A high calorie, fat-rich diet causes inflammatory toxins to be expressed in the hypothalamus {center of the brain}, contributing to changes in brain function. The outcome is insulin resistance and a reduction in the brain's ability to signal that your stomach is full. This leads to overeating and weight gain. In other words, the brain of an overeater is inflamed.
it’s a great time to review the year and look forward to a bright new future in 2011. Here is a wonderful New Year tradition. Write down all the things you want to let go of from the past year...
Our reality isn’t real at all – it’s just our interpretation of it. If you want to change your reality, change your perspective, change your perception. When you change your perception, you change your reality!
As we stay focused on what we do want- we give our mind clearer directions about what we do want. To engage your deeper mind in working for you, give it clear directions, and you can do this through the language we use. There is a part of our mind ( our unconscious mind) that doesn't hear negatives.
Every morning we would tear down the shelters, roll up our packs and hit the trail for anywhere between 2-10 miles. When we arrived at our campsite for the day, we would unpack and make camp. In the middle of nowhere, the desert of Utah, there was a stillness there that spoke to the soul. A deep quiet so strong and peaceful it is my belief that this desert magic could soothe the confusion and the difficulties of the teens who came.
What are the hard and fast rules of being worthy or deserving? there aren't any, worthy and deserving is a judgement- if its a judgement, someone must be deciding...
Last week I watched the documentary on lottery winners, "Lucky." It was fasinating to see how this big change played out for people in their lives. Some went to extravagant extremes, purchasing everything, others continued to live in the same house with only minor changes. For some it was chaos, and for others, it didn't seem to change their life much.
It seems that we are all in a race to do more, do it better, and do it faster, and in this rush, we try multi-tasking, doing more than one thing at a time. In an effort to gain time, we take multiple tasks into other activities, such as driving while: eating, talking on the phone, putting on make-up. Or what about talking on the phone while sorting through emails?
Stress is also the hidden culprit behind weight gain. For many business owners, when we experience stress, the first thing to fall off our busy schedules is fitness, self care and time for healthy meals. The double whammy of stress and our health is that if our Cortisol levels (stress hormone) remain high - it actually causes the body to gain weight and store more fat.
It's okay to be a fathead, fat is what your brain is made of. Read about how to get that lump of fat working for you with "Train your Brain to Slim your Body." www.lightenup.me/book
