03-Aug-2006
============= Power Programming Bi-Weekly Newsletter ============
In this issue:
1. ) Success Stories from the counselors office
2. ) Book News
3. ) Feature article: The “No C” Diet
4. ) News You Can Use
5. ) Ask the expert
6. ) Free offer
7. ) Quote of the Week
1. SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE COUNSELOR’S OFFICE
(To protect confidentiality, the name used in the following example is not real)
I’ll steer away from a weight-loss story this week and instead share with you a story about a client I recently helped overcome a phobia. Maria was due to fly to her native Puerto Rico in two weeks. For some reason unbeknownst to her, the idea of getting on that plane was causing panic. She came for two sessions, and power programming her anxious mind was simple—replacing her bodies stress response with a relaxation response. After just two sessions, not only was Maria’s phobia gone, she was looking forward to getting on the plane, and did.
The method was simple. I had Maria use conscious triggers to bring about a relaxation response anytime she thought about the forthcoming flight. In other words, during her power programming sessions, I gave her subconscious mind direct commands to remember to take three deep breaths whenever she thought about the flight. The messages given to her subconscious were now recalled every time she thought about the flight, bringing about a natural relaxation response.
2. BOOK NEWS
I’m now in the promotion stage of the book and every author is expected to go out and spread the word. I’ve been arranging speaking engagements, contacting media and telling everyone I know about the book. Of course the publisher is doing their part, but as the old saying goes, “you get out of it what you put into it.” This e-newsletter is an important piece to the puzzle so I encourage all of your readers to help spread the word about the book and about this e-newsletter. Your support is greatly appreciated. Please send the link to this newsletter to others. http://www.fatproof.net/newsletter.htm.
3. FEATURE ARTICLE: The No “C” Diet
Several weeks ago a man came for his first appointment and when I asked him how I could help him lose weight he said, “I need a no “C” diet. A no “C” diet I asked? “Yes”, he replied, no chocolate, no cookies, no candy and no cupcakes. “So I guess you mean no junk food,” I replied.
If you worked with people who want to lose weight the way I do everyday, you’d be amazed at how many people are junk food junkies. Once they gain a considerable amount of weight and realize that they need to lay off this poison, they find it impossible to do. That’s when they come to see me. And I know for a fact that it is not impossible at all. It’s not even hard to do. In fact it’s easy and I’ve got countless success stories to prove it.
The real problem with giving-up these suicide foods is that we hear from others that it is hard—and wouldn’t you know it, we believe them. Belief is conviction folks. What if suddenly the whole world was proclaiming that avoiding junk food was a breeze? Well, we’d believe them too and then it would be a breeze. Take the Atkins revolution for example. We believe that swindle.
All of the messages we hear from friends, colleagues and society go straight to the core of our subconscious mind and our subconscious just doesn’t know any better; it just accepts what it is told and the more it hears a certain message, the firmer it embraces it. This is where our belief systems come from. When I use my power programming techniques with clients, I take them to the heart of their subconscious and give it new orders, new beliefs, so that by the time my clients leaves my office, they mind believe that avoiding cakes, cookies, chocolate or whatever is a “piece of cake.”
The best part about re-programming the subconscious, about using power programming it, is when you find yourself in a situation where junk food is available. Not only will you avoid it, you’ll find it easy to do, quite the contrary to dieting. As you start working with your subconscious to help you lose weight, you’ll start to notice that being the only person at the party who passes on the Carvel cake is pretty darn empowering. Once you get a taste of this power, your mind will crave more of it, and it won’t be craving cookies and donuts.
I’ve been on a bunch of cruises over the years and every time I go on one, I use it to add more fuel to my subconscious, to empower it. I’ll actually lose a pound or two, intentionally, just to prove to myself that I am more in control than the hoards of future grave diggers climbing over each other to get to the midnight chocolate buffet. Observing this behavior from a distance and passing on the molten lava cake becomes more rewarding that shoveling spoons full of it into my mouth.
I’ll leave you with this: if you believe that you can’t control yourself around cookies, candy, chocolate or cupcakes—than you can’t. If you believe that you can easily avoid this stuff—than you will. Belief is conviction and the only way to change a belief is to go to the source—the subconscious.
4. NEWS YOU CAN USE
Life lost to obesity: Not just quality
by Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D.
With two out of three Americans overweight today, we're learning more and more about the numerous ways that carrying excess weight can really affect our health and diminish our quality of life.
But you may not have heard the hard facts about how overweight and obesity can diminish your quantity of life.
Simply put, overweight people die younger. On average, they lose as many years to their excess weight as smokers lose to their cigarettes.
It stands to reason, doesn't it? With all the health problems that we know are caused or worsened by excess weight, it is to be expected that those who carry an excess would die sooner than those who don't.
Still, we don't often hear the cost of our extra calories expressed in such stark terms. In the popular media, we've typically seen our weight problems discussed as a function of appearance and appeal, and feel the imperative to lose weight in order to be more attractive and more successful.
The medical establishment has been warning about the risks of obesity and overweight in terms that address their health consequences, but early death is seldom mentioned among these.
Yet Dutch researchers studying Americans found that there's a lot to lose for those who don't lose their extra pounds. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the data from the Dutch study were gathered from more than 3,450 subjects between the ages of 30 and 59.
The researchers categorized people according to their body mass index, or BMI. A BMI of 19 to 24 is typically considered healthy, while a BMI of 25 to 29 is considered overweight, and a BMI of 30 or more is clinically obese.
Among those subjects who were overweight but not actually obese, the study showed that 40-year-old female non-smokers lost 3.3 years of life due to their excess weight.
In this weight class, the 40-year-old male non-smokers lost 3.1 years of life expectancy.
For non-smokers who were clinically obese, the news only got worse for women, who lost about seven years of life because of their obesity, while the men of this size lost just under six years.
That's six Thanksgivings, six New Year's Eves, and who knows how many grandchildren born. That's six Superbowls they'll miss, six World Series they won't see.
Not surprisingly, the loss is much greater for overweight smokers. When we add the strain and damage of cigarettes to the body's burden of obesity, the loss doubles, to around 13 years for both men and women.
That's 13 birthdays, 13 Independence Day fireworks shows, 13 years of some special child's school pictures that will be missed. When you think about it in such personal and specific terms, those extra calories suddenly seem so much more costly.
"Obesity and overweight in adulthood are associated with large decreases in life expectancy and increases in early mortality," the the journal reported. "Because of the increasing prevalence of obesity, more efficient prevention and treatment should become high priorities in public health."
But what "prevention and treatment" means depends on who you talk to, and it's becoming an increasingly controversial issue, with some saying that overweight is an individual problem caused by individual actions, and therefore one that should be dealt with.
We face tremendous pressure to eat often and eat poorly, and there are consequences to that, for everyone, even those who are not personally overweight. American's weight-related health expenses now exceed $130 billion per year, and that gets spread across everyone's health costs. And that says nothing of the incalculable economic cost to businesses and communities in lost human time and potential.
And it says nothing of the immeasurable loss to families and individuals, of those moments on birthdays and holidays, of those stories and photographs that end up missing someone, lost early to a preventable weight problem.
Obese American males lose and average of six years of life expectancy to their excess weight. Six birthdays, six family Christmases, six Super Bowl Sundays. Thinking about the consequences of obesity in such personal and specific terms, can really drive home the cost of those extra calories.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D. is a board certified Family Physician and a board certified Bariatric Physicians (the medical specialty of weight management). She specializes in lifetime weight management at the Cederquist Medical Wellness Center, her Naples, Fl., private practice.
5. ASK THE EXPERT
If you have any questions or would like to post any comments about how power programming has helped you, please go to my discussion board at http://www.fatproof.net/disc.htm.
6. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
~Judith Viorst
