Healthy Weight Loss     

My Product Recommendations

A Little Background on Why I Included this Section

You might ask why there is a products recommendations page when my home page hits you with a “no pills, no potions, no snake oil…” pronouncement.

Well, you really don’t need any of those things to effect healthy weight loss in the long term. The product recommendations given are but mere accessories you might wish to consider as you transition from obesity to health.

Some are for enhancement of the mind which will aid you in obtaining the focus and motivation you will want to acquire in kick-starting your spiritual discipline module that is a basic requirement of this healthy weight loss plan.

You may already know how to get self-motivated, and if so, you are well on your way to achieving success with the tools presented here. Or maybe you already have a cassette or DVD program of someone who can motivate you almost instantly. If so, now is the time to fire it up.

As for the physical product recommendations, these are products that I have used personally to stay dis-eases in my life and ones that I suspect might work well for you too.

You see, according to my family history, I should by now have heart disease, high cholesterol, glaucoma, cataracts, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis and a couple of other degenerative dis-eases.

My mom regrettably has experienced all of these, including several life threatening heart attacks. My mom comes from a family of ten children and every single one of them has or (did have) diabetes before succumbing to its complications. Some experienced amputations of feet, legs, toes and above the knee limb amputations. Some suffered heart attacks as well as a host of other ailments, including obesity and sleep apnea. One passed on in her 30s, experiencing premature morbidity.

Thankfully—knock on wood—I have always been fascinated by nutrition and the role it plays in disease prevention and health maintenance. So I gave up certain regimens in my southern influenced diet years ago. By giving up I do not imply that I won’t eat certain foods on special occasions like Thanksgiving or the 4^th of July, but that I do not buy certain products to have in my home or fry meat products as a matter of course.

Things like indulging in eating pork, beef or fried foods on a regular basis, or sitting down to a meal of eight courses are not something that I do regularly anymore. Instead I have chosen to simplify my diet. Sometimes I may just have a meal of brown rice and butter. Or I might eat only toast and tea for breakfast.

While living in Israel for four years serving as a volunteer for a religious organization, I was privileged to hear a doctor speak who was well versed in health and healing from a spiritual perspective. The one critical thing that I learned from him was that if we eat simple meals where several different kinds of substances are not compounded together, we stand a greater chance of having our body digest these foods properly.

He, in fact, advocated that when we are faced with serious health impairments that we eat no more than five component substances at one time. For instance, if you decided to have a bowl of brown rice, you could add a little salt and butter and drink some tea with honey and that would constitute your five substances. If you wanted garlic in your brown rice, then you would have to decide whether to omit the salt, or the honey with your tea. Such a diet would appear quite extreme on the surface. But a body system that is seriously impaired needs to spend it energy and resources on rebuilding damaged tissue, not on digesting 50 or more different substances.

Recently I visited my sister on the occasion of her daughter’s wedding and joined her in the kitchen at the table for a meal. She had a fast-food plate of fried chicken and some vegetables and offered me some. I declined the offer, but told her I would have one of her bread rolls with my hot sweetened black tea.

While eating, the lady who was to handle the set up of the wedding tables and decorations arrived. She was a good friend of the family, and her first question to me was “Are you on a diet?”

Later it occurred to me that I have never really been on a diet in my whole life. Though I have sold diet products for nutritional companies, I have never deliberately stopped eating something that I enjoyed—except for those crab legs which rebelled against my immune system some years ago after I returned to the states (translate: Epipen)—but what I have done consistently is to simplify my meals, allowing me to enjoy the foods I like without moving into the morbid obesity category that my genes would have me be apart of.

Actually before reading Fit for Life in my early 30s, I used to eat a full course meal and about two or three times a week, without fail, I would have to throw up because my stomach would be sour.

In my case, I discovered that simply not eating a “fruit” based dessert with my meal was the solution. Most fruit ferments in the stomach when combined with other food types and once I stopped combining it, I no longer experienced sour stomachs, indigestion or the forced need to regurgitate food after a meal.

Learning that simple rule and knowing the impact it had on the quality of my life thus begun my ongoing study of how good nutrition and proper food combining helps to preserve health and the incursion of dis-eases.

So basically these product recommendations are just some things that have worked for me in beating the odds of developing many dis-seases associated with genetics, social and cultural upbringing (ie a soul food diet) and living a sedentary lifestyle.

They might or might not work for you.

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