5 Cutting Edge Strategies to Balance Your Blood Sugar So You Can Melt Your Midline, Sharpen Your Focus, and Recharge Your Energy!
Do you find yourself wishing you could hit the snooze button instead of jumping out of bed feeling refreshed each morning?
Do you crave sugar, caffeine, or a NAP around 3 – 4 pm?
Have you been carrying around excess fat around your middle that won’t budge in spite of starving yourself and slaving away at the gym?
Whether you’re a busy professional or a professional mom, you need to stay focused and organized all day long and still have enough energy to say yes to enticing social events rather than falling into a heap because you can hardly keep your eyes open after working all day.
Watch this video to get the secret to more energy!
Register here!
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The Great Meal Timing Debate!
Your body is designed to be able to go long periods of time without external sources of food. Elaborate mechanisms are in place to keep your blood sugar steady, involving your brain, your hormones, your stomach and your liver.
If you find yourself cranky and irritable if you miss a meal and have been told to eat more frequent, smaller meals to avoid this, you may have been steered in the wrong direction.
Getting cranky and irritable between meals is a sign that something’s out of balance.
Simply eating more frequently takes care of the symptoms, but not the underlying imbalance.
You never retrain your body to do what it’s supposed to do when you simply avoid the behavior that highlights the imbalance.
Eating Frequent, Small Meals May be Damaging to Your Health
The idea that eating every couple of hours keeps your blood sugar levels steady without the dips (and severe hunger that accompanies those dips) has become popular. In theory, you’ll eat less if you never let yourself get hungry enough to overeat.
Recent hormone research tells us that this is actually the worst way to eat for blood sugar balance and weight loss and can actually be damaging to your health.
Join me and find out how eating small meals could actually be causing insulin resistance…and leading you to more belly fat.
Click here to listen in to the radio show recording.
The Myths That Keep You From Feeling Miraculous
Registration for my hot new very controversial teleseminar, and video series was unfortunately delayed due to technology gremlins, The videos have been recorded but woefully need to be re-edited so we’ve delayed the launch until February 9, 2012. This series will address the myths and surprising misconceptions around the metabolic and blood sugar issues that have people confused and chronically ill. Even if you participated in last year’s series, you’ll find something new!
I’ve been intently studying blood sugar imbalances and all the hormones and lifestyle factors involved in creating and preventing them so I can bring you the most cutting edge information.
Once the series begins on February 9, the first video will come to you immediately. Then every day or two, another video will be released until right before my myth-busting teleseminar.
http://www.ByeByeBloodSugarImbalance.com
Another Easy Instant Action Step To Bring You into Balance
How did you do with the action step I sent you last week?
Remember, the one from my “Timing is Everything” strategy?
It was about having your last meal no later than three hours before bedtime.
If you found it hard, join the club. It’s difficult for everyone, yet yields phenomenal results when combined with the other strategies.
My new teleseminar and one of the videos will explain why this is so effective.
So this week, try another super effective step for balancing blood sugar. Sprinkle cinnamon liberally on your food. You heard me right. This common, every day spice is incredibly effective at restoring sensitivity of your cells to insulin, so you no longer have rapidly fluctuating blood sugars and the between meal irritability says bye-bye.
The registration page will be here:
http://www.ByeByeBloodSugarImbalance.com
The first 500 to register on February 9 can take advantage of another helpful resource.
The Recipes That Will Bring Your Inner Miracle Worker Back to Life
I’m going to make available a Bonus Recipe Sampler from my B4 Be Gone System for the first 500 people who register for the Bye-Bye B4 Video Series.
If you’re among the first to sign up for the free series on February 9th you can enjoy a taste of my delicious low-glycemic recipes designed to help heal your insulin receptors and restore your blood sugar balance.
You can ensure you receive your notice as soon as possible by registering for the early notification list here:
http://www.ByeByeBloodSugarImbalance.com
Have an awesome week.
I look forward to connecting on the teleseminar.
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Posted in Hormone Imbalance, Reduce Belly Fat, Vibrant Health
Digestion and Diabetes: The Relationship That May be Damaging Your Inner Miracle Worker
Have you ever wondered what really happens inside your body after you eat?
It’s a complicated process that involves muscles, organs, hormones, enzymes, acids and a variety of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
I am really glad that my conscious mind doesn’t need to get involved to make it happen… it just happens.
Imagine if half way through digesting my food I got distracted by a phone call? The food would likely just sit there until my next meal as I’d be apt to forget I was digesting and move on to other more exciting tasks.
There’s an Inner Miracle Worker Inside You
Your body is a miracle, and it handles all those things behind the scenes so you don’t have to be involved on a conscious level. It’s like having the world’s best personal assistant doing everything you need before you even know you need it.
It all runs smoothly and like clockwork… if you take care of yourself.
When you feed yourself the right fuel, move, sail through the day with joy and ease, and sleep well at night your “personal assistant” inside keeps things running well, so you feel energetic, clear, focused and full of life.
Ideas pop up and you’re able to run with them and create the life of your dreams. You look great. Your tummy is flat, your muscles are toned and strong, and YOU are unstoppable. You are unlimited.
But What If Your Inner Miracle Worker is Run-Down and Ragged?
If what I just described is not your life, then listen up.
It’s not your fault.
It’s not that you’re lazy or unmotivated.
It’s because you learned habits early on that caused you to make choices that basically poison your “feel good” mechanisms.
You were fed processed foods from early in childhood, even just out of the womb in some cases. The processed foods cannot come close to providing the nutrition offered by their fresh counterparts. “Made by nature” is always better than “made by machine”.
The processed foods early on interfered with your body’s ability to choose the foods that nourish your cells rather than excite your taste buds and drain your energy.
By the time you were six, chances are good that you had been on multiple courses of antibiotics and maybe had even begun to put on some excess weight. Like me, you were most likely addicted to foods like M&Ms, Cheetos, cookies, and soft drinks.
If so, you no longer were accessing the inner wisdom that guides you to eat, drink, and move in ways that bring balance.
Fast forward to today.
Perhaps the extra weight is your biggest concern. Maybe it’s your fear of life altering illnesses like heart disease, cancer, or diabetes. Or it might be your lack of energy and your inability to really enjoy things the way you used to.
Whatever it is you are striving for in your life, without your health the path will be obscure.
Are You Eating Yourself Sick?
So getting back to digestion…
When you’re out of balance, missing key nutrients, have eaten foods or engaged in activities that disrupt normal intestinal and hormone function, it’s as if you’re in charge and get distracted by a phone call.
Digestive enzymes become deficient or ineffective, your gut lining gets damaged and can no longer absorb all the nutrients in your food. Worse, it also allows foreign proteins to penetrate the disrupted intestinal membrane.
And you start to feel unwell.
Your energy drops.
Your mind gets foggy.
All the sugar and processed starch causes a spike in insulin. Over time, your cells become resistant to the insulin, and almost all the food you eat gets stored as fat.
The high sugar levels make your blood cells more sticky. The high insulin levels thicken the walls of your blood vessel and make them stiffer.
You are now a prime candidate for a heart attack or stroke.
You are on your way towards diabetes.
You May Not Know If You Have Diabetes Until There’s Damage
Diabetes is on the rise and prediabetes is almost an epidemic. Normal blood sugar balance is one of the prime casualties of an out of balance lifestyle.
The sad part is, you won’t be warned by your medical doctor until much of the damage has been done.
The reason?
The methods used to assess blood sugar imbalances, prediabetes (often called “insulin resistance“), and diabetes are based on standards that are too lenient.
There’s an ideal range for you blood sugar and the conventional standards give too much leeway.
The Myths That Keep You From Feeling Miraculous
On January 31st, 2012, I’ll be opening up registration for an all new and very controversial webinar that will address the myths and surprising misconceptions around the metabolic and blood sugar issues that have people confused and chronically ill. The webinar will be part of my updated free video series called Bye-Bye Belly Fat, Brain Fog and Burnout!
We’ll be sharing fresh, newly recorded videos, so even if you participated in last year’s series, you’ll find something new!
I am soooo excited about this.
The truth is so many of my family members have suffered and even died because they were not given the information I am about to share with you. It’s not that I didn’t offer. It’s just that they were afraid to go against the status quo.
I know you’re really open to the latest and greatest health information or you wouldn’t be reading my newsletter.
Registration opens on January 31st at around noon, pacific time. I will send you an e-mail message when registration opens, but if you’d like to get your notice and access a little early, be sure to register for early notification:
http://www.ByeByeBloodSugarImbalance.com
Once the series begins on January 31st, the first video will come to you immediately. Then every day or two, another video will be released until right before my myth-busting teleseminar on Feb 9th, 2012.
I’ve been intently studying blood sugar imbalances and all the hormones and lifestyle factors involved in creating and preventing them so I can bring you the most cutting edge information.
In the videos and on the teleseminar, I’ll share 5 simple strategies you can start to incorporate right away.
An Easy Step To Help Heal Your Inner Miracle Worker
For now, I would like to close with a small piece of one of the strategies you can get started on right away.
It’s from my “Timing is Everything” strategy.
It’s going to sound really simple, and I know you’ve heard it before.
During the Bye-Bye B4 Video Series, I will share the details about how and why this strategy works. Its effectiveness has to do with hormone balance and your body’s detoxification mechanisms.
Stop eating at least 3 hours before you go to bed.
There should be 12 hours between dinner/supper and breakfast.
Go ahead and try it.
Once we open up registration, we’ll have a blog area where you can post your experiences. Start slowly if this is hard. Increase the time between dinner and bed time by 15 minutes each day until you’ve reached your goal.
Then when you come to the training call and watch the videos, you’ll learn how this affects your hormones, blood sugar, brain chemistry and detoxification. You’ll understand how proper meal timing protects you from life threatening diseases like diabetes, heart attack and stroke.
The registration page will be here:
http://www.ByeByeBloodSugarImbalance.com
The Recipes That Will Bring Your Inner Miracle Worker Back to Life
If you act quickly, you can take advantage of another helpful resource.
I’m going to make available a Bonus Recipe Sampler from my B4 Be Gone System for the first 500 people who register for the Bye-Bye B4 Video Series. If you’re among the first to sign up on January 31st for the free series, you can enjoy a taste of my delicious low-glycemic recipes designed to help heal your insulin receptors and restore your blood sugar balance.
You can ensure you receive your notice as soon as possible by registering for the early notification list here:
http://www.ByeByeBloodSugarImbalance.com
Tags: belly fat, blood sugar, brain fog, burnout, Diabetes, digestion, Dr. Ritamarie, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, fatigue, insulin, insulin resistance, low-glycemic raw food recipes, prediabetes, raw food recipe sampler, reduce belly fat, weightloss
Posted in Brain Fog, Chronic Fatigue, Fatigue Treatment, Reduce Belly Fat
Sleep: Waking Up the Power of Your Inner Healer
As a result of my own healing experience this past week, I am once again in awe of the nature’s incredible healing wisdom.
The healing ability of your body is nothing short of miraculous and at this time of year, when our attention here in the U.S. is turning towards our Thanksgiving holiday, one of the top things of your “things to be thankful for” list is your body’s innate healing capabilities.
I truly believe that your body can overcome almost any health challenge when you remove the obstacles from its path and provide the things its missing. And I don’t mean symptom removal. Every symptom is a message from your body saying “something is out of balance.” Yet, we so want to turn off the symptoms and return to comfort that we sometimes forget to ask what the message is.
Sometimes the thing that’s out of balance is not tangible. You don’t need to remove a toxin, or take an herb or homeopathic remedy, or try a new therapy when what your body is asking for is a shift in an attitude or a belief.
No matter how good your diet is or how impeccable your exercise program is, if you’re angry, judgmental, or fearful; not taking periodic de-stress breaks; and not sleeping enough; your body’s innate healing capabilities cannot perform at peak potential.
And guess what?
You’ll experience uncomfortable or downright painful symptoms, your excess weight will stay locked in place, your brain will operate at less than par, and you, my friend, will find yourself living a life devoid of passion, purpose, and prosperity.
My Personal Lesson about the Importance of Balance
I’ve been eating a pristine diet, especially lately during my B4 Be Gone program, during which I have been following a low-glycemic diet, similar to Dr. Gabriel Cousen’s Phase 1 diet he uses in his reversing diabetes and “turn off the composting” programs.
I’ve been exercising regularly, including aerobics, bursts, and strength and conditioning training.
I’ve been practicing my HeartMath™ activities regularly and feel like very little gets me upset anymore. So I felt “entitled” to have one little vice. “One place where I bend the rules won’t hurt,” I told myself, as my bedtime continued to creep forward from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. and quite a number of times over the past several months to as late/early as 5, 6, or 7 a.m. I had the energy to stay up and get lots done in the quiet hours, so why not?
My first wake-up call came when I tested my glucose as part of my B4 Be Gone class and found that a bowl of pineapple shot my glucose up by 100 points into diabetic range! That’s scary, since there’s a family history of diabetes and heart disease, and I know the damage that high levels of insulin cause to blood vessels.
So, being a good student, I tested other fruits, determined all the foods that caused high glucose readings and eliminated them, keeping my blood sugars in the healthy range of 75 – 110. This will go a long way to healing my blood vessels, but what about the root cause of the fruit spike?
The Risks of Rationalizing Your Choices
Several studies report that even one night of poor sleep can induce insulin resistance in healthy subjects.
Wow. I’ve accumulated hundreds of nights of sleep deprivation. So in spite of not having the “outward” signs, I actually do have insulin resistance. The reason for the lack of outward signs is my diet and exercise.
My own story is a clear example of how diet, exercise, and stress management may not be enough.
Sleep is vital.
Did I learn my lesson and immediately start sleeping 8 hours a night to heal?
NO.
Why not?
Addiction.
Addiction is behind many poor choices when it comes to health. My addiction used to be to food, caffeine, and alcohol. Now it’s to achievement. I have so many goals, dreams, and messages to share, I get caught up in the joy of creating and I forget to take time to sleep.
My initial answer to my sleep issue was to get even better about my diet (which was already pretty darn good to begin with). It was easier to give up fruit than give up awake time. But recently, the powers that be deep in the abyss of my inner workings stood up and revolted.
Shut Down or Break Down
“NO!” cried my body. “No More. You must rest. We can’t continue to keep you healthy, vibrant, and strong unless you REST.”
Last Sunday, a strange sensation took over. It started as a disturbance in my tummy. Then it moved to overall mental exhaustion. Next chills took me over, and I felt physically exhausted. I needed to lie down (it was late afternoon/early evening by then).
I felt feverish and achy all over, the most prominent pain manifesting as a headache.
I had no choice but to retreat to bed.
I woke up the next morning feeling worse. My fever had climbed to 102. I spent the next 3 days in bed, alternating between sleeping, talking on the phone, and returning a few e-mails on my iPad, but mostly just sleeping.
Sometime Wednesday night the fever broke and I awoke on Thursday feeling almost back to my normal self.
I resisted the temptation to scurry back to my desk and start working at my normal pace. I had a day full of calls and a presentation to write, and I did it all from my bed. Which meant I could take periodic “lie down” breaks, especially on calls.
I was on, focused and articulate, and I was taking care of myself.
New brain imprints were made.
Lesson learned.
As I write to you today, I am still in bed, my computer perched on a portable computer stand, my smoothie and other beverages at hand, ready to rest whenever I need to.
So, I ask you, what can you do to please your inner healer?
What attitude can you shift, belief can you let go of, or food or beverage can you stop consuming?
What movement, self-care practice, or fun activity can you do to activate your healer?
And I request, respectfully, that you avoid saying, “But I can’t. I have a special situation,” then start talking about the kids, the dogs, your work, the trash, the dishes, or any of the hundreds of excuses I hear all the time for lack of self-care.
I have kids.
I have a dog.
I have a kitchen and dishes just like you.
And my garden is feeling neglected.
And there’s a big pile of stuff on my counter that could use a going through.
Plus I have hundreds of people actively in programs that I’m providing inspiration and materials to regularly.
And a business that relies on ME.
And if I get sick, then what?
Your Health is Your Most Precious Commodity
It’s time to learn to drop the limiting beliefs and learn the habits and self-care rituals that will make you more available to the kids, the dog, the aging parents, the demanding spouse…
You.
Here.
Now.
Tune in.
Decide.
Take action!
What’s stopping you?
Think about it and post below.
I love you.
I want you happy, healthy, and whole.
I want you on fire with living your life with passion, purpose, and prosperity.
Go ahead. Think about what you believe are the biggest obstacles and post below:
Tags: Diabetes, fatigue, insulin resistance, lack of sleep, reversing Diabetes, self care, sleep
Posted in Adrenal Fatigue, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Stress, Exhaustion, Fatigue Treatment, Sleep for Vibrant Health
The Top Three Foods To Avoid at All Costs
- by Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo
When it comes to the dangers of the Standard American Diet, it’s hard to limit all the possible exclusions to only the 3 top foods to avoid, but here goes. The three foods discussed in this video are devastating to your health:
In this video you’ll learn:
- why margarine not only swells your joints and muscles, it increases your risk of heart disease and cancer.
- the mechanism behind how sugar effects your metabolism and why high fructose corn sugar is so damaging to your liver.
- the dangers of white bread, the ridiculous approach to its production, and how it affects your blood sugar with empty, gluten-damaging calories.
Tags: aspartame, blood sugar, bread, Cancer, cholesterol, Diabetes, DNA, fats, fatty acid oxidation, fatty liver, gluten, heart disease, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oil, inflammation, insulin, margarine, soda, soft drinks, sugar, Three Foods To Avoid, trans fats, white bread
Posted in Cancer, Gluten Free Diet, Health Coach, Reduce Belly Fat
