Weightloss Journal - The Never Ending Story...

It's been a while as my wife and I have endeavored to hit Planet Fitness this year, wanted to restart this journal of our weight-loss journey together!

We committed to a one-year membership at our local Planet Fitness and yes, those commercials worked as we have been hitting the gym regularly. Well at first we did, but now we find the tyranny of the daily mundane the biggest enemy.

We always feel refreshed after a good cardio session on the treadmill, but it's the motivation factor that gives us the biggest challenge... It's so easy to just sit in front of of the boob-tube and just sit there passively, not making effort to mentally remind ourselves that we are NOT happy being big and really need to take advantage of that gym membership.

We really need to find ways of getting motivated. It was the Biggest Looser show that usually did the trick. You know, seeing obscenely obese people find success. It almost always motivated us to get up and and workout... I even purchased the XBox system to use those Kinect workout videos, but so goes the challenge of sitting and drowning the reality our with mindless video.

More later  on that and perhaps we just may post to pics to embarrass our butts into the fitness center!

Sit-Down Jobs and Exercise - You've Gott Move Sometimes!

Yea, the challenge of having a "sit down" kind of job is that you have to remember to get up and move! Simply put, you cannot be sitting down all day and expect to lose weight!

Recently, I've embarked on creating some new videos to promote a local lead generation website for quality, family-friendly, used car dealerships in the norther New England area.

I'm sitting down for hours on end and finally catch on that, hey, get up and move you slug!

Anyways, in the name of science, I wanted to post a link to the video here:

Portland Maine -  Friendly Certified Used Car Dealer

Is the "GastricBypass Effect" really a scam?

Been a while and yes being thin IS a lifestyle and NOT a one time deal!
While cavassing Facebook I noticed an ad that touted "GastricBypassEffect $480.

Yeah, ok...

Anyone who knows about bypass surgery quickly realizes that it's a serious decision. Now, to think that some magic formula of water soluable fiber is even close to the same thing needs to have something examined more closely!

Upon Googling around under the company's marketing name+ some other weightloss scam keywords, reading Wikipedia and a few other items that came up, I hit upon some very interesting comments over at Reddit.com's LoseIT page. Basically, someone posts the ingredients of the Roca Labs weight loss product are being quoted:

The diet components are: Xanthan, Guar Gum, Maltodextrin, Dextrose, Beta
Glucan, Vitamins B-6, B-12, C & Zinc or alternatively the probiotic components Inulin and Oligofructose.

The Customer must make sure to drink large quantities of liquids (3 glasses of water immediately after each dose of the Diet, 6-8 additional glasses of water throughout the day for each dose of the Diet). The expansion action of the active ingredients within the stomach
is physical and conditional upon drinking plenty of liquids.

The sales site also metions a 'patented' β-Glucan ingredient as well and Wikipedia has an excellent article on the fact that these (beta-glucans) are:

polysaccharides of D-glucose monomers linked by β-glycosidic bonds. β-glucans are a diverse group of molecules that can vary with respect to molecular mass, solubility, viscosity, and three-dimensional configuration. They occur most commonly as cellulose in plants, the bran of cereal grains, the cell wall of baker's yeast, certain fungi, mushrooms and
bacteria. Some forms of beta glucans are useful in human nutrition as texturing agents and as soluble fiber supplements, but can be problematic in the process of brewing.

Ok, so they flavor up some impressive water-soluable fiber and then tell you keep drinking the water... Yep, ever hear of Fullbars?? That's another product developed to produce a 'Bypass Effect' and the product is doing so well that WalMart even carries it!

So, not all GastricBypass Effect products are scams, but save your money! Look into less expensive alternatives that have just the effect of reducing your weight and not your money! Facebook simply sells the ad space, but the poor public gets taken and gets poorer. Don't let the facy video and glossy ads take you with all the testimonials and guarantees. As the ancient proverb goes, a fool and their money are soon departed!

Another beneficial applicaiton of Beta Glucans has been discovered for excellent immune system support:

Weight-loss Sticking Point and Routines

Time to acupressure this blog. During the course of time since the last post of come to the conclusion that most weight-loss experts are correct. One needs a regular regimen of proper nutrition and regular exercise to maintain the optimal body weight mass. The fact is, if you just refuse to do such then you simply refuse to keep your weight off.

Of course the other benefits of regular exercise, space as one gets older, is that your skeletal system muscles joints and ligaments will simply start to atrophy. That would place one in a downward spiral in susceptibility to other associated ailments. basically, space the body just needs regular exercise to run right. I suppose it would be similar to living your car sit in the garage for an extended period of time and then to assume it would run just fine at any time you needed it.

so the purpose of this resurrection of I can be made then? blog is to chronicle that somewhat elusive journey in ultimate goal of being thin. I can just keep talking about this and expect change? Nope, space don't think so, just needed do something about it!

Is TV The Most Important Weightloss Tool Ever?

Some interesting info that has come up on my research is that Paul McKenna is a best-selling non-fiction author and hypnotist who has worked with celebrities, athletes, musicians and business executives. He also starred in the U.K.'s version of I Can Make You Thin, which was the most-watched show in the history of Sky TV, a satellite television network available in Britain. The companion book is also one the best-selling self-improvement book in British history.

The US version of the very successful program, I Can Make You Thin, includes a live studio audience, field segments, scientific research, and suggested home applications. "Paul is a pioneer in the field of weight-loss, challenging and exercising the mind's relationship with food," said TLC programming executive Brant Pinvidic. "Finally, American viewers will learn why the TV might be the most important weight-loss tool ever."

The fact that he's a hypnotist lead me to further research the field as related to weight loss. What I found was quite revealing. Evidently, the techniques he's using for the emotional eating areas had a direct correlation to what is commonly labeled "Emotional Freedom Techniques" or EFT.

There's a wealth of info about EFT at the World Center for EFT website. The first thing I discovered is there's a direct relation between the philosophy of acupunture methodology and some of the EFT techniques. That would be in the belief that there are various meridians of energy running via the main nerves of the body and that the stimulation or blockage of such would help relief various results of such unbalanced energy. The whole topic is interesting and the Internet is quite filled with a plethora of web pages about it.

In the first episode, Paul goes over The Secrets Of Naturally Thin People and reveals his
"4 Golden Rules". These are home techniques that demonstrate how to control the mind's relationship with food. He explains how this could help one shed pounds without giving up the foods they love to eat.

So far so good. I've actually eaten much less than usual with these techniques. I can see how this method just may work... but, that will depend on how the emotional or comfort eating goes. Thank goodness he covers that in next weeks episode... that just happens to be sitting on my DVR for tonight's viewing pleasure!

I Can Make You Thin - Who Me??

Well, this blog has been started to inform others, as well as keep myself motivated, on how the "I Can Make You Thin" program is working for me and my family.

I have to say that I was fairly impressed with what I saw on the new TLC program, so far. Paul McKenna, who happenned to be a Pop-Hypno Star in England, has a new show that is beginning to take America by storm. While watching the first episode I have to confess that similar emotions were experienced as I have watching "The Biggest Loser." Those would be of heart-felt empathy for those who suffer from the current epidemic of being obesely overweight.

The fact is that the first show of the series has really impacted me and created concern for my apparnet (once denied) habit of eating too fast and subsequently over-eating. With the introduction of the so-called "four golden rules," I must admit that I think there's something to this. Besides, who would distaid the first rule of "eating when you want" and the second's similar, "eat WHAT you want!"

So, with that said, I hope to journal (true purpose of a web-log) my experience with this very intriguing system!