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This book helps readers learn how to eat and enjoy healthy, nutrient-dense foods and teaches how to develop positive, lifelong nutritional and lifestyle habits. Each person has a unique array of health issues and if these issues are not addressed it's impossible to find a lasting solution. Carol Simontacchi has devised a comprehensive 48 week program that helps readers discover their individual health issues and deal with them through professional guidance and understanding. This program will produce long term weight loss for a lifetime of health and fitness.

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Santé et bien-être

Diététique

diététique

Fitness

Health

Healthy Living

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 août 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781591205760
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
The author of this book has a financial interest in the products Wings Breakfast Drink, Wings Klean Tea, Wings Healing Tea, and Wings educational materials. This does not constitute an endorsement by Basic Health Publications, Inc.

Basic Health Publications, Inc.
28812 Top of the World Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Simontacchi, Carol N.
Weight success for a lifetime / Carol Simontacchi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59120-576-0
1. Weight loss. I. Title.
RM222.2.S554197 2005
613.2'5—dc22
2005006607
Copyright © 2005 by Carol Simontacchi
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editor: Kate Johnson
Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Introduction
MODULE I
Living Successfully with Food
LESSON I-1 Welcome to Wings!
LESSON I-2 Achieve Your Wings Balance
LESSON I-3 Hold Me Accountable, Please!
LESSON I-4 Cheating, Binge Eating, and Other Deal Breakers
LESSON I-5 The Real-Food Plan
LESSON I-6 Let’s Go Out Tonight!
LESSON I-7 A Trip through the Supermarket
LESSON I-8 Why Diets Don’t Work, Part One
LESSON I-9 Why Diets Don’t Work, Part Two
LESSON I-10 One Man’s Food, Another Man’s Poison
LESSON I-11 The Childhood Risk Factor
LESSON I-12 Work with Your Set Point
MODULE II
Getting the Body Back into Shape
LESSON II-1 Your Personal Energy Crisis
LESSON II-2 Is It Hunger, or Is It Thirst?
LESSON II-3 Less Than Two BMs Daily? Help!
LESSON II-4 The Problem of Nonfoods
LESSON II-5 The Ins and Outs of Digestion
LESSON II-6 The Wings Cleansing Program
LESSON II-7 The Wings Healing Week
LESSON II-8 The Importance of Fiber
LESSON II-9 Get Up and Get Moving
LESSON II-10 Your Personal Exercise Plan
LESSON II-11 Hunger Is a Good Thing
LESSON II-12 The Fidget Factor and Other Freebies
LESSON II-13 Special Circumstances for Certain People
MODULE III
Hidden Issues of Weight Management
LESSON III-1 A Quick Review and Another Cleanse
LESSON III-2 The Little Giant Who Fell Asleep
LESSON III-3 Female, Fat, and Frustrated
LESSON III-4 Stress Will Make You Overweight
LESSON III-5 WAT, BAT, and Other Fats
LESSON III-6 Review of the Past Few Lessons
LESSON III-7 How Prescription Medications Make You Overweight
LESSON III-8 Mood and Food
LESSON III-9 Leptin, Human Growth Hormone, and Cortisol
LESSON III-10 Squabbling Sisters, Insulin Resistance, and Syndrome X
LESSON III-11 Environmental Fat Producers
LESSON III-12 Don’t Forget Your Numbers
LESSON III-13 It’s a Problem in Your Gut
LESSON III-14 Body on Fire
MODULE IV
Healing the Heart and the Mind
LESSON IV-1 Review of the Food Issues
LESSON IV-2 Review of the Exercise Issues
LESSON IV-3 The Most Painful Topic of All
LESSON IV-4 How Do I Look?
LESSON IV-5 Does This Make Me Look Fat?
LESSON IV-6 Make My Face Beautiful!
LESSON IV-7 I Eat When I’m . . .
LESSON IV-8 The Other Side of the Coin: Eating Disorders and Activity Disorder
LESSON IV-9 Loving Saboteurs
LESSON IV-10 Making Health a Lifelong Journey

Menus and Recipes
Resource Guide
Appendices
Appendix 1. Food Diary
Appendix 2. Exercise Diary
Appendix 3. pH Testing Form
Appendix 4a. Progress Chart
Appendix 4b. Body Mass Index (BMI)
Appendix 5. Pulse Text
To my four daughters,
Caryl Anne, Bobbie Anne, Melissa Anne, and Laurie Anne:
You are the loves of my life.
You make me proud to be your mom.

To my sisters and daughters everywhere:

“I pray that you may enjoy good health
and that all may go well with you,
even as your soul is getting along well.”
(III John 12)
Introduction
T
here is certainly no shortage of weight-loss ideas in this country. Every year, new diet and weight-loss books sprout on bookstore shelves like weeds in an untended garden. Some promise a balanced diet; that is, they stress the importance of including generous amounts of vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds, and some animal protein, and tout the benefits of essential fatty acids that are healthful to the body and assist in weight loss. But for the most part, the mainstream press promotes diets that actually increase your risk of gaining weight, or that make it virtually impossible to keep the extra weight off if the diets are followed over the long term. The failure rate of the weight-loss industry to succeed in its purpose is a staggering 92 percent.
That is not good news for the dieter. Even worse, the mainstream press addresses the diverse issues of unwanted weight gain from one of two perspectives: you eat too much—or you don’t exercise enough. The common understanding of weight management is that it is a simple matter of taking in fewer calories than you expend; for most people, however, that simply isn’t true. The management of caloric resources is governed by virtually every organ system of the body, and, to further complicate matters, is influenced by food and environmental allergies, prescription medications, environmental toxins, past sexual, emotional, and/or physical abuse, and many other factors.
Weight management is, therefore, a very complex issue, as you will learn in this book. Laying the blame for weight failure at the feet of diet or exercise alone often leaves the real source of the problem untouched. The diet industry itself is simply making us fatter, less healthy, and terribly bewildered.
YOU KNOW HOW TO DIET—AND YOU’RE STARVING
If you are like most Americans, you’ve been introduced to dietary restriction and self-control. You’ve been trained to calculate calories, fat grams, and carbohydrate grams. You know how to go to sleep hungry and wake up hungry. You can flip through a cookbook and ignore your growling stomach without even twitching an eyelid. You’ve probably memorized an impressive list of weight-loss tips: Don’t eat standing up. Don’t eat in front of the refrigerator. Tape a picture of your ideal figure to the bathroom mirror. Take tiny bites and chew thoroughly. Drink lots of water. Throw away your “fat clothes.” Brush your teeth after each meal and again when you feel hungry. Eat lots of lettuce.
But if you really want to lose weight and keep it off, if you want to regain your health and vitality and turn the clock back on the aging process, you’re going to have to go beyond simple dietary restriction and “fix” your body and your relationship with food. You will have to do things differently. Years of dieting, unless based on a diversity of nutrient-dense foods, may have set up metabolic responses that can be difficult to overcome. If you have dieted frequently or over a long period of time, it is likely that your body has shifted into “preservation and starvation mode” and that your metabolic rate is too low to sustain weight-loss goals. You’re probably slowly starving to death!
The Diet Mentality in Western Culture
The flourishing diet mentality in our culture is not based on good science or clinical nutrition research but on a dogmatic and largely unfounded belief system. Everyone who has an opinion has become a nutrition expert—but opinions are frequently incorrect. As one wag put it, “It isn’t that we don’t know enough. The problem is that so much of what we know is wrong.”
Things might have gone differently if the diet industry, with its amazing variety of pseudo-foods and malnutrition-based programs, had emerged in a relatively well-nourished society. Unfortunately, the diet industry and the epidemic of excess weight both emerged within a society that was already struggling with diverse manifestations of undernutrition and malnutrition. We in Western culture have been hungry for decades, so we eat huge quantities of pseudo-foods to try to stanch the hunger pangs; but artificial foods cause chronic hunger, no matter how much food is eaten. We just keep getting hungrier—and fatter.
Excess Weight as a Symptom and a Syndrome
Excess weight is not a disease but a symptom, a sign that the body’s own homeostatic (self-balancing) mechanisms have failed. Excess weight indicates that the body is no longer able to appropriate its caloric resources wisely: it has lost part of its innate ability to burn excess calories, to maintain appropriate stores of excess energy and “waste” other calories, and to use hunger solely to satisfy the body’s nutrient and energetic needs.
Hunger is likewise a symptom, and we’re missing its message. A normal, healthy body will eat when it is hungry, eat just the type and amount of food needed to meet basic requirements, and stop eating when satisfied. As you will see in Lessons I-4 and II-11, hunger is not an enemy to be vanquished; it is an important biological signal that our bodies need to be fed.
Much of our normal hunger response has been ove