16-Aug-2006
============= Power Programming Bi-Weekly Newsletter ============
In this issue:
1. ) Comments
2. ) Success Stories from the counselors office
3. ) Book News
4. ) Feature article: You Snooze You Lose
5. ) Guest Artilce
6. ) Ask the expert
7. ) Free offer
8. ) Quote of the Week
1. COMMENTS
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2. SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE COUNSELOR’S OFFICE
(To protect confidentiality, the name used in the following example is not real)
Yet another “I can’t believe this works” story. A woman came to me about two weeks ago and basically it went like this. She eats a muffin for breakfast every morning and doesn’t eat “food” for lunch or dinner. Lunch for her is a sleeve of Orios. Dinner is a bag of M&M’s. And this had been going on for years. Surprisingly she only needed to lose about 15 pounds but what she really wanted was to eat normally. She believed it to be impossible.
After our first session, not only did she entirely avoid cookies, cakes and snacks, she ate real meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. She could not believe that power programming worked and if you could see the look on her face when I met with her the second time. It permeated with confidence and belief.
3. BOOK NEWS
Right now I’m working on endorsements. I’ve got some pretty good connections and hope to have some real reputable people endorsing FAT PROOF. Oh. By the way, I’m working on the proposal for the next book. The next one will be about stress
4. FEATURE ARTICLE: Think Yourself Thin
Think Yourself Thin
I’m always conscious of the way people around me eat. In fact I think I’m more conscious of it than they are. Two things happened to me in the last week that made me write this article. Here’s the first one. Recently I was away on an annual trip with about twenty friends, and every morning we went to the breakfast buffet, which came with the package. Wouldn’t you know it, everyone, except me, ate bacon, eggs, sausage, waffles, biscuits & gravy and muffins?
I’m not trying to pat myself on the back here but I just couldn’t believe that I was the only one who ate nutritiously. Trust me, I felt like saying to my friends, “don’t you think bacon, fried eggs, sausage and biscuits are bad for you?” “Don’t you realize that those kinds of eating habits are going to kill you?” Of course I didn’t say that because they’d tell me to go scratch.
Here’s the next thing that happened. I played in a golf outing this past Monday and saw a lot of people I hadn’t seen in years. Again, most of them had put on a lot of weight since the last time I saw them. In fact, two old friends that I hadn’t seen in years came-up to me to say hello and I didn’t recognize them at first because they had gained so much weight.
I don’t mean to sound critical but most of us don’t pay any attention to what we eat. My weekend trip validated this because about eighty percent of the people that I was with, the ones who were eating all of the high calorie breakfasts, were either overweight or obese. It was almost as if they didn’t care that they were 50 or 60 pounds overweight. On my way home that Sunday night I asked myself, “How could they not care about their health?”
Every thing I do, I do with my family in mind. I don’t want to die of a heart attack when I’m forty-five and leave my kids without a father, so I do what’s logical; I stay away from bacon and sausage. Now before I go off on a tangent, what I’m really trying to say is that what we eat has to do with what we think.
The first step to losing weight is to start caring about your health and how you look. Go look in the mirror and ask yourself, “am I happy with my body?” Ask yourself, “do I really want to put myself at risk for terrible diseases like heart disease, stroke or diabetes?”
The next step in losing weight is to change your eating habits, and in order to do this you have to think yourself thin. Before you sink your teeth into that double cheeseburger with fries, think about what you’re doing. Before you indulge in a big piece of birthday cake, think about what you’re doing. Think about how much fat and calories there are. Think about how bad it makes you feel. And finally, think about how it is going to make you fat.
5. GUEST ARTICLE
As Childhood Obesity Concerns Grow, More And More Tots Hit The Gym
August 14, 2006
They're not out of diapers yet, but they're already hitting the gym. With growing concerns about childhood obesity, more parents are starting to look for new fitness alternatives for their kids early-on. NY1's Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel filed the following report.
From crawling to swinging, these little ones may not look like your typical gym rats, but it turns out they're actually part of a growing trend. My Gym, a newly-opened franchise operation in the Tottenville section of Staten Island is just one of many to sprout up lately in the area with plans to expand.
"We're going to open up another one [on Staten Island] and another one in Brooklyn. Manhattan is up and running, and also another franchise is opening up in Queens," says co-owner Lisa Miskanic. "So, the New York Area is getting flooded with them."
Special fitness programs for kids have been around for decades. But according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association, demand seems to be increasing steadily, with the under-18 set the second-fastest growing health club demographic across the country.
And they're starting from earlier-and-earlier ages. At My Gym for example, with parental involvement, the classes start as young as 3 months-old, going up to age 13.
"We do a range of activities from non-competitive gymnastics, so it's basic tumbling, agility, hanging, balancing," says instructor Danielle Prologo. "We do songs and dances with the younger ones and as they get older, it's more of a relay and a game."
The parents involved say they see a huge benefit in getting their children active as early as possible.
"I'm a teacher, and I see a lot of children who come to school who have problems with obesity. So I want my child to be healthy and this is the perfect thing," says mom Michelle Gabbe. "She absolutely loves it."
The parents and instructors say the one thing that's great about this is that it's not only physical activity their kids are getting, but they're also developing cognitive and social skills from an early age as well.
"They are developing social skills, for those parents that don't have the right age groups for their children to play with," says Miskanic. "And we find that it's very important for them to have that exposure for them to build up, for when they go to school, they're prepared for it as well.
And from the looks of it, seems like these tots are well on their way.
- Kafi Drexel
6. 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.
7. QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it”
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