

All thoughts and beliefs reside in the subconscious mind. If the conscious mind introduces a new suggestion, such as an exercise program, the suggestion gets the boot from the critical factor because this behavior is too new, too bold, too different from what already exists in the subconscious mind. The new suggestion has no hope of becoming a habit unless it can bypass the critical factor and get planted in the subconscious mind.

How can we accomplish this? Say it with me . . . hypnosis!

Another Inconvenient Truth

We are what we eat.

Even if you make all the right food choices and keep an energy balance over time, the weight still creeps upward. What’s up with that?

We are not getting enough of the nutrients essential to the proper functioning of our bodies. Our soil bases have been over-farmed. The nutrients and microbes are not being replenished. Acid rain is killing off the soil bacteria that are needed by the plants to absorb the trace minerals that are critical for our body’s metabolic functions.

Our bodies are contributing to the problem. Cravings are mediated by our brain chemistry, which is controlled to some extent by the subconscious mind, but to a larger degree by the absorption of the proper nutrients.

Our food supply is nutritionally bankrupt but rich with insecticides and pesticides. Toxic foods make toxic bodies and our bodies continue to create fat cells as a protective mechanism against these impurities. As Ed Grimley would say, we are doomed as doomed can be, unless . . .


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