BITS-O-WISDOM: "Never eat more than you can lift." -- Miss Piggy

FDA Okays Cloned Food as Safe to Eat

Wow, the FDA moved fast on this one. No one has ever eaten any cloned food, yet the FDA has decided it's perfectly safe to eat. How exactly they came up with this conclusion is anybody's guess.

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Latest Bogus Product Exposed - BodyFlex

The FTC has charged BodyFlex with false advertising for claiming, "In just seven days you can lose from four to 14 inches guaranteed with BodyFlex Plus." The company claimed that BodyFlex breathing was the secret, and that their "program is not about food."

One small drop in a huge bucket. False advertising claims for weight loss products are on the rise, and bound to become an even bigger problem. This is beyond the "if it sounds too good to be true" category - 14 inches in 7 days?

McSweeney's Reviews of New Food - These are great fun

Candy Trends

1,401 new confectionery products were introduced in 2002. Here is the break-down:

- Chocolate items: 639
- Non-chocolate: 640
- Gum: 72
- Other: 50

Source - Candy USA

Fast Casual - Coming Soon to a Restaurant Near You

While the fast food restaurants are clamoring to come up with new menu items to satisfy the desire for people to eat out, but more healthfully, more and more new restaurants are sprouting up - calling themselves Fast Casual. At least they're trying, and some are pretty good. I've tried Baja Fresh which is located nearby and it was great. Fresh, clean, and healthy. That's more like it. Hopefully the trend will continue.

If you know of some healthy alternative restaurants, send me their names and I'll create a list of recommendations.

Website Find: Health World Online

Overweight but Undernourished - We keep eating more and more and yet many are malnourished. You've been reading my rants about fast food? Here's a great article on the subject.

Exercise Tip of the Month

Think of housework as exercise - meaning, instead of wishing you didn't have to do laundry, think of it as an opportunity instead. An opportunity to move, bend, stretch. Do the same with emptying the dishwasher, sweeping the floor, vacuuming. It's all exercise, and it all counts. It's when we start letting robot vacuum cleaners do our work that we'll really have an obesity epidemic.

Why we Quit Just Before Reaching our Goal

Have you nearly reached your goal weight only to find yourself back in the kitchen, eating another piece of pie, nibbling leftovers while cleaning the kid's plates, making less healthy choices, "I've been so good, I deserve a break." You can easily talk yourself right back into the habits that got you in trouble in the first place.

It's not that they don't like what they've achieved, but that they aren't comfortable there. They want themselves back. They don't feel whole anymore - they've not given themselves time to adjust which is why slow-but-steady is the best approach. What can you do to stop this behavior, and help yourself stay on track, especially when you're so close to reaching your goal.

One theory is that once you reach or nearly reach your weight loss goals, the fears start to rise such as a vague uneasiness. You're off balance, and the system (your brain) doesn't like being off balance; it wants to get back in balance and the easiest way is to go back to the way things were before you got this crazy notion to eat better and exercise. The very idea! These thoughts are conscious, but rather the idea of eating may come to mind once again.

The urge to overeat, or over drink, may pop up. If you think of the person quitting smoking, you'll realize that an urge can be resisted, and once it is resisted, the next urge becomes easier to resist as well. Then the urges come less and less often. That's how you make or break a habit, but steady repetition. Don't be afraid of an urge to eat - any more than you'd be afraid of an urge to bite your nails. It's just a habit you're working on changing.

Using EFT and a lifestyle approach helps to quiet these fears, doubts and the temporary discomfort of change. Remember you never have to say never. You can eat your favorites, just not everyday. You can overeat occasionally, just not everyday. You can forgo your healthier habits, sometimes, just not all the time. In other words eat for your health more often, and for entertainment less. Do this and when special occasions roll around you can enjoy yourself without the holiday weight gain and without the deprivation of diets gone by.

Use the EFT and NLP techniques for weight loss scattered through the OneMoreBite website, take a workshop or work with me personally. My goal is to teach techniques that I know will work - techniques to tackle the mind over food issues, techniques to deal with the old emotional attachments and problems we use as excuses, and to teach them in such a way that you can use them from now on. You won't buy something and then put it on a shelf.

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison

Clean Plate Club

Are you a card carrying member of the Clean Plate Club? Do you eat what's on your plate, whether you want it or not? Do you eat what you are served at restaurants, despite being over full when finished?

Get in touch with your hunger and you can release yourself from the bonds of the Clean Plate Club forever. No one should eat more than they want, simply because it's sitting in front of them.

Sixty-seven percent of Americans eat everything on their plate, no matter how much is on it -- American Institute for Cancer Research.

Website Spotter: Nutrient Database

Use the Nutrient Database site to search for the nutrient breakdown of the foods you're eating. It can be used together with any of the software programs available (see some of my favorites in the Weight Loss Tools section).

Fallen off the Exercise Wagon - How to Get Started

I recently moved and found a month had gone by without my exercising. Read how I got back in the swing - by starting over

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Diet Foods Scam

Low Carb Foods are entering the market at a pace equal to the expanding obesity rate. I'm appalled at the audacity of any company to sell something called Low Carb Bread, or Low Carb Pancake Mix. If you are making an effort to lose weight, don't fall into the trap of thinking these products will help. The only thing they'll reduce is the size of your wallet. Instead, just stop eating at fast food restaurants. Can't stop? Then cut back. Figure out how often you eat at fast food places, then cut it in half. Try that for a month and you'll probably have lost five pounds from that alone, maybe more.

Don't let the food industry fool you. It is the denatured foods that are creating the obesity, not natural, whole foods. Read labels, and avoid saturated fat, especially hydrogenated fats. Don't forget the cost savings. You'll spend far less of your income on food.

Consider the cost of a pound bag of rice at 89 cents. How many cups of rice does that yield? Eight? That's enough for eight or more people. Now consider how much is just one meal at McDonalds? $2.49? More? How much do they charge for the soft drinks that are nothing more than a squirt of syrup and carbonated water? We waste too much money on food.

Lose the fast food habit and you lose much of your weight at the same time.

Website Spotter: Historical Cookbooks

Fast Foods - Part of Healthy Diet?

If it wasn't confusing enough, now the fast food industry is gearing up to start advertising their high fat, high calorie products as "part of a healthy diet." How a Krispy Kreme donut could possibly be considered part of a healthy diet is beyond me, but there you go. Kentucky Fried Chicken, healthy?

Roasted would be better, skip the skin, and you'd be half way there, but why pay for it, then disrobe it? They even point out that if you skip the skin, you shave off even more fat - but why point out that losing their 11 herbs and spices would be a good thing?

The advertising could get pretty interesting. I'd love to see how they explain that drinking 64 oz. soft drinks is part of a healthy diet, or how ordering the extra large is helpful? Hum...

The food industry has a problem, just like tho tobacco industry did. They want to sell more product, but now they find that encouraging people to overeat, is not healthful, in fact has become this country's (nearly) No. 1 health issue today. Even the Advertising Industry is considering a ban on advertising high fat products directly to children - don't hold your breath on that starting anytime soon though.

Here's a better idea - start to consider fast food as a treat! Just a once in awhile thing. It's very expensive, ounce-for-ounce for what you actually get. It doesn't save you time - you have to plan to go, drive there, eat it, drive back, etc. Then, you eat it all because there's no point in saving leftovers. At home, you can fix a meal and keep what's left for tomorrow's lunch, further saving money and time.

Go back in time - just once a week. Create your own frozen meals.

Yours in good eating,
Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP