See Yourself Losing Weight
One of the most important parts of losing any weight is your own vision… can you see youself at the weight you desire?
You literally can’t lose weight
if you see yourself overweight, or more importantly, not being able to lose weight… your mind won’t let you. This is one reason so many struggle with weight loss… and keeping it off.
This is called physcological reversal. You say you want something, but your inner mind says just the opposite. You say you want to lose weight, but your mind says “it’s too hard”, “I can’t do that”, “never been able to do it, why now” or any other belief you’ve let settle in to your mind the past.
These beliefs in one way or another you’ve ‘accepted’ at some time in the past. You see, your subsconcious mind accepts anything you pass to it. It doesn’t judge, analyze, reason, filter… nothing, it just accepts. If you’ve accepted in the past that it’s too difficult to lose weight (for any reason), then almost any attempt to lose weight will fail unless you replace that negative belief.
Once you replace any old beliefs about weight loss, you can “picture” yourself at your ideal weight. And now, thanks to high tech, you can even do it right on your computer! Just visit www.fitfoto.com and you can see your before and after pictures in almost real time! Brilliant idea. Just upload a current picture of yourself and the www.fitfoto.com software will create a picture of what you you’ll look like at your ideal weight (or a close resemblence). And by the way, it’s free.
Keep the photo in a place where you can see it often and imagine yourself and how good you feel, the things you’ll be doing and all the good feelings associated with your “new you”.
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Hoodia review – Does hoodia work for weight loss?
Hoodia gordonii (pronounced HOO-dee-ah) is also called hoodia, xhooba, !khoba, Ghaap, hoodia cactus, and South African desert cactus.
Hoodia is a cactus that’s causing a stir for its ability to suppress appetite and promote weight loss. 60 Minutes, ABC, and the BBC have all done stories on hoodia. hoodia is sold in capsule, liquid, or tea form in health food stores and on the Internet. Hoodia gordonii can be found in the semi-deserts of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. hoodia grows in clumps of green upright stems and is actually a succulent, not a cactus. It takes about 5 years before hoodia‘s pale purple flowers appear and the cactus can be harvested. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only the hoodia gordonii variety is believed to contain the natural appetite suppressant.
Although hoodia was “discovered” relatively recently, the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have been eating it for a very long time. The Bushmen, who live off the land, would cut off part of the hoodia stem and eat it to ward off hunger and thirst during nomadic hunting trips. They also used hoodia for severe abdominal cramps, haemorrhoids, tuberculosis, indigestion, hypertension and diabetes.
In 1937, a Dutch anthropologist studying the San Bushmen noted that they used hoodia to suppress appetite. But it wasn’t until 1963 when scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa’s national laboratory, began studying hoodia. Initial results were promising — lab animals lost weight after taking hoodia.
The South African scientists, working with a British company named Phytopharm, isolated the active ingredient in hoodia, a steroidal glycoside, which they named p57. After getting a patent in 1995, they licensed p57 to Phytopharm. Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million on hoodia research.
Eventually pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (makers of Viagra) caught wind of hoodia and became interested in developing a hoodia drug. In 1998, Phytopharm sub-licensed the rights to develop p57 to Pfizer for $21 million. Pfizer recently returned the rights to hoodia to Phytopharm, who is now working with Unilever.
What you need to know about hoodia
Hoodia appears to suppress appetite
Much of the buzz about hoodia started after 60 minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl and crew traveled to Africa to try hoodia. They hired a local Bushman to go with them into the desert and track down some hoodia. Stahl ate it, describing it as “cucumbery in texture, but not bad.” She lost the desire to eat or drink the entire day. She also didn’t experience any immediate side effects, such as indigestion or heart palpitations. Stahl concluded, “I’d have to say it did work.”
In animal studies, hoodia is believed to reduce caloric intake by 30 to 50 percent. There is one human study showing a reduced intake of about 1000 calories per day. However, I haven’t been able to find either study to actually read for myself and am going on secondhand reports.
It’s Healthy to Daydream While Dieting
Are you sitting at your computer trying to ignore the nagging feeling that you’re missing something (like a chocolate chip cookie)? It’s perfectly okay to admit that you daydream about not following your diet.
It’s normal and you shouldn’t feel guilty that you’re still longing for those “off-limit” foods. Don’t believe the hype when diet manufacturers say their plan (or food) is so good you won’t even consider going back to fattening fare. You probably will, and that’s okay.
Some manufacturers say that when you finally rid your system of sugar, you won’t crave it anymore. But dieting pitfalls often occur because of habits we’ve formed around certain foods, not necessarily because we’re encountering a biological phenomenon.
While it may be great to know you’re normal what can you do about it? Sometimes it feels as if these daydreams will eventually lead to complete diet failure. They don’t have to.
Facing your food issues is a good way to put them behind you. If you ignore the feelings, and suppress them long enough, you may binge one day when you’re not feeling particularly strong.
Stop thinking of yourself as a dieter – someone who has to abandon a certain food for the rest of his or her life. You may have eliminated the food while you become healthier and fit, but it doesn’t mean it has to be gone forever – only until you have your food fears under control.
Over time, as you begin to accept the fact that your favorites dishes aren’t gone for good, you’ll daydream about them less often and then you’ll be able to go about your day without food clouding your thoughts at all.
Daydreaming comes into play as therapy. Your mind misses something, so it’s trying to relive it again for you. It’s just a phase of growth for your diet plan and you’ll feel a great sense of accomplishment when you realize one day – at the end of a day – that food didn’t cross your mind even once.
Becoming healthy is a long journey. You don’t just give up poor eating habits one day and wake up thin the next. It takes mental and physical preparation to get you to a place where your body is fit and your mind is functioning without fail to help you make the right choices.
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How to Choose a Diet You Won’t Give Up On
Are you fighting the diet battle again this year, worried that once again, your willpower will leave you unarmed and you’ll quit before you achieve your weight loss goals?
Whether you’re a first time dieter or one who has been going around and around the track for years, you’ll be happy to know that it is possible to pick a plan and stick to it until you get to the weight you want to be.
The first tip is to try to choose a diet plan that’s not too strict for you. You know the kind – some have special limits on carbs, protein, or anything that’s the color white. The ones who lose weight long-term have to learn to live in a world where nothing is off-limits, but moderation is key.
Other diets have plans where you’re supposed to start and stop again and again until the weight comes off. This can get tedious and send you on extreme highs and lows emotionally and physically as your body is forced to adjust to the new circumstances.
Instead, try to find a plan that shows you how to eat healthy for a lifetime. If you know it’s okay to sometimes have a special treat, or indulge in a glass of wine, then you won’t have to go form one end of the spectrum to the other – you’ll be on a balanced course that’s safe for your body and easy n your emotions.
Fasting and binging (even on healthy foods) is a sure way to develop poor eating habits and it can confuse your body because it’s being given mixed messages. One minute you’re devouring pound after pound of fresh fruit and vegetables, lean protein, and carbs – and the next you’re surviving on nothing but hot water with honey and red pepper mixed in.
Before you choose any diet, evaluate it for a lifetime plan. Could you exist without ever eating another morsel of sugar again in this lifetime? Could you turn away bread at every meal for the next thirty years?
Some diets make it seem like their rigid plan is one you could adhere to forever, but caving in could cause you to regain more weight if you get discouraged and give up for good.
No diet plan is 100% comfortable when you’re used to being able to eat with freedom from careful consideration. Still, there are many plans that offer sensible ways to eat where you never have to leave an entire food group off of your plate. Don’t follow a fad – instead, follow your heart and make up your mind to choose a diet you feel comfortable implementing into your life.
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