Skinny is not about a size zero. Skinny is about being in control of what you eat more than what your body looks like.
Skinny is about how your body feels. Skinny is having the ability to be at a healthy weight - looking great is a fabulous side effect.
It is no wonder America is obese.
I lost 100 pounds over a decade ago and have dedicated my life and career to helping women learn how to be free from their eating issues and get their skinny back.
Tiffany Wright, Ph.D., is the L.A. Skinny Coach and the founder of elementalyou™.
She earned her doctorate from the University of California in Personality Psychology with a special interest in Psychometrics. She worked with Steve Reise, David Funder and David Buss and is dedicated to the study of behavior and weight loss with an emphasis on controlling compulsive over eating behavior.
She is also unwaveringly committed to educating the public about the "new and improved" sugar industry and how they are poisoning our food supply and keeping us
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| 5 Simple Foods to add to your diet that WILL improve you! |
Everyday we discuss what we want to eliminate from our diets. Don't eat this food if you want to lose weight, don't eat that food if you want more energy, or quit eating that other food if you want to lower your cholesterol. Lets talk about good foods that can help you lose weight, bring you tons of energy and help improve blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol.
5 Simple Foods to add to your diet that WILL improve you!
*Coconut Milk: Better for you then soy, almond or dairy milk by far, this miracle juice helps you lose weight and contributes to a healthy body. This rich source of manganese helps maintain blood sugar places and also relaxes muscles and nerves, it also will keep skin elastic due to large amounts of copper. Phosphorus and iron rich, it builds strong bones and helps prevent anemia. This is hard to believe but 1 cup supplies a quarter of your daily value of iron. Coconut milk will even help you lose weight because it's super high in fiber making you feel full very quickly. As if this all is not enough; it will also help decrease joint inflammation, lower blood pressure, contribute to a healthy immune system, and finally promotes a healthy prostate. If you only add one thing on this list to your diet make it Coconut milk!
*Yogurt:
In multiple studies done over the last decade results have found that eating 1 cup of NONFAT PLAIN yogurt twice a day will help you lose over 80% more belly fat than those eating the same amount of calories but without the yogurt. They tried the same studies with milk, it didn't work, even with milk and probiotics it still didn't work. Bottom line, we don't know why it works but I'm talking about the only spot weight loss treatment that has ever been proven to work!
*Blueberries: Sweet tasty little morsels that are super good for you! These little balls of healthy living can help prevent diabetes, heart disease, stomach ulcers and high blood pressure. On top of that they can help tame inflammation throughout the body and can reduce "bad" cholesterol. So how about nonfat plain yogurt with blueberries for breakfast?
*Avocado:
Avocados get a bad wrap because they are high in fat and calories, but these delightful green veggies can help your body to fight heart disease, cancer and even degenerative eye disease... Yes please! The reason behind this is that avocado is full of "good" fat. This good fat is needed for the proper workings of your body. Avocados are a guilt free fat that will leave you healthier and satisfied.
*Wild Caught Alaskan Salmon:
Everyone knows that salmon is good for you. High levels of protein, lots of vitamin D, all your B vitamins, and of course, the brain boosting omega-3s. But what most people don't know is that if you are not eating "WILD CAUGHT ALASKAN" salmon, you might as well be ingesting poison. Most salmon at the store or in your local restaurant is farmed and pumped with red dye to make it look more appealing- this type of fish is associated with numerous environmental concerns, including water pollution, chemical use, parasites and disease. The contaminates are dangerous so it's better to eat no salmon at all then to eat dirty farmed salmon.
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Help I have high triglycerides AND my blood sugars are high. My friend called me yesterday and told me his doctor has informed him the news and then his doctor said exercise more.
ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME.
How long are doctors keep going to say exercise if they are fat or sick. Exercise has a LIMITED effect on weight loss and also a limited effect on blood sugars*.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE FOOD
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When you eat flour or sugar you body produces the hormone insulin. Insulin is converted in the liver into glycogen, glycogen is used to feed the brain and muscles.
Excess glycogen is converted in the liver into triglycerides. The triglycerides do one of two things
1. The remain in your blood stream THUS high triglycerides. By the way the problem with high triglycerides is it thickens your blood increasing the chance of heart attack and stroke.
2. The excess insulin - glycogen -triglycerides are stored as belly fat. When you have excess glycogen it is converted into triglycerides and stored in the belly. To add insult to injury excess insulin sends a hormonal message to NOT RELEASE stored fat.
Excess insulin/glycogen also causes hunger. Because a rise in insulin results in lower blood sugar at first and this results in hunger - usually less than a couple of hours after you eat and usually in the form of a craving for sweets - of course, starting the process once again.
What can you do? Well once you have high triglycerides you can eat more oatmeal, and flax and walnuts. You can take fish oil. You can exercise. But nothing is going to have a more dramatic effect than to reduce or eliminate flour and sugar from your diet.
If you have high triglyceride levels or store weight in your belly I can tell you unequivocally that the eyou diet will solve the problem and will do so within a matter of weeks.
Please fill out the following quiz and I will be happy to schedule a free 1 hour consultation do discuss some of the dietary changes you can make.
*I am not advocating couch sitting. Yes, exercise is good for heart disease, mood, etc.. PLEASE 45 minutes of aerobic exercise a day and weight bearing exercise 3 times a week.
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| HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS DOUBLE CHOCOLATE MILK SHAKE? |
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If you are wondering why you cant stay on a diet maybe you are a food addict.
Do you eat more than you planned?
Do you often feel sluggish from overeating?
Do you need to eat more to "feel better"?
do you go out of your way for food?
A new study from Yale found that women who answered yes to these questions had specific responses in the brain compared to those that did not answer yes to these questions.
When looking at a chocolate shake the reward centers of the brain are activated in the food addict. These are the same areas that are activated in an alcoholic when they see alcohol. AND it gets even worse, when the shake is consumed the area of the brain that controls inhibition, the part of the brain that says slow down, is not activated in the food addict.
What this means is there is a biological response to food that is addictive and compulsive in certain people making the issue of losing weight and controling eating much more complicated.
The eyou diet addresses both the biological and psychological aspects necessary to break this addictive response and help you lose weight. Go to www.eyoudiet.com and take the food addiction quiz and you I will get a free live phone session to help you with some of your issues and figure out what it is that is going on with you and your eating.
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| Food Porn - Orange County Style |
County Fairs have been around as long as counties have been around. The excitement of the sights, the events, the rides... is palatable. But what is it that we really go for, I mean really? THE FOOD of course. Everywhere I looked I saw food, food glorious food. Of course, as I looked longer I began to realize that it was not so glorious. Fair food has been bastardized into the macabre representation of American.
Only in America where the obesity rate is 67%, only in America where OUR cheese (American cheese) is actually not cheese but a food-like substance, only in America where we cut our stomachs out rather than shut our mouths would there be chocolate covered bacon, maple bacon donuts, glazed donut bacon cheeseburgers, chicken fried bacon, and, of course, deep fried twinkies, deep fried mac-n-cheese, deep fried Kool Aid (yes), deep fried dough, deep fried avocado, deep fried brownies, deep fried Klondike bars, deep fried candy bars and the beloved deep fried butter.
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And boy ohh boy we love our food. Or do we? I saw children, men and women all over the fair fixated on the chili cheese fries - salivating while in line and before the last bite of their BBQ pig sandwich is stuffed in their mouths, their eyes wandering to the Indian Fry Bread. The people did not seem happy, they seemed to be in a coma-like trance as they opened their mouths and carried their huge bellies around the food stands, one after another. No, they did not seem to like what they were doing.
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It occurred to me how lucky I am when one of my friends looked at me with sympathy as she swallowed a deep fried corn dog "I'm sorry you can't eat." I am lucky that while I used to love a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich, I can choose no. I can choose no to cotton candy and deep dish pizza and caramel apples. I can choose no to a fat stomach, heart disease and size 22 shorts. I can enjoy the rides, I can dance to the music, I can wear a sexy little summer dress and light heels and I can enjoy the people around me. I am LUCKY to be free from the food that is killing my friends, my neighbors and more than 2/3's of Americans.
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The elementalyou program is for those people - those people that can't say no, that go home sick, fat and tired because they ate themselves miserable. If you are sick and tired of eating what you don't want to eat. If you are unable to stop yourself meal after meal from eating too much of the wrong things - you are not alone and there is an answer. I can help you find your skinny and your peace. Please feel free to fill out the food addiction quiz and we can schedule a free session together. If you want to stop your obsession with food and you want to lose weight - there is an answer, the eyou answer. YOU can be a Skinny Girl.
Ask the Skinny Coach.
Do you have a question about how to find your skinny?
Ask me anything. I can help you.
Do you have a story you would like to share - write me and tell me about your struggles and successes with food, sugar and weight.
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| Sabotage, my husband said I can't do it? |
It is human nature to have hope. We all have more trust and belief in ourselves than we think we have. Once inspired you can do anything and you know it. But we do not live in an emotional vacuum. We are communicative beings and what the people around us say, don't say - do and don't do effect us and our feelings of power and self worth.
AND YOU DONT KNOW IT IS HAPPENING because you give yourself up one molecule at a time.
Before you know it you are believing your husband when he says that you have failed every other diet so this one won't work. Even when you know at every level of you being that this will work, that you found your answer, that you are ready - you believe him because.... "he knows me."
Yes, all the diets in the past failed. That is true for everything you did not conquer on the first try. You failed riding a bike until you did not fail anymore. You failed at swimming until you did not anymore. EVERYONE of my Skinny Girls FAILED on every diet they had ever been on UNTIL the eyou diet, including me.
Just like we all have to become aware of how to swim and once we do we never forget - we all can succeed at having a thin and healthy body - that is our natural self, you just need to become aware of how and once you do you will be skinny forever.
I make damn sure that the eyou program is "foolproof" because I will not contribute to one more failed dream or hope. I do absolutely everything in my power to make sure that my Skinny Girls are successful - no matter what - so that they have renewed faith and belief. They not only get skinny, healthy and happier - they are reminded that YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.
LIFETIME program means just that, we work together everyday until you ARE AWARE and you can swim on your own.
No one knows you except you. Please don't let anyone take the trust you have in yourself to do what you can do. Because you can do it.
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| Strengthen your willpower: How to |
It is very psychically damaging and debilitating to tell yourself that you are going to eat better today, and then don't, to tell yourself that you are not going to have a second piece of chocolate and then have it… it is a day after day, meal after meal, onslaught of disappointment, failure and lack of trust. This can have a profound effect on how you feel about yourself and your power over the world and it will permeate everything that you do.
Self control and self discipline is a muscle and when worked and used becomes stronger and more efficient. Each time that you garner control over an impulse that impulse not only lessens but your ability to control other impulses gets more attune and efficient.
I will give you a personal example, when my client, Samantha calls me and tells me that it is was so difficult for her to drive past Starbucks because she is so used to having a Frappuccino everyday after work and she is proud of herself. I tell her , "Listen Samantha, that is great that you drove past Starbucks but I want you to know that you did not succeed just this time, by doing that today next time will be easier too! And before you know it the association of driving past Starbucks and not stopping will be more prevalent than stopping. You will no longer need to use self control because it won't occur to you anymore – you have a new association. Additionally, each time you say no, every single time, you are strengthening your will "muscle" you are telling your self in a very conscious and unconscious way that you are not a liar, that you do what you say and that you have the ability to choose."
I have a friend who has lost 50 pounds and has about 20 pounds to lose and he SMOKES too. I feel a strong need to encourage him to quit smoking, he is almost 50 years old and has been smoking his whole life, but because he is doing so well with his weight loss I think it is probably better to let him strengthen his will power muscle, gain control over the eating and then when he is ready to quit smoking he will know he can do – he has control, he chooses his behavior, it is his choose and he can make that decision and do it.
So go out and exercise your willpower muscle – every time you say no, every time you clean the house instead of put it off, each time you resist the urge to honk your horn and every time you put down that donut you are getting stronger and better.
Ask the Skinny Coach.
Do you have a question about how to find your skinny?
Ask me anything. I can help you.
Do you have a story you would like to share - write me and tell me about your struggles and successes with food, sugar and weight.
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| Did You Find YOUR INDEPENDENCE? |
Did you vow last July 4th to start your diet Monday? How did it go? How many days .. hours .. before you fell off the diet bandwagon, again? If you cannot control what you put in your mouth how can you feel free in any area of your life? Independence is freedom- freedom to choose, freedom to eat what you want, and freedom to not eat what you don’t want. It is freedom to be a skinny girl, to wear a size 6 again, to feel slim in shorts and a tank top.
Fill out the eyou quiz at www.elementalyou.com/quiz.html
When I was 100 pounds overweight I used to dream of being skinny. But it turned out that once I lost the weight it was not what I loved the most. The greatest part about elementalyou, for me and for most of my clients is not the weight loss - it is the freedom from the obsession - the freedom from dieting and the freedom from thinking about my body and what I was eating.
IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE! TIME FOR SKINNY! I want everyone to have the freedom that my skinny girls and I have found.
Fill out the eyou quiz at www.elementalyou.com/quiz.html and call me to find out how to get started - 310 633 1333
Time is passing. In two months you will either still be trying to find an easier or cheaper way to lose the weight OR you will already have lost 20 pounds and found freedom from dieting and obsessive over eating. If you ever thought about elementalyou, if you ever wanted to get skinny, now is your time. My advice? Invest in yourself and get the support you need to live your dreams and finally be able to wake up, bounce out of bed and slip on your perfect skinny jeans.
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Jill lost 17 pounds in the last 28 days!
"I'm loving the freedom of planning my meals ahead of time and sticking with my choices the next day. Great program, Tiffany!"
-Victoria
“Regardless of the pounds and inches, I feel like I've gained a sense of freedom from craving and eating foods that clearly lead to guilt and even more so, I'm no longer agonizing over why I ate so much of this or that.”
-Pattie
"Things with life are getting better. For the first time ever, I don't emotionally eat. elementalyou has given me me back my FREEDOM. Day 56 and I am down 22 pounds"
-Jaimie
"I lost 12lbs and 23 inches my first 28 days"
-Shawn
Fill out the eyou quiz at www.elementalyou.com/quiz.html and call me to find out how to get started - 310 633 1333
Ask the Skinny Coach.
Do you have a question about how to find your skinny?
Ask me anything.
I can help you.
Do you have a story you would like to share - write me and tell me about your struggles and successes with food, sugar and weight.
tiffany@elementalyou.com |
Thin, fit people make more money, we have known that for decades. A recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology demonstrated that weight has a significant impact on a woman's pay - the fatter you are the less money you make. In fact, skinny women make on average $22,000 more dollars per year than average-weight woman.
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research is also very clear, skinny women are healthier and live much longer lives than average-weight women. While it might not "be fair" and it might be discriminatory, it is certainly based on an assessment of what is healthy and not on an unrealistic or sick perversion of the female form.
I find this study particularly fascinating because I talk to women all the time that are desperate to lose weight, desperate to get skinny, know that the eyou diet will work and say they can't afford it - they do not make enough money.
Maybe next time someone says that, instead of saying, "well, call when you are ready" or "you know losing weight will take years off your life" or "but you said you did not want to have sex with your husband because of your weight gain" or "but you said that you go to bed miserable every night and wake up and have nothing to wear," or "but you were just told by your dr. that if you lost weight you would not have diabetes anymore" instead of all that, next time I hear "it costs too much" I will simply say that being fat can cost them $22,000 dollars a year!
If you are ready to get skinny. If you are ready to add years to your lifespan. If you are ready to want to get naked again. If you are ready to go to bed happy and wake up skinny with lots of things in your closet to wear. If you are ready to make more money - take the eyou quiz and we will make it all happen!
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Ask the Skinny Coach.
Do you have a question about how to find your skinny?
Ask me anything.
I can help you.
Do you have a story you would like to share - write me and tell me about your struggles and successes with food, sugar and weight.
tiffany@elementalyou.com |
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Weight Loss Confidential:
Not all calories are created equal |
For every 100 calories of carbohydrate you consume your body expends 5 to 10 calories in digestion, for fat calories even less. However, for every 100 calories of protein you consume, you body needs 20 to 30 calories to digest it.
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Normally as the calories go through your tummy and reach your small intestine most of the nutrients are absorbed. Fat is digested fairly well. Protein and all animal sources are also fairly digestible. Plant sources are the least digestible. What does that mean? complex carbs like vegetables and whole grains block the absorption of calories, including other calories! In fact, a very high fiber diet, like the eyou diet, can block up to 20% of the calories you consume. A research article in the Journal of Nutrition found that a high fiber diet leaves up to twice as many calories undigested as a low fiber diet.
WHAT TO DO?
If you want to lose weight, this is the hot tip: eat protein at every meal and consume at least 40 grams of fiber a day.
It took years for me to figure out why my skinny girls who eat so much food - lose so much weight so quickly. We know the answer now. Donna lost 21 pounds her first month and is still on the eyou diet over a year later! Go Skinny Go.
photo: Martin Cathrae/Creative Commons via flickr
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Ask the Skinny Coach.
Do you have a question about how to find your skinny?
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I can help you.
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| Skinny saves (you money!) |
| I help women lose weight and take control of what they put in their mouths. After a potential client has poured her heart out to me, cried, laughed and told me that she is ready to get skinny and that elementalyou is perfect for her, sometimes the next thing she says is “I can’t afford it.” Money is on everyone’s mind these days. Nevermind that McDonald's stock |
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went up 10% this quarter (they are “lovin’ it!”)
Economic hard times push people to eat cheaper food and what could be cheaper than the fast food dollar menus. Hard times also produce stress and stress leads people to self-medicate. The drugs of choice for many, when self-medicating, are sugar, fat and refined foods. But make no mistake about it, your health is your most important asset and being overweight taxes your health and life in so many ways; naming ALL of the costs of being overweight would make this a novel - not a blog entry. But some of the costliest, and most obvious side effects of being overweight include: overweight people are more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and stroke.
Being overweight not only burdens your health, it is a burden on your purse. What are some of the costs of being fat? Well, aside from the fact that eating more costs more, there are many other costs associated with being fat. If you are overweight you are less likely to get hired and once hired you will get paid less. In fact, fat people tend to make less money and accumulate less wealth in their shorter lifetimes than their skinny counterparts. It chips away at your earning power and efficiency - and happiness. There's some research that suggests that overweight people are even less likely to be married and stay married.
I found this at:
http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2007/04/lose_weight_and.html
Here's how they add up the savings:
* Latte factor: $783
* Life insurance: $275
* Health insurance: $680
* Health-care costs: $151
* Employer incentives: $600
If you took these savings each year and invested them at 8%, in 20 years, you'd have almost $114,000. Do it for 30 years and it's $282,000. 40 years gets you $645,000. This makes getting skinny pocket change. Can you really afford not to take care of your health and body? I say start saving money... it is your body and you deserve skinny.
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WIf you are still thinking that obesity is about willpower or emotional weakness and psychological problems then here is yet more evidence proving that food is addictive, especially food that is high in sugar.
Women that report compulsive eating habits have physiological responses in the brain exactly like drug addicts. Using MRI's, is has been demonstrated that seeing a milkshake triggers brain activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and the medial orbito-frontal cortex of the brain. Both of these areas are implicated in drug addicts urge to use drugs like cocaine. This means that compulsive over eating is driven by an overly excitable or enhanced anticipation of the rewarding properties of food.
Some people, namely people addicted to food, will react with physical, psychological and behavioral changes when exposed to the food. This, of course, directly implicates advertising in the obesity problem. Do you remember when they stopped allowing cigarette and alcohol commercials? They did so for the same reason.
Bottom line, if you find that you can't stop eating bread, pasta or pastries after you start, of if you see a commercial for ice cream and have to have it, you have issues more than willpower and you probably need help to overcome these issues and lose the weight. You will never be able to moderate your intake just like a drug addict can not moderate her heroin use.
Personal support and counseling, abstinence from the substance, accountability, group support are all needed to help overcome these physiological imbalances and predilections. Fill out the eyou quiz and we can see if the elementalyou practice is what you need to lose your weight and break your addiction.
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| All calories are not created equal |
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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has reported for the first time that whole grain intake reduces belly fat (measured either as waist circumference or intra-abdominal, visceral fat by CT scan.) AND importantly, refined grain intake actually increases belly fat.
For years people have said a calorie is a calorie. Intuitively we all knew this could not be true. The research is finally justifying the simple truth that it is not that simple. Different foods have different effects on our bodies and are processed more efficiently.
We know that eating whole foods have a plethora of health benefits. Brown rice, oatmeal, quinoa all have been documented to lower risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, lower blood pressure, and on and on. However, it has never been academically documented that it actually decreases belly fat. YES my friends it is a spot reducer.
Refined foods, like sugar and flour, have been "refined" OF fiber, vitamins and minerals and other important plant compounds. These empty carb, these refined carbs, cause our blood sugar to spike and this spike causes a flood of problems throughout our body that it then has to deal with, including sever carbohydrate cravings.
Now we know that by eating whole carbs, by eliminating sugar and flour, we can lose 10% more weight in our belly than those who continue to eat bread, pasta and cookies. That is a pretty big effect if you have a belly and can't seem to lose that last 10 pounds or if you have 100 pounds to lose and you want to do it FAST but healthy.
The eyou program does eliminate sugar and flour and it is fool proof. Through private coaching, support and years of experience, Tiffany Wright, Ph.D. the L.A. Skinny Coach will guide you daily though learning how to eat and manage the bad days, stressful events, habits and learned behavior.
You are not in this alone. Fill out the quiz at www.elementalyou.com and you will be contacted to schedule your free 1-hour lose your belly fat consultation.
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| Fat cells do more than just keep you fat |
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Fat cells do more than just keep you fat they produce hormones. Fat cells produce inflammation molecules. These molecules do a lot of damage on your metabolism by increasing your appetite, slowing fat burning and increasing stress hormones. Of course, you get excess fat cells from too much stress, too much sugar, too much refined foods, too much fat, and over exposure to toxins, pesticides and allergens.
This is why it is not simply calories in and calories out. A diet high in poor-quality food like sugar, fat, salt and flour triggers your body to release inflammatory messages that break down your metabolism systems and guarantee a fat and flabby body.
Once you replace these foods with good carbohydrates and supplemented with high quality fish oils your body immediately responds with dramatically increased metabolic functioning and weight loss.
The eyou diet includes everything you need to reduce inflammation and I support you in finding the supplements that further help your health. It is not uncommon to have a 15-20 pound weight loss the first month to 6 weeks for those women that came to me with high inflammatory markers.
Lose the weight easily and effectively and in good health.
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Do you remember those old commercials with the whole egg- “This is your brain.” Then the egg is cracked into a hot frying pan- “This is your brain on drugs.” That commercial could have said-“This is your brain on sugar.” The effect of sugar on your brain is frighteningly similar to the effect of drugs on your brain. Sugar is just another white powder- like cocaine; in fact, current research shows that intense sweetness surpasses the cocaine reward response in the brain.
Bart Hoebel is a Professor of Psychology, in the Program of Neuroscience, at Princeton University. At the recent Obesity and Food Addiction Summit, Hoebel presented 10 years of research that was designed to test the theory that sugar can be addictive. The results were conclusive -sugar is addictive. Sugar, said Hoebel, triggers production of the brain's natural opioids. Opioids are the brain’s feel-good chemicals. "We think that is a key to the addiction process," he said. "The brain is getting addicted to its own opioids as it would to morphine or heroin. Drugs give a bigger effect, but it is essentially the same process."
When you eat sugar, a multitude of physiologic processes take place that affect your entire body, and especially your brain. Sugar and sugar products are so devoid of fiber and other nutrients that they digest rapidly, raising blood glucose. So you get a rush of energy, your brain releases dopamine and endorphins and you feel happy, calm, relaxed and self-confident. just like an addict does when they use drugs. But the quick raise in blood sugar falls quickly as well, causing rapid mood swing and leads to depression, anxiety, frustration and exhaustion, just like "coming down" from a drug induced high. This leads to another craving for another "quick pick me up," much like a "fix" for a drug user.
In the recent studies, after a few weeks of bingeing on sugar, the animals being tested showed neurochemical changes in the brain similar to what is seen with addictive drugs such as heroin. When the animals were given naloxone, a drug that block’s the brain’s opioid receptors, they showed signs of withdrawal such as teeth chattering, anxiety and changes in dopamine release similar to morphine, alcohol or nicotine withdrawal. If the animals couldn’t get sugar, they showed increased hyperactivity in response to amphetamine and were prone to drinking alcohol! Sound familiar?
Serge Ahmed is a scientist who specializes in addiction research in Bordeaux, France has found that virtually all the animals he tested preferred saccharin sweetened water over intravenous cocaine, a highly addictive drug. Interestingly, this preference for saccharin is not attributable to sugars unnatural ability to induce sweetness without calories, because the same preference was also observed with an equal concentration of sucrose (a natural sugar) sweetened water. This finding suggests that it is not the chemical makeup of the substance itself that is addictive, but rather the reaction of your body to tasting it and the subsequent neurochemical reaction that is addictive. So, all sweetened foods may be addictive, not just sugar sweetened foods!
The research also showed that sweetened water was preferred over cocaine. The animals tested were more willing to work for sweetened water than cocaine, even if they had to work harder to get it. What does it mean? Sugar or calorie-free sweetener sweetened water is more addictive than cocaine!
Ahmed and his partners speculate that the addictive potential of intense sweetness results from an inborn sensitivity to sweet tastants; in most mammals, our sweet receptors on our tongues evolved in ancestral environments poor in sugars and are thus not adapted to high concentrations of sweet taste. This means that when we eat sweet foods, which are highly available in today’s society, they act as supranormal stimuli (super stimulants), creating a super reward signal in our brains and that has the potential to override self-control mechanisms. By definition, a supernormal stimulus is more effective than naturally occurring stimuli in controlling behavior and therefore can override normal behaviors. These combined factors make sugar addiction almost unavoidable!
The DMS-5 comes out next year and food addiction will be listed as a substance abuse addiction. Finally the research is catching up to what we who have this issue already know. This is not an issue of willpower. But you are not alone and with the right help and the right diet you can beat the food industry at their game.
If you want to know how, please fill out the food addiction quiz at my site and I will call you and we can discuss what your options really are. Summer is coming and you are going to be fat again this summer if you don't do something different. I will help you and you will be skinny for summer.
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| Overeating is Not an Emotional Issue |
Obesity being a sign of self hate is a popular notion in the pop psychology field. Geneen Roth goes as far as saying "the issue is really not about the food" its about your disconnection with God. Oprah sang the praises over a year ago, saying she finally found the answer - yet she is still obese - which is killing her fast.
I am not surprised that people capitalize on the inherent insecurities involved with weight and women and blame the woman, some how it is her fault, she is weak, disconnected, emotionally struggling.
But, obesity is not an emotional issue. It just simply is not.
For years, alcoholism was thought also to be emotional issue. We now know conclusively that it is not. It is a bio chemical and bio neurobiological issue AND has a strong heredity component - both of which are more strongly associated with a person becoming an alcoholic than is their environment, childhood abuse or trauma or personality.
Obesity is also a bio chemical and bio neurological issue. Yes, a few pounds here or there might be to comfort yourself during a break up or in the winter or when you are sad. NOT 30 pounds over years of struggling and dieting. Food, in particular sugar and flour, release a series of strongly pleasing neurochemicals in your brain. This process is addictive and is progressive and it is driven by the same neurobiological mechanism in the brain as drug addiction.
Over-consumption of refined foods (sugar and flour and anything with sugar and flour) triggers addictive neuroadaptive responses in the brain reward circuitries. Specifically, dopamine which is a neruotransmitter that is released by pleasurable experiences like sex. When we eat refined carbs there is a significant decrease in dopamine receptors which means dopamine is in the system longer and results in an incredibly pleasurable experience. Refined foods, like cocaine also damage the receptors so that pleasure is more difficult to achieve without the drug of choice.
Additionally, starting the very next day after an incidence of refined food overeating, which is the equivalent of some pizza and soda, the brain is changed in a way that is consistent with a person that is overeating for several weeks. Which means that that refined food overeating is habitual in the same manner and through the same mechanism as drugs.
While being fat is emotional and you might eat to cover up, hide the pain, check out - it only works to do those things because it is a drug that makes you feel better.
If you find that you can not control what you put in your mouth. If you find that you are spending too much time and thought on food, do you feel hopeless about your relationship with food, do you feel like you are not yourself - like you don't recognize the person in the mirror? Do you eat when your not hungry? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Then you probably are having some degree of addictive reaction to certain foods. Just like with all addictive substances the only known answer is abstinence. You will have to learn to not eat refined foods - not a little, not in moderation, not on special occasions. Moderation does not work when you are dealing with a neurobiological addiction.
If you want to know how, please fill out the food addiction quiz at my site and I will call you and we can discuss what your options really are.
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| 3 Things You Must Do to Lose the Belly Fat |
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What is going on with that growing stomach? Why? all of a sudden, do you have a tummy and can’t lose it? Unfortunately, mother nature is wildly against us as we age. Several things happen to make a bigger waist almost inevitable.
First, as we age, estrogen levels decrease and as estrogen drops the weight goes to your belly instead of your hips. On top of that belly fat is very chemically active. It is constantly releasing fatty acids which in turn create high insulin levels in your blood. Insulin's job it is to remove glucose from your blood for energy use. So to add insult to injury, when insulin is overproduced what is not removed is stored as ABDOMONAL FAT. And on top of that, when insulin levels are high, your appetite increases and makes you crave refined carbs which in turn makes you feel hungrier.
But there is more bad news, as we age we lose fat burning muscle, at a rate of ½ pound of muscle a year, which of course means you gain fat –at a rate of 1/3 of a pound a year of just fat.
What else?
As your hormones decrease with age the lining of the intestines become much more sensitive leaving sugar to ferment longer in the digestive track which drastically increases your sensitivity to carbohydrates.
If you continue to eat the way you always have you are guaranteed to have a larger waist circumference and a fatter belly. The ONLY way to counter act your growing waist is to keep the insulin level low and the blood sugar balanced.
What can you do?
Glucagon is the hormone that balances insulin and glucagon is stimulated by protein. Glucagon literally pulls the fat out of the cells and once glucagon is high it remains in your system for around 4 hours, which means you are burning fat and you are NOT HUNGRY.
This means you need to have protein at every meal, never eat any carbohydrate alone and completely remove all added sugar and flour from your diet. No pizza, no bread, no pasta, no agava or honey or sugar and you will keep a small waist, flat belly and slim body.
Can'’t live without those foods? Then you will not ever have that flat belly you used to have. And frankly, you have had enough pizza and cupcakes. You have had over 35 years of it. If you want your body back this is the only solution.
There are other suggestions based on research that I can share with you.
Please fill out the eyou quiz and I will call you for a free one hour lose your belly fat consultation.
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| Can I bum a burger from you? |
Smoking vs. Fat Belly? Which is worse for your health? Would you believe smoking is a healthier alternative to being fat? Well it is, and by a long shot. When compared to smoking, heavy drinking and poverty, being overweight cost significantly more money and causes many more chronic health conditions.
Obese people (by the way that is 5’3 and over 168 pounds or 5’6” and over 185 lbs) spend more on both medical services and medication than daily smokers or heavy drinkers and they also have a much higher increase in chronic conditions. Being fat is the equivalent of aging from 30 years old to 50 years old.
To add insult to injury even though smoking only effects 19 percent of the population and heavy drinking only effects 6 percent, while obesity effects almost 60% of the American population - we do not have any measures, such as increased education, access control, taxation, protections for minors, curbs on advertising or even increased clinical attention to counter the obesity epidemic level threat to public health.
If you are wondering if you should lose weight, remember that you are killing yourself more effectively with that 30 pounds than if you smoked a pack of cigarettes a day.
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January 2, 2011
2011 - Happy? |
New Years Resolutions are often LOSE WEIGHT --- and for a reason. The New Year brings new hope. If you want to stop binging, overeating and breaking your diet, if you want a long term solution to your life long weight problem, if you want to be able to control what you put in your mouth then I guarantee if you follow the elementalyou program you will have what you want. I can put you in touch with handfuls of people that started the eyou diet at the beginning of 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and are skinny and happy! Talk to the Skinny Girls directly!
Simply fill out the eyou quiz and get your one hour weight loss assessment and I can give you the number to skinny girls that have been there and done it. See what it is like to work with me and see why you will lose the weight in 2011. If you fill out the quiz now you will get in the 2010 price that will be going up in the coming year - while your weight will be going down. I will also tell you the one thing you can do to lose the belly fat for good. Take the eyou quiz
Are you suffering?
Do you wake up sluggish and dreading putting on your clothes because nothing is comfortable and nothing fits?
Do you take off your clothes and get in sweats or pajamas the minute you walk in the door?
Do you start a new diet every year? Do you start a new diet at least once a month maybe every Monday?
Are you suffering?
From
- Being overweight
- Low energy
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Bloating and constipation
- A fat belly that will not flatten
- High Cholesterol
- High Blood Pressure
- FOOD CRAVINGS
With elementalyou you will get to the root cause of you weight issues and weight gain and get rid of that fat, saggy cellulite and replace it with your sexy, toned, skinny self.
The eyou diet is a rapid fat and weight loss program- you will lose fat fast and in a healthy way.
The eyou diet is NOT
- a calorie restrictive or a calorie counting diet,
- a high protein or low carb diet,
- there are no special foods and you can eat most of the foods you normally eat, including red meat, chicken, pork, fish, potatoes, rice, quinoa, mild, yogurt and all the fruits and veggies that you can think of.
- NO pills, no surgery, no injections.
The elementalyou program is a healthy fulfilling diet of simple, whole foods combined with support, coaching and accountability that will ensure that you will finally be done with this problem. You will be thin just like me and my skinny girls.
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I lost 100 pounds over 12 years ago and it was easy. I was fat my entire life and could not stay on any diet - I tried them all, then I found the solution and have never had a moment of trouble since.
YOU CAN TOO - Click here to take the eyou quiz
But don’t take my word for it – listen to the
eyou skinny girls:
Kathleen, 85 pounds, over a year, "One of the best things about going
on elementalyou has been the freedom: the freedom from resolutions,
the freedom from striving to be "good" all the time, the freedom to
enjoy my family and friends instead of food."
Wendei, 31 inches, two months. "I am proud of myself beyond words as
I've never been able to stay so consistently committed to any eating
plan."
Allison, 10 pounds, one month. "It is just brilliant, I am on my way
back to myself."
Anonymous, 40 pounds in 3 months. “It is amazing”
Jamie, 11 pounds in her first month. "Lots of parties this weekend (4!!) and so much temptation, but I held on and told the xxx and the xxx that I loved them, but they were like bad boyfriends and would only hurt me in the long run."
Victoria. "I'm now on Day 83 of the elementalyou plan. At this point, I consider it less a plan and more a lifestyle. A better, healthier lifestyle, both on a mental and physical level. While I'm extremely pleased by the weight and inches I've lost to date, I even more thrilled at the freedom I'm experiencing now from these guilty feelings that plagued me for years. I can approach each new day with the knowledge that I don't need to make any changes to how I'm eating, I already have and it's working GREAT! Thanks, Tiffany!"
Tracy, 11.5 pounds the first month. "elementalyou has a super eating plan and it works. I am not hungry, I am eating well and it's yummy. I don't even call it a diet because it isn't. It's a new way of thinking about food."
Diane, 9 pounds and 22 inches in 28 days. “I know I can live with this plan. I have found the elementalyou plan to be easy to follow, it has taken me back to healthy, controlled eating. I love that I am providing delicious healthy food for my family. AND I'm looking forward to this summer and getting into a bikini!"
Kim, 12 pounds in 28 days. "There were many challenges, the holidays, family and work – but nothing could distract me from the path I am on. This is something that I am going to do for myself. I feel good. I would not be able to do any other diet with my lifestyle. elementalyou is so practical and I lost all my cravings, it is just so easy."
Becky. "I am now at the point where the pants I couldn't get into (when I started the diet) are now practically falling off! I love being skinny (Tiffany was right again)!"
Genevieve. "I am still amazed at the difference in my body. I used to hate shopping for clothes. I dreaded how I might look in the yucky lights and I never knew my size and of course, my size was going up and up. What was so amazing is that I fit into sizes that I have not seen since high school - and I have been pregnant 3 times since then!"
Take the quiz and once I get the results I will call you for your free 1 hour consultation. I will give you one tip that if you join or not will help you turn your belly fat into a flat belly.
http://www.elementalyou.com/quiz.html
Whether you have been significantly overweight for most of your life or just can't seem to get a handle on that 20 extra pounds, elementalyou can show you how to LOSE THE CRAVINGS, GAIN CONTROL OVER WHAT YOU EAT and SHED THE POUNDS - and keep them off for the rest of your life. And when I say the rest of your life, I mean it. My skinny girls don't just lose the weight, they stay on the eyou diet FOREVER.
TAKE THE EYOU QUIZ today and get a one hour consultation with the LA Skinny Coach, call other skinny girls and get in on the 2010 prices - please don't wait another year.
Ask the Skinny Coach.
Do you have a question about how to find your skinny?
Ask me anything.
I can help you.
Do you have a story you would like to share - write me and tell me about your struggles and successes with food, sugar and weight.
tiffany@elementalyou.com
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