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Being Overweight Could Signal Deeper Issues Within!
By Jeff Dana, Owner of Prolean Wellness

Many of us think that being fat is just a result of eating too much and not exercising enough. I know that is what I thought for most of my life! However, something just was not ringing true to me…I did not eat that much and when I did exercise, it did not make a difference that I could see. I tried to eat better (not that I was even eating poorly) and tried to incorporate more whole grains and fruit. This modification did not seem to make a difference…if anything It made it a little worse.

It was not until I had some very comprehensive blood labs done that I realized that I had other issues deeper within my body that were causing the fat to accumulate on the outside. I knew that I did not sleep well or wake up refreshed but I thought it was because of my bed. I also knew I had chronic acid reflux…usually every night…to the point where had a gallon-sized pail of antacid tablets next to my bed. I had also suffered from bouts of IBS as well. These symptoms were all resulting from the greater issues of chronic inflammation and from the fact that I was pre-diabetic.

It seemed my efforts of trying to eat better were actually making matters worse because “eating better” according to others was not “eating better” for me. I am different! How about that! Through the course of the full Prolean Wellness Program, I learned that I have food allergies that constantly caused my digestive system to be reacting like a gas can in a barn fire!  What? You mean I don’t have to live with IBS, acid reflux or the medication’s side effects that go along with treatment?  Not to mention the fact that most of the foods many heath experts recommend for losing weight were making my pre-diabetes worse. And something I have learned since…when insulin goes up…we store more fat!

These are just snippets of my story but they might as well be from many of Prolean’s clients because the same issues continue be present in the majority we see on a daily basis. That is the reason I am such a soldier for the Prolean system…it gets to the core issues and addresses them so that losing weight happens as the body rights itself! It is a result of better health that we lose weight and when we lose weight…we are going to be healthier! Now that is a win – win!

A very basic tenet of the Prolean program is that the answers are there…we just need to help you find them. We all need OUR OWN answers and that is only done on a very basic and intimate level with your body. We hear it time and time again “They said I would have to just live with it”.  We don’t believe that’s the case because we have seen that line of thinking proven wrong many, many times.
If you are looking for answers, not just any answers, but YOUR answers…you deserve better.
Call Prolean Wellness at (480)477-6334 or go to our website at www.ProleanWellness.com.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It’s almost swimsuit season and now starts the rush to try and lose some weight.

There’s a new diet in town that promises you could lose weight while you sleep and even more in the coming weeks.

Amanda Busch is a busy, working mom with a very active 3-year-old.

Between her pregnancy and several back surgeries, she put on about 60 pounds.

“My goal was to lose that weight and then some,” Busch said.

So, when she heard about the Overnight Diet, a diet that says you can lose while you snooze, she thought it sounded like a dream.

Very simply, it consists of six days of a high protein diet and one day of a liquid diet.

The diet also requires sleep – an adequate amount, but at least six hours consecutive per night. In fact, the first night, the diet promises you could lose two pounds while you’re fast asleep.

“I lost a pound the first night and I think six or seven pounds in the two weeks,” Busch said.

But, critics say before you jump into bed with dreams of waking up slimmer, there a few things you should know.

Nutritionist Leslie Bonci said in order to lose two pounds of actual fat, you would have to burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories, which obviously you’re not doing if you’re sleeping. The author of the Overnight Diet recognizes those first two pounds are water weight, but said it serves as an incentive to keep with the diet.

Bonci said, though, there’s really nothing new about the diet.

When you break it down, these are things people already know.

“If you find those ways to get adequate sleep, if you find those ways to balance your calories, and if you find those ways to move, you’re going to be successful with weight loss,” Bonci said.

Busch found the diet didn’t fit her busy lifestyle.

“There’s [going to] be women out there and men who will do great on this that have the time and energy to put into this,” Busch said.

However, she did see results.

“I did have a good four to five people tell me that they could really tell that I lost weight in the last couple weeks. I had not told anyone I was doing this diet,” she said.

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Losing Weight May Ease Chronic Heartburn

By Kathleen Doheny

HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) — Obese and overweight men and women who suffer from heartburn often report relief when they lose weight, a new study shows.

The researchers tracked the effects of weight loss over a year in patients who had a persistent form of heartburn known as gastroesophageal reflux, or GERD.

“If you lose weight, you will have improvements in your reflux symptoms,” said study author Dr. Preetika Sinh, a gastroenterology fellow at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. In women, but not men, long-term exercise also helped reduce symptoms, she added.

Sinh was scheduled to present the findings Monday at the Digestive Disease Week annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

Previous research also has linked weight loss with a decline in GERD symptoms.

Heartburn, or acid indigestion, is very common, with more than 60 million Americans having it at least once a month, according to the American College of Gastroenterology. Stomach acid flows backward up into the esophagus, and the burn begins.

GERD, the more frequent, chronic form of heartburn, can lead to complications if left untreated, including a narrowing of the esophagus or precancerous changes in the esophageal lining.

Sinh evaluated more than 200 men and women with an average age of 46. At the start of the study, all were overweight or obese, with an average weight of 220 pounds.

At the beginning of the study, 38 percent had heartburn scores severe enough to be classified as GERD. After six months, the patients’ average weight decreased to 183 pounds, and only 16 percent still had GERD.

During the next six months, 172 of the patients regained weight, and the percentage of those with heartburn increased again, from 16 percent to 22 percent. Even a small amount of weight gain — less than 5 percent of their initial weight — led to worsening symptoms, Sinh found.

Sinh then focused on the 41 patients who didn’t regain their weight and found that the percentage with heartburn continued to decline and the symptoms continued to improve.

As part of the weight-loss program, the patients were told to aim for five hours a week of moderate activity such as walking or jogging. The average amount logged was a little less than four hours, Sinh said.

In women, but not men, the exercise also helped to improve heartburn.

Sinh said she can’t explain the mechanisms behind either the weight loss or the exercise, or why the exercise seemed to help only women. Although the study found a link between weight loss, exercise and GERD, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.

While the use of heartburn medications is common, Sinh said she can’t say if the men and women improved enough to go off medication, since she didn’t track those results. Only about 5 percent of the men and women were on heartburn medications in the first place, she said.

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Weight loss is tricky business. Obviously what you eat has a huge impact on your health and body weight. But anyone who has ever tried to modify their diet for the sake of losing weight knows it isn’t so simple.

Most of us understand intuitively that broccoli is healthier than cookies. We can talk about sugar, fat, gluten, and antioxidants all day, but that doesn’t change the fact that cookies taste good and you still want to eat them. Any weight loss plan that simply tells you what to eat and neglects why you make the choices you make is unlikely to help you in the long run.

Nutrition knowledge is important, but it is only one piece of the puzzle. The real secret is understanding your behaviors and motivations at their roots, and using this information to have a meaningful impact on your health. In this sense, good health starts in your brain, not on your plate.

Willpower is a Limited Resource

The first thing you need to understand is that we don’t have as much control over our food decisions as most of us assume. We tend to believe that we can call on willpower anytime we wish and use it to order a salad instead of a burger, and if we fail to do so it is our own fault. However, self-control is not something we can simply turn on or off, and as a result the process of decision making––particularly when it comes to food––is much more complex.

Approximately 20 percent of the calories we expend daily are used by our brains. Because brain activity is so costly, things like self-control and decision making cannot be relied on indefinitely. As a result, willpower is a limited resource. Like a muscle, willpower becomes fatigued when exercised too frequently. All the decisions you make throughout the day deplete your willpower, and when you start running out of steam your ability to choose healthy food over more convenient food rapidly diminishes. Ironically, increasing your blood sugar can help restore willpower to some extent. But finding a healthy way to raise blood sugar in a state of depleted willpower can pose quite the dilemma. Tired brains find it much easier to just grab a cookie.

The way our brains cope with the willpower conundrum is to automate as much of our decision making as possible. It does this by creating habits. Habits are specific behaviors that occur in response to a trigger or cue. They are also always associated with some kind of reward, which in turn reinforces and strengthens the trigger. For example, a buzz in your pocket is a cue to reach down, grab your phone, pull it out, and glance at the screen. The information you see causes a bit of dopamine to be released in the reward center of your brain. We humans love novelty, which is why most of us have a reflexive response to checking our mobile devices when we receive a notification. This is how habits are born.

Once established, habits occur automatically without expending any willpower or mental effort. Scientists have estimated that up to 90 percent of our daily food decisions occur as a result of habits. This saves our brain energy for more difficult decisions where habits cannot be used.

How Can this Knowledge Help Us Lose Weight?

For one thing, it shows that willpower is not particularly reliable as a means to achieve lasting weight loss, and we’re better off spending our efforts creating healthy habits.

It also teaches us that any habit we wish to develop needs to impart a meaningful reward in order for it to stick. You can probably guess that some vague promise of future thinness is not sufficient––the reward for any habit needs to be immediate and tangible. This means that in order to achieve long-term weight control you need to find healthy foods you actually enjoy eating, physical activities you like doing, and spend your time making these as convenient and accessible as possible.

Fabulous news, right? Using willpower for restrictive dieting is difficult and incredibly unpleasant. We can all let out a collective sigh of relief that it doesn’t actually work. To achieve true success in health and weight loss, we’re better off quitting diets altogether and focusing on building healthy habits we enjoy. Try starting with something as simple as breakfast. Warm muesli with a splash of almond milk and cinnamon only takes two minutes to prepare and is absolutely delicious. Invest in a pedometer and challenge yourself to reach 10,000 steps a day. Setting and achieving an attainable goal is a very powerful reward, and is one of the reasons so many people love videogames.

Since our brains are easily overwhelmed, don’t try to develop too many habits at once. Work on just two or three habits at a time, and build from there. Habits take anywhere from two weeks to six months to take root, but on average about two months. Start with the easiest ones and work your way up. Once you’ve built enough good habits, your health will take care of itself.

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