Let’s be honest here. You don’t seriously expect to lose weight in 3 weeks that took you 3 years to put on, now, do you?
Oh, sure, you probably can…but it won’t be permanent. Losing weight in a slow, steady manner is not only the most healthy way you can do it, it’s also the only way you’ll keep it off for good.
It requires not just a diet plan, those don’t work. It requires a change of lifestyle. You know why so many people can’t lose weight, or have such a hard time trying? Because they don’t want to accept the truth that there is no quick, fast, easy way to do it.
You must change the lifestyle that’s allowed the excess weight to creep on. And you must move more.
I know, you cringe when you think about ‘exercise’. But it doesn’t have to be a task you dread and it doesn’t have to be a time consuming ordeal. You just need to move. The more you do, the easier it becomes and believe it or not, you may actually come to look forward to it and truly miss it on those occasions you can’t fit it in.
Healthy weight loss takes time and typically you’ll see only a pound or two per week. Can you accelerate this with exercise? You bet. The combination of a healthy, sensible diet, balanced with all the food groups and exercise 3-5 times a week for 30 minutes will show you hard proof that you don’t need the latest fad diet making the rounds to get to your ideal weight.
You don’t even have to turn your world upside down all at once. Start making small changes that cumulatively will make a huge difference. If you’re hooked on soda, try to change to water. If you repeatedly skip breakfast, make it a point to eat breakfast at least 3 times a week. This one really works, you’ll find you feel so much better on the days you eat breakfast, you’ll soon be doing it by choice.
Phase out some of the fast food you eat, and some of the overly processed food that offers little if any nutrients for your body to use. Choose whole grain bread instead of white bread. Little changes. One at a time. As you discover what healthy actually feels like, you’ll naturally be drawn to want more of it.
Losing weight the healthy way doesn’t mean cutting foods out completely, even ‘bad-for-you’ foods. It’s unreasonable to think you’ll never again eat another piece of birthday cake or Thanksgiving stuffing or Christmas candy. If you’re watching what you eat, even 80% of the time, the other 20% you can relax a bit.
Something else that’s missing from the lives of most overweight people is oxygen. You’d be amazed at how much more quickly your body is able to burn fat when given enough oxygen. I designed a program that will give your body the oxygen it so dearly craves.
My ‘Weight Loss Breeze’ program interlaces perfectly with your weight loss efforts. Just a few simple exercises that only take a few short minutes each day, but have an astonishing effect on your weight loss efforts. Combine Weight Loss Breeze with sound nutrition and even without exercise, you can watch the pounds melt away.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
Archive for June, 2008
Are You Patient Enough to Lose Weight the Right Way?
Monday, June 30th, 2008Have You Ever Considered Aromatherapy?
Friday, June 27th, 2008There’s a lot of confusion about exactly what aromatherapy is and how it helps promote health and well-being. Aromatherapy uses essential oils extracted from plants and herbs to harmonize and give balance to your general health, not just in your body, but in your mind and spirit as well.
Not everyone who uses aromatherapy is ill. Some enjoy it simply for the soothing and relaxing properties it holds. When your mind is well and at peace, it often creates a healthier body.
How is Aromatherapy Used?
It may surprise you to learn all the areas aromatherapy has been successfully used. The oils have an affect on your central nervous system and depending on the oils used, can relieve anxiety and depression, calm and relax you, even to the point of helping you fall asleep. Other oils are uplifting and stimulate you. There are no adverse effects with aromatherapy, it’s inexpensive, and you can use it anytime of the day or night.
It’s often used for pain relief in the natural childbirth process. Many women don’t want the traditional methods used in most hospitals today. They prefer to totally experience the entry of their child into the world. In a similar vein, aromatherapy is used with much success by women suffering harsh menstrual cramps or going through menopause.
Combining aromatherapy with massage can make the results of both therapies even greater, with huge improvements in well being and increased levels of relaxation. In those cases, the oils used aromatherapy are absorbed through the skin as well as through the nose.
Some Common Oils and Their Uses
You can do your own aromatherapy with the purchase of the oils and a burner, or you can add oils to your bath for a truly uplifting or calming experience, depending on the oils you choose. If you use a burner, you should know that the oil must be diluted in water before adding to the burner. Generally only about three or four drops of oil needs to added to about 10 drops of water.
Lavender is a commonly used oil with a variety of applications. It serves to calm you and also has antibacterial properties which help skin heal after being burned. The relaxing power of lavender is helpful at bedtime to allow you to fall asleep. It also relieves headaches.
When mixed with peppermint, another widely used essential oil, you can overcome lethargic moods or fatigue. Peppermint will stimulate you, and improve your mental clarity, your mood, and your memory.
Peppermint, and similar oils, like ginger, juniper, rosemary, clove, and eucalyptus decrease congestion. If you need to lower your stress levels, try jasmine or rose. When you’re feeling blue and your spirit needs a lift, the citrus oils will help. Use lemon, bergamot, or mandarin.
For women, clary sage and geranium are very successful in hormonal imbalance. And for balancing your entire body as you go through menopause, use both of them, along with lavender, chamomile, melissa, bergamot, or ylang ylang.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
Am I at Risk for High Blood Pressure?
Friday, June 20th, 2008You’ve just had a fight with your spouse or your kids. You’re angry, your face is red, you feel your heart pounding and on top of all that, now you’re getting a headache. If you took your blood pressure right now, it would be alarmingly high.
Our blood pressure increases with intense emotion, but it’s a natural reaction and will quickly return to normal levels once your fear or anger subsides. High blood pressure is typically not diagnosed until it remains consistently high over an extended period of time.
The only way to know is to have it checked on a routine basis, once every couple of years as a bare minimum. If you have any of the following symptoms, you may indeed suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Be aware you could also have high blood pressure without any of these symptoms; that’s why it’s so important to check your blood pressure regularly.
Dizziness
Chest pain
Headaches
Shortness of Breath
Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities
Most people in the traditional medical system will tell you that roughly 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, this is termed essential hypertension. I think it’s scary to consider such a big percentage unknown. Because there is something you can do about this 95%. More on that later.
There are risk factors you can control and those you cannot. Examples of risk factors you can’t control include your heredity, your age, and your race. The older you get, the greater your risk for developing high blood pressure.
Generally speaking, hypertension most often occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women it typically begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family has it, your risk for getting it is increased.
Some races have a greater incidence of hypertension such as African Americans, who tend to develop it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You have no control over those risk factors. There’s nothing you can do to change them.
But there are many areas you do have control over that have a direct impact on whether you’ll develop high blood pressure. Eating too much salt, excess alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. How many of those risk factors do you have?
High blood pressure, left unchecked and untreated can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Fragile blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Some of the dangerous health conditions that occur as a result of untreated high blood pressure include:
● Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias
● Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke)
● Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant
● Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis
● CHF – Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.
The traditional method of treating hypertension is with aggressive drug therapy, designed to drive down your blood pressure, many with a laundry list of side effects. Plus they most often do not even get the blood pressure down. Remember, most doctors admit they don’t know about 95% of the causes of high blood pressure.
But I do and I’ve developed an amazing High Blood Pressure Program designed to do the same thing as the drugs without all the side effects.
With simple exercises that take no time to learn and even less time to perform, this method helps lower your blood pressure naturally and helps you handle the stress that’s so often at the root of blood pressure problems. You can learn more about my program here…
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
Don’t Let Fibromyalgia Keep You from Living a Healthy Life
Friday, June 13th, 2008It’s a well-known and well-documented fact that a healthy lifestyle must include exercise. If you’re a fibromyalgia sufferer, you may think that leaves you out. Exercise can become part of your daily routine, just like anyone else; the only difference is in how you may need to approach it.
If you don’t exercise, and have fibromyalgia, you’re not alone. Most folks with fibromyalgia have days that just crawling from the bed is too painful to endure. Daily tasks can sap your energy. It’s been said fibromyalgia can feel like a chronic case of the flu; painful muscle aches, extreme fatigue and a general feeling of malaise. Even thinking about exercise is exhausting.
Maybe it’s not you who suffers with fibromyalgia; maybe it’s someone you love and care about who has to deal with muscle spasms and stiff, constantly aching muscles all over their body.
Either way, you probably already know that fibromyalgia is a syndrome that even doctors are uncertain as to the cause. In addition to exhaustion and pain, fibromyalgia victims often have insomnia, difficulty concentrating and bouts of depression.
Many fibromyalgia sufferers think that exercise will put even more stress on already painful muscles and joints. They’re so drained of energy they can’t imagine getting through any form of exercise, so they don’t even attempt it. The truth is, if you have fibromyalgia, exercise can help.
Anyone who hasn’t been exercising is advised to start slowly, and this is good advice for fibromyalgia sufferers. Don’t do more than you’re able to do. If you can only walk for three minutes, start with three minutes. Try to do this three or four times a week, gradually increasing by only a minute or two every few days. The most important thing is to be consistent.
As you begin to feel better, and studies have shown that exercise will help you feel better, you can try other forms of exercise that are specifically recommended for fibromyalgia patients. Some of these exercises include walking, biking, swimming, or water aerobics. These workouts help to improve your stamina and strength.
If you continue to exercise with consistency, your strength and endurance will increase. Gradually you’ll be able to increase the level of intensity that you exert. Without extending the length of time, you can begin to walk a little faster or swim a bit harder. You’ll probably start looking better even before you feel better, and seeing that improved reflection in the mirror is great incentive to keep going.
There’s an alternative if you don’t feel strong enough to start exercising that will help you, not just get through another day, but actually feel better so that you can begin to increase your physical activity level. The Program is a product of my own development, designed to deal with the underlying cause of Fibromyalgia and help relieve many of the symptoms you suffer with on a daily basis.
It’s easily performed, regardless of your current strength level. The Fibromyalgia Program consists of a few simple to do exercises that only take a few minutes each day and will have you feeling refreshed and renewed in a very short period of time.
Do Fad Diets EVER Work?
Monday, June 9th, 2008The short answer is one you probably don’t want to hear. The cold hard truth is that in the way it matters, the long term, permanent way, the answer is no. Despite what you may hear, read or see, fad diets are not designed to work for permanent weight loss.
I know, I know, you’ve seen before and after pictures, you’ve read testimonials from real people or maybe you’ve even known someone who experienced some results from following a fad diet. But have you ever seen after the after pictures? What happens 6 months or a year down the road?
Most weight loss from fad diets is temporary at best and is usually caused by losing fluids more than anything else. If you continue losing with the diet, you’ll begin losing precious muscle tissue. And while maybe you don’t think losing muscle tissue is such a big deal, it really is.
The less muscle tissue you have, the less efficient your body becomes at burning calories. The impact of this decrease in metabolism is that it will now take fewer calories for you to see a weight gain.
Another negative aspect of fad diets is that most of them are fairly restrictive in the amount and type of food that’s allowed. Your body doesn’t get the variety of foods that it needs to maintain optimum health. And that doesn’t even address the fact that fad diets, due to their restrictions, are often boring and many people find them difficult if not impossible to adhere to longer than a couple of days.
With more than $6 billion spent every year on diet and weight loss products, you’d think they could use some of those immense profits to produce something worthwhile that would truly benefit people suffering with a weight problem. But there is good news that you deserve to know.
What would you say if I said you have access to an incredible, natural weight loss tool? Would you be interested? What would your reaction be if I told you this tool is readily available to everyone, produces long-term results, and doesn’t cost a thing to use? Why hasn’t the diet industry brought this to the attention of the struggling dieter? They have no interest in promoting it because they can’t make a profit from it.
The tool is oxygen. Our body craves it and can’t live without it. But we’ve become a nation of shallow breathers, rarely exerting ourselves enough to fill our lungs to capacity. The body needs oxygen to burn calories. Can you see where this is going?
By supplying our body with enough oxygen we can actually increase and enhance its ability to burn off calories much more efficiently. You can eat all the healthy foods your body needs to function properly but without the critical element of oxygen, your weight loss will never be what it could be.
I developed a program that teaches you how to send a constant supply of fat-burning, life-giving oxygen to your body. My Weight Loss Breeze Program is easy to learn and implement and only requires some simple exercises that only take a few minutes a day.
I understand weight loss is not easy. The calorie counting, what’s a good carb or a bad one, which fats are the ‘right’ fats…it’s downright hard to lose weight and even harder to keep it off. Weight Loss Breeze makes a hard job easy to do.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
Wake Up! You’re Snoring Again!
Friday, June 6th, 2008If you’ve ever tried to sleep next to, or even in the same room with, someone who snores, you already know how disruptive and annoying it can be. Never mind what it’s doing to the person who’s doing the snoring, to anyone else in the room, it can be highly disturbing.
There are a number of factors that affect snoring, including how loud it is and how long it lasts. In part because of this, there are numerous ‘stop snoring’ methods, medications, applications, and devices floating around the marketplace. Some work, some don’t. Much depends on whether or not the procedure you’re trying addresses the specific cause of your snoring.
Many of the devices available are only temporary solutions. Products such as chinstraps, nose strips, and mouthpieces merely address correcting the symptom, which is snoring, rather than eliminating the problem that causes the snoring. These ‘band-aid’ remedies only work as long as you use them. If you forget to apply your chinstrap or run out of nose strips, the snoring returns.
If it worked in the first place.
There have been dozens of ‘natural cures’ for snoring and some of these may also work. Changing your position in bed, especially if you sleep on your back, refraining from alcohol before bedtime or taking sleeping pills, losing weight, meditation and yoga, breathing in steam, raising the head of the bed or sitting up to sleep; all have been suggested ways to eliminate snoring. Again, the only problem with any of these methods is that they only work for as long as you use them, without addressing or correcting the cause of your snoring.
In extreme cases, such as with nasal deformities, surgery may be necessary to be completely free from snoring and of course your doctor would be the one to determine if that was necessary.
For whatever is causing your snoring, it all boils down to blockage or semi-blockage of your airway when you lay down to sleep. Your muscles relax when you sleep and the soft tissues of the mouth and throat vibrate as you inhale and exhale, which causes the noise of snoring.
There are typically 5 primary reasons that make you snore. The soft palate is too weak. Narrow nasal passages, a stuffy nose, or allergies can result in snoring. A weak throat or throat muscles that are too tense will cause snoring. If the jaw is too small or too narrow, or the muscles that support it are too tense, snoring will occur.
Possibly the most common reason for snoring is because the tongue lolls back into the throat when you lay down and the muscles relax. This blocks part of the airway and is responsible for snoring in most people.
Of all the remedies mentioned, my Stop Snoring Program is the only one that addresses the cause of snoring. And the Stop Snoring Program specifically deals with the top five most common causes mentioned earlier.
All it takes is a few minutes a day, performing some really simple exercises, designed to give you relief from snoring and allow you, and your partner, to enjoy a quiet, peaceful night’s sleep.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
Migraines – The King of Headaches
Monday, June 2nd, 2008If you suffer form very painful headaches and have done so since you were young, chances are you may suffer from migraines, which are often also experienced by other members of your family.
More often than not, a migraine only affects one side of the head. It usually causes miserable pain that can last anywhere from 4-72 hours if not treated, and typically requires you to take to your bed. An attack is debilitating and sufferers are usually left feeling crippled and exhausted after the head pain has passed.
Medical science still hasn’t discovered why there can be such long periods without a headache for some people and not others. Often other symptoms, similar to those of flu, may afflict the patient; for instance, light sensitivity and chills, along with a feeling of lightheadedness.
Most migraine attacks occur between the ages of 10 to 40 years old although no one really knows why this strikes these age groups; however, by the time someone reaches fifty, attacks almost never occur.
Members of the same family are often cursed with migraines and there is believed to be a hereditary link; however, science has not yet proved that there is, in fact, a genetic factor at work.
There is a condition that causes an inflammation of blood vessels in the brain and it’s possible that people who suffer have sensitivity in this area. Science can’t yet explain why this condition affects women than men but women have a three times greater chance of having the condition; men only have an eight percent chance of ever suffering with the problem.
Before the migraine attack, some people have a distinct warning called an aura which usually precedes the headache by 10-30 minutes. The signs for this attack seem to mostly affect the senses and can include:
Queasiness
Problems with vision
Reduction in the sensations of taste
Difficulty with verbal skills
This is only a short list, as other symptoms can and do exist. Migraines can begin without the warning of an aura; this progressively builds up to an excruciating intensity which is aggravated by continuous motion, light or noise, and often results in nausea and vomiting.
Some medical experts believe it is the contracting blood vessels that are responsible for the migraine with aura effect. It might be that it is the expansion of the blood vessels afterwards that causes the headache; those who are afflicted say the headache is often so intense that it impedes their regular routine, disrupting daily activity and often keeping them awake at night.
You may experience one or more triggers with each attack. The most common complaints are bad weather, particular foods and beverages, being at great height, bright lights, insomnia and stress.
I have such compassion for those who suffer with migraines that I created a program to help eliminate them. The Migraine and Headache Relief program is a simple to use plan with astonishing results in reducing or completely eliminating the sharp pain of headaches.
With the Migraine and Headache Relief program, you’ll learn several easy to do exercises that only take a few minutes a day and you won’t have to live with the constant threat of migraines controlling your life anymore.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman