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The Weight Loss Challenge

A mid-aged women  -  will gain and lose weight far differently than a 25-year-old man—or a 20-year-old woman for that matter. Most programs don’t take this into account. It’s not enough to simply cut calories. While their caloric requirements have dropped, their need for certain vitamins and minerals has increased. In addition, many women are quite familiar with the mood swings, cravings, sleep disturbances, hot flashes, and all the other challenges mid-aged women face as hormone levels change. Suffice it to say, it’s enough to throw any well-intended weight loss strategy off track.

In addition, the countless diet programs available today ignore the specific needs that women over 40 have. Plans based on a “miracle pill,” calorie counting, or restricting certain food groups, ignore the core issues of weight gain. As you are aware weight gain is a function of overall health, address the unique psychological and physiological needs of mid-aged women:

What if you could turn your body into a fat burning machine instead of a fat storing machine?

Would this be something that you be interested in doing?

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. 

Sadly because we do not have perfect diets then you body does not benefit from this natural process very often.  You store too much fat and rarely burn it off!

This is what happens!

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.

Interesting, isn’t it?

How can you ‘fix’ this problem naturally so you can help your body burn fat and not store fat?

Watch out for my next email because I have found the answer and I am going to share what I have with you. 

I am on the Sunshine Coast and I have friends waiting for me, so I must fly…

Have a better than happy day

Sue

PS… Read the testimonial below from one of my lovely ladies re my e-book ‘exercise… is a secret to anti-ageing’ If you have not checked it out yet, you really must because you can learn some secrets and be motivated to start your exercise program now.  I cannot express to you enough how this one strategy can help you REVERSE your ageing process. 

Hi Sue

I have just finished reading your book..once I started I wanted to finish it.It is very easy to read and I know it will give me the incentive I need to move and exercise more.I like the fact that you have practical ideas that we can use and the photos of the exercises are also a very useful tool.As I have known you for a long time now and have been corresponding over the years so much of what is in the book I have some knowledge of but this book has refreshed as well as added to my knowledge and understanding.Thank you for wanting to help and advise us…I appreciate it very much and I am sure many others do to.

Hope you have a fantastic day

 It is nearly the end of another year… are you happy with what you have achieved in 2009? and if you could have achieved more, why didn’t you?  What could you have done better this year that would have given you better results?

 In order for 2010 to be the best year ever, it is important for you to think about HOW you are going to make it the best year ever.  Please find a pen and a piece of paper.

1.       Sit quietly and think about what it is you really want … what is your   core desire?
Create a Vision that is real and feel the emotion attached to already having it. 

2.       Now, write down the very first action you must apply, or change to    achieve what you want, see and feel.Remember, if you do not dream large imaginative dreams you are not being realistic.

 3.       Are you prepared to suffer a little bit of discomfort to achieve what you       want?

 If you have not achieved what you want in 2009 then you must make some changes in what you are doing so the result this time next year is different.  To get what you want you must change what you are doing NOW. 

 Once the seed is planted it must be cultivated and nurtured – see your Vision daily  Write it down, find pictures and look at it daily…

‘If you add a little to a little and then do it again, soon that shall be much’

I would like you to do some thing, not now but when the time is right … and when the clock strikes midnight say quietly to yourself.

 I have everything I need inside me right now to create all that I want.  I believe with all that I am, I believe with my whole heart I have the ability to make it happen. 

 You may not know exactly know how you are going to achieve it to completion but it doesn’t matter – just do the best you can each moment and tomorrow you will bring to harvest exactly what you want. 

 I would like to share what one of my mentors have told me..

 “Nothing is ever gained by beating yourself up.  Learning self-compassion is one of the most significant accomplishments of adult life.  When your ‘best year ever’ master plan has a hiccup, as it probably will, making the best of it, and Giving yourself unconditional support can result in a healthy attitude of self compassion and faith.”

Have a great weekend, I am off to buy a mask for a masquerade party this evening…  it is going to be alot of fun… 

 “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face” – Victor Hugo

Have purpose and passion and you can have true prosperity…
Sue

“The wisdom, the guidance, the direction, the community, the approval that you seek outside, are all within you!  All the hardships, nightmares, and setbacks that come to you, are in fact, gifts.  They are an invitation to grow and love unconditionally.  This is the fundamental purpose of life.”

I received my book “Dead Brain Cells Don’t Die” written by Dr Dharma today and I read the whole thing while sitting on the bike at the gym.  It is absolutely amazing.  As you know your brain is your control centre and keeps you alive and if you can learn how to look after your brain just by changing a few of your daily, weekly habits then you can help relieve some of your ill-health symptoms that I know you are experiencing. 

I send these emails to you in the hope that you can learn one new strategy to apply in your life that can make a difference and help you feel better.  If you choose not to use HRT then you do know, don’t you that you have to invest in yourself, expand your knowledge and then apply what you are learning.  If you do this then you can have improved health and be happier with who you are.  I spend my time reading, researching, studying and ‘TESTING’ everything that I suggest or recommend to you.  It is then up to you to take control of YOU and apply some or all of what I suggest.  And if you have tried something that you have had a great result from then please post a comment on my blog and it may offer help or hope to another woman.

The truth is that you do have to spend some money because it is essential to use natural supplements that are formulated specifically for a 40+ body and… it is important that you educate yourself on what else you have to do.  I know lots of you are and I congratulate you if you are… and what works for one woman or myself may not work for you… so there is a certain amount of trial and error.  But hey, if you don’t try something then you will, and I can promise this, stay in a constant state of ill-health.  (sorry but I have to be honest with you)  

I was coaching a lady last month who was taking zinc and calcium ONLY… because thats what she was told she needed.  Your body renews itself regularly and do you really know exactly what your body needs?  I look at this way – you are a combination of organs and systems and you function by means of your systems working together as one.  As you age your systems slow down and it is in what you do and how you do it that you can ’speed’ your systems up.  Vitamins and Minerals are one of the keys that turn on the ignition… without them your body will slowly go backwards. 
 
Because remember, nothing stand still so if you are not moving forward then you are either swinging from side to side or falling behind.  If you are experiencing any ill-health symptoms of menopause at all… and I know so many of you are… then you must expand your thinking and invest in what it is you have to so you can be healthy and happy.   

Remember, last month I promised you that I would focus on specific symptoms and offer suggestions to help you relieve them.  The truth is that if you focus on one… you are quite possibly going to help others… think about it for a minute…  for example…  you have aches and pains in your joints, you relax more, you may do a light exercise, and you definitely will supplement with calcium and magnesium… you are also going to drink more water and REMOVE all artificual sweetners…. reduce your sugar and fat intake… and in a short time your aches and pains subside.  The amazing thing is that you are also going to have more energy, sleep better maybe, and think clearer…. quite simply your body is ‘working better’. 
I have been reading and studying with Dr Dharma for a couple of years… he is a medical doctor and  also practices intergrative medicine and nutrition.   Let me share some of Dr Dharmas book with you;

“Know That You Can Grow New Brain Cells” – but do you know how?

Here’s a recipe from Dr Dharma’s book that  can boost your brain power, increase your energy, it is fantastic nutrition and will eliminate brain fog for the entire day. 

1/2 apple
1/4 cup blueberries
1 banana
1 cup of unsweetened pineapple juice
1 scoop non-GMO why protein powder
1/4 scoop Green Drink

And the benefit to you is…

Stop brain fog
Weight loss supportPoor skin complexion
Prevent gum disease
Prevent osteoporosis
Improved skin health
Decreased ijnflammation
Optimized pH balance in the body
Decreased symptoms of fibromyalgia
Fight free radicals with anitoxidant power
Better mental acuity, focus and concentration
Increased energy by relieving fatigue and stress
Improved digestion, especially related to gas and bloating.

All that from one drink… too easy eh?  and you can get a Green Drink (powder) from any of the Organic Shops.

I could sit and type the whole of Dr Dharma’s book for you but I know you would agree that, that would be quite silly really  

I suggest that you CLICK HERE and buy  Dr Dharmas book. It is packed full of information,recipes and suggestions on keeping your brain healthy… and remember what is good for your brain is also great for your heart.  I promise you are going to love it. 

I just had a lady ring me to ask me what it is that I do to relieve my symptoms – this is what I told her…

I have a Coach
I exercise daily
I drink Tahitian Noni Juice daily
I use Body Balance Cream daily
I take vitamins and minerals morning and night (specific for 40+)
I make an effort to stop and breathe or listen to my CD’s most days (for about 15 minutes)
I eat a balanced diet (most days)
I reduce my sugar (although I love chocolate)
I limit my alcohol (maybe a couple of wines per week)
I laugh lots
I read something postive and empowering EVERY MORNING and most nights
I surround myself with positive, happy people…

And… I have to work on getting to sleep earlier in the evening.  I have been working long hours writing my first e-book… which is going to be ready for you next week… I am excited!

As you can see I am not perfect but I do work at improving on what I know I am slack on and as long as you are aware of yours… admitting there is a problem is the first step to fixing it!

Well, my lovely readers, I am off to visit a friend who is in need of my hypnotic magic

Please take action on my suggestions because I really do spend my time sourcing ways of helping you feel better so you can be happier.  Your feedback is always welcomed so please remember my blog

And contact me… if you want some information on the vitamins and minerals that I take.

Have a better than happy day and thank you.

Sue

PS – Postive Affirmation:

I will not be consumed by my challenges, I will stay in faith,
focus on the good, and keep the right perspective.

CLICK HERE for my Natural Progesterone Cream (and I only have 4 left of this batch at the great price of $39.95 – order it now so you do not miss out)

CLICK HERE to have a Phone Coaching Session with me so together we can put a healhier plan in place to help you even more relieve your symptoms.