Alternative health and healing

Eat to live or live to eat?

The line is very thin between the two.

When we eat to live- the meals are planned including amount and contents of nutrition. With regular meals we avoid extreme hunger; we eat appropriate combination of carbohydrates, proteins, healthy fats and enough vitamins and minerals.

When we live to eat-we concentrate mostly on pleasing flavors and to stop the demanding hunger. We choose mostly our favorite foods meanwhile ignoring the nutrition. A baked potato satisfies us only if it’s dripping with butter and heaped with sour cream, the chocolate cake is served with triple whip cream and we like our coffee extra sweet with whip cream.

How and when are we stepping over the line when the reasonable thinking gives in to the taste buds and a demanding stomach? Very easily and fast, because we can reason with ourselves. We can explain the extra two-three slice of cake at first by "I had too much stress today" or "my boss yelled at me" or better "I got a promotion, I’m celebrating". These excuses and explanations are rare at first, but as time goes by they happen more and more often and we accept them more and more easily. We get to the point when we don't even have to find the excuse to head toward the kitchen.

On the beginning we explain the weight gain to ourselves, oh it's just couple pounds, I'll lose it when I’m less stressed. But one day we realize that we changed our wardrobe three times, we can't look in the mirror without disgust seeing the spare tire and folds all over our body. 

We decide that it can not go on, we start a diet. We are happy the first day, proud of ourselves for the decision but by night we feel hungry. In couple of days we look at the diet food disgusted and feel sorry for ourselves for the torture we have to endure and we rebel. "I can't even eat?" and we run to the fridge.

This is the point when you become a food addict.

Sounds familiar? Did you step over the line? You can change your relationship with food by changing your point of view. My weight loss plan can help you with that.

Do you need to lose weight?

Are you really overweight or just don’t fit the quintessential skeletal image? In order to find your average healthy weight, let’s do some simple math.

Your weight in pounds, height in inches:

Your body weight multiplied by 700, and then divided twice by your height.

Example: your weight is 160 lbs, height, 66 inches.

160 x 700 =112,000

112,000 divided by 66 = 1,696

1,696 divided by 66 = 25.7

Your weight in kilograms, height in centimeter:

Your weight divided by the square of your height.

Example: your weight is 72.72 Kg, height 168cm=1.68meter

1.68X1.68=2.8224

72.72 divided by 2.8224=25.765

A final number below 18 is too low, 18-25 is normal weight, 25-30 overweight and above 30, obese. Both below 18 and over 25 are health risks.

The best chance to stay healthy and to prevent conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart and circulatory disease is to keep your number between 18 and 25.

If the 160lb person mentioned in the example would lose only 10lb with some adjustments in diet and lifestyle, they would be at their healthy weight.

Let’s do the math:

150 x 700 = 105,000

105,000 divided by 66 = 1,590

1,590 divided by 66 = 24.1

Also in kilogram and centimeter

68.181 divided by 2.8224=24.15

In all of our lives, food has taken on emotional and social implications far beyond adequate nourishment. Food is often what binds families and relationships together.

We bond with people over food. How many relationships and friendships have been begun and solidified over dinner? Nearly everything in our lives is set up to revolve around food. Good news is celebrated with food, similarly is bad news mourned. This emotional attachment to food, no matter if you are an overeater, an anorexic, or perfectly healthy, is something that we cannot break because it is so much part of our lives. It is not necessarily something we SHOULD break!

Being overweight is an unhealthy and out of control attachment to food but by finding the balance, having our cake and eating it too can result in a significant weight loss without drugs and struggle.

The key to weight loss, thus a healthy lifelong way of eating, is to eat with your brain rather than listening your stomach and taste buds, avoid extreme cravings and hunger. Extreme hunger does not allow you to make those crucial decisions; you can’t think clearly, it is as if you turn into some green monster that devours everything in sight, eating the wrong things in massive quantities.

Why do most weight loss diets fail?

The traditional weight loss strategy implies a temporary restriction of food intake, not a permanent change, thus it's doomed to fail from the beginning.

Diets create a rebound effect whereby the person after initial weight loss stops losing more and feeling deprived and disappointed, abandons the diet and gains back the lost weight. Furthermore, in most cases, the dieter gains more than what was lost to begin with.

Repeated attempts results in yo-yo dieting with the person continually losing and gaining weight, slowing the metabolism with each subsequent try. Most people blame their failure on their lack of willpower, but they need not be so hard on themselves.

Implementing the changes in your way of eating is not as difficult as it looks at first. This is not a punishment, nor an unpleasant means to an end, where you can’t wait to lose weight so you can eat your favorite foods again. You will not feel like you’re giving up your favorite but sometimes unhealthy foods, because you learn to replace them with healthy ones, which incidentally are most often better tasting and more satisfying. As the days pass, you will start to feel better physically and mentally, without feeling hungry and deprived.

Would you like to change your unhealthy eating habits?

Reach your ideal body weight?

Feel satisfied and healthy physically and mentally?

You can order our weight loss program in the webstore and  begin your new, consciously planned diet and lifestyle.