We had lots of really good low carb food this Christmas.
The low carb Rum Balls were great!
Baked Custard is a Christmas morning tradition in my home. I used
my age old recipe but substituted xylitol for the regular sugar and
it was excellent.
Everyone enjoyed it! No one knew it was different.
(I didn’t tell them I made a sugar switch until after breakfast – bad, I know).
The day after Christmas for a change of flavors I made a crock pot full of
Low Carb Texas Chili. Fantastic!
I’ll be adding a blog category for recipes very soon.
2010 is upon us and shaping up to be an exciting year with many great opportunities.
We have fresh new opportunities to do things differently and do things that really
work this year.
Like getting your health, energy and vitality back and actually losing weight.
Your health, energy and vitality are everything! If you have these you have everything.
If I could help you get just one thing this year, one vital, critically important thing,
it would be your good health. With good health you have energy and vitality and the seeds for
everything else that is important for your quality life.
I know that what I’m saying sounds like all of the other programs you’ve heard about for
decades. You probably tried and failed at many of them too, like I did.
I wish I could use different words to share with you about this program, but unfortunately
there aren’t different words. I have to use the same old words to describe something that
is very different, new and remarkable and that really works.
It’s true! I can help you get your good health and your energy and vitality
back…and lose weight as a bonus.
This program was created because I desperately needed my own good health back and
I’d tried and failed at EVERYTHING for many years! Until I discovered that it wasn’t my
fault and that it’s easy to get your body to do what it’s designed to do…keep you healthy
and at your ideal weight.
If you don’t know my incredible story and now Lovely, Lively and Lean came about you
can find it at www.lovelylivelylean.com.
Since recovering my health, energy, vitality, losing 55 pounds, and dropping 5 sizes
in just over 8 months (I’m still continuing to get younger) I’ve helped many others
do the same or similar and that number is growing fast.
This program is different – it’s not a diet – it works by instructing your brain to do all
the work so there’s no will power, no struggle, no deprivation, no suffering, no pills
or potions.
Food cravings disappear overnight; crazy obsessive appetites go away in a day. For me, this alone was a miracle!
Give yourself the gift of health, energy and vitality with permanent weight loss as
a side effect of becoming healthy, energized and balanced.
It’s easy, it’s affordable, and it’s only 6 weeks. 6 weeks puts you on the path to a
healthy, energized and empowered life.
Don’t pass this up! In six weeks you’ll have powerful tools to keep you healthy,
younger and leaner for the rest of your life.
Do this for yourself today. Do it for your New Year and your New Life.
Call or email right away. Start becoming Lovely, Lively and Lean today.
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Happy New Year Everyone and Love and Happy Fat Burning,
Lovely, Lively and Lean will help to end the current health crisis and obesity
epidemic through women. I invite you to send this blog link to all of the
women you know. Love, -Teri
Inside this Newsletter:
* Tweaking the L3 Process for Radiant Health, Happiness, Longevity and more
* SuperBrain Yoga and other Important Energy Exercises
* Yummy Low Carb Rum Balls for the Holidays and anytime.
Hi Everyone,
I know you’ve heard me say many times that L3 is not a diet. What is it then? I’m still working on a
descriptive and succinct definition. Here’s one. It’s an integrated quantum communication and awareness
process for radiant health, happiness and longevity with weight loss as a side effect.
L3’s fourfold process includes a nutritional program but because of how wrongly we’ve been programmed
about ourselves and how we think, feel and do “diets” in the last 5 decades that word doesn’t fit.
* Tweaking the L3 Process for Radiant Health, etc.
There are several key distinctions that make L3 very different from a diet. The primary thing I’d like to address
in this newsletter is that everything can be viewed or paid attention to as energy, and as a symptom or condition
to “tweak” towards greater health.
Picture a big mixer console like sound technician’s use in concerts. The bigger the concert, the more dials and
knobs. Some of those consoles have hundreds of dials and knobs and all of them tweak the sound in some way.
The sound tech’s job above all else is to get the “right” sound. The skill of the sound tech can make or break any
performance. Every performer, performance and venue has many different “tweaks” of hundreds of dials and knobs
to get the “right sound”. Not knowing how to dial in the right quality of sound would be disastrous to the quality of the
performance.
It’s the same with us. We are doing something very similar, but thank goodness for us we might only have
20 knobs to “tweak” to get us to and keep us in radiant good health, happiness and longevity.
Now when we haven’t been paying quality attention to ourselves, developing important awareness skills,
the prospect of paying attention to 20 or so qualities might feel overwhelming. Remember when you first
learned to drive a car? It’s second nature now but in the beginning there was a lot to pay attention to.
What are our dials and knobs that we pay attention to for “tweaking”?
Using a scale of 0 (low, poor, uncomfortable) to 10 (great, optimal) you are always paying attention to
and making distinctions as to whether you are feeling worse, same or better as in moving away from or
towards an optimal 10.
The following might sound overwhelming and extreme but I promise you, becoming a skilled aware
technician of yourself is easier than learning to drive. And you will learn all the tools you’ll need in
the first 3 weeks.
Here are a few of the main qualities to pay attention to and “tweak”:
Remember, these are the polar ends of our 0 to 10 distinctions/measurements.
* Uncomfortable / uncontrollable hunger ~~~ Satisfied, calm and peaceful about hunger and appetite.
* Food, carb or sugar cravings ~~~ Appetite easily satisfied and peaceful, no cravings at all.
* Poor digestion, upset upper and or lower stomach issues, fullness, bloating ~~~ Robust good digestion.
* Poor elimination: too infrequent, hard, slow, or too frequent, soft, loose ~~~ Great elimination for you, just right.
* Gaining weight, not losing, feeling fuller, thicker, retaining fluids ~~~ Losing weight, inches, feeling leaner, lighter, taller.
* Low tired dragging energy ~~~ Great robust and sustainable energy.
* Too stressed, tense, nervous ~~~ Calm, peaceful, can easily relax.
* Not enough sleep, wakeful, insomina, wake up tired ~~~ Generally, plenty of good quality sleep, wake refreshed.
* Moody, angry, depressed, stuck, emotionally sensitive, PMS, menopause ~~~ Positive, feel good/optimistic about self, others and life.
* Fuzzy thinking, poor memory, busy or hyper mind ~~~ Clear thinking, good memory/recall, easy focus, relaxed calm mind.
* Sore, achy, (skin, bones, joints, feeling toxic) inflammatory conditions ~~~ Feeling strong, healthy, younger.
That’s easy…only 22 knobs to tweak.
It’s important to say again, this might sound overwhelming and extreme but I promise you, becoming a skilled
aware technician of yourself is easier than learning to drive.
With this program you are not muscling, struggling, suffering or using will power to change yourself. You are not trying
to fix yourself or figure out what’s wrong or how you’ve failed, or your bad habits or faulty family genes.
You are generally paying attention to how you feel each day and at each meal, making distinctions and using chemistry,
i.e. food; fat, protein, carbs, fiber, water, boosters, rest, oxygen, play, peace and quiet, love, etc. to communicate with
and instruct your bodymind to do what it is designed to naturally – which is to keep you healthy, happy and living a long
creative life.
Inside the Lovely, Lively and Lean program parameters the general guideline is: If it feels good do it or keep doing it.
If it feels bad tweak it until it feels good. If it’s hard, uncomfortable, discouraging, stressful, painful, or the like, don’t
tolerate it, tweak it until if feels better, then tweak it until it feels great.
For more information review Chapter 13 in the Playbook and the awareness questions in the Journey Log.
1. Once you learn how to pay attention
*to yourself as energy
* to the quality of your energy and chemistry
2. Then “tweak” or “dial in”
*your foods and conditions towards your most optimal feel good energy
3. Then, you will NOT have to be sick, fat or tolerate low suffering energy again.
Tweaking Tip: Pay attention: You will know quite quickly – in a meal or two or a day to three – if your “tweaking” has gotten
you the results you desire. Your results will be yes/better, no/worse, or no change/hard to tell yet. Don’t’ allow or tolerate
an unworkable symptom or condition to continue.
Next Time: The value of the Journey Log for leaning awareness and tweaking skills.
* SuperBrain Yoga and Other Important Energy Exercises
The following exercises are ones that I do regularly and I believe will be valuable for you too.
There are just 3 of them and take less than 10 minutes total.
Number 1: Super Brain Yoga. I do this twice a day…morning and evening.
This YouTube video is a channel 2 YouTube link about Super Brain Yoga. It gives you information
about it, and shows you how to do the posture and the movement. The only other thing additionally
to know is that you do the movement 14 times in a row inhaling through your nose on the way down
and exhaling through your mouth on the way back up.
Number 2: The Bodytalk System: The Cortices Technique…l do this at least twice a day and sometimes more.
More info re The Cortices Technique Part 1 and 2
Number 3: Donna Eden 5 Minutes A Day Energy Routine. I do this routine most days once in the morning.
Together these exercises are less than 10 minutes worth of powerful, balancing, and tuning techniques
for your brain and bodymind.
Let me know how you feel after doing them for a few days.
* Yummy Low Carb Chocolate Holiday Rum Balls
by Laura Dolson, about.com Guide
You can whip these treats up in 5 minutes, and they make great gifts for the low-carber in your life.
Vary the amount and kind of liquor to taste—if you cut down, just replace the rest with water, or sugar-free flavored syrup.
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
1 C almond flour (best without the skins)
½ C cocoa powder
2 Tablespoons butter, softened to room temperature
2 Tablespoons powdered xylitol, erythritol, or other sugar alcohol
½ teaspoon vanilla
2 Tablespoons rum, brandy, whiskey, etc. – vary according to taste.
½ C powdered sugar substitute – xylitol, erythritol, or other sugar alcohol.
1. Mix all dry ingredients together in bowl.
2. Add vanilla and liquor. If the artificial sweetener is liquid and concentrated, add it to the liquor.
since there are different liquid sweeteners of different concentrations you may have to play
with the total amount of liquid, and cut down on the liquor, or add water. Usually the total liquid
you want is the 2.5 to 3 tablespoons. Add the liquid slowly and mix until it all comes together.
3. Roll into balls.
The flavors will mellow over the next few days. Store in covered container in refrigerator or cool place.
Carb count depends on the serving size. 17 balls will get you exactly 1 gram of effective carbohydrates per ball,
plus a little over a gram of alcohol and 1.5 grams of fiber.
Happy Fat Burning Holidays,
I just recently sent out an email to all of the people in
Lovely, Lovely and Lean programs with an article on
the Huffington Post by Kent Holtorf about Leptin
resistance and Reverse T3 as contributors to obesity
and the problem of not being able to lose weight.
All the stuff we’ve been playing with here.
You can and possibly should have your Leptin and Reverse T3
levels checked and you might try the experimental medications
listed in the articles or just keep doing Lovely, Lively and Lean.
The most powerful and natural way to optimal weight, health
and youth.
NOTE That said, it might be prudent for anyone with say 50
to 100 pounds or more of weight to lose, even if you are not
diabetic, to check with your Dr about the Leptin & Reverse T3
meds. With or without testing and medication, diet, exercise and
lifestyle adjustments are critical for our return to health but we
want all of the good, workable help we can get!
I’m going to check with the local gynecologist/hormone expert
that I’ve been working with. Last year she didn’t know about Leptin
but I think she may be coming up to speed these days and will
know about these meds.
Also, going to check with Dr Rosedale’s son, Brandon to see
what he knows since Rosedale’s specialties are diabetes,
and everything related to cell and metabolic freeze and
meltdown issues.
SEARCH AND RESEARCH
Lovely, Lively and Lean has been created from all of the
science, research, my personal experience and the experiences
of my friends, family and clients that I have been to find,
sleuth and test. I subscribe to dozens of websites where I
believe I’ll get the latest and growing information on the
subjects of Leptin, obesity, longevity, anti-aging, insulin
and adrenaline fatigue and resistance and woman’s hormone
issues like PMS, PMDD, peri, pre, post, past, piss (opps,
getting carried away) menopause, bio-identical hormones,
etc.
GOOGLE FOR UPDATES
And I Google the subjects every so often to see what’s
new and what else comes up. There’s also a growing army
of happy lovely, Lively and Lean people searching and
researching for relevant news and information.
MY PROMISE
A year ago I declared to myself and the universe that I’d
become an expert, a lay expert, on the subjects such that
my programs were absolutely relevant for my own and your
successful return to health and youth.
END OBESITY IN 10 YEARS
That’s when the Universe said I could, should and would apply
my promise toward helping to solve obesity in the US in 10
years. Me and my big mouth! I’m kidding – mostly!
Thank you for your questions Michelle. I’ll answer
them here for everyone at the same time.
NO NEED FOR CALORIE RESTRICTION
I recommend you don’t do anything with calorie
restriction. It’s extreme, painful and not necessary.
Extreme Calorie Restriction (ECR) once was the
standard teaching for anti aging and longevity.
PRIMAL SURVIVAL MECHANISM IS THE PROBLEM The discovery of leptin and other white fat hormones and
what we’ve learned since then about our energy, metabolism,
fat buring processes, how its all connected to our immune
system and our brain and primal survival mechanisms
(PSM) have changed the game.
The poor health and obesity epidemics in the US are the
result of ignorantly triggering a primal starvation survival
mechanism in our brain.
The more we try to get healthy and lose weight the way
we’ve been taught, the more the PSM is activated the more
impossible it is.
It’s tragic and absurdly funny how backwards our
understanding is about how our bodies really work.
I came upon much of this information a few years ago
when studying fear mechanisms, and in the last 5 or 6
years studying how the brain works.
LEPTIN IS THE KING AND THE KEY Learning about leptin, now called the king of the
hormones, is the key that connected the dots for me
in how to have great health, energy and how to turn
on our natural fat burning mechanisms.
LOVELY, LIVELY AND LEAN IS ALL YOU NEED This new program is all you’ll ever need. Lovely,
Lively and Lean is an anti-aging, health and vitality
coaching program that includes rapid and effortless
weight loss as a fabulous and exciting side effect.
It’s my life’s work. It’s all come together in this program.
25 years as a personal coach and spiritual guide and all
the years of training and experience leading up to becoming
a professional coach has come together in this program.
25 YEARS AND THE BEST OF THE BEST
♦ 25 years of professional coaching study, practice and
experience.
♦ My own dramatic and exciting health improvement and
weight loss.
♦ The results of 30 women who volunteered to help me test
and perfect this program.
♦ A scientific breakthrough as profound and life changing as
the discoveries of penicillian and antibiotics.
I know this program works – so much so that I’m
thrilled and confident to guarantee it.
It’s a science based program that works with each individual
to bring them back into harmony and reverse the negative
effects of aging, leptin resistance, insulin resistance and
adrenaline resistance.
These are the basic overlapping causes and symptoms of
lifestyle health issues and early aging problems - including
weight gain – that affect 70% of all women in the US.
Unless these overlapping problems get handled together
success can’t be realized. That’s where the alarming
poor health and obesity statistics for women come in and
why they’re only getting worse. When these issues are
holistically resolved, at the same time, success starts
immediately and is effortless.
Since this is not a diet and your body is doing all
the work, it takes no will power or effort on your part.
Therefore, there’s no rebound weight gain effect. The
benefits you gain and poor health, weight and fat you
lose are permanent.
This amazing program only requires 6 short weeks to
accomplish what has seemed impossible in the past.
Six weeks is all most people need in the program to
feel better, reverse negative health issues and
lose weight with the ability and knowledge to keep
themselves lovely, lively and lean for the rest of their
lives.
THIS IS NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL PROGRAM.
Everyone is different. Even though the basics are true
for everyone, how to apply the basics for each individual
requires some sleuthing and adjusting .
Depending on your personality, physical makeup, lifestyle,
history, current health conditions, how you deal with stress
and where you store it in your body, etc determines your
personal program.
As you change – as your body becomes healthier, as you
have more energy, sleep better, your weight, size, and BMI
decrease, we continue to adjust the program to fit your needs,
not the other way around.
IN A MATTER OF DAYS THE PROCESS IS WORKING and your body starts working the way it’s designed. Your
energy is freed up, your metabolism starts working more
effectively, your immune system can do it’s job again, and
your natural fat burning processes kick in.
Give your body the right conditions and the right fuel it
happily does it’s job. No will power or effort on your part
required.
You just get to cooperate with the process and enjoy your
new found energy and health and your new Lovely, Lively
and Lean body.
Rich and Lovely Blessings,
Teri
P.S. I recommend Ron Rosedale’s book, The Rosedale
Diet, as the best, most moderate and fast acting nutritional
program of among the 8 to 10 I’ve studied. This is
the one I recommend even thought it’s not complete
in and of Ron Rosedale is excitedly on the cutting
edge of this area of breakthrough research.
This exciting information can give you back your vitality and your mind.
You have a bundle of nerves and gray and white brain matter in your gut.
It’s in the epigastric region, just in back of the “pit of our stomach”, on either
side of the spinal column. This abdominal brain as western writers call it, has
been known to Eastern Yogi’s for centuries. It is a great central storehouse of
energy known as prana in the east and nerve force in the west.
The area is called the solar plexus for a reason and it’s so named because
it’s one of the areas where nets and networks of our brain, sympathetic
nervous system, spinal cord fibers, cells, filaments, ganglia, and amazing
bundles of energy communication systems come together – meet and
cross while continuing throughout the rest of the body.
Solar means radiating energy. Our “abdominal brain” radiates strength
and energy to all parts of our body and is critical for the health and
operations of the brain in our head, which it heavily relies on for energy.
All that said, if you have a messed up stomach,
you’ll have a messed up brain.
Dr Mark Hyman in his book, UltraMind says, “Your gut has a mind of its own.
The “mind” of the gut talks directly to your brain every day 24/7. We’re familiar
with signals for hunger, or elimination. But a new conversation is being discovered
between the gut and the brain, a bidirectional conversation in which the brain
speaks to the gut and the gut speaks to the brain”.
Lovely, Lively and Lean reverses a lifetime of brain body miscommunication
ending the war that’s raged within most of us that’s led to compromised health,
low energy, early aging and weight gain. Effective communication and cooperation
between your brain and body including the brain in your gut, gives you peace,
balance and harmony – that translates to a healthy, happy person.
In addition to our transformative nutrition plan I recommend the solutions below.
Relaxation Most of us have forgotten how to calm and enjoy ourselves. The stress levels that we
call normal are killing us. A client recently got a notice in her email inbox. It said,
“Warning: fatigue doesn’t mean you don’t have enough caffeine in your blood”.
An important aspect of Lovely, Lively and Lean is to rebalance your natural bio
rhythms which includes your ability to have energy in the morning, feel strong
during the day, calm in the late afternoon, quiet and relaxed in the evening leading
to restful sleep at night.
Develop a relaxing routine in the evening. Deliberately, consciously, using will
power if necessary, become committed to your total health. Even if you’ve forgotten
how to relax and calm yourself, for your own quality of life, you can and must
relearn.
Relax Your Gut Exercise: take a few minutes several times a day to tune
in and bring your awareness to your gut. On a scale of 0 to 10 (0 = complelely
relaxed, and 10 = tight as a knot sick) tune in and subjectively rate your gut
tension. Is it tight or relaxed? It doesn’t matter what you rate it, just become
aware of your gut tension.
Sit quietly and gently fill your gut with air, breathing slowly and easily in
through your nose and empty the air out through your mouth.
Place your hand on your abdomen and see your hand rising on the inhale,
and lowering on the exhale. Do this one to 5 minutes or more several times
a day.
A healthy relaxed gut gives you a more healthy efficent brain and
a vital energy system.
Leaning to relax your gut will allow your nerve force to flow unrestricted to your
brain and the rest of your body giving you more energy and vitality.
It will also help you relax
♥ your jaw
♥ the creases between your eyes
♥ improve your eyesight
♥ relax your neck and shoulders
♥ allow you to have more fun and joy
Does that sound like a mini spa and face lift treatment?
IT IS!!!
The results of learning to relax your gut allows you to look, feel
and actually be younger.
And not only that; its fantastic to be able to enjoy eating and digesting
great food.
Enzymes and Probiotics to Help Your Brains
If you’ve had trouble with your stomach, your brain, weight gain or any
of the compromised health conditions we’ve mentioned in the past then
your stomach probably needs both enzymes and probiotics.
Enzymes and bacteria are responsible for and drive all of our metabolic
processes and if you’ve had trouble your enzyme levels need help.
If you don’t already supplement enzymes or probiotics the information
on the internet can not only be overwhelming but not all of the products
offered are worth your time or money.
If you dont already have a source you trust call or email me.
(714) 878-3852, teri@lovelylivelylean.com
Strengthen Your Core to Recover Your Power The connection? Everything you do to strengthen your core, strengthens
your gut and brain and helps your body.
When your core becomes strong an interesting thing starts to happen.
You become stronger. You begin to have more power and confidence
which translates into the ability to take more action and that ability gives
you more self esteem.
DO Crunches: I call them Self Esteem Crunches. Crunches help strengthen your gut. They strengthen your abdominal
muscles and give you more confidence.
Remember. Your Hypothalamus in it’s well meaning but misguided attempt
to save you from starvation suppressed your metabolism. That act also took
your ability to have your full energy and take effective action in the world.
I’ll say it again another way: Your power became diminished when it was
suppressed by your ancient brain at the time your metabolism became
suppressed to save your life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was only doing its job, but guess what?
It’s time to WAKE UP! The hibernation of famine is OVER!
Doing any consistent core strengthening exercise will increase your
power, your body and your mind.
Note: Remember the balance: The more you strengthen your core,
the more you relax your gut.
Until next time…
Teri
Lovely, Lively and Lean will help you get your power, health and aliveness back!
As of today I lost 2 more pounds…that makes 50 pounds altogether in only 10 months.
I’m excited!
I’m amazed and happy that it’s happening to me. It’s hard to believe sometimes even
though I’m not only living it, I’m helping more and more women do the same every day.
The thing I love the most about it is how easy it is. Sometimes I just shake my head and chuckle.
I do feel like a cheer leader sometimes and for goodness sakes, if you had my results and the
results of the women I’ve been working with you’d be excited and telling everyone too.
So, at first when I told people how easy it was to feel great, have more energy, feel younger
and lose weight without using any will power or effort, they’d smile politely and nod their heads.
I knew what they were thinking.
They were thinking, “OH, YEAH, RIGHT! EASY FOR YOU!
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.”
I thought the same thing at first too.
So how about this.
I don’t weigh myself very often but Sunday night I realized the last time my scale dropped
was mid June after I got back from my daughter’s wedding in Utah. Five days and nights of
partying and making merry and I still lost 2 1/2 pounds.
Even though I’m still toning and losing inches I felt I might be getting too much protein. So
I recalculated my protein requirements and made sure each day this week that I ate only
the amount of protein I personally need and Voila!
I’m down 2 pounds today. A little protein tweaking and my natural fat burning process accelerates
again.
It’s so easy. Me and all the other women (and several husbands and boyfriends) on
this program are reaching health, energy and weight loss (ok, and sexy again) goals
that have seemed impossible until now.
♥ Shar has lost more than 23 pounds in less than 4 weeks and is still losing without trying.
♥ Leah has lost 15 pounds and dropped a full size in less than 3 weeks and has a beautiful dress
in mind for her daughters wedding in a few months.
♥ Sandy has lost 17 pounds and decreased her diabetic meds in just a month.
♥ Lori has lost 25 pounds and is dropping inches like ice cream melthing in the sun and is wearing
clothes that haven’t seen the light of day in years.
Come on gals. It’s natural, it works for everyone and it works fast.
The fault is our ignorance about how our own bodies work.
We have an obesity epidemic in our country that’s affecting
primarily women, and the cause is lack of knowledge.
Exciting Turning Point
We’re at an exciting turning point in our knowledge and
understanding about how our metabolism actually works.
In 1994 scientists discovered a hormone called leptin.
It’s a hormone manufactured in white fat. White fat is not
something to liposuction. It is an endocrine gland and part
of our endocrine system.
What’s most important to us lay people and those of with
compromised health and weight problems is that leptin is
the king of hormones.
Leptin tells all the other hormones what to do and none
of the other hormones tell leptin what to do.
Leptin is the primary lord and governor of our energy;
the acquisition, production, utilization, and elimination
of energy.
And of course, we get our energy from food.
Leptin is a very important hormone. Among other
things it tells the brain
- when you are hungry
- when you’ve had enough to eat
- how much energy you need at any given time
- how much energy is stored as fat for future use
- how much energy is needed for all the other
vital processes of living
- coordinates energy usage with all the other
hormones, systems and processes in our bodies.
All hormones work in harmony with the hypothalamus,
the ancient brain, to make sure we function optimally for
our survival. Or at least thats the optimal blueprint.
By the way, hormones are messengers.
They don’t do the work in our bodies, they signal what
work needs doing. Fatty acids are the worker bees in
our bodies.
Two Ancient Foes
We had two primary ancient foes in our beginnings.
1. Animals that wanted to eat us and
2. Starvation: not enough of food to survive.
Our ancient brain with it’s primal survival mechanism
(PSM) still monitors whether we are in feast or danger
or famine modes today.
Guess what triggers the messages to our ancient
brain?
For our purposes I’ll round them off to
3 basic primal survival messages (PSM) and
responses.
PSM #1.Feast. When we’re relaxed and not
stressed our vigilant ever watchful ancient brain
gets the “all clear, everything is ok” message. Our
energy producing fat burning metabolism functions
steady and optimal and so do all of our other systems.
In this mode we are efficient fat burning machines with
all of our systems working in harmony.
PSM #2. Being chased by a hungry animal we
automatically get adrenaline and related chemicals and
sugar pumped into our bloodstream to take flight or fight.
It’s a quick and jolting response; big chemical and sugar
surge that dissipates when we get to safety.
PSM #3. Long term stress tells the brain there’s a famine
threat requiring protection from starvation.
Remember, the ancient brain only knows feast, danger,
and famine.
The brain body response is to shut down the metabolism
to conserve energy to get us through the famine and store
as much food intake as possible in the form of fat for future
energy needs.
The name of the ancient game is survival at all costs.
Fast forward to today. Stress is the name of the game
and it has no end.
As a society we’re addicted to stress, and the stress
we call normal is killing us.
Storing fat is still a survival response to famine.
Even thought you have plenty to eat your brain still thinks
you’re in danger of starving.
So leptin, the king of hormones, keeps trying to deliver
“there’s plenty of food, stop eating, stop storing fat”
message to our dutiful ancient brain but our brain isn’t
getting that message.
Your brain is getting the other message. The “stress means
famine” message so it isn’t listening to leptin - now you have
leptin resistance.
Your hypothalamus has your metabolism and energy locked
down as low as it can go and still function, and stores as much
as it can of what you eat as fat.
As long as you are in this mode, you keep gaining weight,
losing energy and experiencing declining health from the
resulting immune system interference and inflammatory
responses.
Sugar Signals the Brain’s Primal Survival Mechanism
If you have more than 1 scant teaspoon of sugar in your
entire bloodstream at any one time it signals the brain
that something is wrong and interprets it as stress and
famine.
Since about World War 2 we have retrained our
bodies to burn sugar as our primary fuel which we
all know now has many levels and layers of health
damaging consequences.
The results: 68% of all women in the US are overweight
with half of that number being obese. 70% of all doctors
office visits are by women with avoidable lifestyle related
problems. 50% of all children in the US under the age of
12 are obese.
What’s the solution? It’s Easy!
It’s easy to turn this primal survival mechanism (PSM)
around and it’s immediate and effortless to get it to work
for you instead of against you.
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