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Another issue of OneMoreBite's wise, witty information and tips about weight loss from around the globe.
Issue 30 - December 2005 + Lower Cholesterol Without Drugs + The Laughter Diet + When Getting Fit Goes Too Far + After Holidays Best Deals + Q & A for Weight Loss Queen + Quick Start Weight Loss with Lean Control System + One More Bite's Clients Get Results + On Exercise: Holiday Style + Food & Cooking Tips + Food Fun: Winter Treats + Favorite Gadgets: MotivAider	OMB weight loss newsletter features: •EFT Weight Loss •Fun Food Finds •Tips & Tricks •Extras for Bits-n-Bites Readers
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"If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Catherine

Lower Cholesterol Without Drugs

High cholesterol is directly related to obesity and elevated blood sugar. High blood pressure is often a direct result of obesity. If your cholesterol levels are too high, you have high blood pressure, you're overweight, or you are diabetic or borderline diabetic, reducing your cholesterol and/or blood pressure is a critical first step in reducing your weight and creating better health.

Instead of jumping right into drug therapy to reduce cholesterol (Statin drugs) or lower blood pressure consider the alternatives. A nutritional approach can often provide the same result with no side effects. Statin drugs and blood pressure medications do not address the cause of your high cholesterol levels or high blood pressure either, while a nutritional approach often can.

Some believe Statins may be adding to the elevated blood glucose problem which you certainly don't want. All drugs (including aspirin) have side effects, but so does a nutritional approach, it's side effect is better health. Which do you prefer?

BiosLife2 is clinically proven to reduce cholesterol and lower blood pressure, providing a smart solution and non-chemical way to possibly resolve these major health concerns. Ask your doctor about BiosLife2. It is listed in the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) and is proven to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol.

Remember whenever you are making changes in your health, whether by better food choices, supplements, exercise, or stress reducing techniques (including NLP & EFT) always give yourself a fair chance of at least three months before you decide whether it is working.

Why three months? Because in the course of getting healthier, you may release toxins (causing what seems to be worsening symptoms) you may feel funny (reducing sugar or other "addictive" substances can lead to more cravings), and you may simply be experiencing the upset equilibrium (you're not doing what you usually do so it feels wrong). Think of it as "de-gunking." Getting rid of the gunk, that's the goal.

When you start to eat better and get more movement into your life, there is often initial soreness in the muscles (that's also not a bad thing), and sometimes you may make extra trips to the toilet (also a good thing). Let your body system come back into balance by giving it plenty of time.

Herbs, supplements and food all take time to bring your system back to proper balance. Giving it a 90-day trial is a good place to start. Most likely you'll know far before 90 days are over whether what you are doing is working, but sometimes you'll need to wait to decide, just as some people don't get instant results with EFT while others do.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were those thighs.

For more about BiosLife2

To get more info about Unicity products that might be right for your health concerns, take the short Health Assessment Questionnaire (no obligation).

Kitchen Math

Google's handy calculator.

Food Intolerance

Tracking what you eat can be a daunting experience but if you have food intolerance, food allergies or food sensitivities, tracking what you eat for a short period of time can help you solve the puzzle. The foodintol.com site includes a brief overview of food intolerance with interesting statistics

More on Food Pushers

After reading The Daily Bite about how to deal with food pushers; those folks who insist you have more food than you really want, Luci Scarman, a dietitian and nutritionist in Australia took time to send her thoughts:

"A solution which works well when one feels under pressure to eat more by others, is to simply say, 'I would love to and it looks delicious, though I am soooo full - I simply could not fit it in.' This works well as it emphasizes the feeling of fullness and satiety, and said regularly is a powerful tool. ... no-one else knows whether you are full, so it really can not be questioned."

Luci Scarman, Dietitian/Nutritionist, BS, Master Nutrition & Dietetics; Accredited Member of Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA); Consultations Casuarina Beach Rec Club, Mobile visits to PT clients & health club/gym Members

Fun For the Easily Amused (I'm a Member)

If you like oddly amusing sites, Disturbing Auctions is for you

Sad & Sobering Statistics about Obesity

According to Time Magazine's June 2005 issue, 30% of Americans are obese and 50 million Americans are on a diet at any given time.

Yikes! How many of the pounds you've lost with LA Weight Loss came back as soon as you quit? Try a program that works for the long-haul, not just the short term. The Lean Control System (more info below) can propel you with a quick start to taking off the holiday pounds. Together with the 8-Wk Ending Emotional Eating Workshop, you've got a way out and next year you won't be playing this game again because you'll have it licked. ;-)

The Laughter Diet

Check Bizarro's vegan cartoons and another vegan cartoon
Gallery of Vegan Cartoons
Accepting Yourself

When Getting Fit Goes Too Far

You can overdo fitness, the same as you can overdo eating pie. Take a look at a few "ladies" who've taken their fitness levels to the extreme. Warning: This may frighten small children and animals.

Also, please note. These freakish results do not occur without steroids, so ladies especially, don't be afraid to lift weights. There's no easier way to get in great shape; just maybe stop before you start to resemble The Incredible Hulk!

After Holiday Best Deals (Catch the Sales)

Resistance Band
Dumbbells
Jump Rope
Exercise Mat
Fitness Ball
Home Exercise Video
Heart Rate Monitor
Body fat calipers
Bicycle
Yoga Kit
Kitchen Scale
Body fat Scale
Software to support weight loss (see my Tools for Weight Loss section)
The MotivAider (my favorite gadget)

Q & A: For the Weight Loss Queen

Q. How can EFT be permanent?

A. The same way you can be afraid of spiders as a child, but no longer are as an adult. Your brain is capable of believing you can achieve a lower weight, if that's what you really want. If you're unsure that's what you want, that's okay too. Some people are perfectly fine at a higher weight and just need to accept themselves first, weight loss comes later.

Q. I am overwhelmed sometimes at all I am trying to keep track of and do.

A. That's why it's best to just take one small piece (one issue) and work on that. Later you can work on something else, and then something else. The thing is, at first looking at all you want to do, it's too big. There are too many old issues, too many new issues, too much going on in your life, and it can be overwhelming.

The best part is you don't have to deal individually with every single issue you identify, basically because sometimes when you deal with one, a lot of others also are affected. Just take things one day at a time. You don't have to handle it all at once. Weight gain usually happens over the course of many years, so allow yourself some time to take the weight back off.

Gearing Up for New Year

Enjoy the special occasions and eat like a healthy person, and extra weight falls right off. It's true. You won't be deprived or miss out on your favorites. Anyone that knows me knows I love sweets, and I love to eat.

The holiday's are nearly over. If you want to learn to enjoy the holidays to come and not gain your usual 5 to 10 pounds, get started now in the Ending Emotional Eating workshop. The best present you can give yourself and your- family is a happy healthy you

Start any time, even the day of a holiday. It doesn't matter. What matters is you decide you've had enough of gaining weight, losing the weight, and regaining again, and that it's finally time to do something about it.

If you really want to catapult yourself into the "let's get healthy zone" then add the Lean Control System, described next.

Quick Start Weight Loss with Lean Control System

If you're coming off the holiday season with a few extra pounds (and who isn't?) get those pounds off quickly with the Lean Control System. Together with the 8-Week Ending Emotional Eating Course, you'll have everything to get rid of your weight problem once and for all. (You can get the Lean Control System separately too, and you absolutely do not need it to get excellent results with the 8-Week course. Many people do want nutritional support, and this is for those of you who have been wanting something extra.

Based on the Cleanse, Burn, Build approach, the Lean Control System gives you a way to handle these typical problems:

1. Poor digestion and unhealthy system: Cleanse Tea

Cleanse Tea contains gentle herbs and other nat.ural ingredients that help your digestive tract more efficiently re.move wastes, including toxins.

2. Getting Enough Exercise: Power Burn

It's a common problem. You don't have the energy to exercise, so you don't get off the couch. Power Burn is effective at getting you that energy burst.

3. Reducing Calories: EquaLean

Yes, you must reduce the total calories you take in, but how? And how to avoid those temptations? One way is with EquaLean, containing ingredients that are known to help reduce absorption of carbohydrate calories.

4. Meal Replacement : Lean Control MRP (meal replacement powder)

This chocolate or vanilla powder is based on the "replace one meal a day" concept. I like to use it for when I'm in a hurry and don't have time for a proper meal (breakfast skippers take note). It provides the nutritional foundation so you don't end up overeating later because you starved all day.

All four products complete the Lean Control System. At less than the price of one fast food meal a day you'll have a complete nutritional program for a healthy head-start on the new year and a new you.

New Year, New You. Is this the year you finally get that weight issues resolved once and for all?

For more information or to get started: Together with the One More Bite EFT & NLP techniques you'll have a way to completely change your health for the better in 2006.

Product Descriptions and Information: Clients will receive products at wholesale.

Case Studies: Lean Control System + 8-Week Ending Emotional Eating Course

Up until now I've not had a good nutritional program to recommend, but now I have partnered with Unicity, a company that not only has the quality and proven products, but also has the people I know and trust behind it.

I do encourage anyone who wants a quick start to their weight loss to add the Lean Control System with my 8-Week course.

If you've been wanting the nutritional program to augment the emotional program, this is it. For more information or to talk about your situation further with no obligation, send your name and phone, plus best time to call by the contact form.

One More Bite's Clients Get Results

Here's a small sampling of recent e-mails.

Getting Results by Reading the Daily Bites

Dear Kathryn, I want you to know I am following most of your advice. I thank you for sending it. I am now down 44 lbs. by following this clean type of eating. Lots of fruit and vegetables. Still have 56 or so to go. But I am making good progress. I just wanted to say thank you. Elaine M."

This is the sort of message that really makes my work worthwhile! Thank you, Elaine, for taking the time to send it.

Another client writes:

Kathryn Martyn’s One More Bite Weight Lo.ss workshop is outstanding. I lost over 25 lbs working with Kathryn and learned secrets to lifetime management of overeating. Now I eat anything I want and enjoy it too. I couldn't have done it without her help."

You can get results with your we.ight loss efforts if you're willing to put in some effort and open your mind to the possibility of really getting what you want. Read the OMB articles, get The Daily Bites, and just get started. Today is the day. Not tomorrow, not next Monday, but right here, right now.

On Exercise: Doing it Holiday Style

Stringing the lights stretch: Notice how you're decorating your holiday tree and you're doing a lot of bending, reaching and stretching? That's exercise, and you didn't even know it! That happens all the time. Changes to turn chores into exercise.

It doesn't have to be sit ups and pushups or any other things you remember from gym class in school. It can be having fun with the kids on the floor, kneading bread dough, or any number of other activities.

Open your mind to the possibility of really getting what you want. Start by reading all the OMB weight loss articles, then get The Daily Bites, and learn EFT. Today is the day. Not tomorrow, not next Monday, but right here, right now.

Food & Cooking Tips

Reduce fat in gravies by skimming off the fat once it's cooked. Let it sit for a minute and you'll see the fat rise to the top. Simple skim some off, instant calorie savings

Do you love olives? I do, but why do I keep popping them in my mouth? Mostly, it's because there's only an open jar of black olives a few times a year, but frankly, they aren't all that delicious so just have three or four and be done with it.

Cookies, fudge, goodies oh my! Yes, this is the season, and these are treats we don't get year-round, so the tendency is to over do it, but remember you can store and save for later too. Seal-a- meal or other packaging works, and there's always the freezer Just have a few, and totally enjoy it, then save the rest for another day. No big deal. There's no crime in enjoying the holidays but turning it into a "Eating frenzy because I won't get these goodies for another year" is silly. It doesn't need to be that way this year or ever again.

The holidays are the best time of year to practice and see how EFT works. You'll still enjoy the holiday food, probably more than ever before, so don't be afraid to try.

Daily Bites: Lessons in Using EFT for Losing the Weight. The only e-mail list with specific exercises and examples of using EFT for weight loss and it's totally free.

Food Fun: Winter Treats

Snowflake-Tillas: Remember making snowflakes as a child from folded paper? Same thing, only we're going to eat these.

Ingredients:

1. 6 Tortillas
2. Canola or light vegetable oil
3. Powdered Sugar (confectioners) OR Powdered Splenda (recipe for Powdered Splenda below) * Edible glitter (optional)

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Warm tortillas (about 15 seconds) in microwave.

2. Individually fold the tortillas in half once and then in half again, so you end up with a "V" shaped wedge (it will be thick).

3. Using clean scissors, or knife cut pieces out of your tortilla triangles. Make slices, circles, squares, etc. Practice first with a sheet of paper, cut to a circle, to see the snowflake effect. Unfold the tortillas.

4. Lightly brush tops of snowflakes with canola or vegetable oil and place on cookie sheet slightly apart. Bake until lightly browned and crisp (about 4 min).

5. Sift powdered sugar on top of snowflakes while still warm.

For extra sparkle, sprinkle on edible glitter, available at TheBakersKitchen.net, Sugarcraft.com and Kitchencrafts.com (get their catalog).

** Recipe Powdered Splenda:

Add Splenda to food processor or coffee grinder, pulse until very fine. That was easy!

Makes 6 Snowflakes. Grab the kids and enjoy a Saturday afternoon. Remember, tortillas are not exactly low cal or low carb, so when you enjoy these, think indulgence (and that's okay because you've learned to enjoy an indulgence, right?)

+++ ---------- Ending Emotional Eating ---------------- +++

If you've taken seminars, read books, bought gadgets, and tried everything to lose the weight, but still nothing works, the answer may be discovering and resolving the emotional issues that have kept you stuck.

The One More Bite 8-Week Ending Emotional Eating Workshop and/or private sessions may be the answer. If now is the right time to end your obstacles to losing all the weight you want, then get started today.

More Info on Weight Loss Workshops or To Register

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Everything Track & Field

Favorite Gadgets: MotivAider

I love my MotivAider because it helps keep me on track. Here's my review of the MotivAider. I wear it for work too, timing my client appointments, keeping me on track, and to remind me to do my EFT, drink my water, etc. This is my all-time favorite gadget.

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