05.30.08
Posted in The Medical Way at 9:09 pm by
Weight gain/weight loss is a serious issue, no matter what your stage in life. It is a major health concern and can serve to shorten your life if it is not addressed. Certainly, there are a large number of diet plans on the market today. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, its assets and liabilities. Ultimately, it is best to consult with your doctor and a registered dietician in order to find the diet plan that is right for you.
However, long-term weight loss requires more than just a stellar diet plan. It also requires a commitment to a lifetime of healthy eating, a sensible exercise program, and an understanding of the dynamics of overeating. If you can master these elements, chances are you will be successful not only when it comes to losing weight, but maintaining weight loss as well.
Dieting is not easy. Here are some quick tips that successful people use to lose weight so that others can benefit too.
• Drink 8-10 glasses of water each day
• Eat breakfast
• Eat at least 3 meals and 2 snacks each day
• Eat your veggies
• Prepare your own food as much as possible
• Invest in a good set of food storage containers
• Eat some protein at each meal and as a snack
• Drink a glass of water after each snack
• Eat slowly and enjoy your food
• Eat your larger meals early and smaller meals later
• Eat a fruit dessert
• Go easy on the meal replacements
• If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
• Invest in good cookbooks
• Take a good multi-vitamin
Your weight loss success is totally up to you. Assuming that you are an otherwise healthy individual, your body will do its part. Just remember to adhere to the weight loss or diet plan that is right for you and add some variety to your meals to help you stay faithful to your health and weight loss goals.
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05.16.08
Posted in The Medical Way at 8:52 am by
You have seen and heard the warnings. You know what smoking is doing to your lungs. Perhaps you have tried to quit smoking before, but the gum tastes bad and no matter how hard you tried you just can’t pretend that the inhaler is a smoke. You’ve even tried counseling and prescription medications. So, what else is there for you to try? You should definitely consider hypnosis to help you quit smoking.
Why You Should Quit Smoking
Smoking does many things to your lungs. If you have seen the before and after pictures, you know how smoking takes a healthy pink lung and turns it into a black unhealthy one. Smoking can bring about cancer, emphysema and can increase your chances of heart attack and stroke. What causes this? The chemicals in cigarettes are outstanding and many of them are poisonous. There is also benzene, a chemical in gasoline, cadmium, found in batteries and oil paint, and hydrogen cyanide that cause headaches, dizziness and nausea.
There are actually 4000 chemicals and of these 43 are cancer causing. One ingredient is acetone, an ingredient in nail polish remover. Arsenic. That is right, arsenic, the ingredient that is used to kill rats! Arsenic is what gives your lips a burn and your mouth a very bad taste.
What Happens When You Quit
This is what happens to your lungs after you quit smoking. Within 20 minutes of quitting your heart rate begins to drop. Twelve hours off the smokes brings your carbon monoxide levels to normal. Between two weeks and three months smoke free you begin to lower your risk of heart attacks, and your lung function improves.
Within one to nine months, you will find that your coughing level is lowered and your lung capacity increases. One year, and you’ve already cut your risk of a coronary heart disease to to half of what it was when you were smoking. Fifteen years and you now have the same risk of a non smoker of having a coronary heart attack.
What Can Hypnosis Do?
Hypnosis is not what the cartoons and movies portray. You do not sit in front of a creepy man as he sways a dangly object in front of your face. The goal of hypnosis is to suppress the conscious side of the brain, which is the “thinking” part of the brain with which you function most of the day. The purpose is to let the subconscious become available for tweaking by you and the hypnotist. Often, the hypnotist will work to teach your subconscious to equate smoking with something unpleasant, like nausea. While counseling only works on the conscious part of the brain, hypnosis works on the deep rooted subconscious levels of automatic thought.
Many hypnotherapists can help you quit smoking with just a single session of treatment.
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