I am so excited to see Reed Alexander taking on childhood obesity with his Kewlbites website. Reed’s generation is the first generation since the Civil War that has a shorter life expectancy than my generation. This shocking fact is due to childhood obesity which is preventable and completely unnecessary. I have called this child abuse and I believe it to be criminal. The good news is that more and more children and their families are discovering Slender For Life™ and are learning how they can lose weight and keep it off.

Reed Alexander Kewlbites

When I originally started researching how I could lose weight on the Internet, I was so confused. Where to turn? Programs targeted at adults weren’t right for me. I couldn’t find anything that was designed for kids. I wasn’t so interested in going on a diet, because I realized that I’d eventually have to go off of it at some point. What would I do then? I also really wanted to be able to eat the foods I like. I’m a MAJOR foodie and I love cooking! I needed to be able to incorporate all kinds of foods into my life and to be able to enjoy cooking with my family. Whatever I was going to do had to be practical, too. How was I going to go to a friend’s birthday party, or out to dinner, or do anything else that I wanted, while having an amazing time losing weight and getting in control of myself? How was I going to find the right balance to satisfy all the things I was looking to do? What was I going to do in order to integrate fitness into my lifestyle?

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“As a country, we sometimes believe that certain health-related issues sometimes reach a certain point of importance where we believe government has a role. For example, we could teach people to drive at the speed limit and be safe and not fall asleep at the wheel — or we can put airbags in cars. We could hope people brush and floss, or we can put fluoride in the water. We could hope that parents get their children immunized before they go to school, or we can just require it. So the question is whether obesity has reached a certain level of crisis, like we felt we reached with tobacco. … I obviously believe we’re there, and I believe, more and more, the country is believing that.” ~ Kelly Brownell, professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University

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I think it is great that Reed Alexander took on his own issues with weight loss and I am ecstatic that he is using his experience to educate and help other children lose weight. What I really love is that Reed is a MAJOR foodie and he loves to cook. With the weight loss hypnosis tools of Slender For Life™ you can be come a MAJOR HEALTH FOODIE.

What are you doing to end childhood obesity? Let’s work together and stop killing our kids. And besides, we can’t afford to be so fat.

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Pain Relief Through Distraction:
It’s Not All in Your Head

ScienceDaily, May 17, 2012: The findings based on high-resolution spinal fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) as people experienced painful levels of heat show that mental distractions actually inhibit the response to incoming pain signals at the earliest stage of central pain processing.

“The results demonstrate that this phenomenon is not just a psychological phenomenon, but an active neuronal mechanism reducing the amount of pain signals ascending from the spinal cord to higher-order brain regions,” said Christian Sprenger of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Those effects involve endogenous opioids, which are naturally produced by the brain and play a key role in the relief of pain, the new evidence shows. The findings show just how deeply mental processes can go in altering the experience of pain, and that may have clinical importance.

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One way to distract yourself from pain is to sing the song, Row, Row Your Boat. Its hard to suffer when you are singing merrily merrily life is but a dream!

Pain is your body’s natural warning system. This system produces whatever is necessary to draw your attention to an imbalance in the body so that it can be restored to balance as quickly as possible. You don’t have to listen to the body’s alarm constantly to address it. Like a fire alarm, a few short blasts and you are aware of the need to respond, but you don’t have to hear it constantly to effectively put the fire out. Suffering with pain is not necessary. Learn hypnosis for pain control and forget your pain so that you can feel great and enjoy your life.

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Losing Weight May Help Lower Cancer Risk

WebMD Health News, May 1, 2012: “I think the main issue is body fat,” researcher Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD, director of the Prevention Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, writes in an email to WebMD. “The more fat one has, the more inflammation-producing cells there are, and therefore the more inflammation … produced and sent into the bloodstream.”

The key to this study’s result, says McTiernan, was diet, especially when combined with exercise. “Very few people can lose significant amounts of weight from exercise alone. We’ve done several year-long studies testing exercise alone, even large amounts up to an hour a day, and on average it produces about 3 to 4 pounds of weight loss over the year,” she says. “That being said, our strongest effects were primarily in the combined diet and exercise program.”

McTiernan advises women who are overweight to start exercising, to pay close attention to what and how much they eat, and to keep track of progress to help reach a weight loss goal of 1 to 2 pounds per week.

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Weight loss hypnosis can help you to lose weight and keep it off. You can create a strong urge to eat health giving and nutritious plant-based food that will allow you to lose weight and improve your health. I am happy to offer you a free weight loss consultation so that you can find out how you can become Slender For Life™.

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Do you ever wish that you could just stop judging yourself? I hear frequently people beating themselves up with very abusive self-talk for. Sometimes, this judgment is about a dieting slip – eating food that makes you fat when you are trying to lose weight. Often at the core of this negative self-talk is guilt and judgement. Learning how to truly forgive yourself and others can be a powerful and freeing experience. Clients in my Seattle hypnosis and Bainbridge Island hypnosis offices learn how to separate themselves and others from their actions and to let go of the judgements of the behavior.

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My take on forgiveness is to not focus on the act, but on the judgments we hold about the act. Too often I hear forgiveness described as a sort of fairy tale about an incident—making it okay that we just ate a whole package of Oreos. But it isn’t okay and it will never be okay. Still, we don’t need to judge ourselves for it either. I encourage clients to leave their whips with me in my office. They don’t need them anymore.

Self-forgiveness can be a powerful, loving process. Self-forgiveness separates who we are from our actions and judgments. The real issue is your judgment. Your judgments of yourself and your judgments of others are what poison your psyche. By letting go of your judgments, you can put the past behind you and move on. By letting go of the judgment you are not making your behavior or someone else’s behavior okay, you are ending the negative mental self-talk.

I learned about forgiveness at the University of Santa Monica. This is the first approach that ever made sense to me. When clients are self-flagellating about how terrible they are, I encourage them to take out a piece of paper and do this exercise.

Fill in the blanks.
I forgive myself for judging myself as_____________________.
In the blank line, you write the judgment. For instance, I would write: I forgive myself for judging myself as not good enough. I forgive myself for judging myself as fat. I forgive myself for judging myself as having no control.

Next, you write a person’s name and the judgment you hold of them.
I forgive myself for judging _____________________ as_____________________.
Examples: I forgive myself for judging my spouse as abusive. I forgive myself for judging Bob as hurtful. I forgive myself for judging Mary as skinny.

You see, our actions are our actions. They occurred, right or wrong. Whether these actions occurred one minute ago or 30 years ago, it is our judgment about the action that eats at us, that decimates our self-esteem. It’s not up to us to judge, and by letting go of the judgment we free ourselves from the continued abuse of the action. Some people have experienced inexcusable acts of abuse. But many years later, they are the ones carrying on the abuse—not the abuser. What happened, happened. There is no need to pretend it didn’t. But what hurts us now is our judgment about what happened. Our job is to let go of the judgment.

Becoming Slender For Life pages 79 – 81

Sometimes, it feels like life just sucks. Nothing is going right. Life is hard and filled with disappointment. Stress is high, the scale is holding and you feel stuck. Sound familiar? During these times, it is really easy to have a pity party and to be very hard on yourself. These are the times that you most need to treat yourself with grace, compassion and love. When you let go of your judgements of yourself and others, it becomes easy to love yourself with grace and compassion.

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This lecture, From Operating Table to Dining Room Table,  with Dr. Michael Klaper, is a must see. Its one that I will be recommending to family, friends and clients for a long time to come. You may be thinking, “OK, I get it, but I could never eat like that. My family and friends eat the SAD diet (Standard American Diet) and I just don’t think I could be successful.” Folks, this is where hypnosis comes in. When you use self-hypnosis you can change your food likes and dislikes and you you can easily resists family pressures and the temptations of fatty and sugary food.

Michael Klaper MD – From Operating Table to Dining Room Table

Dr. Michael Klaper discusses the role of a physician in dietary health and the impact of nutrition on health at the February, 2012, Advanced Study Weekend presented by Doctor John and Mary McDougall.

Michael Klaper MD – From Operating Table to
Dining Room Table

Learn hypnosis for weight loss and put healthy food on your table. You and your family deserve health and wellness.

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