Health and Fitness – Fitness Made Easy

If you have a problem,  and you treat only the symptom and not the underlying cause,  you may experience temporary relief.  But the symptom will likely return…again… and again.

Sound anything like your extra pounds?  The pounds you’ve lost and regained…again…and  again?

Overweight is the symptom of fundamental imbalances in your body,  emotions,  and mind.  These imbalances include:

• Emotional imbalance,  in which food is used as a substitute for love or a way to ” stuff “  your uncomfortable feeling back inside you.
• Nutritional imbalance,  with the body crying out for the nutrients it needs for optimal functioning–nutrients that your food choices are not supplying.
• Physical imbalance,  such as stored toxins in the digestive tract that drain your energy and cause you to eat  ” stimulating ”   foods like sugar that make you even more toxic in the long run.

• Mental imbalance,  in which your thoughts anxiously or angrily or sadly dwell on the past or future and you’re never mindful of what you’re doing–now including what you’re eating.

When you’re in balance you naturally and easily make food choices that support your overall state of health.  Here are some of the best,  tested methods for correcting the imbalances that are the underlying cause of overweight.

FOOD:  A Smoothie That Stops Cravings

Having a blender drink for breakfast is most important balance-restoring step for many weight-loss people.

The drink is a total infusion of essential vitamins,  minerals.  It’s  great to cut down on actually giving  your body the nutrients it needs.

Just put the following ingredients in a blender,  mix,  and drink:

• 1 cup skimmed milk
• 1 cup soy milk
• 1 cup apple juice,  orange juice, or any other fruit juice
• 1 banana 4 strawberries
• 1 tablespoon Acai berry juice  ( If you can’t get it replace it with Acai berry tablets to take with your smoothie).

The Best Weight-Loss Exercise

Jumping on a small trampoline is a particularly good exercise for trying to lose weight or if you do not have one you could try using a Pilates Gym  Ball as they drain the body system of toxins and support stronger immunity.

A Supplement Strategy That Cures Cravings

There is a link between overeating and the levels of key chemicals in the brain.

You are using food as self-medication because you are low in certain brain chemicals. Your food cravings,  as well as depression,  irritability,  anxiety and many other emotional and mental problems,  are signs that your brain doesn’t have enough of them.

When the brain is deprived of these chemicals, it sends out signals that overwhelm your willpower,  triggering you to eat a drug like food  ( usually carbohydrate ) that substitutes for the missing chemicals and makes you feel better– for a little while.

These brain chemicals, which include dopamine, a natural energizer: Endorphins are a natural painkiller and serotonin, a sleep promoter and mood and attention stabilizer, are deficient for a number of reasons.

They range from genetics and stress to overeating refined sugar and flours and eating too little protein.  You can easily correct those deficiencies with nutritional supplements that boost those brain chemicals.  That in turn will stop your cravings,  soothe your emotional and mental problems, and start you on the road to permanent weight loss.  Specifically,  the supplements are amino acids, the building blocks of protein.

Scientific studies have confirmed the effectiveness of using  just a few targeted amino acid “precursors”  to the brain chemicals,   thereby eliminating your cravings for food as well as your depression,  anxiety,  irritability,  obsessiveness and mental dullness.

There are ,  of course,  many factors that can cause overweight which could include low-calorie dieting,  blood sugar disorders,  low thyroid function,  food allergies, hormone imbalances,  infection with the yeast candida and a deficiency of fatty acids.

Correcting your brain chemistry with amino acids is the first and most important step in eliminating food cravings, so you can then address all the health problems that contribute to overweight. You can safely take all of the following supplements until you reach your goal weight or for a year,  whichever come first.

GLUTAMINE:  Balance Blood Sugar, Stop the Cravings

Food cravings, particularly for sweets and starches,  are often caused by low blood sugar,  or hypoglycaemia.  But you can stabilize the delivery of blood sugar to your brain–and stop the cravings by taking glutamine three times a day.

TYROSINE:  For Low Energy and Poor Concentration

You feel fatigued and brain-fogged nearly all the time,  and you use coffee and sweets (and maybe cigarettes)  to give you a lift. If that description fits you take tyrosine three times a day.

D-PHENYLALANINE:  If You Eat to Overcome Emotional Pain

If you overeat to help yourself deal with emotional pain–if you’re sensitive,   cry easily,  crave comfort and love certain foods– you may need to take the amino acid d-phenylalanine.

That’s because this supplement builds up your brain’s reservoir of endorphins, the natural opiates that helps to create feelings of pleasure and reduces physical pain.

Fats That Can Help You Lose

Fat supplements?  For a person who’s trying to lose weight, the idea of taking fat in a pill sounds like a cruel joke.  But here’s what you need to know:  A deficiency of certain types of good fats,  called essential fatty acids (EPA\DHA)  that your body requires can lead you to crave and overeat the bad kinds of fats and put on extra pounds.

Yes saturated fats in animal products and trans-fat in processed foods are bad for your health. But not getting enough of the good fats– the essential fatty acids found in foods like fatty fish,  certain oils,  leafy greens,  avocados and nuts and seeds–is also bad for your health.

The different types of  EPA\DHA actually stimulate fat metabolism so that your body burns more fat,   trigger the production of hormones that make you feel full,  and balance your body’s levels of insulin ( the hormone that burns sugars)  so you don’t crave high-calorie sugars and other fattening carbohydrates.

Therefore it is recommended that you take 1000 millgrams of omega 3  and omega 6 fatty acids a day with meals three times a day to help reset your body’s thermostat to normal level so you burn excess calories.  They also help normalize insulin metabolism, thus reducing sugar cravings.

Roberto Garcia (Health and Fitness Specialist)
http://www.newhealthandfitnessdvds.co.uk

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Tags: Acai berry, anxiety, depression, Irritability, Overweight

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