My “loading days” went well however I was concerned the first day of the 500 calories that I hadn’t eaten enough but from what I’ve read the focus isn’t on about getting full as it is about eating all the high fat food you can stuff in to get your metabolism up and revved for when the calories drop.

For those who haven’t read about this diet, you consume 500 calories daily for a minimum of 23 days (with the drops and 72 hours without the drops) before you head into the maintenance period.  The reason for the low calories is your body is getting the additional 1000 or more calories from the stores of abnormal fat throughout your body and not from your structural fat found in your  face, joints, etc.  If you do not consume any calories your body would automatically go into starvation mode and not release the stores.

I have personally done many diets over the years and as I mentioned in my previous post weight has been an issue in my family.  In fact a family member just passed away from weight issues.  This became a wake up call to me.  I started the Master Cleanse about 5 years ago got to day seven when I had to stop because of problems I was having.  I managed to lose 10 pounds in that week which I gained back later.

One of the biggest benefits I like about this diet is that because I am eating a limited amount of food, I can schedule my meals when the rest of my family is eating.   Some of the things I am looking for this diet to do is:

*lose weight in the areas that are advertised (my abnormal fat stores and not in others)

* will my health improve or will I get so sick that I have to stop

* does the weight stay off

* will it come off quickly
In the past I have attempted to drop a few pounds but cutting out some of my calories only to find to my horror that I have gained weight even after consuming very little food.   Also, I have suffered from hypoglycemia since I was child that when I went for long periods of time not eating that I would get faint, sick to my stomach, dizzy and the list goes on.

So far I have been on the HCG diet with homeopathic drops from a reputable company without any adverse reactions at this time.  I have not felt weak, or extreme hunger in the 11 days since starting the drops.

If this is a path that you choose please by all means check out all the resources on the internet, check out books and do your own research to make sure this is the diet for you!  Due to much controversy you may find that it will become more and more difficult to purchase these drops because of government guidelines, but for many of you this is no surprise after the attack on our supplements recently.   Check out “Pounds and Inches” manuscript written by Dr. Simeon and can be found for free on the internet and “The Weight Loss Cure” which can be found at most libraries.

The drops that I got do not contain animal products only natural herbs.

Note: I am writing this after the event:  1/14/2012

This weekend we are traveling to Illinois to perform for a wedding and play songs for a service.  While I am riding on the trip I brought along a book from the library that had piqued my interest.  It is called “The Weight Loss Cure“.  The author of the book shares information discovered from a Dr. in Rome who discovered a way to lose weight and keep your body burning fuel more efficiently instead of gaining back the weight once you resume your normal diet.

I have heard many bad reviews of the author but I have to say that I agree with his thoughts of eating more of an organic diet and to eliminate or reduce processed to the very least you can do.    The diet this Dr. discovered is called the HCG diet.  The diet calls for drastic calorie reduction while taking hormone shots which causes the body to release the abnormal fat stores which is what accounts for obesity.  The statement that intrigued me the most was that once the diet has been finished your hypothalamus has been reset to burn fuel at the lower weight instead of storing fat.

Once I got home research was started to see if I could find more about the shots and look for an alternative that was a little more into my budget.  I found some homeopathic drops that seem to work just as well and got great reviews.  I’m interested in trying this experiment to see if it works.

I guess due to time restraints and busy schedules those plans have been put on the back burner until now.  This last week we have had an amazing nice warm weather pattern that it is easy to forget that it is January and a big snowfall could occur at any time.  The weather has been so great that heavy coats, hats and mittens seem like a thing of the past.

Planting, picking seeds and preparing for weeds hadn’t crossed my mind until an email I just received mentioned that now is  a good time to start the process.

As mentioned in previous posts, when looking for seeds we highly recommend companies that are Organic and non-GMO brand. Heirlooms seeds are the best!

Remember that even if you don’t have a lot of space in your dwellings, you can also start by doing a little planter until each year you are expanding your green thumb.  If you have an opportunity close by try joining a gardening club the experience and wisdom you gain from others just might help your garden flourish!

“Dear Autism Coach Customer,
Thanks to all of you who contacted FDA and/or your representatives concerning the New Supplement Ingredient Guidelines and shared this information with others!

According to the Alliance for Natural Health, hundreds of thousands of people emailed their congressmen and senators and 20,000 people telephoned their congressional representatives to voice opposition to the FDA’s proposed New Supplement Ingredient Guidelines. To read this update, please go to: http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-violates-federal-law/

The Alliance for Natural Health organization is so encouraged by the outpouring of protest against the FDA’s New Supplement Ingredient Guidelines, that they are going further and asking for the New Supplement Ingredient guidelines to be repealed!

Knowing our amazing community of activists who have done so much to help our kids, I’m willing to bet the autism community was in large part responsible for spreading the word resulting in this enormous outpouring of feedback to our representatives!

Another example of autism activism at work on a national level is Republican presidential candidate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, losing popularity because of his initiative to force every girl in Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine for the human papilloma virus, which has unfortunately harmed thousands of girls since its introduction (for more information visit http://truthaboutgardasil.org/).

Based upon this enormous outpouring of protest, it is evident that the majority of people in the U.S. are on our side and are every bit as concerned about how our leaders and federal agencies are making decisions that endanger our health and the future of our children.

We have an election year coming up. Even if an incumbent representative of your district or state is in your pollitical party of preference, if they are working against the best interests of the autism community and you cannot dissuade them, why not run against them and help to reform your party? Even if you do not win, you will be doing a public service to bring to the attention of the public issues of concern to the autism community (such as the FDA’s attack on the supplement industry and the government’s cover-up of the link between vaccines and autism). Who wouldn’t vote for someone who runs on a ticket of supporting cleaning up the environment and food supply and improving the overall health of the nation? Perhaps even local autism parent’s groups might consider picking and supporting someone from their group to run for office. 

Thanks again to all of you who took action! If we keep advocating for what is important to us, there’s no limit to what we can accomplish!”

Best regards,
Sue Bennet
Autism Coach
www.autismcoach.com

If you do not stay aware and voice your opinion then you will be forced to treat yourself with conventional means and not through a change of diet and herbs.  Having worked in the medical field for many years I believe that there is a time and place for medicine.  The problem I see is that instead of letting our body heal itself (which is what it was created to do from the beginning), we rush to the doctor, take the prescribed medication and go on our way.  One important factor in that equation that is missing, is the need for the body to rest and recuperate.

I have started a new job, and I started noticing at the end of the week how tired and anxious I was from constantly running from one place to another.  Rest is very important to the body in recovery.  Natural herbs also provide energy to the body, where as conventional medicine not only kills the virus but also the beneficial organisms that help you in healing.

The government may ban supplements, if they do, I highly recommend learning how to consume the herbs by growing them and using them in cooking if you have to.

In the meantime: keep growing and learning more about natural health.  Take charge of your healing!

http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com

Subject: Stop the FDA from banning your supplements
November 9, 2011

Stop the FDA from banning your supplements

Do you enjoy your HD cable television set or your iPhone? How would you feel if the government stepped in to tell you that you can’t use these anymore? Instead, you have to return to the archaic analogue bulky phones of more than 17 years ago, or switch back to just network TV with its rabbit-ear antenna. Would you sit and take it? I hope not!

Well, that’s exactly what’s going to happen to your supplements at the hands of our rulers if we don’t act and act decisively. The FDA has sat and watched (not always peacefully) the supplement industry make incredible progress for 17 years.
Just 3 mg of this essential “anti-aging” nutrient could protect you from brittle bones … painful joints … memory loss … prostate problems … and more
But I’ll practically guarantee you won’t find it in your multivitamin formula!

How to get this nutrient – without adding another supplement to your daily regimen:

Learn more:

After 17 years with a near-perfect safety record (ephedra being one of the only exceptions), the FDA has announced a new set of guidelines for supplements. These new guidelines will roll back the availability of supplements to those that were sold in 1994, and in the forms they were sold at during that time.
In other words, these guidelines will roll back a decade of innovation, discovery, and improvements. We have discovered incredible combinations of supplements, better delivery methods, improved methods of extraction, etc. But your rulers say they know better than science and you. They plan to remove the majority of supplements that you well know, including fish oil, high-potency vitamin C products, new bioflavonoids (such as resveratrol), and combination products.

In order to get these non-patentable formulations to you, the supplement companies will have to comply with costs and regulations that will drive them out of business.

It’s no wonder this is happening. Big Pharma’s in big trouble. Its products not only don’t work, but they also kill and maim people. Profitable drugs are going off patent, which will incur bazillions in lost revenue. Pharma’s products simply cover symptoms with chemicals, resulting in yet more symptoms, needing yet more treatment. This is great for the drug companies. But it’s horrific for you and your wallet.

Big Pharma knows it’s selling snake oil. And it knows the public is getting wise to its ponzi scheme. So if you can’t beat the competition with a superior product, as a true free market system should provide, then buy the government and destroy your competition with regulations. Big Pharma has the billions of dollars it takes to buy and control government. The FDA says it’s doing all this to protect you. But the reality is the FDA is doing this to protect Big Pharma.

It’s not just the government and FDA that Pharma own and runs. It’s also the medical journals that are supposed to publish information that can help save your life. In light of the FDA’s move to wipe out supplements, I’d like to give a nod to cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, MD. Two recent articles in mainstream medicine admitted that conventional medicine has NOTHING to offer for a serious and growing heart problem – diastolic dysfunction. Dr. Sinatra wrote the Archives of Internal Medicine a letter (in his capacity as a cardiologist) to the editor in response to the two reports pointing out his effective approach using the “awesome foursome” for heart: D-ribose, CoQ10, magnesium, and L-carnitine, the very supplements I recommend here.

You’d think that the journal would snap up a treatment for a major disorder. This disorder affects millions worldwide, has no drug treatment, and can lead to serious heart failure. Add to this that it’s a disorder often caused by statins!
But, no, he quickly got a form letter of rejection. Sinatra noted that previous medical research found that the more pharmaceutical advertising a journal publishes, the less reporting on supplements it does. And, what these journals report is generally negative.

Now please consider that there is NO drug that cures any disease (except perhaps antibiotics for infection). Consider that nutrition insufficiency is 100% proven as a major cause of disease. It’s also 100% proven to help or cure certain conditions, like the above heart condition. So, is there any wonder who owns the FDA and who has every interest in controlling the disease maintenance system of America?

Here’s what you need to do today:

Complaining to the FDA will likely do little. Leopards don’t change their spots. Neither will those who are working actively FOR Pharma. Please contact your U.S. elected officials. You can find their contact information at: www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml.

Please call their offices AND write letters demanding that they rein in the FDA to protect your rights to the supplements you choose (not supplements based on the knowledge of two decades ago). There is already enough protection written into law for the FDA to move on anything found unsafe. We don’t need to wipe out an entire industry at this time of economic hardship. We don’t need to wipe out your means to maintain and regain your health, at a time when “symptom suppression” costs are skyrocketing. We need to empower people to keep well.
My publisher Garret Wood has a far more detailed story that you can read here.

Please read it thoroughly and join me in my continuing efforts to totally wrest our medical freedoms from draconian government interventions. Please act NOW to prevent the 200-year-old warnings of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush from happening.

“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.

….Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.” – Benjamin Rush (famous colonial physician, Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1787).

Yours for better health and medical freedom,

Robert J. Rowen, MD

http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com

To order supplements or read the Herbalist I mentioned above’s blog visit: Mountain Granny Organic Herbs  or if you choose you may also email her at: Mountain Granny

Also remember: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SHARE WHAT HERBS AND VITAMINS THAT YOU ARE ALREADY TAKING IN ORDER THAT ADVERSE REACTIONS DO NOT OCCUR FROM MIXING CERTAIN HERBS TOGETHER!!

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If you have a similar book that has worked for you, feel free to share your comments and suggestions with the readers!!

I found some planters on sale from the summer and decided that we would try growing our herbs indoors to see what they look like when they come up that hopefully we won’t pull them from the ground next year!

We did plant a grape tree this summer which seems to still be growing but I’ve noticed that the bugs have decided to take a bite out of the leaves.  Anybody have some recommendations on what to use before we lose our grape tree?

On a side note: in our attempt to go more natural we already started on a recipe to make our own toothpaste and limit the flouride and other preservatives in our mouth that we found a recipe for making our own laundry detergent which we have already made a couple of batches.  Since we had enough ingredients on hand we decided to make a powder AND liquid washing detergent.  So far we are liking what we are seeing, our clothes are getting clean and we know what is in our detergent.

Our next project is shampoo and conditioner!  Feel free to send suggestions or comments!