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Weight Loss: Healthy or Unhealthy?

By Rick Handel, Chief Product Officer

If losing weight was easy, nobody would be overweight. But losing weight is hard work, and that’s why so many people are attracted to anything that sounds like a quick solution to their problem.

Look on the Internet or on the shelves of your local pharmacy, and you’ll find a dizzying array of pills, potions, patches, and herbal teas – all promising to make you as slim as models or celebrities. From so many offerings, how do you choose? A good first step is to ask yourself this question: Is this product or program healthy or unhealthy?

If you choose an unhealthy way, you’ll probably gain the weight back after you finish the plan.

Here are some of the unhealthy weight loss methods that you should avoid:

ULTRA LOW-CALORIE DIETS. If your body doesn’t get enough calories, it can’t function properly. Your body will cannibalize itself by eating its own muscle, vital organ tissue, and even bone. Long-lasting consequences can include various illnesses, immune suppression, weak bones, brain and nerve damage, and even death.

UNBALANCED OR "FAD" DIETS. These diets are unhealthy because they eliminate entire food groups, which deprives your body of key nutrients it needs to function.

UNPROVEN DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS. Unfortunately, the dietary supplement industry is not required to conduct clinical studies to support weight loss claims. The vast majority of weight loss supplements have not been clinically proven. They may contain ingredients that are of dubious value, even contaminants.

DRUGS. Diet drugs can contain harsh amphetamine-like stimulants designed to trick your metabolism into running in overdrive. When you stop taking the drug, you can suffer from withdrawal symptoms and you’ll quickly regain the weight.

LAXATIVES. Some people believe that laxatives can prevent absorption of foods that you eat. That’s not true. All the calories of the ingested food have already made it to the bloodstream by the time the laxative takes effect. The only weight loss from laxatives is water weight. The downside is that laxatives can be habit forming, and they can cause a wide range of physical problems.

The Key to Healthy Weight Loss
Science knows that the key to healthy weight loss is to eat a well-rounded diet with foods from all food groups, and to take in fewer calories every day than you burn. If you’re like most people, you’ve tried to follow this advice, but you just couldn’t stick to it. But now, there’s the TAIslim Total Body System. This program features easy-to-follow meal planning and healthy lifestyle recommendations, but the real advantage of the TAIslim System is its innovative, scientifically formulated and clinically validated nutritional products, which work with your body to make it easier than ever to cut calories and burn unwanted fat.

TAIslim® liquid utilizes FreeLife’s groundbreaking clinical science and triple patent pending formulation and technology to help you reach and maintain a healthy weight in four important ways:

1. Fights dangerous abdominal fat
2. Safely enhances metabolic fat burning
3. Controls appetite
4. Cleanses and replenishes your system

TAIslim® SKINNYs™ are delicious sugar-free chocolate nuggets that actually help you to lose weight. Backed by more than 100 studies validating the effectiveness of its key ingredients, a SKINNY, when taken with at least 8 ounces of water, gently expands in your stomach, filling you up and keeping you feeling satisfied for hours. A SKINNY acts as a "fat magnet," effectively binding and removing unwanted fat and cholesterol from your gastrointestinal tract. SKINNYs are also great for improving regularity and are the perfect alternative to between-meal and late-night snacks.

FreeLife’s clinical studies on the TAIslim System have shown significantly greater weight loss than with diet and exercise alone. And unlike unhealthy weight loss methods, you’ll lose fat, not lean muscle, with TAIslim. And, studies have shown that those who lose fat, especially around the midsection, can minimize their risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain types of cancer. Plus, you’ll look and feel great!

So here’s to your health, and to finding and maintaining a healthy weight for life with the TAIslim Total Body System!

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease

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Wean yourself off Processed foods

Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps

By Deborah Kotz, USNews.com
Thu, Jun 17, 2010

When is the last time you tasted a peach? Really experienced its velvety outer skin, inner succulence, and stringy pulp as it slid to the back of your mouth? Ever notice the notes of almond, honey, and vanilla in the fruit's flavor? "Every bite should be like a wine tasting," says food writer and chef Bruce Weinstein. "The more you take away from your food, the more pleasure you'll feel eating it." And the fuller you'll feel afterward. That's the premise behind Real Food Has Curves, a new book written by Weinstein and his partner, Mark Scarbrough. It provides a 7-step plan for weaning yourself off processed foods, which have been blamed for our nation's rise in obesity and related conditions, like heart disease and diabetes. "We feel very strongly that deprivation doesn't work," says Weinstein, adding that they each lost about 25 pounds by incorporating more "real" and less "fake" foods into their meals. Here's how:

Step 1: Seek true satisfaction. Grab that peach or strawberry, examine its color, sniff it, and take a bite. Give yourself a moment to enjoy the genuine flavors. For comparison, nibble a Starburst fruit candy or a strawberry fruit roll-up. Notice that you mainly taste sweet without a lot of complexity? That's because fat, sugar, and salt are added to processed foods to mask the metallic taste of artificial preservatives, sweeteners, and other chemical additives, says Weinstein. He should know since he used to test recipes for packaged food companies and tinker with ingredients to get the appropriate taste and texture. Processed foods are also made to dissolve quickly in your mouth, he says, to get you to eat faster and in greater quantities—often leaving you full, but not satisfied. Now you know why that bag of Doritos disappears before you've really had a chance to taste them.

Step 2: Read labels wisely. You don't need to spend an hour making your own marinara sauce (though the book provides a recipe using canned tomatoes, if you're so inclined). You can also find "real" tomato sauce in the supermarket if you read labels carefully. Those containing ingredients you can buy on your own, like tomatoes, olive oil, salt, garlic, and parmesan cheese, meet Weinstein's criteria for a real food; those that have preservatives, like BHT, thickeners like guar gum, or artificial flavors, don't. Ditto for store-bought breads, breakfast cereals, and pasta.

Step 3: Relish what's on your plate. This is all about devoting time to solely enjoying the pleasures of eating. Indulge in that piece of dark chocolate while sitting on a park bench, rather than while perched at your desk, catching up on E-mail. Sit down at your kitchen table for dinner, not parked in front of the TV. Eating without distractions will help you savor the tastes, textures, smells, and colors of the food on your plate.

Step 4: Wean yourself off excess salt, fat, and sugar. You'll be doing this anyway if you're eating fewer processed foods and restaurant meals, but you can also cook with smaller amounts of these ingredients by using natural substitutes. Strong spices like garlic, pepper, and oregano cut down on the need for salt. You can use less cooking oil if you broil instead of fry, and margarine in many baked recipes can often be replaced with smaller amounts of (yes) extra-virgin olive oil. In fact, the book contains a recipe for olive oil cookies that calls for just 2 1/2 tablespoons of olive oil.

Step 5: Give your palate time to change. While it may be tough at first to skip the afternoon candy bar or fast-food fries, you'll gradually lose your taste for excessively sweet and salty foods as your palate adapts to a variety of new flavors. And you may even find yourself opening up to new foods. "With real food's flavor overtones and textural range," the authors write, "everything leads to something else. If you like coffee, soon enough you'll like red wine or mushrooms or Chinese black bean sauce, all because you find a common, mellow earthiness among them."

Step 6: Go for high-quality foods. You don't need to opt for only organic or produce sold at local farm stands—though both are certainly preferable—but you should look for products that contain the least amount of processed ingredients to ensure better taste and better quality. You can't, for example, experience the nutty chewiness of the whole grain if you go for white rice instead of brown. Look for breads and pastas with whole wheat or whole wheat flour as the first ingredient to enhance their taste and nutritional content. And, of course, choose fresh produce, when possible, over canned. Frozen fruits and vegetables are preferable when fresh ones aren't available.

Step 7: Treat yourself well by not skipping meals. Part of the enjoyment of food is allowing yourself to get hungry enough to crave your meal, but not so hungry that you're desperate to shovel anything and everything in your mouth. This can be accomplished by eating three meals a day at fairly regular times and having a mid-afternoon snack. Some of the interesting snack choices include apple wedges with natural peanut butter or honey mustard; a few dried apricots and a handful of salted pistachios; 1 ounce of feta on all-grain crackers like FinnCrisps. And the authors, being food lovers, advocate for a daily dessert, something truly indulgent that you save for once, rather than several times, a day. "Otherwise," they write, "there's a hideous taste-deadening that goes on with too much sugar."

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Self Image

I had this thought yesterday, and I feel perhaps it would be worth while sharing with you my friends, and it is this. I was in a conversation yesterday and we were talking about why some people will do so well (losing weight), then all of sudden they they stop. They start to gain the weight back, or just don't move beyond their current spot/weight.

According to Dr. Sandy (She is another Freelife/TAIslim rep) she said some people just don't know how to react, or live in this, their new body. They maybe getting more attention than they thought, people are questioning what they are doing, is it healthy?, are you eating enough?, well don't lose it too fast, and a host of other things are said, that they make us feel uncomfortable, and questioning what we are doing.

This kind talk and thinking could be making us uncomfortable in our new skin. So what do we do? We let ourselves go, and go back to the body size we are the most comfortable, or should I say the most familiar with. I believe that this, is probably happening with all of us, even if we don't recognize it is going on inside of us. I think if we can be aware of these processes going on inside of us, then maybe we can stop it, and give ourselves a chance to enjoy the weight loss we have earned. Maybe that is one of the reason why people tell us to take it off slowly, so we allow ourselves a chance to grow use to this new change.

Here is what I would propose we try, everyday just spend about 5-10 mins in our minds-eye and just imagine what our ideal body would look like, What clothes would you wear, what perfume would you wear, what activities would you be doing, what new things you would now do that you wouldn't do before, you could imagine yourself in front of a mirror, and in the reflection of the mirror you see the new you adding as much detail as possible, and everyday just use to seeing that new image of you, and invite the new you to become/transform your shape, and let go of the old image, your currently have of yourself.

I think you could agree that if you have a glass of water (a glass of you), and if you pour something new into this glass of you, there is only so much room in the glass, so once the new image of you, is poured into the glass of the old you... part of the old you will be displaced and spilled out. You have to be OK with that, and accept the new you is inside that glass and not what was spilled out of the glass.

If you want you can make God a part of this too, God has given us the tools to do this, and he can guide us, he wants us to be healthy so we can do his work, and be there for our families, and to be an example of his grace. We have his permission to be healthy again, invite the new you to into your life, welcome the new you into your life, and make your world comfortable for the new you to live again.

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How to keep a food Diary

Tracking food to avoid a diet derailment

Tips from the X-Weighted Fitness Team.

A food diary can be as simple as a week’s entries in a notebook, detailing exactly what you ate and drank—not what you thought you did. Or you can draw up a weekly chart and run off copies, so you can enter exactly what you ate and drank each hour of the day and how you were feeling when you did.

If you pledge to note every single nibble and how big the portion was, after seven days you’ll make some valuable discoveries. Even on days when you thought you were doing well, with perhaps one little lapse, you might find you were misleading yourself.

If you note when and where you’re eating, and what you were thinking or doing as you munched, a food diary can quickly identify patterns. Perhaps you eat under stress, when you’re alone, on the run or late at night. A week’s worth of paying attention will reveal all.

Jotting down your eats makes you “mind the moment.” That’s what this whole lifestyle adjustment is all about. If you’re attuned to how you eat, while you’re eating, you’re less likely to put something harmful into your mouth. This is why food diaries are not only useful at the beginning of a weight-loss program, but also as a monitor for when you hit a setback or plateau and need to make some conscious adjustments.

With just one extra pen stroke per entry, a food diary can also keep track of how many servings of fruits and vegetables you eat per day, a number most North Americans find difficult to increase. Canada’s Food Guide suggests 5–10 servings a day.

Finally, a food diary can encourage and motivate. File your first seven-day record away and compare it to another seven-day record a month or two later. The changes in habit and the gaps and problem areas still to be addressed will be evident.

The hardest part of keeping a food diary is accurately noting the portion size. So measure it out, if not with a utensil than with another meaningful measure of quantity; for example, a piece of cheese the size of your thumb.

Make sure you carry it with you everywhere. If you print out a seven-day record, you can fold it up and keep it in your pocket. Jot down everything. This tool only works if it’s used. At the end of the week, highlight the obvious high-fat, high-portion entries. Note when and why they took place. Brainstorm some alternatives and changes in your approach. Count up the fruit and vegetable tally then try to improve it by one serving per day.

[Editor’s Note: You can download a good, basic food diary from FitWatch.com or TrueStarHealth.com.]

Written by: The X-Weighted Fitness Team

fight binge eating

Regain control of your diet with tips from the X-Weighted experts

Anyone who’s tried losing weight through dieting has probably been sideswiped at some point or another by one of the sabotage twins: emotional eating and binge eating. Use these tips from the X-Weighted fitness team to fight back.

Emotional Eating
It’s a fact of life that our bodies react with feelings of reward when fed certain substances. Think of how alcohol depresses the central nervous system, the respiratory rate, and the heart rate and in the process relieves anxiety and reduces inhibitions. Or how chocolate triggers the release of mood-brightening opiates. Or how eating sugary, high-fat foods actually signals our stress-fighting hormones to settle down.

But like alcohol, chocolatey, sugary, and fatty foods are merely short-term coping strategies to relieve stress and boost our mood. If we repeatedly lean on them to get us past those emotional dips, we will certainly pack on unhealthy amounts of fat.

To avoid being broadsided by emotional eating, try some of the control tactics of problem drinkers:
1. Keep unhealthy foods out of your environment. Don’t go there and don’t let them come to you. Recognize the situations that trigger your cravings.
2. Be ready with a substitute for those situations, such as an activity, a healthy snack, or a distraction.
3. Tackle the feelings beneath those cravings. Make it a priority to relieve stress or deal with anger or anxiety.
4. Emphasize healthier behaviours the better part of the time. Eat a balanced diet so you’re not hungry, eat at consistent intervals, and exercise regularly.
5. Give the urge for an emotional face-stuffing a little time to pass. Ask yourself if it’s a need or a habit, then wait for meal or snack time.
6. Practise saying “No.” Start with once a day and work yourself up to as many times as it takes for the habit to stick.

Binge Eating
Some questions to ask if you suspect you might be a binge eater:
1. Do you have repeated episodes of eating quickly and uncontrollably when you’re not really hungry?
2. Are these triggered by such emotions as anger, anxiety, or boredom?
3. Do you then eat until you’re uncomfortably full?
4. Do you hide and/or hoard food and feel disgust and guilt during and after these episodes?

The U.S.-based National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders estimates that 10 to 15 per cent of people who are mildly obese have binge eating disorder. Among the severely obese, the percentage is higher. Many also have symptoms of depression.

If you recognize yourself in this description, consult a doctor and/or psychologist to understand the reasons for your behaviour. Treatment can be as basic as tracking your eating habits and developing new strategies to deal with your moods, and as beneficial as triumphing over depression.

Written by: The X-Weighted Fitness Team