Friday, August 8, 2008

How Mr. Banting Lost 35 lbs in 8 months even though he drank a lot of alcohol.

A story in three parts.
"Mr Banting was a fat man. At age sixty-five, the five-foot five Banting weighted in at over two hundred pounds.

'I could not stoop to tie my shoe...nor attend to the little offices humanity requires without considerable pain and difficulty, which only the corpulent can understand,' he wrote.

"Banting was recently retired...had no family history of obesity, nor did he consider himself either lazy, inactive, or given to excessive indulgence at the table.

"Nonetheless, corpulence had crept up on him in his thirties, as with many of us today, despite his best efforts. He took up daily rowing and gained muscular vigor, a prodigious appetite, and yet more weight.

"He cut back on calories, which failed to induce weight loss but did leave him exhausted and beset by boils. He tried walking, riding horseback, and manual labor. His weight increased. He consulted the best doctors... He tried purgatives and diuretics. His weight increased..."
To be continued. Tomorrow.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

5 Weight Loss Surprises From New Research


Most everyone I know is on a diet of some kind most of the time. Everyone is trying.

But most folks are frustrated with their meager results. One recent study predicts that everyone will be overweight in 40 years, despite all the dieting and suffering.

What are we doing wrong?

Here are five stunners from recent reviews of the weight research literature. Including reanalysis of existing government studies:
  • Calorie restriction doesn't work. Unless you're happy with losing 5 pounds after six months of semi-starvation. In a $700 million gov't study, 20,000 women lost only 2 pounds after 8 years of reducing their daily calories by 360 each day. Two pounds after 8 years (!!) (See report.)

  • Artificial sweeteners actually make you fatter. Any diet foods, shakes, bars, low-carb this 'n that, which are filled with artificial sweeteners or artificial fats, flavors or colorings, make you blimp out. See why here.

  • Even nutritious carbs like whole grains, legumes, fruit and veggies - may interfere with your weight loss.

  • Certain fats can be a major part of your weight loss food plan. These special fats rev up your metabolism.

  • Rabbit food is NOT required to lose weight.

  • Exercise is NOT required to lose weight. One of the gals in Dr. Heidi's July Extreme Regime ER-I fat burning program lost 14 pounds in 14 days and didn't exercise anymore than normal. Which is almost never.
These five findings are among the principles guiding the success of Dr. Heidi's ER-I program. Everyone has lost weight and no one is ever hungry. What more can one ask?

Dr. Heidi's next ER-I program starts September 6. Info here.

I made a 90-second music video (my first, go easy) on the program here. (QuickTime - turn on your audio!)

Monday, August 4, 2008

Sunday, August 3, 2008

ER Fat Burning Toddy mix: How to make it.

Here's how to make the dry ER Fat Burning Toddy Mix which Dr. Heidi used in the previous video, "How to make the ER Fat Burning Toddy.

Friday, August 1, 2008

The Girl Effect: a Cow and Raw Milk

The girl effect is stunning. And if investing in her means she buys a cow that becomes a herd that feeds the village with beautiful nutritious raw milk, I will stand in line to offer assistance.

A wonderful two minute marketing story. Think? (I'd have ended it without the last two lines, though.) Thanks, boys.

Video: How to make the ER Fat Burning Toddy

Here it is...with Dr. Heidi doing the demo...about 7 minutes.



NEXT: How to make the ER Toddy Dry Mix.

It's filmed, just needs editing.

Surprise coming: What's in Dr. Heidi's goody bag when she goes on a retreat for a weekend? Find out. That's next. Filmed at 6AM. Sigh.