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10 Practices That Result in Permanent Weight Loss

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If you want to lose weight permanently and sustain ideal body weight throughout your life, learn how to target healthy lifestyle habits and behavioral change now. By using the “10 Practices That Result in Permanent Weight Loss” you can live the lifestyle you need, want, and deserve now.

  • Find a daily activity that increases your metabolism 15-60 minutes a day and have fun doing it. Walking is the most natural form of aerobic activity we were born to do. Other excellent aerobic activity choices include biking, hiking, dance, yoga, exercise class, swimming, stationary home aerobic exercisers, yard work, etc. Any activity that moves the body and increases heart rate will benefit your fitness goals which include weight loss and healthy body weight.

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  • Consume 3-4 fruits and vegetable servings per day to keep the body’s fat burning furnace and immune defenses activated 24/7. If it is not possible to consume these servings daily for whatever reason, consider purchasing a high-quality C’s, B’s, D3 and Zinc and multi-antioxidant supplements to boost metabolism, immune and digestive and healthy skin, hair and nails and increased energy for an active lifestyle.

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  • Stay away from any diet plan that severely restricts macronutrients. Such as carbohydrates, proteins, or restricts 20% dietary fats. Eventually restricted diets cannot be sustained long term, add more weight throughout time, and increase health risks when any of the three macronutrients are left off the plate for extended periods of time. Instead focus on balanced macronutrient meals and total calories consumed. Make these two principles your dietary priorities. When you put this to practice daily, you optimize the total health of the mind and body while losing the weight and keeping it off for good.

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  • Breakfast, healthy snacks and daily hydration. Moderation and balanced macronutrient meal selection is important. But what you consume inbetween this time also counts. Begin the practice of healthy snacking with fiber filled macronutrient foods and drink more water to help curve appetite and feel less hungry throughout the day. Also be sure to eat breakfast daily. This is the most important meal of the day because it provides the nutrients and blood sugar needed to energize and ready the mind and body for optimum daily productivity. Your metabolisms health, energy levels and weight loss goal is dependent upon a 3-meal balanced macronutrient daily diet, healthy snacks and hydration. Remain mindful to add these calories into your total calorie count.

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  • Avoid eating after 7:30pm. The metabolism slows down with sedentary activities and especially during evening hours. If you do need to satisfy hunger after this time, build an addiction around a healthy fruit-nut, protein drink, etc., snacks. Oranges, grapes, apples, almonds, or other high fiber source are very satisfying. You will become addicted to these types of heart healthy snacks.

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Avoid alcohol when possible. Alcohol is responsible for much weight gain and weight loss failure. Too much cheer is also associated with illnesses and chronic disease conditions. If you do not want to quit drinking… consider switching over to red wine. One-to-two 8oz glasses have proven anti-cancer and healthy heart benefits based on resveratrol’s antioxidant polyphenol properties found in red wine. Do not consume more than 2 drinks on any given day. Alcohol has calories and too much of any type of alcohol is not good for you.

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  • Drink water throughout the day and have a full glass at the evening table, or while relaxing watching your favorite shows. Most feelings of hunger are not because the body needs more food. What the brain is really telling your stomach 9 times out of 10… drink more water. Food has water in it and the brain is often confused by what the body really needs. If you have a habit of snacking throughout the day, the body is extracting water from the foods you eat when it need to be hydrationed. When the body doesn’t get 2-3 liters of water a day, it will tell you to eat more food. Get in the habit of having a container filled with water near you throughout the day. The weight loss goal will be achieved much faster.

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  • When attending social functions where food is served, be sure to eat a small meal, or fibrous snack at least 2 hours before the event. You will not be as hungry and will consume less calories. Try drinking a glass of water before you think about consuming any calories at the event. This will make you feel less hungry and in control of drink and food servings/portions.

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  • Fast food meals should not be consumed more than once a week. There are so many hyperpalatable chemical additives and preservatives in processed foods. And they will not satisfy hunger for long and will make you want more. Many chemicals within processed fast foods are also associated with reactive illness and acute-to-chronic health problems when consumed long term… e.g., diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, etc. I will not tell you to give up these foods, instead, build a habit of choosing more organic alternatives for snacks, meals and when dining out and limit consumption of hyperpalatable foods.

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  • Avoid diet sodas and deserts that contain aspartame, splendid and spoonful additives, etc. Aspartame as a sweetener replacement goes by many brand names. Diet soda with these like-hyperpalatable sweetener additives. The aspartame industry has a long history where studies show a connection to obesity, diabetes and cancer, and other related disease in both adults and children at alarming rates.

“My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols such as xylitol and maltitol, and all of the other heavily used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict” [Dr. Mark Hyman, Good Reads, 2021].

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Unhealthy body weight is not an easy process to reverse for anyone who is now clinically obese. However, by targeting and changing bad habits and behaviors and applying the “10 Practices That Result in Permanent Weight Loss” it is truly possible to lose the weight once and for all and keep it off for good, and live the lifestyle you need, want and deserve now.

Author:  Marc T. Woodard, MBA, BS Exercise Science, USA Medical Services Officer, CPT, RET. 2008-21 Copyright, all rights reserved. Mirror Athlete Publishing @: www.mirrorathlete.org, Sign up for your free monthly eNewsletter.

Sleep Deprivations Connection to Weight Gain, Increased Health Risk and Death

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How many of you have a tendency to stay up late and then eat too much before bed time? Do you wake up with little energy and then eat too much throughout the day?  Believe it or not there is a connection between long term sleepless nights, increased weight gain, disease and death.

Many are also unaware how sleep deprivation changes habits and behaviors and mood long term and how that increases other health risks. Most importantly, “the lack of sleep also changes the balance of hormones in your body, especially ghrelin and leptin. [Learn more about sleep deprivation and sleep products by clicking on the image]

Ghrelin spurs you to eat, and leptin tells you when to stop. When you are sleep-deprived, your body creates more ghrelin and less leptin; this leads to more eating, additional calories, and extra weight gain” (Brooks 2014).

“In fact, have you ever experienced a sleepless night followed by a day when no matter what you ate you never felt full or satisfied? If so, then you have experienced the workings of leptin and ghrelin” (Bouchez 2014). [Learn more about Lepin weight loss products Now. Click on the Image]

When you don’t sleep “for whatever reason” your body releases more ghrelin and continues to burn energy and you feel hungry. Instead of sleeping, you’re prone to eat more after diner and snack late into the evening and throughout the next day. During evening hours, especially after 8pm… This is the worse time to eat as the body’s metabolism is at its lowest metabolic burn rate.

Your weight gain nemesis may also be directly related to any number of health, or environmental, or relational conditions and/or situations causing sleepless nights. As such, if not addressed and resolved will lead to a continuance of unhealthy behavioral habits that increase health risk and continued sleepless nights.

People with insomnia often wake repeatedly during the night and don’t feel rested in the morning. Insomnia can cause or worsen fatigue, already a symptom of depression. “Sleep is clearly linked with mental health and insomnia is considered a hallmark of depression” (Tracey 2014). [Click on image for insomnia information]

“For years researchers have known that adults who sleep less than five or six hours a night are at higher risk of being overweight. Among children, sleeping less than 10 hours a night is associated with weight gain. Now a fascinating new study suggests that the link may be even more insidious than previously thought. Losing just a few hours of sleep a few nights in a row can lead to almost immediate weight gain” (Parker-Pope 2013).

“Perhaps the largest study to track the effects of sleep habits on weight gain over a period of time was presented by the American Thoracic Society International Conference in 2006. The study that included nearly 70,000 middle aged women specifically pointed out those women who sleep 5 hours or less per night generally weigh more than women who sleep 7 hours per night” (Menopot 2014).

Within fat cells there is a physiological response to metabolic hormonal imbalances caused by sleepless nights. In other words, studies show us the longer one goes without sleep causes fat cells to malfunction by preventing its release of stored energy. And for those that experience chronic sleep deprivation – the risk of diabetes, circulatory and cardio health risk increases.

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To investigate, Matthew Brady at the University of Chicago and his colleagues tested fat cells taken from the bellies of seven adults after four nights of sleeping up to 8 and a half hours, and then again after four nights on a measly 4 and a half hours. The team found that after sleep deprivation fat cells from the same person were on average 30 per cent less responsive to insulin “a hormone that makes muscle, liver and fat cells take up glucose after a meal.”

“High blood glucose levels are linked to diabetes. Fat cells also normally release the appetite-regulating hormone leptin [tells you when to stop eating]. Brady suggests that if sleep-deprived cells are generally malfunctioning, this mechanism may also be disrupted, affecting weight gain” (Hamzelou 2012). [Click on the Buda to find diabetic treatment information and products]

Outside of environmental stressors and bad habits, there is a serious medical condition known as sleep apnea that causes many to lose sleep because of excessive snoring. Sleep apnea occurs during sleep and when muscle tissue is relaxed at the back of the throat in a way that partially occludes a clear airway. In some cases, as more weighted tissue is involved around the throat area, the structural airway integrity buckles and partially blocks the air passage. This buckling/blockage causes excessive snoring, lessens oxygen to the brain and is a cause of sleep deprivation and weight gain.

Those with sleep apnea repeatedly wake up because of snoring and occluded airway and May, or may not be consciously be aware of the problem. But in almost all cases, those with untreated sleep apnea rarely feel rested and are tired and hungrier throughout the day.

Sleep apnea is serious business because respiratory failure and other health risk have led to death. If you or spouse have a serious snoring problem, or stop breathing intermittently during sleep, or can’t sleep and have a difficult time with weight loss and are now obese, see a physician for referral to a sleep study test.

There is also a neurological condition that is not a mechanical breach or related to an overweight condition. Instead sleep apnea can occur due to the CNS (Central Nervous System) signaling the brain to stop breathing intermittently during sleep. This type of breathing interruption is less understood but can be treated in the same way as a mechanical blockage using a CPAP (Positive Airway Pressure) or dental device that keeps the airway open. Both mechanical and neurological medical conditions can also occur simultaneously. In any event, both can be medically treated.

Sleep Study Tests Will Show the Following Results: While asleep, those with sleep apnea unknowingly experience episodes where they stop breathing. This can occur 5-50 times per hour and up to 300 times during regular sleep. If the non-breathing episodes only last seconds or less, this does not appear to have a significant health risk to the body.  However, if one averages 30 non-breathing episodes per hour on average, and breathing stops for up to 10-second intervals between breaths, health risk increases and damage to the brain and heart may occur.

When we snore and wake up repeatedly, or get little sleep for whatever reason we don’t reap the benefit of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. While under REM our skeletal muscles are deeply relaxed and we dream and our food intake throughout the day is better regulated because our hormones and metabolism is refreshed, energized and balanced optimally.

It is especially important if you suffer from stress, anxiety, obesity, or respiratory disorder that causes sleepless nights, seek medical treatment. Treatment may include: CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), anti-anxiety, depression and/or behavioral therapy with, or without hormonal or other prescription drug treatment. If overweight you may also be tested for diabetes, heart and circulatory, etc., health problems.

Tests and treatment may include a sleep study test and thereafter – prescribed a CPAP, or other medical treatment to keep an open airway during sleep. [Learn more about sleep apnea and associated CPAP products by clicking on the image.

Regardless of what prevents you from getting a good night’s sleep and sustaining healthy body weight and achieving set fitness goals, it is possible to target the problem of your sleep deprivation and weight gain and reverse the course. Leading to improved health, fitness levels and wellbeing.

Works Cited and Article Resources,

Bouchez, Colette. “The Dream Diet: Losing Weight While You Sleep.” Review. Web log post. WebMD. WebMD, LLC., 2014. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Brooks, Dominique W., MD, MBA. “Sleep Deprivation and Weight Gain.” LoveToKnow. LoveToKnow Corp., 2014. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Hamzelou, Jessica. “‘Tired’ Fat Cells Might Trigger Obesity.” NewScientist. Reed Business Information Ltd., 15 Oct. 2012. Web. 20 Apr. 2014.

Menopot. “Insomnia and Weight Gain.” Insomnia and Weight Gain. Menopot, n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Parker-Pope, Tara. “Lost Sleep Can Lead to Weight Gain.” The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 18 Mar. 2013. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Tracy, Natasha. “Depression and Sleep Disorders.” HealthyPlace. HealthyPlace, 8 Sept. 2010. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Woodard, Marc T. “Defeat Anxiety and Panic Attacks.” Web log post. MirrorAthlete Fitness Secrets. MirrorAthlete Inc., 24 Nov. 2010. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Woodard, Marc T. “Sleep Apnea an insidious Angel of Death.” Web log post. MirrorAthlete Fitness Secrets. MirrorAthlete Inc., 23 July 2010. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.

Author: Marc T. Woodard, MBA, BS Exercise Science, ARNG, CPT, RET. 2014-20 Copyright. All rights reserved, Mirror Athlete Inc., www.mirrorathlete.org, Sign up for your Free eNewsletter.

Lose Weight With Super Foods!

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FacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedinmailThere is a lot of information on the Internet with regard to super foods as highly nutritious, antioxidants, diet weight loss enhancers and much more.

 Super foods are great antioxidants.  They are proven to minimize oxidization within the body.  Accelerated oxidization due to free radicals in the body causes the body to age and break down internal cellular structure at an increased rate dependant on the amount of free radicals versus antioxidants one incorporates into the daily diet.  Super foods are a great free radical fighter.  The analogy here is much like an apple skinned and exposed to air.  Without a protective skin the apple begins to oxidize and it turns brown.  This is because the apple is now spoiling and dying at a cellular level.  The mineral & vitamin nutrients (much like the exposed apple) we consume can oxidize before they can optimally benefit your health at the cellular level.  The scientific data shows that oxidization at an accelerated rate has a direct relationship on your DNA and impacts on an aging body’s metabolism, weight, illness and disease manifestation, etc.  If you want to stay healthy and fit even as you age, but just don’t have the time to eat right, I highly recommend you supplement your diet with high quality super food antioxidant vitamin mineral packs daily.  See our site Wellness Company, we have all natural supplements in a convenient AM/PM packs for virtually every diet and health scenario, also 100% satisfaction guaranteed.

 I’ve listed a few items that are not only super foods, but also healthy weight loss foods you can incorporate into your diet plan.  So if you are thinking about a healthy diet and/or weight loss program, I recommend adding one or two of these super foods to your daily food intake program.

    1)  Grapefruit – Known as a fat fighter, can be purchased in capsules, contains cancer fighting compounds, red grapefruit has been shown to lower triglycerides.
    2)  Sardines – Mass protein benefit and omega-3’s which boosts cardiovascular health, boost mood and stabilizes blood sugar. They are free of contaminants such as mercury and heavy metals and very inexpensive.
    3) Pumpkin – Canned pumpkin, or fresh pumpkin is loaded with fiber, easy to prepare.  Enhance flavor with cinnamon (blood sugar reducer), it’s filling and delicious.  There are many weight loss recipes based on pumpkin.
    4). Range fed beef – Range fed Beef is a great diet food, doesn’t contain antibiotics.  It is a high protein source, protein stimulates metabolism, you feel full longer and range fed is high in omega-3’s which provide many other benefits.
    5)  Green Tea – Is rich in antioxidants, promotes healthy heart, digestion, blood sugar regulation, body temperature, raises metabolic rate, and accelerates fat burning process.  Five cups a day is said to be the ultimate fat loss solution.  Green tea is also a natural relaxer, de-stressor.

If none of these super foods look appealing to you… Go to www.mirrorathlete.org and enter super foods into our health search engine at the top of the page.  You will see convenient links for further super food research and selections to further your weight loss goals.

Author:  Marc T. Woodard, MBA, BS Exercise Science, USA Medical Services Officer, CPT, RET.  2008 Copyright, All rights reserved.  Mirror Athlete Enterprises Publishing @: www.mirrorathlete.org, Sign up for your free monthly eNewsletter.