Lose Weight Eating Chocolate

How would you define happiness?

Lying on a bed of cash?

Having a picnic with your kids on a beautiful day?

Lying out in the sun on the beach with the ocean waves crashing behind you?

Or eating as much chocolate as you want and never gaining weight…

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Lose Weight Eating Chocolate!

Your eyes are not playing tricks on you.

Chocolate can definitely be a part of your weight loss plan.

CHOCOLATE FACTS: Made up of about 300 chemicals-some of which in theory have mood-altering effects - chocolate contains negligible amounts of the stimulant caffeine, as well as theobromine (which stimulates the heart and the nervous system) and phenyethylamine (an amphetamine-like substance said to simulate the feeling of falling in love). A University of Michigan study says chocolate causes the brain to release b-endorphin, a naturally occurring chemical similar to opium, which dulls pain and increases your sense of well-being.

Chocolate contains a wide assortment of vitamins and minerals that the body needs, including potassium, sodium, iron, fluorine and vitamins A, B1, C, D, and E. In fact, researchers at Harvard University believe chocolate may help people live longer! A study tracking older men found that those who ate chocolate lived almost a year longer than those who didn’t.

Researchers believe this has something to do with the fact that chocolate contains flavonoids (compounds that may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer while slowing the aging process) and stearic acid, a heart-friendly fatty acid that doesn’t promote cholesterol increases.

But a University of Pennsylvania study testing so-called chocoholics found that the cravings may not lie in chemistry at all, but the melt-in-your-mouth texture of chocolate. Subjects in the study were found to prefer chocolate bars, even white chocolate bars which didn’t actually contain any chocolate at all, over capsules of cocoa powder full of chocolate’s active ingredients.

The bottom line: Chocolate may be getting a bad rap as a sinful food. On the other hand-as always-moderation may be the key. If you simply must indulge, here are some tips for controlling your chocolate cravings and consumption:

• Choose dark chocolate over milk chocolate. Studies based on dark chocolate tend to show benefits that milk chocolate does not.
• Partner your chocolate with nutrient-rich foods, like chocolate covered strawberries, apple slices or bananas. Add a few chocolate chips in your berry-nut trail mix. Try a refreshing glass of chocolate-flavored milk or soymilk.
• Buy smaller sizes of chocolate bars or hot fudge sundaes, since research shows you tend to eat the entire amount you’re served.
• Order fruit for dessert, with a small chocolate truffle on the side.
• Savor, don’t chew, your chocolate. Sit down, take your time, and focus on the taste in your mouth. Enjoy it thoroughly. If you pop it in your mouth while you are driving, watching TV, or talking on the phone, you’re likely to keep reaching for more.
• Give in to your chocolate cravings! Ever try to stifle a craving by eating something else? You usually just end up eating more and more foods, eventually giving in to your original desire anyway. Save yourself the calories and the torment! A small portion may be all you need for satisfaction.

To learn more about how eating chocolate for 30 days can help you lose up to 15 pounds you don’t want to miss our Life Success Event. We have an entire session devoted to CHOCOLATE! For more info please visit www.lifesuccessevent.com

Losing Weight Is NOT ABOUT THE FOOD!!! Part 1

Goals. Someone once said of them, “We all make them; we all break them.”  What if the truth could be that we achieve the goals we set?  What if we really could lose the weight and lose it permanently? Well, that can be your reality!!!  

Instead of finding ourselves setting goals to do the same things again and again, to lose the same weight over and over, we can achieve every single goal! We don’t hit our goals because something comes against us – the Motivation Assassinators. It’s not because we don’t know what foods to eat or not eat!

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My favorite quote from Albert Einstein says, “The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over expecting different results.” If we’re not getting the results we want, we need to change the action, otherwise we’re going to get the same results we’ve always gotten. So if you haven’t lost the weight you want to lose yet… and you’re still trying diet and after diet… doesn’t it make sense to at least consider stopping the thought that it’s about the food?

With all my combined experience, I have realized that people lose and gain, lose and gain. Aren’t you tired of losing and gaining, losing and gaining, losing and gaining? Aren’t you tired of setting out to achieve a goal and not achieving it, then setting out again to achieve that same goal again, and not achieving it again? Every time you sit down to write your goals, you write the same goals, yet you’re not achieving them. We can change that if we identify what stopped us.

Before losing my weight I felt fat and I had low self-esteem.  I would have never worn a bathing suit prior to losing my weight.  Now that I have lost 52 lbs. I can finally wear a bathing suit. I have a lot more energy.  I am also a lot healthier. I have yet to even catch a cold!  I am down to one medication from originally taking three!  My family and friends notice how much more I can actually do with them. I can play ball, ride horses…I cannot believe how much more I can do now. 

I’ve gone from a size 20 to a size 10! I’ve lost over 97 inches with this program.  I can’t believe I was able to enjoy pizza, chicken, fish, potato soup, corn, meatloaf, taco salads, cheese, Doritos, and even macaroni and cheese (just to name a few of my favorites)!

The motivation throughout the program was unbelievable.  Every time I came in I received complete support!
–Cathy Lauk, Lost 52 pounds with Thin & Healthy

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Having watched people lose and gain, I realized the reason had to be more than the seemingly obvious. There had to be more to it than just the food these people were eating. It had to be more than just one element.

I would see people so excited after enrolling in a new diet program or health club, and they’d be so sure that “this time” they were going to do it, “this time” they were going to achieve that goal. They set out with such great enthusiasm, but a few days later the excitement was gone and the goal was no longer being pursued.

Maybe this has happened to you; I know it’s happened to me. We look up and wonder, “What happened?” The motivation left. We have good intentions, and we have a good plan to follow to achieve our goals, but we don’t realize what comes against the motivation that stops it dead in its tracks.  Just in case you’re not convinced that the secret to losing weight permanently isn’t about the food, read next week’s article:  Achieving Goals Isn’t Just About The Goal Itself.

Until next time, keep thin-king positively and powerfully!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donna

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