How Are You Bathing Your Cells? The Key to Appetite Control

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I wish I had a dollar for every time a client stated, ?If only I had more willpower I would not have a weight problem? or for when they asked me for a medication to decrease their appetite.? First of all, realize that there is NO such thing as willpower.? Willpower is nonexistent, and the belief that willpower is necessary for weight loss will always lead to failure.? Instead of willpower, what is needed is a ?willingness? to consider new ideas and methods.

For the purposes of weight loss and weight management, the food we eat has two distinct roles:

??control of body fat (with the proper calories ?in? and calories ?out?)

and

??control of appetite

This first distinct role of food for purpose of weight loss and weight management, the ?control of body fat,? will be explored elsewhere since the goal of this article is to explore ?how what we bathe our cells with controls our appetite.??

Keep in mind that appetite is not the same as hunger.? Our appetite, or the desire to satisfy both the physiological need for food, as well as to experience the pleasure from food is controlled by signals in our brain.? Can we control these signals, and therefore our appetite?? ABSOLUTELY!? And I don?t mean with the pills and potions you find at the corner vitamin/supplement store or with weight loss medications.?

The food we eat is what provides the nutrients that bathe every living cell, including the cells that control our appetite.? Our appetite then, is simply a matter of chemicals manufactured within the brain cells, and these chemicals are manufactured from the foods in the diet.? If you want to better control the impulses that control your appetite, then you have to learn how and when to eat the proper foods.? So, you see, although calorie intake is hugely important in weight management, the foods we choose have much more significance than calorie intake alone, hence, a well-balanced diet that includes fruits, vegetables, whole-grains, protein, fiber, and minimizing processed & poorly-prepared foods is the best way to control our appetite.

Some of the chemicals affecting appetite can also affect our mood.? Therefore, our diet can change our attitude about eating, and the way we feel about ourselves.? Having the right ?attitude? about trying new things is also very important for weight loss.? The brain chemicals that control appetite (and mood) DO respond to lifestyle, behavioral and environmental changes.?

The hardest thing, of course, about decreasing our appetite and choosing the foods that will help change our attitude about eating, that will ultimately lead to weight loss, is getting started.? You may not even want to take the first step because you are not yet programmed with the right attitude, because you are not yet programmed with the right diet.? It?s like the ?chicken and the egg,? scenario.? Which came first, the chicken or the egg??

Bottom line: As the Nike motto says:? ?Just DO IT!?? There are some things in life that we just have to do, whether we like to do them or not.? If we don?t do something now to begin living a healthier life, we will be paying for it years later down the road. We will then be doing things that we don?t want to do, like weekly trips to our healthcare provider, taking medications that may cause side effects, missing quality time with our family because we are too weak, too tired, or too much in pain to participate, and so on.? We don?t need to make changes in our diets all at once.? Rome wasn?t built in a day.? Start with something simple, such as eating breakfast once a week if you are not a breakfast eater, or ordering a salad instead of fries.? One step at a time is good enough!

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Cheryl Winter is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and registered dietitian with advanced training in diabetes. She is President of DiabeteSteps Rx? a full-service health and wellness organization, providing services aimed at the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and its associated medical conditions. DiabeteSteps Rx? also leads other healthcare professionals to increased revenues and improved patient care. Access her FREE ?Get Balanced, Fit & Slim? STEP-POWER? Transformation Package at: http://diabetestepsrx.com/ to help with the challenges of weight gain, stress & illness.

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Taking Control of Your Subconscious for Permanent Weight loss

Copyright ? 2005 Burris MIND/FITNESS

From the moment of birth your first emotional experiences establish your subconscious perceptions of the world. There is not a moment of the day or night that you are not affected by your emotions. More often than not it is your programmed emotional states, not logic that control your behavior. Therefore in order to apply the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS you must first understand how your subconscious mind works.

Your subconscious mind flawlessly records everything you have ever seen, felt, smelled, heard, or tasted. Unfortunately it is not capable of interpreting the true meaning of the information it records. It simply takes the information it accumulates, and organizes it into individual programs that determine how you will respond to recurring circumstances in your daily life. Once your subconscious mind has taken certain information and formed it into a program, it will devote its considerable power to the continuation of that program behavior or habit, regardless of the consequences.

Your subconscious programming can be useful. This is what allows you to do things automatically like drive a car, type a letter, or use a computer. If the subconscious did not store this information for you in the form of a program, you would not be able to do these things automatically. The disadvantage to this is that there are some subconscious programs that simply do not work.

At some point in your life you may have been programmed to eat poorly or to respond poorly to a certain situation or to link pleasure to things like smoking, drugs or alcohol. The dilemma later in life is how to change the behaviors that do not work for you.
The bottom line is that there are two subconscious components that activate an emotional state, which in turn determines your behavior.
1) You must talk to yourself which usually begins with a question and
2) By asking yourself a question your subconscious mind will always give you an answer, which in turn produces a correlating picture.
It is from this subconscious picture that your emotional state is determined and in turn determines your behavior. A good example of this process is when a person is overweight; they constantly ask themselves negative questions like: ?Why am I so fat?? or ?How did I get so fat?? or ?Why can?t I lose this weight????
By asking yourself these types of negative questions, your subconscious mind will produce negative answers such as: You are fat because you overeat or you overeat because you are stressed and for each of these negative answers the subconscious mind will produce a correlating picture of you as a fat person.

The mind now interprets these subconscious pictures, as how you should look, and devotes its tremendous power toward maintaining this body image. So you see, every time you ask yourself a question there is a correlating subconscious picture, which determines your emotional response. Through the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS you will learn how to Recognize, Access and Change these two subconscious components.
Unlike your conscious mind, your subconscious mind is always active, it never sleeps. An example of this is when you ask yourself the question: What is that person?s name? For the life of you, you cannot think of their name and then maybe an hour or two later or even the next day their picture and name pop into your mind. The reason for this is your subconscious mind was continuously working on the name, even though you had consciously given up.

If the subconscious does not already have a stored answer for a question, it will search through all of its available information until it formulates one. This is why you need to ask yourself any question you think may move you toward your weight goal because the subconscious will always find an answer.

It is estimated that your subconscious mind generates over 60 thousand thoughts per day. We refer to this thought process as talking to ourselves. The reason your subconscious mind is capable of generating over 60 thousand thoughts per day is because your inner voice continuously speaks to you at a rate of one thousand to twelve hundred words per minute. You can only speak however at about two to three hundred words per minute. This means your inner voice runs at a rate of about four times faster than you can speak and produces a correlating picture for each of these thoughts. In other words if your mind was the world, your conscious mind might take up the space of LA or New York but your subconscious mind would take up the space and activity of the rest of the world.

Regardless of weather your goal is a change in diet for weight loss, an increase in your fitness program or to take control of an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. In the end the question you need to ask yourself is?Am I completely happy with the mind running itself or do I need to take control of it? If your answer is I need to take control of it, then Burris MIND/FITNESS is the answer.

About the Author:
Kelly Burris is the author of ?Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious.? You can read the first two chapters, or become a ?Certified Burris MIND/FITNESS Consultant? by going to http://www.KellyBurris.com
Kelly Burris is the developer of Burris MIND/FITNESS and author of Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious. You can read the first two chapters of the book listen to the first track of the included Audio/Data CD or become a Certified Burris MIND/FITNESS Consultant by going to http://www.kellyburris.com/. 

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Taking Control of Your Subconscious for Permanent Weight loss

AppId is over the quota
Copyright ? 2005 Burris MIND/FITNESS

From the moment of birth your first emotional experiences establish your subconscious perceptions of the world. There is not a moment of the day or night that you are not affected by your emotions. More often than not it is your programmed emotional states, not logic that control your behavior. Therefore in order to apply the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS you must first understand how your subconscious mind works.

Your subconscious mind flawlessly records everything you have ever seen, felt, smelled, heard, or tasted. Unfortunately it is not capable of interpreting the true meaning of the information it records. It simply takes the information it accumulates, and organizes it into individual programs that determine how you will respond to recurring circumstances in your daily life. Once your subconscious mind has taken certain information and formed it into a program, it will devote its considerable power to the continuation of that program behavior or habit, regardless of the consequences.

Your subconscious programming can be useful. This is what allows you to do things automatically like drive a car, type a letter, or use a computer. If the subconscious did not store this information for you in the form of a program, you would not be able to do these things automatically. The disadvantage to this is that there are some subconscious programs that simply do not work.

At some point in your life you may have been programmed to eat poorly or to respond poorly to a certain situation or to link pleasure to things like smoking, drugs or alcohol. The dilemma later in life is how to change the behaviors that do not work for you.
The bottom line is that there are two subconscious components that activate an emotional state, which in turn determines your behavior.
1) You must talk to yourself which usually begins with a question and
2) By asking yourself a question your subconscious mind will always give you an answer, which in turn produces a correlating picture.
It is from this subconscious picture that your emotional state is determined and in turn determines your behavior. A good example of this process is when a person is overweight; they constantly ask themselves negative questions like: ?Why am I so fat?? or ?How did I get so fat?? or ?Why can?t I lose this weight????
By asking yourself these types of negative questions, your subconscious mind will produce negative answers such as: You are fat because you overeat or you overeat because you are stressed and for each of these negative answers the subconscious mind will produce a correlating picture of you as a fat person.

The mind now interprets these subconscious pictures, as how you should look, and devotes its tremendous power toward maintaining this body image. So you see, every time you ask yourself a question there is a correlating subconscious picture, which determines your emotional response. Through the process of Burris MIND/FITNESS you will learn how to Recognize, Access and Change these two subconscious components.
Unlike your conscious mind, your subconscious mind is always active, it never sleeps. An example of this is when you ask yourself the question: What is that person?s name? For the life of you, you cannot think of their name and then maybe an hour or two later or even the next day their picture and name pop into your mind. The reason for this is your subconscious mind was continuously working on the name, even though you had consciously given up.

If the subconscious does not already have a stored answer for a question, it will search through all of its available information until it formulates one. This is why you need to ask yourself any question you think may move you toward your weight goal because the subconscious will always find an answer.

It is estimated that your subconscious mind generates over 60 thousand thoughts per day. We refer to this thought process as talking to ourselves. The reason your subconscious mind is capable of generating over 60 thousand thoughts per day is because your inner voice continuously speaks to you at a rate of one thousand to twelve hundred words per minute. You can only speak however at about two to three hundred words per minute. This means your inner voice runs at a rate of about four times faster than you can speak and produces a correlating picture for each of these thoughts. In other words if your mind was the world, your conscious mind might take up the space of LA or New York but your subconscious mind would take up the space and activity of the rest of the world.

Regardless of weather your goal is a change in diet for weight loss, an increase in your fitness program or to take control of an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. In the end the question you need to ask yourself is?Am I completely happy with the mind running itself or do I need to take control of it? If your answer is I need to take control of it, then Burris MIND/FITNESS is the answer.

About the Author:
Kelly Burris is the author of ?Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious.? You can read the first two chapters, or become a ?Certified Burris MIND/FITNESS Consultant? by going to http://www.KellyBurris.com
Kelly Burris is the developer of Burris MIND/FITNESS and author of Reprogramming the Overweight Mind: 7 Steps to Taking Control of Your Subconscious. You can read the first two chapters of the book listen to the first track of the included Audio/Data CD or become a Certified Burris MIND/FITNESS Consultant by going to http://www.kellyburris.com/. 

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