Slow Down...it takes 20 minutes for your stomach to send the Im full Signal

Learn to Slow Down
Are you so busy that you barely have time to eat? Well, scarfing down meals won't help you meet your weight-loss goals. Eating too quickly is one of the leading causes of overeating. It takes 20 minutes for your stomach to register the food you eat and send the "I'm full" message to your brain. If you are barreling through your meals in 15 minutes, you are probably eating more than is necessary to satisfy your hunger. Force yourself to slow down. Good, healthy food is one of the true pleasures in our lives — savor and enjoy!
To slow down when eating, keep these tricks in mind:
• If you're right-handed, eat with your left hand, and vice versa.
• Cut your food into small pieces, and eat your meal one morsel at a time.
• Make yourself put your silverware down in between bites.
• Take a sip of a beverage in between bites. Water is always best.
I know these hints may sound silly, but they work. If you slow it down, you'll find that you won't need that second helping.

Make Your Own Protein Bar!!! Maple Walnut Protein Bar Recipe

Cooking with Coach Levi: Maple Walnut Protein Bar Recipe
Posted by Levi on June 9, 2008 in Cooking Articles

Are you fed up with paying $2 or more for a protein bar? I sure am, which is why I’ve been making my own energy bars and protein bars for the past five or six years. The recipe changes each time, but (with the help of my mother) I think I found something I can enjoy eating for a long time.

Without further ado, here is our recipe for a maple walnut flavor protein bar:



Ingredients:

4 1/2 cups Oat Flour (How to make your own oat flour.)
1 cup Honey
1 cup Plain Yogurt
3 scoops Protein Powder (1 scoop is 28g)
2 tbsp Maple Flavor
1/4 cup Organic Cane Sugar (optional)
1 cup Ground Flax Seed (Gold or Brown)
1 cup Chopped Walnuts or Pecans
1. Warm the Honey and Maple Flavor.

Warm Honey and Maple Flavor together, either on stove or in microwave. (Now is the time to add the sugar if desired.)



2. Stir in Yogurt.

Add the yogurt to the mix and stir it in.



3. Mix in dry ingredients.

Add Oat Flour, Flax Seed, Protein Powder, and walnuts. Stir.



If the mix seems too wet and sticky, add more Oat Flour.

4. Prep the pan.

Spray a 13″ x 9″ baking pan with non-stick spray. Then sprinkle on a little Oat Flour.



5. Pour mix in pan.

Drop the mix into pan and spread out the best you can. It should be stiff.



6. Smooth out the mix.

Finish pressing flat and smooth with wax paper sprayed with non stick spray. You can sprinkle some Oat Flour on the top also.

(The oat flour on the top and bottom of the bars will prevent them from sticking to your fingers.)



The easiest way to smooth this out is to spray your hands with non-stick spray and then press it down; the wax paper method is used if you don’t want to get your hands messy, or if you don’t want your greasy bike mechanic hands to contaminate the food.

Pressing down with your hand will give you a smoother top, though.

7. Cool bars.

Place pan in freezer for at least 3 to 4 hours before cutting. You can leave it overnight, but you may have to let it sit a while before cutting if it gets too cold.

8. Cut bars.

Cut the bars to whatever size you prefer using a butter knife. You could do bars or bite-size chunks. I like the bites. (Speaking of bites, these tasted quite a bit like the maple walnut flavor of Simbree Energy Bites, but these were more moist/wet.)

The finished product:



Mmm mmm, they’re really good! Let’s eat!

recipe provided by coach levi

THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA, A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON (CHLORINE)

THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA,
A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON
By James Bowen, M.D.
Posted: 08 May 2005

James Bowen, M.D., A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda.
Hawaii, May 8, 2005 -- The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide. Dr. James Bowen, Researcher and biochemist, reports:
"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT.
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other compatible nutritional elements.
"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial decomposition."
Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver's metabolic cells, and destroy them.
In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies. The brain and nervous system are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known deadly chlorocarbons."
Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice.
"In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising. In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.
"Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption. This toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food, the other is toxic; don't be deceived."
Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant." (James Bowen, M.D.)
Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr Bowen's intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.
For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame Information List on http://www.wnho.net. Dr. Bowen can be seen in the movie "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World." For the movie call 1-818-349-8822 or email cori@soundandfuryproductions.com See how aspartame was approved by clicking on http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html and visit http://www.wnho.net/sweet_misery_movie.htm for more information on the movie
Aspartame Toxicity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame and brain tumors cases for litigation contact Dr. Betty Martini at Bettym19@mindspring.com or 770-242-2599. Currently taking states New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and Mississippi.
A medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D. presents, 1038 pages of aspartame horrors. http://www.sunsentpress.comor 1-800-827-7991
Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on the subject, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com

Diet Soda is Poison!!! Donald Rumsfeld had a big role in getting it thru the FDA!

By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Online Journal Guest Writer
May 4, 2009, 00:19

I was on a long road trip last week and, feeling rather drowsy, stopped at a convenience store for some coffee and refreshments. As I walked up and down the aisles to find something to munch on for the next leg of the trip, I discovered nothing that seemed to be real food on any of the shelves. So I thought I would at least buy some chewing gum, something I used to do decades ago when gum only cost a penny a stick. I fondly remembered the refreshing taste of Wrigley’s Doublemint, Juicy Fruit or Spearmint gum.

Reading the fine print on the gum labels (a habit I always urged my patients to adopt whenever making purchases in grocery stores), I was annoyed and a bit alarmed to find that NONE of the 20 flavors had good old dextrose or sucrose in them. Instead, 100 percent of the choices contained, as their sweetener, a synthetic chemical called aspartame, a.k.a. NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful.

Now I have read the book Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, written by Russell Blaylock, MD, one of the neuroscientists who has thoroughly studied the toxicities of the common food additives aspartame and monosodium glutamate (MSG). I have also seen the sobering video documentary about aspartame poisoning entitled: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, which proves without any doubt how dangerous this synthetic sweetener can be. (You can order a copy by emailingcori@soundandfuryproductions.com.)

Aspartame, which is in thousands of processed food products that are usually labeled “lite” or “diet” products, was synthesized in 1965 by a G. D. Searle chemist who, when he was trying to create an anti-ulcer drug, combined two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine and found that the resulting dipeptide (a molecule consisting of two amino acids) had an intensely sweet taste to the tongue. Searle soon saw aspartame as a product that could compete in the low calorie food industry and obtained, in 1974, FDA approval for its use in dry foods. However the FDA approval was rescinded within six months because of toxic reactions and widespread concerns by a number of scientists.

These scientists knew that aspartame was a lethal poison! In fact, in a 1996 report compiled from 10,000 consumer complaints obtained during the pre-marketing testing period, the FDA listed 92 aspartame-related symptoms, ranging from seizures to death!

Still, the tenacious Searle, led by its cunning management team, refused to give up its effort to obtain FDA approval and denied that they had a sweet poison on their hands.

Interestingly, Searle’s CEO at the time was Donald Rumsfeld (which is why some prefer to call Aspartame Disease Rumsfeld’s Disease).

Here is an excerpt from an article entitled: Aspartame (NutraSweet): Something Evil This Way Comeswritten by Betty Martini, of Mission Possible World Health International, an organization devoted to exposing aspartame as the dangerous substance it is:

“Listen to Attorney James Turner who, with famed Dr. John Olney, tried to prevent aspartame’s approval. Turner tells what it took to get a deadly poison approved. The FDA attempted to have Searle indicted for fraud and making false statements. Both U.S. prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. For 16 years, the FDA refused to allow it on the market. When Reagan was elected, Don Rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, said he’d call in his markers to get aspartame approved. This is documented by a UPI investigation and congressional record. The day after Reagan took office Arthur Hayes was appointed as FDA Commissioner to get it approved.

”Reagan knew it might take 30 days to get Hayes installed, so he wrote an Executive Order making the outgoing FDA Commissioner powerless to act against aspartame before he departed. Then the FDA set up a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) that revoked Reagan’s petition for approval because it had not been proved safe and causes brain tumors. Hayes overruled the PBOI and let slip the hounds of disease, disability and death on an innocent, unwarned population. Soon he became a consultant for the NutraSweet Company’s public relations outfit on a 10-year contract at $1,000/day. Hayes then refused to talk to the press.”

In 1981, the Reagan FDA approved aspartame in dry food and in 1983, aspartame was approved for use in soda pop. In 1985 Rumsfeld’s Searle was acquired by Monsanto, making Rumsfeld rich and Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries! And the rest, as they say, is history.

Suffice it to say, I passed on the chemically-contaminated chewing gum. I have learned to avoid swallowing synthetic flavor enhancers (or other chemicals in food) whenever I am able, preferring to use natural, unrefined and unbleached table sugar if I feel the need to sweeten tea or coffee. Understanding the chemical breakdown products of aspartame informed my decision long ago and will help the readers to try to break their diet pop habits also. It is my professional duty to warn.

Each molecule of NutraSweet, when it reaches a temperature of 86 degrees F (recall that the body’s normal temperature is 98.6 and warehouses in the summer’s sun can reach temperatures far higher than that)) breaks down into its two amino acids (a molecule each of phenylalanine and aspartic acid, both excitotoxins) and a molecule of methanol (wood alcohol!) which then metabolizes into formaldehyde (embalming fluid and a known carcinogen), formic acid (the acid that causes the intense itching from the prickles of burning weed) and diketopiperazine (a known carcinogen).

Perhaps a small amount of any of these toxins can be tolerated by some people, especially those who are well nourished, but I wouldn’t want to take the chance, for there is too much evidence for its being a poison. The long list of neurodegenerative, psychological and other health problems aspartame can cause can be found here. They include seizures, multiple sclerosis, headaches, lupus, insomnia, fibromyalgia, arthritis, depression, anxiety and dozens more.

If that isn’t enough to convince readers to gradually withdraw (diet soda is also addictive) from your NutraSweet habit, it might give you extra motivation if you recall the list of evil geniuses listed above that have played a part in this tragedy.

There, you’ve been warned.

(Coming up soon, an expose on another toxic artificial sweetener that is in a lot of food products, the trichlorinated sucrose molecule sucralose (Splenda), once marketed as a pesticide in Japan.)

For more on the health-destroying properties of aspartame, check out these resources:

Dorway to Discovery
ASPARTAMEKILLS.COM
Aspartame (NutraSweet) Toxicity Info Center
WORLD NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Medical Text: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, H. J. Roberts, M.D.
‘Diet’ Soft Drinks -- Suicide On An Installment Plan

Gary G. Kohls. MD, is a retired family practitioner, who specialized in holistic and preventive mental health care in Duluth, Minnesota. 

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SkyLab Fitness Retreat Day 2

Well Its Day Two and the sugar withdrawals have already hit some of the ladies pretty hard.  They were all extremely sore from yesterdays activities...

This morning's Hike was really difficult even for me..its was basically a 60 minute straight uphill climb the entire way think (12 incline on the treadmill...oh and we jog the entire way down) I was leading the pack up the hill, Jackie was in the middle and Kim the program coordinator brought up the rear.  On the way down Jackie took a wrong turn and got lost in a cow field with some of the girls LOL!!! 

The afternoon protein snack bars are like a golden nuggets we cant wait to eat them LOL!! 

I took the ladies and did a bootcamp  workout one the beautiful beach front lawn..we did suicide runs, worked with resistance bands, abs, plyometrics and other fun stuff. Then I handed them off to Jackie for the 2nd hour for an in the gym circuit weight routine.

This program forces the ladies to grapple with their mental daemons as well as the physical.  Its really all about having a positive mindset to get thru the workouts and stay on track with the 1500 calorie meal plan! 

SkyLab Fitness Retreat Day 1

Its Sunday day 1 of the fitness retreat...we are staying at the beautiful dolphin bay in shell beach, ca. www.dolphinbay.com. 

we were up bright and early at 6am to get ready for our 7am hike.  Jackies protein shake was delivered right to the door for us. The hike lasted about 2 hours we mixed in a little bit of a bootcamp workout along the hike.. most of the participants are from the east coast and don't hike on a regular basis...or do bootcamp for that matter.  The ladies found the hike/workout to be very intense and hard. 

The meals are prepared as follows: morning shake, protein bar for snack 180cal, lunch, salad and a choice of fish, tofu, steak, ahi for the protein, snack is a protein bar 180cal, and dinner is once again a grain and choice of protein for a total daily calorie count of 1500.  The participants are not fed any sugar or wheat, the carbohydrates come from the fruit in the morning shake, the protein bar and the grains served at dinner.  I am following the diet plan as well and holy moly its going to be hard:) 

the second 2 hour workout in the afternoon was led by Jackie from 2-3 on the lawn and then I boot camped the group from 3-4 on the beach...most of the ladies body's were in shock and had a hard time getting thru the workouts but they all made it!!!

on my down time I went for a 5 mile jog in the afternoon and did a two hour cardio/weight circuit training in the gym. (leg day for me) 

SKYLAB-life Change Fitness Retreat June 6-13th 2009!!

Im one of the trainers that is leading the fitness retreat this week with jackie.  Read below for a description and read the blogs to follow us along this journey!!

SkyLab is the ultimate, life-changing opportunity. During this all-inclusive, intense retreat in Central California, you'll live, eat with, and workout with Jackie Warner, celebrity trainer and star of the hit Bravo TV show Workout. She will teach you, train you, tone you, inspire you, and give you the discipline and motivation to lose weight for good.

In addition to breaking your sugar addiction, you'll sweat and work like never before, all under the ever-present and constant watch of Jackie and her team of trainers. Not only will you learn to live healthy and hot in the real world, but you'll lose substantial weight, reshift your energy, and change the way you relate to the world around you.

This is an experience that will be like no other. Jackie's effect on people's lives is unparalleled...and she's ready to change yours today.

Stay at a Celebrity Hideaway
Dolphin Bay Resort & Spa is the ultimate in celebrity hideaways. Perched atop dramatic bluffs along California's Central Coast, Dolphin Bay sets a new standard for luxury oceanfront accommodations. The property overlooks Shell Beach, one of California's most beautiful vacation spots, located half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It features 65 spacious one- and two-bedroom residences, as well as several large penthouse units.

In addition, the property's spa, La Bonne Vie, is an intimate retreat offering rejuvenating and pampering services.

Lido Restaurant, under the direction of Executive Chef Evan Treadwell, prepares delicious coastal wine country cuisine made with market-fresh ingredients. You'll be delighted to discover just how amazing a low calorie/low sugar diet can be!

Getting There
Getting to Dolphin Bay is a breeze. Four major airlines fly into the San Luis Obispo airport – US Air, United, American, and Delta. And, in true celebrity style, there is a complimentary shuttle from the airport to Dolphin Bay.

A Typical Day at SkyLab (*schedule subject to change)

• 6:30 am – Jackie's personal energy shake, delivered right to your door
• 7:00 am to 9:00 am – two-hour intensity workout
• 9:15 am to 10:15 am – snack and free time
• 10:30 am to 12:00 pm – life goals and healthy eating seminars
• 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm – lunch
• 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm – free time
• 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm – two-hour intensity workout
• 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm – yoga/stretching
• 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm – snack and free time
• 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm – dinner
• 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm – group therapy (conquer your emotional relationship with food!)

Rates
$4,000 (double occupancy) and $5,000 (single occupancy)

Price includes:

• Transportation to and from airport
• Luxury accommodations
• Three delicious meals and two snacks a day
• Twice-a-day intensity workouts with Jackie and staff
• Daily yoga and stretching
• Group therapy sessions
• DVD of Jackie's workout to take home
• Nutrition counseling
• Cookbook
• Yoga guide
• Exclusive Swag Bag filled with amazing products and Jackie's clothing

Deposit and Cancellation Policy:
SkyLab and Decadent Health require an initial, non-refundable deposit of $3,000 due at time of booking, with all monies due 30 days prior to program start.

In terms of refund, if you cancel 59-30 days before program, you get 25% back (minus the initial deposit). Within 29 days of the program, all monies are non-refundable.

SkyLab and Decadent Health reserve the right to cancel any program up to 30 days before the start of the program. If a program is cancelled, all monies paid to date will be returned in full.

SkyLab Prerequisites
In addition to payment, all SkyLab participants must mail or email a doctor's permission form to Kimberly (kimberly@decadenthealth.com or Kimberly Day c/o Decadent Health, LLC 11903 Smoketree Road Potomac, MD 20854). Permission form must clear participant to engage in strenuous activity and a reduced calorie diet. Form must also indicate any physical limitations the participant may have, including but not limited to knee, back, or shoulder injuries.

All participants will also be required to sign a waiver, releasing SkyLab and Decadent Health, LLC from any legal claims related to injury or medical conditions. Additionally, all participants acknowledge that SkyLab and Decadent Health, LLC do not offer, nor profess to offer, medical consultations. It is an informational health and fitness program designed to educate its guests about different perspectives in the health world.