Water Water Water

Did you know that most of what you drink (coffee, tea, and soft drinks) are all diuretics. They actually make you more thirsty, not less. As if that weren’t bad enough, all the sugar in those drinks lowers your immune system and causes you to gain weight.

Did you know that it’s impossible to tell the difference between a feeling of hunger and a feeling of thirst? Oftentimes, when you eat, you’re really not hungry at all. You’re just thirsty but didn’t know it. The only way to tell the difference is drink a glass of water and wait a few minutes. You may find that’s all you needed.

Only water has the pure, cleansing properties necessary to sustain life and restore your good health.

So today, do yourself a favor and drink only water. It’s only for 1 day. It’ll be over before you know it. But you will have proved to yourself that you are in fact committed to losing that extra weight that’s been holding you back and gaining all the health you deserve.

What a great way to start the day! I’m challenging you to drink only water today.

Water Facts

1. 75% of North Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.)
2. In 37% of North Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as 3%.
4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain or up to 80% of sufferers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a ! printed page.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day?

Eating more without more calories

Water-rich foods help weight loss, studies affirm

yet another chance for Mom to say, "I told you so!"

Women told to eat healthy low-density foods, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, lose more weight than those told to cut fat, according to research.

A related study showed that Americans who ate more of these foods consumed fewer calories and were somewhat healthier than those who didn't — even though they ate more total food.

In the first study, two groups of obese but otherwise healthy women got regular dietary advice for a year. One group was told what to avoid in order to reduce the amount of fat in their diets. The other got the reduced-fat advice, but was also given positive messages — suggestions of healthy, water-rich foods they could add to their diets.

They were specifically directed to items with a low energy density, or ratio of calories to mass, and high water content; not only produce but soups, legumes and cooked grains like oats and brown rice.

Both groups lost weight. But after six months, the reduced-fat group had lost 14.7 pounds, while the energy-density group had lost 20.7 pounds.

"We didn't give them all this 'Don't eat this, don't eat that,'" Penn State nutrition sciences professor Barbara Rolls, who directed both studies, said. "Human nature is, we really don't like to be told we can't have things."

Feeling full with fewer calories
Water-rich foods' value rests in the ability to eat more of them and feel fuller without packing in extra calories. While other studies have shown the efficacy of short-term diets featuring these foods, nutrition researchers said these findings help prove the long-term effects and fill in gaps in current research.

"It provides additional support that folks can actually eat more food and lose weight if they choose foods low in calories," said Gail Woodward-Lopez, associate director of the Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley. "That's wonderful that they did both a longer-term intervention study and an observational study."

Visualization Techniques

Think and be Thin

I had a email from my website asking how visualization can help to make change in my life and I thought this would be a great blog for everyone. So what is it, and how does it work?

Visualization techniques have in fact been used for thousands of years for emotional and physical healing. By conjuring up positive pictures, visualization can change emotions that subsequently have a positive effect on your mind or body.

If you close your eyes and visualize taking a bite out of a lemon, the chances are that your taste glands will salivate and react as though you have really bitten into a lemon.Also, if you visualize yourself running up and down a flight of steps, your heart rate should increase even though you are sitting down and relaxing. These are just two examples of how visualization techniques can produce real physical changes.

Visualization therapy is believed to encourage activity in the right side of your brain - related to creativity and emotions. It leaves you free to focus on overcoming a fear, achieving insights about an emotional anxiety or focusing on a particular goal you want to pursue. As the imaginary visual experience continues, your blood pressure and heart rate may fall as deep, even breathing brings new energy and vitality into the body. While the mind is busily delving into unexplored realms, the body is in healing mode.

Visualization techniques have been used to cure phobias, lower blood pressure, turn average athletes into good ones and improve the good ones even more. In fact, research shows that visualizing yourself making the perfect golf swing or delivering the perfect tennis volley actually increases your ability to do just that!

Visualization techniques are also used for:

stress and pain relief

motivation and personal development (weight loss)

allergies and immune system disorders

cancer (as a complementary therapy).

If you have any question please feel free to email: terrance@terranceb.ca