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A Smile is the Beginning of Love… Mother Theresa

Do not be disheartened by the perceived lack of youth but be excited about the journey that lies ahead.

Smile at the changes that are taking place and be kind to yourself and embrace your symptoms as feedback to grow because it is in opening your mind to change that you will find the peace and happiness you seek.

And the very first thing you must do is forgive yourself every mistake and wrong doing because to love yourself completely you must first forgive yourself completely…

Great things have been achieved wherever there is great love… relieving your menopause symptoms and loving your ageing process must start with you LOVING YOU…

I wish I could offer you a ‘magic cure’ to ageing but what I can do is offer you a program that will help you find a new balance. The progression through the stages to menopause can be confusing, painful, uncomfortable and for some,’ life-stopping’.

The Menopause Relief Advisor Program is a personal development program for women 40-50+ and it promises to help you ‘design a life’ you love, as you age.

Menopause simply means ‘no more periods’ and because the ageing process continues way past your last period it is important for you to learn what this means for you and what changes you have to make.  It is for this reason that you must take the time now to discover the woman you truly are, or want to be and to accept the changes as an exciting time of self-awareness and personal development.

The Menopause Relief Advisor Program can inaugurate the process and help keep you on track and monitor your success. I have consolidated the ‘balancing process’ into 7 major areas the ‘seven P’s’ to anti-ageing’.  These seven proven  principles provide you with the basic fundamentals that you need to be healthy, to set new goals and to make all your dreams come true.

The ageing process can be very unkind… and you cannot stop it but you can take control of it.  Your belief, lifestyle habits, inadequate nutrition, stress, and toxins are some of the keys factors associated with the  ill-health symptoms of the ageing process… and when you get to mid-life this ageing process is called Menopause… before, during after, … pre, peri or post… but what does that specifically mean to you.

Ageing is merely a movement in time and you can control how you move through this time by the way you think about it. The changes that go on within your body are real and it is when you STOP and LISTEN to your symptoms as your body ‘telling you something’  and when you  ‘give your body’ what it needs then your brain, your mind and your body can work at a better level.  The better you feel the easier it is to make decisions on what you want the rest of your life to be.

The Menopause Relief Advisor Program is my testimony to what I have found to be true and it has been developed with the absolute desire to help you find a new balance in your world.  It is so much more than relieving your menopause symptoms and it is about building your self-esteem and purpose for the rest of your life.   

The program is the ‘how’ to of relieving your menopause symptoms and because no two women are alike and because thoughts, experiences and lifestyle habits vary from women to women the program is all about YOU, it is a personal thing and it will inspire, motivate, inform and keep you accountable because it is the actions you take that decide how you live your life.

Make the decision today to do what it takes and my promise to you is that you will find health and happiness.  Click on this link to contact me for a complimentary chat on how the program would help you be healthy and happy. 

 

How do you know when it is time to eat http://wp.me/pYc14-4o

Are You A Heavy Eater or a Light Eater?

Which side of the equation are YOU on? Cause or Effect?

Which side should you be on to reach your… weight loss goals

How Do You Know It’s Time To Eat?

Heavy Eater Ideal Eater
You see food and eat it
You eat because you are bored
For emotional reasons you eat
It is Dinner time – Habit
You smell food and must eat
Someone else tell you to – TV
You are hungry or just feel like it
Cravings due to being Hormonal
You eat because you have a Plan
- Input versus Output
- For fuel
- Flexibility of Plan i.e every 2-3 hours

How Do You Evaluate Alternatives?
(How Do You Decide What To Buy or Eat?)

Heavy Eater Ideal Eater
It tastes Rich
Habitual reasons
Convenience
Looks nice
Through Marketing
Value
- Price for money
Comfort / Sensation / Fulfillment
Hormonal Imbalance
- Cravings
Quality
Does it fit the Plan?
- Portion Sizing
Nutritional Value
It gives you Energy
- Bio Feedback Mechanism
- Awareness

How Do You Know It’s Time To Stop Eating?

Heavy Eater Ideal Eater
When the plate is finished
You are feeling full or Sick
You are restricted by Time
- end of Lunch Break
Guilt / Shame / Embarrasment
Satisfied Emotionally
When the portions size of your Plan is finished
When you are 3/4 full

BECOME AN IDEAL EATER AND WEIGHT LOSS IS A DONE DEAL! 

First three days to the weight loss challenge http://wp.me/pYc14-4i

Why do we all love carbs? Pasta doesn’t have any taste, white bread is like ‘bum glue’ and most cereals are like eating cardboard, yet we consume mega amounts and wonder why the body isn’t ‘healthy’.   I love hot crunchy peanut butter toast and garlic pizza bread and to eat both sometimes is a good thing… but if I ate it daily I certainly would not be wearing my size 8 jeans.

The first stage of weight loss is for 3 days only.  This is where you will eat Protein and green vegetables only… take your vitamins… drink lots of water and weak green tea (and other herb teas). This stage of your weight loss challenge you will remove all carbs and the reason for this is to regulate your insulin levels.

As you eat your body releases GLUCOSE, a simple sugar that travels through your blood stream. Glucose is your primary food for your Muscle Cells, Brain Cells, and Heart Cells.

As glucose moves through your blood stream your pancreas produces a hormone called

INSULIN. Insulin is the ‘gate keeper’ to your cells. It opens the door and allows glucose to enter our cells without Insulin your cells cannot be fed.

What if you eat more than you need?
Along with your muscle, brain and heart cells you also have FAT CELLS. Your cells never eat more than they need so when you have more glucose than your cells can use the excess amount is stored in your fat cells where it is converted into FREE FATTY ACIDS

Once the glucose is out of the blood stream, your cells have been fed and the surplus stored… then insulin closes the door to your cells and leaves your body.

When your body needs more energy and does not have food handy it turns to the fat cells and the free fatty acids stored inside them. The free fatty acids go into your blood stream to feed all your other cells. FFA do not need insulin to open the cell doors… this is why they are referred to as free fatty acid.

It is your body’s natural process to store fat when you have too much glucose and to burn fat when you do not have enough glucose. Your body was designed to work this way and in a perfect world with perfect diets it would all work perfectly.

You start your day with processed and/or sugary food and your glucose spikes.  Your pancreas then pumps out insulin and this also spikes. Insulin does its job and opens the doors to the working cells and the excess glucose is stored in the fat cells. This happens fast and glucose drops down fairly quickly while insulin remains high. When insulin levels are high you cannot access the free fatty acids in your fat cells.

Free fatty acids do not need Insulin to enter your cells but they do need insulin to be gone to leave your fat cells. If your free fatty acids cannot leave your fat cells then you can experience CRAVINGS, MOOD SWINGS AND A DROP IN ENERGY LEVELS. What happens next? YOU EAT!

Glucose spikes again and your body releases more insulin… your cells open and are fed and the excess glucose is put into your fat cells. Insulin levels remain high and you still cannot release any free fatty acids. This cycle continues to add to your storage without taking any out.

Bathing your body in insulin can make you age faster and you can be more susceptible to type 2 diabetes.

How can you help your body work more naturally?
By helping your body find a new balance and giving it what it needs to do what it already knows how to do.

Click here to DOWNLOAD E-book ’7 Secrets to Weightloss’

AND… Contact Me for a sample meal plan for the three day cleanse.

I walked 20,000 steps today… and had my ‘bad food’ day… so it is lucky I walked more than 10,000 :-)

It is important to increase your metabolism to help reset your ‘fat burning’.  So now you have to BUY a Pedometer… and WALK 10,000 steps EVERY SINGLE DAY!
I went into my local chemist and they gave me one…

And… NOW to help your body to burn fat even faster
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You have registered for the 100 day challenge haven’t you… this is the GETTING READY STAGE… and this program will help you stay focused on getting your goal…http://www.goalsguy.com/Af​filiate/tgg.php?id=1035288

Have a great Sunday… 10,000 steps tomorrow, I think I will take the long way to the coffee shop :-)

Progesterone

Q. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ESTROGEN DOMINANT?
A.  Estrogen is an essential hormone but when it is out of balance with progesterone hot flushes and `other health issues can become a big problem for a lot of woman. 

Q. WHAT ARE HORMONES?    
 
A. Chemical compounds that originate in various glands and travel through the blood stream responding to altered conditions of the body.

Q. WHAT IS PROGESTERONE 
 
A. The hormone of gestation.  Pro = promoting Gest = gestation, pregnancy,
Sterone = a steroid hormone conditions in the body.

Q WHAT IS ESTROGEN?                                                                                                                                                                            

A. Hormones responsible for the menstrual cycle and one of the three sex hormones that are released from the ovaries involved in promoting female sexuality.  Oestrus = egg-making cycle,   gen = gives rise

If you are estrogen dominance, what can you do?

The simplest way is to use a USP-grade Natural Progesterone cream to increase the level of progesterone in your body. Natural progesterone can aid in bringing a woman’s body (and a man’s) back into balance. A natural approach to rebalancing a woman’s hormone levels is preferred to a synthetic approach and is better tolerated without the negative side effects of synthetic drugs.  Progesterone helps you to correct estrogen dominance as it does the following:

  • Helps use fat for energy
  • Normalizes blood sugar levels, thus reducing food cravings
  • Protects against fibrocystic breasts
  • Is a natural anti-depressant
  • Facilitates thyroid hormone action
  • Normalizes zinc and copper levels
  • Restores proper cell oxygen levels
  • Normalizes blood clotting
  • Restores sex drive
  • Helps prevent breast cancer
  • Activates to increase new bone formation, thereby stimulates bone building                                                                                                                             John R. Lee, MD, the pioneer in the field of progesterone therapy, says that taking natural progesterone also lowers the risk of osteoporosis, PMS, fibrocystic breast conditions, ovarian cysts, miscarriage, menopausal symptoms, and breast and endometrial cancer.

Most natural progesterone is made from diosgenin, a plant sterol abundant in the Mexican yam (Dioscorea villosa). Manufacturers convert diosgenin to the same progesterone molecule that the body produces. Therefore, progesterone is natural, i.e. it’s found naturally in the body. It is not a synthetic substance. Progestin is synthetic, because it is not found naturally in the body. 

Caution: Please note that the various creams being sold in many health food stores for the treatment of menopausal symptoms, containing Mexican wild yam without natural progesterone, are useless. The diosgenin contained in the yam must first be converted to progesterone, a process that the body cannot do.

ESTROGEN and PROGESTERONE need each other! And you need BOTH hormones!

Look at the list below for SOME of the functions played by each hormone in the body. Notice how one hormone balances the other.

Estrogen Effects                                               Progesterone Effects

• Weight gain                                                        • Utilizes fat for energy

• Depression, headaches                                     • Natural antidepressant

• Fibrocystic breasts                                           • Protects fibrocystic breasts

• Breast cancer risk                                             • Decreases risk of breast cancer

• Increases risk of gall bladder                          • Needed for embryo survival

• Increases endometrial cancer                         • Prevents endometrial cancer

• Decreases sex drive                                          • Restores sex drive

• Increases blood clotting                                    • Normalizes blood clotting

• Causes thyroid imbalance                                 • Causes thyroid balance

• Irregular menstrual flow                                   • Normalizes periods

• Elevated blood pressure                                    • Regulates blood pressure

• Risk of miscarriage                                             • Prevents miscarriages

• Depletes bone density                                        • Stimulates bone density

Where can you get good USP Natural Progesterone?
The natural progesterone cream that I use and highly recommend has extra ingredients such as Noni fruit juice, Safflower seed oil and Sunflower seed oil that help the USP natural progesterone penetrate through the skin better…Click here to check it out
http://healthyhormones.com.au/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=10

Hi… before you start your weight loss challenge you must first know WHY you want to lose weight… and WHAT it is going to mean to you… and then of course HOW you are going to do it.  Well that is where I come in…

So, here is where you have to start…

How  do you want to look and feel?
Find a picture of someone or even an old picture of yourself… and put somewhere for you to see every day.  (this is for your eyes only) Like every goal you must see where you are going and then you take the steps every day to getting there.  Make sense?

Next…
Find an article of clothing that you would really like to wear again and is a ‘little bit tight’… this will be your first goal!

Now… and this is very important…
Believe you already have the body you want…
The law of attraction tells us that we are want we think about so I want you to think that you are SLIM and that you LOVE your body.  Associate it into, feel the feelings of being n your perfect body, see how you look and think about what you say to yourself with having your ideal body… then step out of your body and keep seeing it as you are looking at yourself and know that you are doing all you must, one step at a time, one day at time to get there.

Increasing your energy/metabolism is one of the most important things to do when you want to lose weight… and 70% of your energy expenditure comes from your resting metabolism and this is why it is important to increase your resting metabolism for long-term weight loss.

Your body outputs energy in three ways….

1.       BASAL METABOLIC RATE (BMR)…
2.       PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
3.       THERMIC EFFECT OF FOOD (TEF)

BMR is the total energy requirement for the maintenance of basic body functions i.e. breathing, circulating blood and maintaining a constant body temperature.  This accounts for 60-75% of your body’s total energy need.

 Physical activity is the second major part of energy expenditure.  In most cases activity accounts for 15-30% of energy requirements, but this varies from person to person.

TEF is the increase in energy expenditure that results from the digestion of food and the absorption, metabolism and storage of nutrients.  The energy need for TEF is estimated to be about 10% of energy intake but can vary depending on the amounts and types of nutrients consumed.

Weight loss is simply an input vs output equation and we will discuss this further tomorrow.

Remember to sign up for the 100 day challenge because the one thing that is the most important thing for you to do is to stay FOCUSED… and the Goals Guy is the best guy to help you do this. 
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Gaining weight around your middle is a symptom of age that tooo many women suffer from.  The main reason why you may be experiencing this is because of the action of the stress hormone cortisol.

Your body is designed to react quickly to danger and to run if threatened.  This response is called the ‘fight to flight’ response and it is an important survival mechanism for all animals, including humans.

When your brain thinks that your body is under threat it releases a hormone (CRH), which stimulates the adrenal glands to release the hormones adrenaline and cortisol. When this happens several physical changes take place in your body.  When the threat is gone the adrenal glands stop pumping out hormones and your body returns to normal.

In our world today the stressors are more like, deadlines, traffic jams, empty bank accounts, relationships or lack there of… teenagers or the ageing process… instead of lion or native with a spear… however, your body still reacts the same way as it has always done with the ‘fight or flight’ response.

If you are under this sort of stress on a regular basis you quite possibly could feel hungry all the time.  And your body wants to ‘stock up’ because of all the activity, namely carbohydrates and fats. 

The reason that fats target your middle is because it is close to your liver where it can quickly be converted back into energy when needed. It provides you with a very smart (always frustrating) form of protection ready for the next ‘stress attack’.

What stressors do you have in your life that is causing you to have a continual flow of increased cortisol.? What is your body trying to run from?

Then following is what you could be experiencing…

  • A tendency to gain weight around your middle
  • An increased appetite
  • Increased cravings
  • Tired in the middle of the afternoon
  • Headaches
  • Hair loss
  • irregular or absent periods
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Slower metabolism
  • Low sex drive
  • High cholesterol and/or blood sugar
  • Digestive problems
  • A lower immune system
  • Chest pains, muscle aches and pains

What Is The Solution?

It is important to find a way to eat that tells your body that everything is ‘ok’ and you need to change your body’s bio-chemistry.

You are functioning in a cycle of TOO MUCH STRESS and an imbalance in your blood sugar levels. 

What you must do today if you want your body to burn fat easily
(because it does know how to burn fat easily) 

  • Find ways to cope with your stress with a calm approach…
  •  Eat regular healthy balanced meals…
  • Take your essential vitamins and minerals…
  • RELAX and find things to smile about daily…

Click on Menopause Relief Advisor Program and see how for only $37.00 a month (no contracts) you can easily put in place regular strategies that will help you feel cool, calm and completely in control.

Follow the principles and your body WILL feel better and BURN FAT more efficiently.

More tomorrow… :-)

 

 

 

 

 

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