Feel better FIRST to lose fat....

Today's Post:  Thursday, 7-21-2016

This works in three ways.

All three work.

And those who use all three ways are way more successful at losing fat than those who don’t.

1.  Upgrading your lifestyle to cause fat loss and keep it off takes some effort.

So finding ways to feel better and give you more energy that are safe to do and work to do this can empower you to make those efforts.

Surprisingly, some of those methods are easy to do but very effective.

2.  People who are joyful jump, dance, and throw up their arms.  Moving well with ease is a great feeling.  People who relax and often remember that those things are so and their bodies can do those things better after fat loss, are often more successful -- and sometimes amazingly more successful than those who do not!

3.  The three most important things you can do to lose fat you keep off have now EACH been tested to make you happier and feel better!

So if you do the first two things enough to start those 3 things well, you’ll feel a lot better AND be successful at fat loss too!

1.  Upgrading your lifestyle to cause fat loss and keep it off takes some effort.

So finding ways to feel better and give you more energy that are safe to do and work to do this can empower you to make those efforts.

a)   If you feel low in energy often but not sleepy two things that may cause this are low thyroid and taking statins.

(I’ve posted often on ways to cut the death rate from heart disease and lower LDL cholesterol and inflammation BETTER than statins.  Statins do reduce your cellular energy and are dreadful second class alternative.  Worse they tend to cause insomnia too.  The solution is to never take them and use the superior alternatives instead.)

The other thing is that low thyroid both lowers your energy AND your metabolism so if you have that, reversing it will help you lose fat.

This is common in post menopausal women.  And one doctor found who treats them found that if their T3 level tested as low, restoring it to normal or a bit above gave her patients enough more energy they were then able to exercise more and make the effort needed to begin upgrading their food intake.

b) If you don’t get enough sleep, you will have less energy and worse you will be hungrier too!

Here are a few fixes that can be easy and fast to do that can make a BIG difference in that:

*Refuse to watch evening TV or have one in your bedroom.  Online weather, sports, and news are way more time efficient than on TV and can be accessed during other parts of the day.

You can also record commercial free you few most favorite shows and watch them on weekends.

For some people this can boost their hours of sleep by at least an hour a day.

*Stop drinking coffee and tea by mid-afternoon; and if your drink red wine etc, only drink it BEFORE dinner.  This can give you up to an hour more sleep in the same time in bed!

*Set the alarm for the exact same time each weekday morning and ALWAYS get up then.  This very regular pattern enables your body to get you the quality sleep you need MUCH better than the alternative.

*Buy a Nidra Sleep Mask on Amazon and use it when you sleep.  Darkness allows you MUCH better sleep than even some night time light.  But a room with blackout curtains and no light can be pricey or even impossible to achieve.  The much better news is the sleep mask does the job for less than $25 dollars and you can get one in days using Amazon.

* Eat wild caught fish high in omega 3 oils, take omega 3 oil supplements daily, and take daily supplements of the omega 3 oil DHA.  This reduces inflammation and soothes the brain so you sleep better.  In some people they also turn off depression too which give them more energy.

*Do NOT take sleep drugs!  They are dangerous and addictive.  Far worse, they both do NOT increase restful sleep AND leave you groggy and LESS energetic the next day.

*Even if it’s just for 5 minutes a day, do some kind of vigorous exercise early in your day every day.  People who do fall asleep faster, sleep better, and stay asleep better.  In some people doing this also turns off depression too which give them more energy.

2.  People who are joyful jump, dance, and throw up their arms.  Moving well with ease is a great feeling.  People who relax and often remember that those things are so and their bodies can do those things better after fat loss, are often more successful -- and sometimes amazingly more successful than those who do not!

If you focus on these things, it will be easy to do things to help make that happen including the actions that produce the fat loss that helps it happen.

There is even a book and method by Jon Gabriel called The Gabriel Method that teaches this.

He has lost over 100 pounds of fat and his followers have often lost over 100 pounds of fat they have kept off with far less than normal effort.

3.  The three most important things you can do to lose fat you keep off have now EACH been tested to make you happier and feel better!

So if you do the first two things enough to start those 3 things well, you’ll feel a lot better AND be successful at fat loss too!

The three most effective ways to permanent fat loss are to:

Completely stop eating and drinking “….. junk, processed foods, sweets, sodas, etc.” (They are all surprisingly harmful to your health and even more fattening.)

Do some vigorous exercise including strength training at least a few days a week.

Eat real vegetables, organic if you possibly can, several times a day.

*Studies show that all soft drinks, fast food, packaged snacks and desserts, and high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners tend to make the people who consume them moody, low in energy at times and at least mildly depressed. 

So, if you stop them all totally, besides losing the fat they cause, your average energy will go up, you may feel less depressed, and your moods will be more stable.

*Studies show that people who begin to do some regular vigorous exercise, particularly strength training, at least a few days a week begin to feel better, have higher self esteem, and be more able to take control of all of their lives within a few weeks or even few DAYS of beginning!

Incredibly, research has found that eating more vegetables ALSO makes people happier!

Recently Medical News Today had this!:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/311614.php

Fruit and veg give you the feel-good factor: New research suggests up to eight-a-day can make you happier

“University of Warwick research indicates that eating more fruit and vegetables can substantially increase people's later happiness levels.

To be published shortly in the prestigious American Journal of Public Health, the study is one of the first major scientific attempts to explore psychological well-being beyond the traditional finding that fruit and vegetables can reduce risk of cancer and heart attacks.

Happiness benefits were detected for each extra daily portion of fruit and vegetables up to 8 portions per day.

The researchers concluded that people who changed from almost no fruit and veg to eight portions of fruit and veg a day would experience an increase in life satisfaction equivalent to moving from unemployment to employment. [WOW!]

The well-being improvements occurred within 24 months.

The study followed more than 12,000 randomly selected people. These subjects kept food diaries and had their psychological well-being measured. The authors found large positive psychological benefits within two years of an improved diet.

Professor Andrew Oswald said: "Eating fruit and vegetables apparently boosts our happiness far more quickly than it improves human health. People's motivation to eat healthy food is weakened by the fact that physical-health benefits, such as protecting against cancer, accrue decades later. However, well-being improvements from increased consumption of fruit and vegetables are closer to immediate."

 It may be possible eventually to link this study to current research into antioxidants which suggests a connection between optimism and carotenoid in the blood

This may be because of positive changes in self image or it may be because of the effects of the micronutrients and much better nutrition in the brain.  (I suspect it's both!)  

Or, it may be from eating LESS of the foods that are already known to do the opposite. (Eating that many vegetables makes you full and far less hungry.)

Conclusion:

One of the best and most effective ways to begin permanent fat loss is to use these three methods!

You get happier and have more energy right away and this enables you to do things that remove fat and keep it off.

Then doing those things makes you have more energy and feel better too!