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Big Fat Lies

How the Diet Industry is Making You Sick, Fat and Poor

By David Gillespie

"Diets and exercise won't help us lose weight. Vitamins and minerals are a waste of money and sometimes downright dangerous. Sugar makes us fat and sick. And polyunsaturated fat gives us cancer and works with sugar to give us heart disease. This book exists because I desperately hope that with a little knowledge we can all vote with out feet and change the rules of the game before the game kills us." For decades we've been told to eat less, exercise more, eat less saturated fat, eat more polyunsaturated oils, and take vitamin and omega-3 fatty acid supplements. For decades this is what we've done, but the rates of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia and cancer have never been higher. The real culprits, David Gillespie tells us, are sugar and polyunsaturated oils. Analysing the latest scientific evidence, he outlines a plan to avoid them both without missing out or 'dieting'. Gillespie exposes the powerful role the multibillion-dollar food, health and diet industries have played in promoting the health messages we follow - or feel guilty about not following. Discovering the truth about diets, exercise, supplements and processed food is your first step towards improved health, greater happiness and a longer life for you and your family.
About the Author

David Gillespie is the author of Sweet Poison.

I own this book and other than the religious attitudes she exposes just a little, not enough to annoy me though and the big disappointment I felt at the end of it to discover the before and after was cosmetic surgery enhance which did to me slightly negate the honesty of using before and after photos on the back blurb to sell a book as that after look was part due to a tummy tuck and what else?  Gee wiz, I'd look heaps batter after one of those but I'm not vein enough to see the need to have one nor would I sell a slimming book falsified. So much for those exposed Christian values in the book, I didn't know vanity and deception of making the book buyer think she got to look that good due those 5 decisions explained within the book.   Now if she hadn't gone religious in talking weight loss I might not have made those quips about vanity enhancement and not being straight with the reader right at the beginning and showing after but before enhancement photos.

Now having said all that. This is  GREAT BOOK.  One I highly recommend.  Oh and I don't recommend cosmetic surgery nor for that matter weight loss surgery.  You can loose weight without surgery if you really want to.  We can live with our battle scars and feel proud of them it is a mind adjustment..  Believe me if you do not feel beautiful now, no amount of surgery will change that as your concept of beauty is in your mind it isn't what your body looks like.

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Never Say Diet

Make Five Decisions and Break the Fat Habit for Good

By Chantel Hobbs, Rowan Jacobsen (With)


Reviews

"More than ninety percent of my patients gain back most of the weight they lose. Why so little success? The simple answer is that the average person can't stay on a diet permanently. But "this" program is different. It is not a diet, but a complete lifestyle, thought-process, and physiological transformation. The change comes from within, helping to make you a better person...not just a thinner person."
-Barry S. Ross, MD, Tamarac, Florida
""Never Say Diet" provides a systematic approach to living a healthier, more balanced life. The food list that Chantel Hobbs presents is nutritious and, most important, enjoyable. "Never Say Diet" proves that fad diets don't work and cannot substitute for creating a lifestyle that leads to attaining your goals."
-Lon Ben-Asher, MS, LD/N, registered dietician, North Shore Medical Center, Miami, Florida
"The importance of Chantel's story can't be calculated in terms of burned calories or lost pounds, and it's not her dramatic weight loss that makes her such a special person. It's her willingness to credit God's ability to totally transform lives. She reminds us that lasting change has to happen on the inside before it can happen on the outside, and that this change is within reach of anyone who's willing to seize it."
-Bob Coy, pastor of Calvary Chapel, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
"You might be able to lose a few pounds with a crash diet, but it's temporary. That's why diets don't work for people who need to lose a lot of weight. Instead of going on a diet, you need to make a lifestyle change. In fact, you must undergo a 'brain change.' "Never Say Diet" delivers just that."
-Joseph Tedesco, DPT, ATC, CSCS, physical therapist, Elite Physical Therapy, Charlotte, North Carolina

"From the Hardcover edition."

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The Don't Go Hungry Diet [Ebook]

By Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

The scentifically based way to lose weight and keep it off forever. Whether you've tried all the diets but find you just keep putting the weight back on - plus extra - or simply want to lose weight and keep it off forever, this is the book for you, with real solutions based on real science. Like many women,

Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis began dieting in her teens despite being a normal weight. Over the next few years she tried all kinds of diets and six years on her weight had ballooned; she was now obese. 'I dieted myself fat,' Dr Sainsbury-Salis says. 'I'd lose a kilo or two then just gain it all back, plus more.' She also fell prey to binge eating, pigging out on pastries in between her dieting attempts.

When in despair she finally gave up dieting, she decided to start a career in medical research so that she could find an effective way to lose weight. Today she is a world leader in the field of weight loss.

Through her research, she discovered that the key to successful dieting is to understand how your brain regulates your weight and work with it, rather than against it, by never going hungry. Staying satisfied is the key to beating the 'famine reaction', your body's way of protecting itself when you diet from what it perceives as a life-threatening food shortage.

Once in tune with your body, it's easy to lose weight and keep it off. Amanda tested out her theories on herself, losing nearly 30 kilograms and keeping it off for more than nine years (and counting), then helped her husband to lose 20 kilograms.

Now, in The Don't Go Hungry Diet, Dr Sainsbury-Salis explains the science behind her discoveries simply and effectively, then tells how you, too, can lose weight more effectively and with less effort than ever before.

With chapters on how to recognise and deal with a famine reaction and other scientific breakthroughs as well as on nutrition and exercise, plus 50 delicious recipes, this is a scientifically based plan that is simple for anyone to follow -and that works.
About the Author

One of the world's leading scientists in the field of weight regulation, Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis is a Research Fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, where her work is funded by such health organisations as the NHMRC and Diabetes Australia. Dr Sainsbury-Salis is also a senior lecturer at the University of NSW.

Her many awards include the Peter Doherty Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two young children.

I am wondering if you like my new website design?  I thought it time the old web site got an overhaul and some new information. I am coaching Rose and she is sharing her journey on her blog along with my coaching advise.

I have gone from size 22 to 12 and I am helping others do the same.
ASK YOUR QUESTIONS in the comments section and I will strive to answer them for you here in my following blog posts.
There is also a supporters section where you can follow the progress of a downsize from size 22 to 12. This is a work in progress that will begin tomorrow.

We will be using the BodyMedia fIT armband and my client Rose says she is a size 22.  We will take her measurements and photos tomorrow and work out the goals, action plans and to do list to meet the size 22 to 12 challenge.we are running in the supporters pages.  Don't worry if you would like to follow and don't wish to pay. I will share a lot of the information here.  The supporters fees help keep the websites active.

I will not be advising Rose to do anything that will cause her to stay hungry although feeling hunger is natural and is the place we should be when we begin to eat. 

I understand people fearing hunger. Once you realize it is a natural sensation and give yourself permission to eat when hungry you do lose the fear of it. If you eat low Gi foods you do not get the food cravings to the same extent.  The Low Gi Diet and the CSIRO Diets are all good for lessening food cravings if those are your enemy.

Mark Twain: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Julius Erving: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Jim Eason.: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Unknown Author: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

Vince Lombardi: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Milton Garland: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it. You can't like it until you obtain expertise in that work. And once you are an expert, it's a pleasure.

Winston Churchill: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Never, never, never, never give up.

Eleanor Roosevelt.: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Horace: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Rule your mind or it will rule you.

You can receive an inspirational quote of the day in your emails, from SparkPeople and I would love to hear of you favourite, inspirational quotes.

Here is a venue for tropical fruit lovers in far north Queensland. The Feast of the Senses is on again although moved to firmer ground due to inclement weather forecasts.

Here is what to expect at Feast of the Senses

Gala Dinner sponsored by Innisfail Chamber of Commerce
Food Trail No 1 Saturday 17 March
Food Trail No 2 Sunday 18 March
Bush Poetry Breakfast Flyer
Coconut Leaf Weaving Workshops by Okka Wikka

Bush Poetry
Photography
Scarecrows
River Races
Beach in a Bucket

This book blends horticultural science with personal experience to create a book full of sound advice, enthusiasm and a genuine love of the natural world. Have you ever wondered how to grow such exotic vegetables as snake beans, water chestnuts and loofahs? Luscious fruits such as rambutants, mangoes, carambolas, abiu? Herbs like vanilla, turmeric and galangal? The book will show you how to propagate, grow and use these and a wide range of other herbs, vegetables and fruits in tropical and sub-tropical climates, ranging from Darwin to Sydney.

To read more or order click link below.

I am so glad my man has sober good taste. For the past two years he has regularly been invited out fishing with two friendly local men. However observing the cans of beer that go into the house he was concerned that the day out fishing might be a day out boozing, and always declined.
Today one of them was caught drunk driving home from a fishing trip. He was unlicensed having lost the license for drunk driving before. While I am sorry this friendly man now faces a 3 month jail sentence, I'm not sorry such punishments exist for drunken control of a boat or car...it could have been someone I love  or you love, who was killed by them. Drunks on the road can kill.
I am proud of my man for saying NO to doing something he loves doing 'fishing,' because he had doubts about the sobriety of these 'nice' friendly men.