Detoxing - What I Wish I Knew Before I Bought All Those Supplements

If you've read my other blog posts, you may remember my mention of my toxic exposure at the beginning of 2012. For 2 1/2 months, I absorbed a polyurethane stain into my arms from my desk at work.

Only after a considerable amount of hair loss did I realize there was something very wrong. Leave it to vanity to expose a problem; it had to be something - I had ignored the hot flashes, the exhaustion, the daily red-faced flushes. I also didn't think much of losing all the hair on my arms. It wasn't until I could see my scalp (6 weeks into the toxic exposure) did I have a light bulb moment, "Uh-oh, something's wrong here".  

My first quest started with prayer to get to the root of the problem. Before I knew what the cause of the problem was, I attacked the hair issue with essential oils, scalp balancing no-shampoo method, and nutritional supplements that hinted at hair re-growth. I did notice a slight difference, but they did little for my exhaustion. It took a lot of mental energy to psych myself up to get up in the morning, and though I worked through the brain fog, 8-9 hours later I'd come right back home and barely change my clothes before crawling back in bed. Sometimes eating dinner was a challenge.

I believe in God and prayer, and whole heartedly believe that without it, my health would have deteriorated so much more, and may have led to death. On my journey to regain my health, 4 separate health-care practitioners (naturopath, preventative, and traditional) have each asked, "How are you standing?!" (or walking, breathing, etc). Each time I point to my Source of Strength, because I know without Him, I wouldn't have survived, much less suspected my desk was slowly killing me.

Detoxing
Once my desk had been removed from my office, I began the second leg of my jounrney - Detox. I had previously taken a powdered-juice mixture of barley, carrots, and beets, along with fiber that had wonderful reviews for cleansing both the colon and liver (http://myaimstore.com/somethingnew/). I had been off them for a few months, but quickly got back on them once toxicity proved to be the issue.

Though I knew my problem was serious, I waited months before seeing a doctor. and continued with the juicing thinking it would be enough. After months of exhaustion and prompting from my oiler/aromatherapist I agreed to see a doctor who was responsible for the formulations of hormone -balancing essential oil blends.  

For the appointment, the first doctor required extensive labwork, and before I was able to share my story, he took one look at my hormone panel (thyroid, progesterone, and estrodial) and said, "Something very bad happened to you."

His recommendation was a nutritional panel and a $100 glutathione spray. I bought it, with hopes that it was exactly what I needed to overcome my issues. It was a close start.
I used it everyday - again, feeling only a slight difference. 
Since then, I've tried MSM, Sulfur, milk thistle, continued juicing - and continued to battle my way through my hormonal issues, enlisted the help of a natruopath, who suggested an MD (because my hypothyroidism was so severe), and for the past 9 months I have been on naturthroid and a myriad of supplements in an effort to detox.

So, what is it I wish I had known?
I wish I would have known about coffee enemas.
I wish my naturopath and php would have told me that a coffee enema could increase my glutothione production by 600 - 700%. 


I wish someone would've told me that coffee enemas are the fastest way to detox my body.
A few months ago while I was battling strep throat infection, I learned that supplements will do little good if your bowels aren't clean enough to absorb their nutrients. So after some research, I purchased a stainless steel enema kit. It helped to knock out the last of the strep while I was treating it naturally. (I was determined to do so for the sake of my antibodies).

In the last two weeks, while listening to podcast on biohacking (Bulletproof Radio) I was floored when I learned about the glutothione increase that was possible with a coffee enema.
Of course the cleaner the coffee the better the results. There is a a ton of research out on the internet. Here are a few links; the first is the podcast/video where I heard about their powerful detoxing results: 

https://www.bulletproofexec.com/wendy-myers-heavy-metal-toxicity-mineral-power-coffee-enemas-205/

http://functionalhealthminute.com/2014/05/coffee-enema-detox/

Wendy Meyers also has a video all about coffee enema's and more info on her website
http://liveto110.com/coffee-enemas/

My Results

I had my first coffee enema 3 days ago. Another reason why I wish I would have known about it sooner - I felt really, really good afterwards! I felt "healthier" than I had in a long time! I did it at night before bed, but the next day I felt like I had more energy than I had since before my thyroid shut down! It wasn't like a caffeine buzz - I've had those before, usually accompanied by heart palpitations and jitters. This was "clean" energy. I'd like to repeat the process every month.

I am excited about the potential of my liver being purged and by the surge of glutothione. I am excited at the prospect of my supplements being more effective with a cleaner gut. But mostly I am excited about taking a huge step towards my goal of regaining my health so that my husband and I can start our family.

No Shampoo? A New Way to Wash...

Hi Everyone,
Yesterday I tried something different - I didn't shampoo my hair. Now, I did wash my hair, I just didn't use conventional shampoo.

While searching online for some natural and organic remedies for hair growth and regrowth, I came across testimonials of people using an Apple Cider vinegar rinse to restore the ph balance to their scalp. The rinse also helped to dissolve DHT, a by product of the hormone testosterone (present in every human body) which causes thinning of the hair.

I've had thin hair for all of my adult life, but a few months ago I began shedding a lot more hair due to 3 months of unknown, daily chemical exposure. The culprit? A wood stain on my work desk. My family and I had been doing a lot of prayer to get to the bottom of the problem of my hair loss, then one day, it all came together. Since then (mid-April), I've been working on detoxifying my life, starting with getting rid of the desk. I've upped my supplements (herbs,vitamins,and minerals), cut back on unhealthy foods, and began using *pure essential oils (for balance and as scalp therapy). I had switched to an organic shampoo infused with essential oils and MSM, but I wanted to find a less costly shampoo. I'm happy to report that the changes I've made so far drastically reduced the hair loss. Now I'm on the mission of regrowth.


While continuing my Apple Cider Vinegar research, I came across a video of the No Shampoo Method on Youtube. Initially I was pretty grossed out by the concept of not shampooing, but especially when I read the more common title being used,  The No-Poo Method (reading the video description put me a little more at ease). As I watched the first video and read more on the subject, I learned that the people going through with the no shampoo were washing their hair with a baking soda and water mix, then an apple cider vinegar and water mix. They were reporting that their hair was coming out very clean and that with no residual scent of the vinegar.

I had tried the vinegar rinse a week before, with a hilarious result! Either I was so excited by what I found online that I misread the mixture directions, or someone had incorrectly posted the directions.

The WRONG mix: 1 cup of Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV for short) to 1 cup pf water
The CORRECT mix: 1 TABLESPOON of ACV to 1 cup of water
I smelled like a salad for a whole week! LOL!

So, yesterday I tried the No shampoo method. Here are the directions.

Mix 1 TABLESPOON of Baking Soda to 1 CUP of water in a container. Shake well. I used a regular bottle of water, filled halfway.

In a separate container, mix 1 TABLESPOON of Apple Cider Vinegar to 1 CUP of water. I use Braggs ACV, it is organic and has the "mother" (nutrient rich apple goop). If you use an ACV with this stuff, make sure you shake the bottle well, before pouring it into your container. For this mix, I use a spray bottle so that I can aim it at my scalp and hair without getting it into my eyes.

You can also add *essential oils to either mixture. I added a mix of rosemary, peppermint, lavender, and cedarwood to my Baking Soda wash mix. They are known to encourage hair growth.  

When you are ready to wash your hair, pour or spray the Baking Soda mix onto your hair and rub/massage your scalp and hair like you normally would. Then rinse your hair well. Next, pour or spray the Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse throughout your scalp and hair and rub/massage again. Rinse well. When I was done, I was so happy that my hair did not smell like vinegar this time! Instead, it had the light scent of the essential oils.

When my hair was dry, one of my brothers commented that my hair looked fuller and healthier. I thought it felt pretty clean too. I have naturally curly hair and it seemed like my curls had more bounce to them.

Today was day 2 of the No Shampoo method. Again my hair feels really clean. But it isn't as bouncy. I tried 2 new things in addition today - a scalp massage with coconut and the essential oil mix, before my hair washing; and after the baking soda and ACV washing I applied fresh (picked from my yard) Aloe Vera Gel to my hair before the final rinse, to get out any leftover coconut oil. Tomorrow, I'm trying the 2 regular washes again. I will keep you posted!

Thank you for reading,
God bless!
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*Essential Oil Information
I personally use Young Living Essential Oils. Their oils are processed in a manner which keeps the integrity of the plant properties the most pure. While using these oils for the the past 3 years, my family and I have experienced less colds and flu (and quicker recovery time), my husband has avoided hospitalization for tonsillitis (prior to oils he was hospitalized twice), my mother and I have experienced balance of our hormones (I will share another post on this soon!), and my dog recovered from parvo with the use of these oils. I became a Young Living Distributor last year for the discount on purchasing.

The Oils I mentioned above are known for their scalp stimulating properties:
Lavender
Rosemary
Cedarwood
Peppermint

If you would like to learn more about the products you can visit http://www.YoungLiving.com
To read some real testimonials you can visit oil-testimonials.com . (You need to create an account, but it's free)
If you would like to purchase, please use my Distributor Code: #1307904  
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me!

Lose Your Belly Fat (exerpt from Rodale Book)

Here's another great article I came across while sitting in Starbucks! Be blessed!

Lose Your Belly for Good

Breakthrough research has uncovered secret, hormonal reasons why it's so difficult to lose and keep off weight

The Editors of Prevention

The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
We are rhythmic beings (our inability to dance notwithstanding), controlled by the beat of the 20,000 nerve cells that make up our body's master clock. This tiny, wing-shaped bit of tissue sits in the hypothalamus in the center of the brain roughly above your ear. For something so small, its power is mighty: Its network of several thousand nerve cells produces a signal that maintains our bodies' 24-hour schedule. In fact, chronobiologists from the University of Murcia in Spain described this clock as the "conductor of your internal 'orchestra,' " with the musicians being all of your cells and organs.
How all this works is pretty incredible: Light enters your eyes (even when they're closed), kick-starting a process that allows your master clock to sync itself to environmental cues, such as air temperature, food availability, and physical activity. When these rhythm synchers occur on a more or less regular schedule, all is well.
But when you don't get your light cues at the appropriate times (think blasting your eyes with light from your iPhone at 11:00 p.m. or working in a dark cubicle during daylight hours), or your environmental cues go off schedule (you skip breakfast one morning, and have a Denny's Grand Slam the next), you knock your clock off its rocker.
What we now call a normal life—frenetic pace, a lack of a structured schedule, staying in darker, inside settings all day while keeping lights on all night—is not normal for your body's master clock. In fact, researchers have a name for the "new normal" that our 21st-century lives have imposed on our circadian rhythms: social jet lag.
The physical result of this new normal? For starters, weight gain.

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Why You're Out of Sync
When it comes to your inner clock—actually, clocks, since your body contains tons of them—it's a challenge to visualize the miracle of timing happening on a cellular level in your body. Incredibly, every single cell within your master clock contains its own clock, and each cell synchronizes its beat with that of its neighbor cells. Think of one of those desktop toys with the swinging silver balls—you set one in motion, and they all begin to move at the same beat. Our internal beat is maintained by clock genes that produce proteins, which in turn help set off the vibrations that create our circadian rhythms.
But when they're out of sync—which is the perpetual state most of us dwell in these days—they lose their ability to keep you on a natural schedule. And one of the drawbacks is that you're more susceptible to cave in to the urge to eat even when you're not actually hungry.
"Our physiology is the same as it was 50,000 years ago, and so is our 'hardware,' " says circadian rhythm expert Akhilesh Reddy, MD, PhD, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. And this ancient wiring makes it difficult to figure out when we're really hungry and when we should go to bed. And how does this affect your weight? If your body doesn't know it's time to sleep, it also doesn't know you shouldn't be eating. "We're more likely to gain weight when we eat food at night because we're meant to metabolize food during daylight hours," says Reddy.
When Rhythms Go Wrong
Your natural rhythms are balanced as delicately as a ballerina on her toe shoes. It doesn't take much to throw them off and short-circuit your internal chemistry. When this happens often, you're primed to gain and you also up your risks for chronic diseases and mood swings. Some of the key rhythm annihilators:
Sleep deprivation.In 2010, researchers at the University of Murcia in Spain pointed out that women who get 5 hours of sleep a night or fewer weigh nearly 7 pounds more than women who sleep 7 hours.
Random eating.We're meant to eat meals on a regular schedule, and doing so trains our bodies to get hungry only at mealtimes. Eating at random times contributes to circadian rhythm disruptions that can affect your weight.
Nighttime eating.Get the midnight munchies? You're more than four times more likely to be overweight or obese than people who don't eat at night.
Shift work.If you're a nurse, cop, or anyone who works at night and sleeps by day, studies suggest you're more likely to become obese than your day worker counterparts.
All About Belly Fat
There are two different kinds of belly fat, and the Belly Melt Diet's Body Clock Reset will prime you to demolish both. The first kind is called subcutaneous fat—the visible flab that pads your thighs and butt, makes your upper arms jiggly, and fleshes out your love handles and that spare tire around your middle. The Body Clock Reset helps you cut right through that fat.
But this program works on another level, too, reducing a more dangerous kind of fat. Visceral fat isn't obvious to the naked eye—even people who look skinny can have too much—and that can be deadly. In small amounts, it cushions and protects your internal organs. But too much can smother the heart, liver, kidneys, and other vital organs with these hormone-pumping fat cells and lead to an increased risk of metabolic syndrome, dementia, cancer, and premature death. But simple lifestyle changes—sleeping and eating well, plus regular exercise—can radically cut your visceral fat and add years to your life. Learn why syncing your circadian rhythm and other innate cycles is a surefire way to lose weight and melt belly fat for good.
Sleepy?
The top killer of a healthy circadian rhythm is lack of sleep. And if you're like most Americans, you're exhausted. Researchers say we sleep an hour less than we did 30 years ago—and a sleep-deprived society is a sick society. In 2011, a survey found that 70 million American adults have chronic sleep and wakefulness disorders.
Why does too-little sleep lead to weight gain? Much of the answer is linked to your hormones, which are cued by light and sleep and, yes, work on a natural cycle.
Hunger and Hormones
Your hormones have a rhythm, too. Hormones are chemicals secreted by the endocrine glands; they have specific effects on various tissues in your body.
Some influence your appetite, your metabolism, and your sleep/wake cycle. Lack of sleep, which stresses your body, can upend the way these hormones work. Knowing how these hormones operate can help you work with them, not against them, and empower your success with the Belly Melt Diet plan. A quick guide:
Cortisol, the stress hormone. Under stress, it relocates body fat to the fat cell deposits deep inside the abdomen. Can you say, "Bring on the belly fat"?
Ghrelin, the hunger hormone, tells you it's chow time and steers you to high-calorie foods. Not getting enough sleep triggers your body to create more ghrelin.
Leptin, the starvation hormone, is key to long-term regulation of body weight. At proper levels, leptin tells you you're full, regulating body weight by signaling the amount of fat you store. But leptin can also thwart aggressive dieting.
Melatonin, the sleep hormone, plays a key role maintaining circadian rhythms. Even a little light lessens the flow of melatonin at night when you need it most— which means poor sleep.
The takeaway: Lack of sleep throws off your hormones, making you defenseless against another piece of cake. Out of whack, these hormones can sabotage your weight loss efforts by telling your body to hold on to stubborn belly fat, even when you're eating well. It's a vicious cycle.
It's Not Your Fault
The message of Belly Melt: These cycles are running the show in terms of your weight. But the frenetic way we live our lives today, plus the ways we try to lose weight, work against these rhythms. Being tired helps you hang on to your weight, and starving yourself only kicks your hormones into overdrive and sends you into the arms of a Big Mac. You can't fight your body and win.
But there's good news: You can work with these cycles to make weight loss easier. You can harness your body's natural rhythms to steamroll your belly, energize your life, and feel great.
Use the cycles to your advantage. The Belly Melt Diet is broken down into three components: resetting your body's circadian rhythm, realigning your eating patterns with what your body needs at the right times, and reestablishing your fitness routine to maximize effectiveness—work out smarter, not harder. Everything about the program is designed to break the cycle of weight gain by getting your body back in touch with its natural rhythm.
Once you put yourself on a schedule that works in harmony with your internal rhythms, you'll discover the weight you lose on this program will stay lost—for good.
Copyright © 2011 by Rodale Inc.

Body by Vi 90 day Challenge

Hello all,
It's been a few months since my last post. I wish I could say that I've kept up with My Positive Life Change and that I've been working out faithfully and melting away the pounds...but no. The wonderful news is, a couple of weeks ago I determined in myself that this would be the last year that I was overweight, and that I would enter the 33rd year of my life (my b-day is in September) healthier that I entered my 32nd. I started to tie up all my loose ends - disorganization, old assignments, anything that I could potentially use as an excuse to working out 6 days a week. Last week I made two steps to the new and improved me - I ordered a Body by Vi Kit and I set up an appointment at my gym to have someone walk me thru the machines again and to have myself weighed and measured. I am super excited to announce that just 3 days into my new plan that I've already lost 1 pound!

I've held off on announcing my weight loss challenge on my facebook for one reason - I want to wait a week to see how much I lose. I didn't want to promote Body by Vi to anyone without knowing for myself if it actually works. In the past It has been incredibly hard for me to lose weight, even with working out. I normally put on muscle first, then it takes at least 6 weeks before I see or feel any other change than in my strength. Usually the whole process is discouraging for me unless I'm very strict with my eating habits. Very, very strict. So, I'm excited that just 3 days into my Challenge, and some light working out, that I've dropped 1 pound. This is with the Balance Kit, 1 shake a day. Visalus (body by Vi company) has a kit with which you drink two shake a day and experience a faster weight loss, but I don't believe in replacing multiple meals with shakes. I'll do one in the morning because I have such a hard time getting myself to eat a healthy breakfast, and so far, it's been easy. I figured that since I'm going to be exercising that one shake a day would do it for me. The other thing I like about Visalus is that when you order your kit, you have access to a free online community full of health and exercise tips, and encouraging testimonies of other people that are going through their challenges. I was especially excited to read one testimony yesterday of a women who lost 28 pounds in her 90 day challenge. My Goal is to lose 30.  I'm not an official promoter (meaning that I am not getting paid for selling the product), but an incentive to spreading the word is that if 3 people sign up thru my page, I will get my next two kits free. I'd be happy to lose the weight regardless, but a free kit for the next 2 months would be neat! Check out my page and watch the video here: http://proverbs3130gal.bodybyvi.com/challenge feel free to ask any questions you may have!

I made it to the gym 3 days this week and so far this has been the easiest pound I've ever lost. Have I mentioned that I'm excited?!  I'll be posting my progress regularly, so I'll be on here a whole lot more. Thank you for reading, God bless you on your health journey! - Jen(proverbs3130gal.blogspot.com)

"Turn Up Your Fat Burn"

I stepped into Starbucks with Hubby just now and came across this great article featured in Starbucks digital network. Enjoy

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The Facts About Fat

The following is excerpted from Turn Up Your Fat Burn!™, new from Rodale

By Alyssa Shaffer and the editors of Prevention

Among American women, an average of 31 percent of total body weight is fat; for men, the number is about 24 percent. Most adipose (fat) tissue is located under the skin (subcutaneous fat) and around the internal organs (visceral fat), as well as in bone marrow and breasts. Visceral fat, the kind you often can’t see, is a deep fat that’s particularly dangerous, especially in the abdominal area. It increases the risk of high cholesterol and impaired liver function, as well as of heart disease, diabetes, insulin resistance, and other health problems.

Subcutaneous fat is the kind that gives us curves, but for plenty of people, it’s hanging around in excess, especially in the trunk, the backs of the arms, the top of the back, and around the butt and thighs. While it’s not as dangerous as visceral fat, too much subcutaneous fat can be unhealthy, especially when it raises your body mass index (BMI) above 25. (BMI is a measurement of body fat based on weight and height. A “normal” weight falls within 18.5 to 24.9, while 25 to 29.9 is considered “overweight,” and 30 or more is considered obese.)

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Why exercise when I can diet?

There’s no arguing with the basic weight-loss equation: In order to drop excess pounds, you need to burn more calories than you consume. You can do this by drastically cutting calories, but for many of us, dieting alone is simply too hard. To lose just a pound a week, you’d need to cut 3,500 calories from your diet, or 500 fewer calories a day than you are used to eating. While you can keep this up for a few days or even a few weeks, eventually it becomes just too difficult to keep slashing calories.

That’s where exercise comes in. Scientific journals are filled with evidence that regular physical activity not only will help you lose weight (and live longer) but is crucial to staying leaner. The American College of Sports Medicine even created an official recommendation that anyone who wants to lose weight should try to create a deficit of 500 to 1,000 calories a day through a combination of diet and physical activity. Among participants in the renowned National Weight Control Registry (the largest ongoing study of successful long-term weight loss, consisting of more than 5,000 individuals who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept that weight off for at least 1 year), consistent exercise is the single best predictor of long-term weight maintenance.

Think of it this way: If you add 60 minutes of activity a day, even just a brisk walk, you’ll burn another 2,300 calories a week. Over a year, that’s about 35 pounds you’ve either kept off or lost.

Bottom line: If you’re in this for the long haul, dieting alone can be tough. To get the best results, you also need to exercise.

And yet...

Sometimes no matter how many miles you walk on the treadmill or pedal away on the bike or elliptical, you can still feel very frustrated when you step on the scale or look in the mirror. While exercise is undeniably good for your heart, lungs, and brain, it can be bad for your psyche if you’re not getting the positive results you want.

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

Let’s start with what you’re doing right. You don’t need a PhD in exercise physiology to know that any form of physical activity will improve your health. Every time you raise your heart rate with aerobic exercise, you’re helping your heart and lungs get stronger and more efficient. You’re bathing your brain in feel-good hormones; you’re pushing oxygenated blood throughout your body to deliver important nutrients to your tissues; you’re helping your body get a better night’s sleep. When you add strength and flexibility training to the mix, you’re also building stronger bones; revving your metabolism; and keeping your joints, ligaments, tendons, and muscles limber throughout the decades of your life.

Yet many of us don’t see the weight-loss results we expect because of how much, how often, and how hard we’re exercising. Take a look at these common workout mistakes—some may sound pretty familiar.

Mistake#1: You’re caught in an exercise rut.

When you do the same activity day after day, week after week, your mind isn’t the only thing that gets bored—your muscles do, too. Whether you take the same daily 30-minute walk around the neighborhood loop or do a few sets of the same old strength moves, after a while your body stops being challenged and your results plateau.

Mend it: Change things up. Go for a hike on the weekend instead of doing your usual power walk. Find new strength moves that work the same muscles. (There are some great ones in the following chapters.) Try a new type of exercise by slipping in a workout DVD. Any little way to mix things up and challenge yourself with something new is a step in the right direction.

Mistake #2: You’re loyal to cardio.

I have friends who run, bike, or swim religiously but can’t get rid of stubborn fat around their tummies, hips, and thighs. It’s because they haven’t picked up a pair of weights in years. While aerobic exercise is good for your body and soul, if you don’t balance those workouts with some strength exercises, you’re not only compromising your results but missing a key component of health and fitness. Resistance training— lifting weights or strength training—is the only way to increase lean muscle mass. That’s important on many levels, especially as we start to get older.

Beginning in their thirties, women begin to lose about 1/2 pound of muscle per year. (Men usually hold on to muscle longer, but the rate of muscle loss speeds up dramatically after age 60.) Since muscle burns through calories even at rest, losing it will noticeably slow metabolism. This is one big reason many of us see that “middle-age spread” beginning in our forties.

A study from Skidmore College found that exercisers who combined cardio with a high-intensity, total-body resistance routine lost more than twice as much body fat—including twice as much belly fat—over 12 weeks than those who followed a moderate-intensity cardio plan.8 (You’ll find out more about the many benefits of strength training later in this book.)

Mend it: Substitute a couple of strength sessions for cardio days. On our plan, you’ll be lifting weights twice a week, hitting all of your body’s major muscle groups.

Mistake #3: You’re stuck in a “fat-burning” zone.

If you hop aboard a treadmill, elliptical trainer, stairclimber, or other cardio machine at the gym, you may see a programming option that allows you to stay in a “fat-burning” zone. It’s based on the fact that at lower intensities, the body uses a greater percentage of its fat stores for fuel. Sounds great! You don’t have to work as hard and you’re sucking some of that fat out of your belly, butt, and thighs.

But do the math and you’ll see the problem. At a lower intensity level, your body will indeed burn a higher percentage of fat than carbs but still burn fewer calories overall.

Here’s an example. A 150-pound woman who walks on a treadmill at 3 mph (a 20-minute mile) burns about 112 calories in 30 minutes. At this moderate intensity, she burns about half of those calories from fat, or about 56 fat calories. If she were to take that workout into a brisk walk for 30 minutes at 4 mph (a 15-minute mile), only about 40 percent of her calorie burn might be from fat. But she’d be burning more calories over-all—about 170 in those 30 minutes, or about 68 calories from fat.

Mend it: In the next chapter, you’ll learn how to burn more calories and make more of those calories come from fat. You will increase your overall effort by doing intervals—periods of higher intensity followed by a slower recovery pace.

If you’re already exercising regularly, the Turn Up Your Fat Burn program is designed to help you get past some of these common mistakes and achieve the fitness and fat-loss results you want. And if you’re not involved in an exercise program right now, there’s no better time to start.

Copyright © 2011 by Rodale, Inc.

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Calorie Counters For Weight Loss Help

I just started using this online calorie counter for help in weight loss that Lori @ southernsweetie1978.blogspot.com shared with me - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
Here's another one I might try - https://tracker.dailyburn.com/v .

Why was so excited to try this? It's not as restrictive as a diet where you have to completely eliminate certain foods (or food groups). You only need to keep your calories under or at your limit. It's so easy to just select what you eat each day! When you have completed the day's entry, you get a message that tells you something like, "If you continue eating this way, in 5 weeks you will lose...X number of pounds"! That's what I like to see!- Jen

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Relief for Menstrual Cramps, Irregular Menstrual Cycle, and Menopause with Young Living Oils

For those women who suffer with menstrual cramps, irregular menstrual cycles, and menopause, I pray this information is helpful to you:

For the past few years I have had irregular menstrual cycles. I live with my mother and, at the height of her menopause I began to have very irregular cycles - I would have a "spontaneous" period after spending more than an hour with her, and also begin having dizzy spells, nausea, and severe cramps. We knew that these episodes were related to her menopause: women living in close quarters often have the same menstrual cycle and we concluded that her hormonal imbalance was causing mine. Before being blessed with Young Living we had tried numerous things to help us achieve balance: PRAYER, maca (a Peruvian root superfood), wild yam creams,vitamins,teas,even a juice that worked very well for her. Whatever she used, I tried too, as my imbalance got so bad that I would bleed for 3 weeks, and then not have a period for up to 3 months. The long periods were frequent.

It was because of my mother's menopause and our many prayers for relief that we were blessed to meet a Young Living distributor who invited us to a presentation she was having on Oils of the Bible. My mother asked her if she had any oils for Menopause - she had just received her bottle of Progessence Plus Serum  at a YL conference. This was a Godsend! It has been such an answered prayer and has brought so much relief to my mother's hotflashes, hormone "surges"(at emotional times), and it helps to give her that everyday balance she needs.

The more balance my mother has achieved, the more I have been relieved as well, but I am still not having regular cycles and my cramps are sometimes severe. Since she began using Progessence Plus, my longest period has been more like a 2 week light spotting. After more research the oil-testimonials and YL, I found a testimonial for Endoflex oil from a woman having similar issues. I ordered it and since using it, my longest period has been only 10 days and no more breakthrough bleeding(I would occasionally still experience it)!

I am still experiencing irregularity in that I sometimes do not have a period for 2-3 months, and when I do have them, I experience excruciating menstrual cramps both in my abdomen and in my lower back that keep my up all hours of the night. I have been rubbing Endoflex on my abdomen and lower back when this happens and I usually have relief within 5-15 minutes (they subside slowly). This week has been especially stressful and have been using Endoflex for the cramps. Today I had a "cramp attack" after about 30 minutes after applying it Endoflex and I was surprised that I was in so much pain. My mother had just given me a sample bottle of Idaho Blue Spruce; the Holy Spirit reminded me a friend's words that it was good for inflammation and hormones. I quickly rubbed a few drops in my hands and applied to my abdomen, holding my hands over my uterus. Not more than 2 minutes later and the cramps were GONE!

I didn't want to let a day go by knowing that this info might help other women deeply in need of relief. These oils have been such a blessing to our family and anyone we have introduced them to. I thank God that we are able to receive the goodness of His creation for the our health and well-being and that he has given Gary Young the vision and mission of harvesting these oils and sharing them with the world. Glory to God.

"Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;" - Genesis 1:29