Book 6. Diet - Busters 2 (Weight - Loss Ideas; Be Active, Eat Simple, Natural Foods)

The "People Power" Food Superbook:

Book 6. Diet - Busters 2

(Weight - Loss Ideas; Be Active, Eat Simple, Natural Foods)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. We Were Made to Move

The Real Deal About Physical Activity

Youthful Spark, Sexual Vitality & Inspiration

Your Body is All You Own

Chapter 2. Fitness-Physical Activity 1

Physical Education Lesson Plans

Free Fitness Books

Grade School Physical Education Websites

Sports Psychology/ Mental Training

Physical Fitness Info

Physical Fitness Websites

Fitness Magazines

Fitness Organizations

The Body Mass Index/ BMI

Check Your Pulse

Chapter 3. Fitness-Physical Activity 2

Exercise Websites

Strength Training Websites

Bodybuilding Sport

Women Bodybuilder Sport

Dance Exercise Websites

Pilates Info

Rebounding Exercise/ Mini-Trampolining/ Reboundology

Rope Skipping Info

Stretching Websites

Walking/ Hiking/ Running

Weightlifting Sport

Chapter 4. Weight Loss Topics 1

Weight Loss 1-2

Losin' Weight Websites/ Weight-Loss Websites

Weight Loss Substances

Adrenal Supplements & Weight Loss

Blood Sugar & Obesity

Can't Get Fat/ Lipodystrophy

Conjugated Linoleic Acid/ CLA

Eating at Restaurants For Health

Excess Weight is Caused by Inactivity & Processed Foods

Chapter 5. Weight Loss Topics 2

Fat Blocking Foods/ Fat Blocking Pills/ Carb Blocking Pills

Fat Burning Foods/ Negative Calorie Foods/ Thermogenic Foods

Fletcherism Info

Hoodia for Weight Loss

Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose/ HPMC

Increase Your Metabolism

Lose Weight With Hot Spices

Olestra Info

Cysteine For Weight Loss?

Phenylalanine for Weight Loss?

Weight Loss & Sex

Chapter 6. Obesity: When Fat Threatens Life

Obesity Info

Obesity Surgery/ Gastric Bypass Surgery Info

Obesity Surgery Websites

Obesity Websites/ Very Fat Websites

Chapter 7. Low-Carbohydrate Diet/ The Ketosis Effect

Low-Carbohydrate Diet Info

The Ketogenic Effect/ Ketosis

The Atkins Diet is the Big Low-Carb Diet

Critics of the Low-Carb Diet

Carb-Addiction/ Carb Craving

Chapter 8. Cookies for Weight Loss

Cookie Diet Info

Health Cookie Recipes, Some Sugarless

Chapter 9. Chemicals Cause Weight Gain

Chemical Toxin Hypothesis For Obesity

Obesogens/ Endocrine Distrupting Chemicals

Chapter 10. Cleansing the Inside of the Body: Detoxification Therapy

Detox is All the Buzz/ The Detox Lifestyle

Detoxification Therapy/ Colon Cleanse/ Colon Detox

Colon Detox Websites

Chelatin/ Chelation Therapy to Clean Plaque from Arteries

Detox Websites

Chelatin/ Chelation Therapy as a Heavy Metal Detox

Cleanse the Body/ Body Cleanse

Chapter 11. Fitness & Weight Loss Resources

Government Weight Loss Websites

Major Weight Loss & Fitness Websites

Fitness Websites/ Diet Websites/ Lose Weight Websites

Australia Fitness Websites

British Fitness Websites

British Weight Loss

Calorie Counting Websites

Diet Blogs Websites

Fitness Blogs/ Exercise Blogs Websites

Weight Loss & Fitness Newsgroups

Women's Fitness Websites

Chapter 12. Weight Loss Products & Services

Fitness Products/ Exercise Equipment For Sale

Weight Loss Products/ Diet Pills

Local Fitness Centers/ Find a Gym

Chapter 13. Fat Acceptance Basics

Fat-Friendly Products

Fat-Friendly Health Professionals

Chapter 14. Children Losing Weight

Children's Weight Loss/ Kids' Weight Loss

Weight Loss Camp Lists Websites

Specific Weight Loss Camps for Kids & Women

Summer Camp List Websites

Chapter 1. We Were Made to Move

The Real Deal About Physical Activity

Your body is your soul brought to the surface of your life. Your biography becomes your biology. Who you really are is written all over your body and face.

You can see happiness, vitality, strength, a relaxed lifestyle and inner peace or conversely, sadness, depression, apathy, cynicism, weakness, fatigue and stress by looking at someone.

The body doesn't lie. It says who you really are despite all the pretense like your suit, your watch, your hairstyle, your car, your job title, your alleged fame, etc.

You mustn't look at physical activity as exercise. You have to look at it as a joy and a privilege to be able to move your body like you do and let it take you to places you can rarely experience any other way than through intense physical activity.

Plain and simple, intense physical activity is one of the few ways a human being can rise above the general mundanity of the human condition on a near daily basis to touch the higher heights of his her limits.

Through this process of releasing this natural inspired energy, there is a process within that combines the spiritual-physical-mental faculties with the realease of endorphins to make a person feel really, really good for awhile.

This is the real deal about physical activity if you can train your body to be strong enough to release a massive amount of energy almost effortlessly such that it's a joy when you do it.

Some philosopher said the purpose of life is to sweat, implying that if you work hard, you feel good.

Another guy said you can't divorce the mind and soul from the body. The way you use your body will determine your overall well-being in life.

Fat people put on jolly faces for the world and give out excuses for why they're fat, anything other than eating and sitting around like logs. Why is it that you rarely see wild animals fat, only domesticated ones?

It's because they're running around getting their food much like the human animal several thousand years ago, only now, he sits in a building all day long, goes to the supermarket and buys a bunch of fatty, sugary, processed food then goes home and watches TV and then you wonder when you see stories on the news saying over 60% of the general population is packing extra weight.

Movement is at least one part of it. If you live a somewhat physically active life, you'll burn calories and your body will be more muscular than the body of the average person therefore, because muscles force the body to burn more calories by their very existence, you have a higher metabolism because of them which helps keep your weight down.

I get good feelings through physical activity in two ways. The first way is the transcendent feeling in the moment that sustains me for the rest of the day inspiration and euphoric-wise whenever I burn enough energy intensely in a short period of time to achieve it.

To get this feeling, you have to release some intense physical energy in a short period of time but long enough such that you're spent, you know you took your body for a good, hard, inspired ride today.

You've reached or come close to your human physical limits in that period of time. While you're engaged, you hold on and ride it for awhile then you know you've honored yourself.

You know that all the money, all the clods in the world with their fake illusions and all the lies of a capitalist world still can't come close to any individual with the enlightenment and sense to know this feeling or internal standard, call it what you will, is one key to a great life and only the few people wise enough to try to expend enough energy day after day to reach it are the real winners of life.

Average people can't understand this sense of euphoria because they never reach it through the average things they do in the course of the day.

You can't get it buying a new car, eating a tub of ice cream, hugging your girl or even having sex.

Sex gives you a momentary orgasm, the intense expenditure of physical activity can sustain your sense of well-being for six to twelve hours then the next day, if you wanna remain euphoric, you have to go for it again.

For that envelope of time, you did what you were created for physically, you've purged your energy to the extent that it made you feel high like you're on fire for that little bit of time.

When you do it, nothing else on the planet matters for that little window of time. Nothing on the planet can match this euphoric experience.

You've freed yourself from all the crap and mundanity of the world to be yourself purely physically for the moment and it's often enough to sustain a sense of well-being for the rest of the day.

Average people never get these highs. Their life is a constant flatline exacerbated with mild fluctuations like the downer of a stressful situation or a mild thrill out of eating a bag chips or reading a frivolous magazine.

They don't understand, they never will and this is most of the general population. They don't realize how tied in physical activity is to overall sense of well-being.

In order to feel good about life, you must release the primal energy within in all its facets.

You convert your mental thoughts into physical energy which delve into the spiritual release of the soul when you get to intense levels near your limits.

At this point, you're at the highest you can ever be in the experience and fulfillment of your life physically and this is what makes you qualitatively different from all the people who don't understand this as a key to life.

They'll never experience these types of feelings no matter what they accomplish in the so-called real world. Everything is lame next to a full, intense release of physical energy. Sex and drugs are fun but they're another kind of high altogether.

The second form of good feeling I get through physical activity is, even if I do plodding things as opposed to sustained motion, or even if I'm tired and not feeling so hot, simply the slow release of energy through an ordinary workout, will, after a few hours, change me from a mundane feeling to a good feeling because I've released that energy.

I've done my penance for the day, honored myself once again as my God, the Holy Father, would want me to do if I'm to honor this gift of a body he has given me as the temple for His divine Soul inside of me so you see, physical activity is not a boring, plodding activity done just because you have to because you feel you must in order to keep your weight down, it's a joy from your Creator that far too many people divorce from themselves.

I'm thankful everytime I do physical activities because I've been in a few accidents, had a few injuries which made me realize that if you don't have the use of a vital, healthy, robust-feeling body, forget it, you ain't living a good life no matter how many delusions from the world you live under.

I see all the disabled and old people out there plus all the deadheads who couldn't run a half mile if their lives depended on it and I know what's real in life. I'm thankful everytime I blow off steam like a thoroughbred racehorse.

My physical body is one instrument of my joy. I take good care of it without being an ascetic jock or or an extremist Spartan burning himself out trying to win some illusory prize from the world.

I do it because I love it and respect my God-given body. It's more like the flowing joy of physical activity to me than the guy on a regimented training plan, taking handfuls of pills every day, eating only a few bland foods. It's one part of living a great lifestyle.

Youthful Spark, Sexual Vitality & Inspiration

The following article hails from my book a Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment.

Youth means a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite of adventure over the love of ease.

Anonymous

As in a swoon, one instant,

Another sun, ineffable full-dazzles me,

And all the orbs I knew and brighter unknown orbs;

One instant of the future land, Heaven's land.

Walt Whitman

Youthful Spark and Inspiration Are The Powers of the Soul. Inspiration equals a sensation of vigorous youthful spark which is the highest prize of life so the game is to live the youthful flow via holding onto the sanctity of the soul no matter what.

Inspiration comes mostly through spiritual, creative and physical pursuits and whatever inspiration I can suck from the world to feed my soul. Inspiration means that you're spirited about what you do.

Even in the Bible over 2500 years ago, the philosopher-king Solomon reflected on youth in Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 and Ecclesiastes 12 saying, "Young people, enjoy your youth. Be happy while you are still young. Do what you want to do and follow your heart's desire ... Don't let anything worry you or cause your pain. You aren't going to be young very long."

He goes on to curse old age when your health and all your desires will go which is why I consciously focus on keeping my health and desires young, strong and active 'til death do me part.

Oscar Wilde, an enlightened dude living in the Victorian era, wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Grey about a guy who sells his soul for eternal youth.

In my studies of aging and death which I've written about elsewhere, I've read countless praises of the sanctity of youth so I've concluded that this is it for all enlightened seekers, keep that spark no matter what.

Oscar eventually ended up selling his soul for his youth because he got in trouble following his sexual desires by taking on a young guy as a lover who was the son of a baron and homosexuality was very much frowned on back then so he eventually lost everything, went to jail and died an early death at about 46 or so.

The golden rule is I am who I am, life is a short ride of feelings so my creed is to stay forever young by staying inspired forever.

The Ancients worshipped inspiration and youth in their mythology through the likes of Apollo, Adonis, Aphrodite, Dionysus and my old kindred spirit friend, Roman Senator Ovid who wrote his Metamorphoses, the theme of which was Puer Aeternus, Eternal Youth.

The goal is to make it through with your soul intact. Answer the call of your soul then you'll know you're following the right path regardless of what happens,

In order for life to have true meaning, you have to feel right about what you do. Do something that inspires you then relax and enjoy yourself, that's it, everything else is mundane in my view.

Life is a process of aging. The calmer you get as you go through, the more vital you get hence the younger you feel.

Buddhists dedicate their lives to calmness within while we in the West strive for capitalist success. I've learned to live like a Buddhist, to be calm all the time no matter what.

Capitalism is about production and work all the time. Free spiritism, living by the natural life flow within, is a balance of the release of the natural inspiration within counteracted by periods of rest and calmness unlike capitalism which is go, go, go all the time.

Buddhists got it half right namely a dedication to calmness but it took a capitalist hedonist like me to get it all right namely that you don't get true happiness by sitting in one spot contemplating life.

You have to take action via your soulful pursuits to stay inspired and young all the time then you have to let out your sensual cravings for euphoric feelings one way or another.

The world will always be the same; a mixture of good and bad things. Your job is to forget the bad, stick with the good.

Keep that spark no matter what. Keep riding life. On any given day, we're all on the same level playing field, just makin' time in our lives.

Someday, our generation, this time in history right now, will be relegated to an occasional one-hour show on the History Channel. Nobody else in that future world will give a damn about this time period from the past so, in essence, we live for ourselves. This is our time for life and when it goes, it'll be gone.

Nobody will give a damn but us who lived it. The one who's enjoying it most while it's happening is the one who lives the greatest life not necessarily the one with the greatest amount of material possessions or illusory power over others

Everybody ages. The only winners are those who stay young & vital.

I feed off the inspiration I get from all the other enlightened entities I come across namely through inspired, funny people, good friends, music, a good story, a smile, a good conversation, a good piece of film, a good book, a feat of the spirit that I see on TV, seeing creative people being themselves without self-consciousness, people trying for something, people who have mastered a tough skill, a charismatic preacher preachin' a good sermon, playing with my dogs, seeing a beautiful girl with innocent beauty and beautiful people with beautiful souls in general. It's a mutual, karmic thing.

Live for soul and release yours thereby inspiring other people who inspire you with their soulful acts and this is how it goes for me always trying to stay one step ahead of mundanity in that inspired, euphoric headspace regardless of the generic routine I see around me all the time. Anything that feeds my spirit, I thrive on.

If I'm not feeling inspired, I'm a useless, selfish dog who lays around and broods so I consciously strive to be so strongly inspired that I have energy to burn both for myself and for the people around me.

It's very tough to do day by day but I strive to live by whatever strength comes from my soul and that's it.

Some days, I just wanna in stay in bed and sleep all day probably because I rode my inspired, sensual feelings to the hilt for several days straight before which is alright because I'm living by my cycles; go hard when you feel like it then crash for awhile.

The game is to culture and cherish your youthful vitality by unleashing the freedom in your soul as much as you can with fervor, joy and gusto all the time until you die. Find your soul, the real you then pursue it with a vengeance.

There's the real power of self-mastery from the soul and illusory power in the outside world which is not the real, authentic you.

This illusory power and status out in the world will all go in the blink of an eye when you retire but the real you never goes, it's always there.

When the outside world fades away as it does every night, all you have is you which is all you should really honor because it's all that really matters.

In my research for my love book, by watching a newly crowned alpha male baboon flourish in growth and the coloring on his face which signifies vitality, I've come to conclude that sexual vitality breeds more sexual vitality so the game is to stay youthfully vital if you want to mightily hold onto your most powerful primordial forces, your sex drive and your inspired life drive.

Most people claim some sexual slowdown by 40, male and female alike but you can be youthfully vital at any age.

After youthful mindset, soulful pursuits and physical activity, the other factors of youthful spark are low calorie diet, music, pets, good quality relaxation, sensual pleasures, love and sex.

Youth equals virility which equals sex and the biggest ego trip for all of humanity is to be sexually attractive to the opposite sex, same sex if you're gay.

Everybody wants it. It's really the hardcore real deal. If you stay young in spirit, you'll be vital sexually and you can hold onto that spark forevermore if you will it so and follow it up with action.

Once you look in the mirror and see a stressed out, chubby face, chubby gut, pasty countenance, balding head, graying hair, you know it's over, that your ability to attract anyone is gone if, in fact, you've ever had it in the first place and life is reduced to that of another generic, mundane clone brainwashed by the system to sell your soul for their formula of success.

One of my favorite songs is Forever Young by Alphaville from the eighties which voices my belief that I'll stay forever young in spirit until the day I die, aka Endless Summer by the Beach Boys. Rod Stewart's Forever Young, although a different song, sounds pretty good too.

Think back to the first beautiful warm sunny Sunday of spring or watch the simple, uncomplicated exuberance of a puppy dog. This is the way to live.

Sex breeds more sex. Your desire for sex and who you're attracted to doesn't change with age even though conventional wisdom asserts that you won't be as sexually vital and you're supposedly attracted to older people around your age. It's not true.

Sexual desire for tight young bodies never changes. It's the universal constant, everybody's attracted to young, beautiful bodies regardless of how old and dumpy they may be so to my way of thinking, sex equals youth and youth equals sex so sex is all about a youthful, vital body and soul which means in order to maximally enjoy your sexuality, you gotta think young, act young and live young.

You're as young right now as you're ever gonna be unless you live by the fountain of youth as described throughout this book and reverse the process.

Your Body is All You Own

The following article hails from my book a Free Spirit's Search for Enlightenment.

Oh, there is no way you can express it without being drunk and disorderly? How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

Katherine Mansfield, Bliss, 1920

The body is the temple of the soul (1 Corinthians 6:18), the eyes, its windows.

William Blake said:

Man has no body distinct from his soul.

Body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age.

Your body is all you really own. You only get one so if you don't respect it, by the time you hit middle age, you'll know what I mean.

Many creative types live for their art but neglect their bodies thereby losing out on the holistic package.

For me, the control of a strong, vital body is about as close to freedom as I can get to in life. Anyone who has less than this is not free regardless of how much money, status or love they have.

It's not just health and vitality in a one-dimensional way as some dietitian or physical education teacher would do it but the esthetics of it. A beautiful body on the outside is an expression of the beauty you feel on the inside.

At any given moment in time, your body is your gauge to you and to the rest of the world how much youthful spark, inspiration, joy and vigor you've got.

A wealthy guy with a decrepit body has lost the game of life by surrendering his temple for the illusion of money. How do you expect to attract intimate partners without a reasonably good-looking body?

To stay beautiful and youthful as you age is the greatest way to live. The way you take care of yourself physically immediately shows the world how much personal dignity or lack of it you have.

I generally believe that size of stomach is inversely related to well-being, happiness and a sense of freedom so I know all overweight people feel stuck and constrained in their bodies regardless of what kind of jolly face they put on for the world.

Take your body weight in pounds at 22 years old, your body weight now, find the difference then use that number to subtract wherever you think you're at on my inspired soul scale. You can never ever really be happy unless you're at your ideal body weight.

Anyone over 20 lbs. overweight cannot get beyond 50 on the soul scale for very long regardless of what they do. You're out of balance with life. It's like wearing an anchor around your neck 24/7, not exactly like you got jets on your feet and can fly at will.

The body is almost everything to feeling good, free and powerful.

Our society puts the physical body on the backburner of priorities but it's everything.

When I'm hot on my game physically, I feel great, I don't give a damn about anything else besides feeling great. The body does it. With a great, powerful body, your life drive and sex drive follow and this is everything.

On TV, I watched them ask a native in a primitive tribe what was the most important thing in life to him and he said the spirit (the life drive) and his health.

You must develop a spiritual connection to your body by caring for it through vigorous activity, good nutrition, good rest and very little stressful over-exertion.

I believe in short bursts of high intensity physical activity for awhile almost everyday or so followed by relaxing and recuperating afterwards.

One of the stupidest stereotypes around is that athletes are dumb jock types. Not only does it take a lot of mental and inspired effort to pursue any reasonably intense physical activity but it's really all about testing your spirit to its limits because all mighty bursts of physical activity require a strong spirit to do them.

Great athletes aren't necessarily physically stronger or more talented than others, it's just that they have strong spirits to carry them through when everyone else is feeling weak, slacking off and quitting the race of life. You train to become like this and through inertia, you can just as quickly lose it.

Physical activity is a spiritual venture because it fuses mind, body and soul into one fluid activity. Strive to make your physical activities unconscious, that is, without self-consciousness, letting the action take you away such that you forget yourself and flow with the intuitive sense of the process.

The easiest way is to find a physical activity you like and make it one of your soulful pursuits. Dancing is one of the best exercises around but it doesn't feel like exercise because you're beating a direct pathway to the soul by flowing with the music.

Watch some professional classical dancers sometimes, see how free they are with their bodies and how happy they are.

Stated simply, your body is all you own. Keeping it healthy is fine but taking it one level further to use as the instrument of the experience of your life is the true art of enjoying it.

Nothing in the world comes close to a session of intense physical activity, not even sex because hard sex takes a few minutes, an intense release of physical energy can easily go on for several hours.

It's like blowing your load spiritually and physically all in one through the effort. It feels great if you're one of the few people smart enough to get hooked on this feeling for life.

Your body announces to the world who you are as a person. A person in harmony with themselves is a temperate person, not too skinny or too fat.

The only way to lose weight permanently is to live for soul then food won't matter because life itself will and you'll develop an internal regulator that'll keep you thin.

We have millions of people supporting a multi-billion dollar weight loss industry but the way to be physically balanced is very simple.

My soul tells me I want to live for beauty so I merely take what I feel on the inside and express it on the outside.

I live for the art of life which means that food is just a functional need I have, it means almost nothing to me which is why I'm always at a normal weight even if I sit around because my thoughts are elsewhere, trying to stay calm, to feel inspired about things that really matter not what I'll stuff my face with. I use food for mild pleasure sometimes but I don't gorge myself on junk food day after day.

When you're overweight, your soul knows you're out of harmony so it constantly sends you messages through the subconscious mind about how out of balance you are.

If you listen to it and find your way back to your soul, you'll be happy but if you ignore it, you'll feel those voices inside that will leave you empty and miserable which is the unfulfilled soul. This is the way life works if you've got enough sense to listen.

A person's inner soul is reflected on the outside by the body and face. A strong soul equals a strong body and a calm, peaceful face; a weak soul equals a weak body and a tense, troubled face as Proverbs says in the Bible, joyful heart makes a beautiful face and conversely, troubled heart makes a stressed face.

The soul is the aura through which a person lives. You can usually tell a strong soul immediately because they have a sparkly look to them. It's the one true gauge of who's really getting some enjoyment out of this thing called life.

The more physically active you are to a point of near exhaustion but not over-exhaustion, the more vital you'll be. It's that simple. Every athlete is only as good as he is today.

If you let up for a few days, a week, a month, it all goes real quick. If you wanna live the athletic ideal, it's a lifelong commitment day after day after day.

Physical activity can be a high source of euphoria once your body adjusts and you start getting some real power.

Along with soulful pursuits, it's the only real fountain of youth out there. You'll never find it in a pill or a shot or anything else.

If you've got a good feeling, vital body, nothing else really matters all that much. A vital body is the foundation for an esthetic soul, an expression of the beauty inside for your love of life.

Chapter 2. Fitness-Physical Activity 1

Physical Education Lesson Plans

neat-schoolhouse.org/library/materials_search/lesson_plans/physical_education.html, physical education lesson plans

nevada.edu/home/16/sarabyn/a/page1.html, pe lesson plans; includes rhythmic movements and creative movements lesson plans.

pe.central.vt.edu, pe central; includes assessment ideas, pe lesson ideas

ping4.ping.be/sportsmedia/index.html, sports media; an international non-profit organization of p.e. teachers, coaches and professors; includes lesson plans, coaching tips, discussion forum, other related sites.

tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g032/arnt0008/kara, educational resource center for physical educators

Free Fitness Books

Go to #611-613 and #796-799 at the library. Try #646.75 for bodybuilding books.

ebooklobby.com/9/health-mind-&-body

free-ebooks.net/?category=fitness

getfreeebooks.com/?tag=health-and-fitness

onlinefreeebooks.net/sport-martial-art-ebooks/martial-arts

learnoutloud.com/free-audio-video/self-development/health-and-fitness#go, free audio books

Grade School Physical Education Websites

pecentral.org

aahperd.org/naspe, the national association for sport and physical education.

awesomelibrary.org/classroom/science/biology/human_-_anatomy.html, human anatomy.

educationindex.com/physed, physical education links.

members.tripod.com/pazz/lesson.html, physical education lesson plan page.

pe4life.org

pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedmenu.html, adapted physical education

presidentschallenge.org, the president's challenge.

shapeup.org, shape up america.

sports-media.org, physical education for everyone.

Sports Psychology/ Mental Training

Sports psychology is at #796.01, #790.01 or GV706.4 at the library.

americanboardofsportpsychology.org

aaasponline.org, association for applied sport psychology.

aaasp.prg, aasp.org, sports psychology.

mentalgamecoaching.com, the international mental game coaching association.

performancemeditation.com

abcathletictrainingcenter.com

ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/ephedsum.htm, ephedra and ephedrine for weight loss and athletic performance enhancement.

allaboutvision.com/sportsvision/eyewear.htm

ape-power.com

argosyu.edu, study sports psychology.

athletic-evolution.com/programs-performance-enhancement.html

athleticinsight.com, the online journal of sport psychology.

athletico.com/services/enhancement.htm

athleticosportsperformance.com

athleticperformanceinc.com

betterathletes.net, cold laser performance enhancement.

brianmac.demon.co.uk, the sports coach.

canadiansportcentre.com, calgary.

casino bingo

cmhc.com/guide/pro07.htm, sports psychology.

competitivedge.com

competitivedge.com

cuttingedgeathletics.com

cvacsystems.com, cvac systems athletic and human performance enhancement.

dartbase.com, the mental game in darts.

depaulbluedemons.com

doctorrelax.com

drdiane.com/psychology/sports.htm

drgiovaliante.com, golf.

drrelax.com

Book 5. Diet - Busters 1 (Honor the Archetype of Beauty & Power Inside of You By Releasing Your Natural Energy)

The "People Power" Food Superbook:

Book 5. Diet - Busters 1 (Honor the Archetype of Beauty & Power Inside of You By Releasing Your Natural Energy)

Table of Contents

Diet-Busters Introduction

Chapter 1. Losin' Weight

Life Should be Joy, not the Deprivation of a Diet

The Modern World is Selling us Artificial Values

My Primal Archetype: Adam & Eve in the Mythical Garden of Eden

Artists of Life Respect Themselves 1-6

Weakness and Denial are Fat

Chapter 2. Your Primal Archetype

The Mind’s Eye: Archetypal Visions

Archetypes and the Physical Body

My Inner Tarzan Archetype

Self-Respect: Honor Your Soul

Chapter 3. Lose Weight

Lose Weight One-Liners 1-2

Chapter 4. Lies and Truth

Protein Makes You Feel Full

Psychology of Dieters

The Fat Set Point

The Yo-Yo Syndrome

Mood Eating

The Lie of Eating as Psychobabble

Food as Pleasure

Food as Self-Hate 1-2

Food in the Bible

My Diet and Routine

The Scam of Diets & Weight Loss Plans

Herbal Cleansers/ Bile Flow Supplements

Oatmeal & Milk

Chewing Gum for Weight Loss

Chapter 5. The Finer Points of Weight Loss

Addictions: Cheap Fix For An Empty Soul

Self-Acceptance

How to Lose A Gut

The Gettin' Fat Phenomena

The Recreational Drug Connection

Chapter 6. We Were Made to Move

The Real Deal About Physical Activity

Youthful Spark, Sexual Vitality & Inspiration

Your Body is All You Own

Chapter 7. Therapy/ Counseling

Emotional Eating vs. Eating for Pleasure

Find a Therapist: The Conventional View

Counseling/ Therapy Resources

Chapter 8. Lose Weight Essays 1

Lose Weight 1-10 (10 essays)

Chapter 9. Lose Weight Essays 2

Lose Weight 11-20

Diet-Busters Introduction

This book covers my unique view on weight loss and vitality which I would call the esthetic-spiritual flow of life theory.

You can’t buy your way to weight-loss. It comes down to the strength in your spirit. All the diet books, exercise equipment, weight-loss programs and diet food in the world is bull next to this one thing. You have to respect yourself highly if you want to lose weight.

This is not a technical, physiological book about losing weight or a book about health. There are thousands of those around. If you want some of that basic nutritional information, go to #611-#613 at the library, read some of my other books. Find health cookbooks at #641.

Get the free catalog from the government's Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, CO 81009, 888-8pueblo, pueblo.gsa.gov) which offers many nutritional booklets for either free or a buck or two.

Go to usda.gov or mypyramid.gov for the Food Pyramid Guide.

This book is about how I stay at a moderate weight regardless of what eat. I generally do physical activities as part of my regular lifestyle but I have gone through periods of time without any physical activity because I was injured and didn’t gain weight because it was a mental-spiritual-esthetic relationship with food and life as I will explain later.

The first few sections about losing weight are my thoughts written at different times so you may find some repetition there. Take it in stride as food for thought, pun intended.

I'm not a doctor nor do I make any health claims. In fact, I think most so-called experts parading about with some credentials from the system are full of crap anyway. It’s not like it’s rocket science. It’s intuition and common sense.

You don’t hide behind some pieces of paper the system gave you that says you’re a good clone. Whatever wisdom they can give you is everywhere. It’s common knowledge.

Virtually all the system clone experts out there are all brainwashed by the same thing which is their clinical, piece-by piece approach to weight loss. They analyze the calories in food, the calories burned in physical activities, what time of day you eat, what types of foods you eat, etc. which is where they all fail because they’re taking a regimented, formulaic approach to weight loss which is boring and tedious.

Weight loss is life. It’s intuitive. It comes from a flow within the human spirit.

How do you want to live? Do you want to dance and lose weight as a natural effect of living a fun, inspired life or do you want to follow some diet regimen that will fail as soon as you go off it?

All the psychobabble diet programs in the world can’t compete with someone losing weight intuitively by listening to the beauty in their free spirits.

The real deal is how you live everyday and your ability to bare your soul as honestly as possible without reverting to some study done somewhere or using some celebrity endorser who lost fifty pounds on your so-called diet or exercise plan but they don’t tell you it was their fulltime job with a fulltime trainer and chef accompanying them.

Everybody loses the weight same way; eat less, move more.

The difference is in the way one thinks about it. Some people lose weight by the boot camp method but it ultimately fails. They gain it back because it was a tedious way to lose it. Lose it in a way that’s fun for you and it becomes part of your lifestyle.

I know what really works, my formula that I came to after about 30 years on this planet which has kept me at a normal weight for a long time. It’s easy. I enjoy me life. Food doesn’t mean much to me.

For more extensive information about food, sports and spas, refer to my health book.

Chapter 1. Losin’ Weight

Life Should be Joy, not the Deprivation of a Diet

Life should be joy, fun and active. Nowadays, they say kids sit in front of screens. I say kick them in the ass. Get rid of those screens if you must. A computer is fine for education purposes but if you’re in any way a good parent, do not buy your kid a video game console.

Bikes are expensive. You can buy a used one or a cheap one from some place like Walmart. The guy at the bike shop told me I must have gone 10,000 miles on my bike. He had never seen the front sprocket worn out before. I used to bike because I loved it then after the helmet law came in, I stopped all those long-distance bike rides but the point is that I live an active life because I love my life and the only way for anyone who truly loves their life to live is to go all out physically just for the feeling of euphoria you get from it.

All that that diet bullshit for sale everywhere is a big scam, as though you need the moral support of Weight Watchers for x number of dollars a month or you need to buy special food at exorbitant prices.

You just need to love your life and run with it. Until you do that, you’ll never lose weight permanently.

Another thing is the food you eat. Don’t deprive yourself. Live an active, happy life and eat what you want within reason.

I have a slim body by any standards but it is not anorexic. It could be if I deprived myself but I enjoy my life and eat what I want within reason. I’m not trying to win the anorexic Olympics.

I live a healthy lifestyle. Eight percent body fat is healthy and athletic which is where I am then I go to the gym and see my bodybuilder extremist friends who want to be under four percent body fat. It’s not healthy to go under five percent body fat anyway.

Get to that state of life where you’re active, enjoy your life and eat what you want without using food as a psychological crutch to try to drown out negative feelings.

The Modern World is Selling us Artificial Values

Society has brainwashed us on the idea that we need some official or exotic sounding "program" or "diet" to lose weight. This is all capitalist marketing to sell diet books. They even sell packaged food by mail with the lie that eating that food and following that regimen will lead to weight loss.

It won’t because nobody follows the "program" to a tee and doesn’t eat anything else, the food they send you in the mail is no more special than the food you buy at the local grocery store plus the fact that you’re not a robot, life doesn’t work that way, food is only one part of a fit body and all food is basic.

There’s nothing special about food you pay too much for that comes in the mail. Go to your local supermarket. Get real. It’s a sales gimmick geared to make you feel special, like you belong to some elite group of people losing weight but it’s just you, your mouth and your life. They get rich exploiting your weakness a human being.

There’s physical activity, state of mind, state of being, inspiration, lifestyle, self-concept, the amount of sleep you get, the amount of sensual pleasure you get, love, hedonism and other things that are relevant besides food.

You just have to do one thing. Say to yourself you’re a beautiful specimen of humanity the way your God created you to be and live by it. You’re either Adam or Eve, two primally natural people who lived in the Garden of Eden. They were strong and vital. They lived close to nature.

Can you look in the mirror every night and say you honored who your God created you to be for today?

I live by my Adam archetype. I can’t allow myself to be a pacified, overweight, spectator-consumer clone. I have way too much self-respect for that. All I do is live to honor who I was born with the power to be.

I believe everybody has this inherent sense of inner accountability within themselves but most of us bury it deep either because we’re lazy, brainwashed by the artificial values of the world system or both. You can sit back, watch life on the tube and do what all the talking heads there tell you to do.

That’s why you’re fat. You sit around being passively entertained then buy the junk food and other junk the TV commercials tell you to buy. You get sucked into that capitalist-pop culture lifestyle where you don’t own your own life. The mainstream mass media mindset owns you. If you don’t believe me, look around.

Why do women color their hair?

Why do guys wear earrings?

Why do people plaster themselves with Nike logos?

Why is 70% of the modern, Western population overweight?

Why do a lot of men act like they get excited about watching professional sports when it’s a big business venture masquerading as tribes of people united by common emotions?

It’s because they got brainwashed by the world.

The bottom line is that excessive weight is an outward symbol of a person’s inner disharmony. There is not one overweight person on the planet who’s happy. If they claim to be, they’re lying because we all have a built-in self-judgment standard given to us by our Creator, God. If I don’t feel like a physically strong, vital specimen of humanity, I don’t feel good.

You can try to deny that you don’t get bad feelings because you’re overweight but everything about you is tied together as one holistic essence. You cannot divorce your body from your mind and soul. Your holistic essence is your intuition. It’s always telling you the truth which is that excess weight makes you feel yucky and out of harmony with yourself.

It’s no surprise to me why multi-millions of Americans are depressed and many more might not be totally forlorn but they’re mundane. There are no highs in their lives. If you’re overweight, it clouds your entire life. All you really own is your body. If it’s not springy, strong and sexually vital, you really have nothing despite the size of your bank account and the people who love you.

All the love in the world cannot make a fat person feel in harmony with themselves like they’re riding on air or dancing the tango gracefully.

If you don’t answer to yourself and honor your inner voice, you’ll never feel harmony therefore you will never know happiness, euphoria and the feeling of unbridled freedom.

Losing weight and being vital are simple: honor who you feel you were born to be. In your dreams, you’re not a bumbling, lumbering big bag of crap.

You’re strong, beautiful and vital. The problem is that they’re fantasies. Only the strong, inspired people live to make their fantasies real. Everybody else becomes a passive consumer-spectator which is what my book A Free Spirit’s Search for Enlightenment is about.

Nobody forced you to immerse yourself in pop culture entertainment for several hours a day. Nobody forced you to stuff your face and play video games. I can’t imagine living without my self-respect. I earn it everyday with sweat but it’s not a tedious chore to me. I love to feel my body move. That’s what God created people to do.

It’s not really about food or diets. It’s about a certain vision you have of yourself. Everybody sees themselves as beautiful and strong in their mind’s eye. Just honor it.

That’s the way your God made you to be. You violated it or dishonored it by buying into less than honorable ways to live, some of which is the fault of the modern world we have set up for ourselves with all our gadgets, passive entertainment and good tasting junk food.

Excessive weight is a sign of spiritual-esthetic disharmony. All overweight people are not honoring the inherent dispositions they were born with. The weight is just one part of it.

This book is somewhat a repetition of my book A Free Spirit’s Search for Enlightenment where I talk about the major problem of life in the modern world being that people live by the artificial values of the world rather than following their true natures.

Your natural inspiration for your life comes down to your attempts to reach a sense of transcendence day by day plus a craving for the pleasures of life which is sometimes called the ideology of hedonism. Pleasure is not just about food. It encompasses many dimensions.

Live for these things and you will be happy enough to not crave stuffing food down your throat. Enjoy your life so much that it’s not centered around food as a major source of pleasure.

If you can figure out how to live an inspired-esthetic-sensual-loving lifestyle all the time, food will just be an afterthought or one part of a rich life. You won’t think about it much. You will be too busy living an interesting life.

Spend less time in front of a screen and more time actively doing things regardless of what they are. The process of doing things earns you some self-respect, burns some calories and takes your mind off food.

My Primal Archetype: Adam & Eve in the Mythical Garden of Eden

I believe that within all of us there’s a primordial memory left over from prehistoric days sitting on the lower brainstem and possibly locked away in our genetic code housing our emotions and instincts but it goes further than this.

I talk about this primordial memory in my free spirit books, what Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud’s buddy, called the collective unconscious, a part of the common human experience stored within us all that hails back to the early days of humanity back to the Garden of Eden.

I believe there is a memory hidden away in our genes that comes out when the conditions are right such as the times I’ve done magic mushrooms, LSD and ayahuasca. I’m not promoting drug use, just saying that I experienced some really cool images and visions when I was doing this stuff that seemed to originate from beyond me. It was always me in some mythical Garden of Eden in Nature with some beautiful, vital, Amazon type of girl who had a primal feminine beauty about her.

It’s simple and basic. We came from nature. We used to live close to nature. In this modern world, I have not succumbed to indoor living. I need to be outdoors everyday because that’s where I feel I belong, like a human animal living close to my roots.

When I was a kid, we would use catechisms, Bible coloring books and picture Bibles. Anytime Adam and Eve were portrayed in the Garden of Eden, they were always vital, strong, beautiful, natural and naked. Then I saw Tarzan on TV in the mid-1960s. I felt primally connected to Adam & Eve and Tarzan. That’s it for me. Why would any sane person want to be any more than a vital, untamed creature? I am who I am, nothing more or less than my primordial archetype.

I feel this is right to live like this, physically strong, vital, natural and close to nature. It’s the highest joy in life. People say they hate exercise and act like it’s a tedious chore. I laugh at them because physical motion is a joy. What could be greater than feeling your natural power flowing through your veins?

This is what we were born to do, to live out in nature as hunters and gatherers. What a privilege, especially after you’ve lived through serious injuries like I have.

People sit around eating junk food, watching TV then feel sorry for themselves because they’re fat and can’t get it up. I’m not a pacified clone. I live my life my way. I have not allowed myself to become a wimp passive consumer-spectator. I did not buy into the lie of the chubby, balding man in the gray flannel suit as the picture of success in a capitalist world.

It’s easy. I have the vision of my physical archetype always in my mind. It’s all I need. I have enough self-respect such that I’m always honoring it by eating right and moving physically. It’s not tedious. I’m not an extremist drill sergeant type health freak. I enjoy my life. My body feels good.

My childhood was spent as an untamed kid, running around the woods with my dogs and my tribe of friends, swimming in the lakes, feeling wild and free.

As I got older, I realized this was my true nature, a basic man close to my physical body because that’s all any of us really owns, our bodies.

When I experimented with life by using mind-altering substances, the images I got while stoned or in these altered states of consciousness were always magnificent archetypes in the mythical Garden of Eden where I was a primordial man with a beautiful, healthy, feminine woman indulging our ids, our lusts and our love of our lives.

This is what the upper reaches of my ride of the human condition inspires within me. If it does this for me, why would anyone else be different? I believe the purpose of life is to make the private Garden of Eden in your mind real to some extent.

Deep within ourselves, we all have our own private, mythical version of paradise in our minds. All you have to do is try to make it come to pass to some extent in your life here on Earth as opposed to being brainwashed to follow images of glamour and fashion that corporate marketers sold you.

In your deepest, fantasy, lusty, bodacious visions of beauty, strength and youthful vigor in your own mythical Garden of Eden, you’re never fat, dumpy, old, depressed or pale. You’re always strong, vibrant, vital, beautiful, powerful and free.

Even though I’m over 50 as I write this book, I still see myself as a young, strong, free guy in the image in my mind. If you ever read the obituaries like I sometimes do because I want to see how many people my age are dying of diseases, you’ll notice that in many profiles of old people dying, the photograph is them when they were young, not them as old people. The greatest life is to live for the sense of eternal youth within yourself.

That’s it right there. Live for those beautiful primal archetypes you feel within yourself. Make an effort to make them real to some extent in your life. That’s all you have to do, honor your primal archetype.

If you’re a guy, honor your inner Tarzan. If you’re a girl, honor your inner Jane, Tarzan’s wholesome, fresh, natural and free girlfriend. If you see footage of 1950s buxom pin-up girl Betty Page, she doesn’t have any of the classic features of beauty but she’s got a kind of wholesome joy and exuberance about her that beats any manufactured look in a fashion magazine.

Get that image in your mind of the larger-than-life primordial character you are buried somewhere deep in your id and do what you intuitively feel you must to make it real in your real life to some extent.

Tied in with this is the way I live but I don’t want to repeat my book A Free Spirit's Search For Enlightenment here except to say that I need to purge whatever is inspired, pure and original about me as an individual.

I can’t let anything interfere with that, not religion, not pop culture entertainment and not the bad habits that many people have.

Because I’m the way I am, it’s natural for me to not drink much alcohol except for wine which is healthy for you. My inner, intuitive wisdom stops me. Even when I decide to catch a buzz, I never overdo it. I catch a moderate buzz and something inside of me tells me to stop, don’t poison your body.

I don’t overeat, don’t gorge on pop culture entertainment looking for something to pick me up, don’t buy useless stuff that I don’t need, don’t care about the status games of the world, don’t have an ego need to impress others, don’t feel lonely, don’t follow professional sports, etc.

It’s very simple, I just focus on honoring who I am as an individual by striving to release a good to great dose of natural energy everyday to match my inherent standard.

When you live like this, you cannot disrespect yourself which is why I don’t have the vices or excesses many people do. It’s easy for me. It’s not a struggle like it is for most people.

It comes down to your identity. Who is the person you were born to be, are and want to be?

I live to honor my identity. That’s all you need to stay permanently inspired for the rest of your life.

It’s not about all those trivial, calorie counting type rules and silly gimmicks like eat a piece of whole wheat bread with olive oil on it to fill you up so you’ll eat less later.

It’s about the holistic experience of your life.

I like the motion that I create with my body. I like the feeling of physical action. I shouldn’t be anything other than who I was born to be and want to be. I believe everybody was born to be physically vital because if you weren’t physically vital up until about a hundred years ago, unless you were a blueblood, you didn’t survive.

I don’t follow diets, I don’t read diet books, I don’t count calories yet I’m still feeling pretty good at 50 even after all the injuries I had through a life of hard physical living. I heal and keep going. I don’t have a gut. Most 50 year-old men have something there unless they’re drunks or cokeheads.

I can’t imagine any other way to be than to feel like my body is an instrument of joy and power and honor it everyday by working it with some gusto because I want to because I love it.

That’s the real way to be slim without getting bogged down in all the psychobabble bullshit of the world in the ten thousand or so diet books currently on the market.

They’re all trivial-neurotic, following some silly formulas and rules of eating certain foods, counting calories and following a bunch of other stupid steps.

I even saw one guy on TV saying to eat at least one meal a day blindfolded. His schtick is conscious eating which is to take a mouthful then meditate on it while you eat it very slowly. I don’t have time for that foolishness. It’s trivial. It doesn’t address the spirit that is you.

Rules don’t work. It’s about the holistic essence that is you. It’s intuitive and holistic. Follow that mythical image in your mind of the person you want to be.

If you have a problem focussing on yourself as a beautiful, strong, vital person, I suggest you buy some crayons and draw a picture of the ideal you in it every few nights in order to help you keep that image close in your mind while you make the effort to reach it.

Artists of Life Respect Themselves 1

Life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Luke 12:23, Matthew 6:25

The major hook of this book that flies in the face of every diet book ever written is that being at a balanced weight has nothing to do with diets.

Diets are like using a band-aid when you have a gaping wound or a crying soul. They don’t address the real issue which is who you are as a human being and how you live day by day.

Diets are like fighting the most powerful force in the Universe which for most people is food as either pleasure or in response to hunger. For some people, it’s sex and for a small minority, it’s the experience of life itself, living for the sensations, fun, thrill, sensuality and nobility of it.

The trick is to live as though food and hunger are no big deal like they’re just minor considerations in your overall enjoyment of life.

Up until a hundred years ago, most of us had to constantly worry about getting enough food to survive but all of a sudden, for a few bucks, we can get more food than we need right now so we eat it and get fat.

It’s a societal thing. Food is everywhere. It’s pleasure. It’s a lifestyle, sit around and eat while watching TV and engaging in pop culture entertainment. All of a sudden, we changed from being hearty folk working the fields to being fat asses sitting in a building buying junk food as opposed to cooking it for ourselves from scratch.

The reason I don’t have a food problem is because I purposely live to honor who I am as an individual. I believe I was born with a blueprint for my life which gives me a standard of what I should do everyday with my time and I follow it. I honor my standard to try to constantly ride my life and doing something worthy with it.

My need for self-respect and a transcendent feeling about my life override my craving for food. I would rather be active and burn off some natural energy to give me a rush and make me feel good about my life than sit around somewhere eating a large meal while watching a movie or something. That’s the difference between me and the average fat guy.

To him, sitting around eating stuff while playing video games is his definition of a good time. To me, having a great workout or a great creative session working my mind makes me feel much better than eating a jumbo hot dog with extra onions possibly could.

I’m an artist of my life. I believe in following what I feel intuitively within myself. I know that we are as primal as our ancestors despite this modern civilization we have developed and from this I also know that my true nature is to be physical and to eat foods from nature as close to their natural state as possible.

Another thing I do is use mind-altering substances then dance around like a fool for several hours. It’s a great way to forget about food and focus on the flow within yourself.

Because I’m an artist of my life, I try to honor this inner standard I feel within myself to be the person I was born to be. One of my archetypes is the physically strong, lean, primal man who likes to be outdoors doing things to burn off my natural energy. That’s who I feel I am and that’s how I live, honoring what I feel in my soul.

It’s the constant release of my natural inspiration. I live to feel anywhere from good to great everyday. I won’t lie and pretend that I wake up bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I feel tired most of the time when I get up but what separates me from the mass of humanity is that everyday I know I must release x amount of physical energy right off the block both in order to earn my self-respect by matching my inner standard and in order to feel anywhere from good to great.

Most people never get over this initial hump. It’s just not an issue to them that they feel they owe it to God to try to honor who they are physically by working the body.

I’ve been doing it for so long now that I know when I start a run, it generally starts slow and average but by the middle of it, I’ve accomplished something therefore earned some self-respect plus the fact that the physiological endorphin release has perked me up then I listen to some music and by the end of my run I’m feeling pretty good then right away I go and lift weights for awhile and I ain’t a spring chicken. I’m a half a century old but I’m still doing it like I’m a young dude.

It’s not plodding for me. I’m riding it, riding my life to try to feel good. The release of physical energy to me is one of the few ways I get a rush out of my life. I can’t think of anything else that can match it aside from the few hedonistic activities, namely sex and drugs.

Releasing a load of physical energy is one of the few true fountains of youth out there, the other for me being the release of my creative-intellectual energy in the pursuit of the esthetic lifestyle of an artist.

This is the only way you can stay at a moderate weight for life without trying too hard. It’s just a part of your natural lifestyle.

Artists of Life Respect Themselves 2

Diets are all wrong. They are a creation of this overanalyzed, mechanical system we have set up for ourselves giving our individual power away to so-called system experts who were all educated by the same paradigms in colleges. Some are just straight-out con-artists pretending to have advanced knowledge because they’re such advanced people. In non-scientific matters of life, they’re a bunch of one-dimensional clones regurgitating what they were taught which is all wrong.

Psychoanalysis is a lie that the field of psychology uses to suck people out of money in therapy sessions. Life really ain’t that deep. The past has no bearing on you right now simply for the fact that you create your life as you live it. If you want to be a victim and buy into that lie that the past affects your life, go ahead, be a sniveling little wimp sucker.

The field of weight loss or dieting is a lie because trying to lose weight by following trivial, little programs that focus on temporary food deprivation and stupid psychological tips to "help you stay motivated" as they say are like putting a finger in a dyke to stop a raging storm swell. The water is gonna eventually crash through.

Why? Because of the psychological mentality behind it. You’re consciously making a decision to temporarily deprive yourself of food so that you can lose weight so that you can eat all that junk food again. That’s what diets come down to, temporary deprivation for a pay-off in the future.

It’s all wrong because the real issue is one of identity. You have to identify your true identity then honor it. In the blueprint for your life your God gave you, He didn’t make you a fat ass who likes to play video games or watch ten hours of TV a day.

He made you a strong, lean, graceful person born to do something fun, glorious, inspired and noble with your life. If you’re too weak to honor that, blame no one but the mug in the mirror.

Nobody sees themselves as fat in the fantasy action shots of their mind’s eye yet many millions of people are fat. They are not in harmony with themselves.

Live true to the soul/ identity your Creator endowed you with and you will not be fat. That’s how simple it is. It’s about your lifestyle and life philosophy not about some stupid diet that’s geared to suck you out of your money one way or another.

You don’t have to buy special, overpriced food and get it delivered to your house in the mistaken belief that you’re following some scientific program like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and Nutrisystem do in their marketing schtick to make money.

It’s a big, for-profit money racket. You can eat whatever you want that you buy in your local area. Just be true to the person your God wants you to be.

America and the rest of modern, western society is going through a megalith of brainwash. We have given our natural, intuitive powers that were originally given to us by God to the system out there which I call Big Brother. You might call the system such terms as the medical profession, the News, mainstream media, pop culture entertainment and formal academic knowledge.

I’m not saying they’re all bad but what I’m saying is that up until about a hundred years ago, we, as individuals, were the masters of our lives. We either took care of ourselves and lived or didn’t and died.

Now, in the past 50 years or so, the system has come in and offered to replace all our intuitive, natural wisdom with its version of wisdom, a kind of formal, official wisdom based on supposed clinical studies analyzed by so-called experts but underlying all of it is the hidden agenda to make you an eternal consumer buying into the capitalist ideology as the path to happiness and success.

The first thing this has done is detach a lot of us from our personal natures the way we were born.

The second thing this has done is to make us a bunch of brainwashed clones, looking to the experts on TV and in so-called academic books written by so-called experts for the answers to what’s ailing us in our lives while I look at all of them, think the world is going crazy and live my life day by day by my own intuition, my own standard, staying slim without really trying too hard because my life is all about living by my own inspiration and the pursuit of hedonism, beauty and love, it’s just that my version of hedonism doesn’t include food much.

 

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I live to feel free. In order to do that, I have to run with my life, release lots of my inspired creative and physical energy to keep that feeling within myself that I’m feeling good to great and transcendent about my life.

It’s that simple. I think all the phony diet gurus and all their books are full of crap. When you focus on food as with any diet which every diet book author does, your mind is fixated on it.

This is counter-intuitive to living for the spirit of life such that you’re so into living and enjoying yourself that you’re not sitting around eating candy to try to fill some emptiness up within yourself.

All diets are artificial and mechanical. It’s about culturing an active, inspired lifestyle such that food becomes a minor consideration, a minor source of pleasure because you’re more interested in other sensations and experiences.

All you need to know is your true essence as a human being and live by it. All you need is inspiration, to love your life so much that you’re willing to take action for what you want.

Do you enjoy your life? Have you taken it for a good to great ride today? Do you do this everyday? Do you live with the spirit of this in mind, taking your life for a good to great run of experience and sensations everyday?

This is the only reasonable way that people stay thin without trying too hard. Junkies stay thin because they’re constantly using drugs but you’re destroying yourself at the same time.

I don’t count calories, educate myself extensively about nutrition to the point where I know every mineral and vitamin nor do I read food labels to see if a product has the good fats in it or the bad fats.

I live for the spirit of running with my life or riding it for the inspired-esthetic-sensual-loving experience it should be. This way of being is superior for losing weight and keeping it off than the 300 or so diet books I can see in the #611-613 section of any library.

A journalist went to a bookstore, asked for a list of the current diet books and got a printout for over 2700. The documentary I saw on CBC called Diet Confidential tells it like it is. Dieting books are marketing vehicles more concerned with presenting an image rather than providing solid, useful content.

They actually followed the creation of a current, pop diet book by a publishing company (Rodale) whose founder had high ideals to bring health knowledge to the world which has now eroded into a sales giant, selling hype and packaging over substance.

Imagine a cool place called South Beach that conjures up images of wealthy, healthy people in a wealthy, sunny area then they designed a cool cover that gives an image of an easy, breezy, idealistic beach scene.

They got a few good looking doctors to promote the book then wrote a bunch of articles in the magazines they own and made the rounds of all the news/ talk shows.

It was a total marketing job with very little substance. It’s like promoting the latest music CD. They were packaging it as a trendy book that the movie stars and cool people are into.

When you focus on trying to enjoy your life by purging all that natural life energy you feel within yourself for fun because that’s who you are, food becomes a secondary issue.

I don’t think about food much, dwell on it or worry about what I eat and I never gain weight. I’m wise enough to know I should eat more natural foods than processed foods but I eat junk food virtually everyday. I have a bowl of ice cream with oatmeal just before I go to sleep virtually every night.

I add chocolate to my granola, eat some potato chips and ice cream. I’m pretty tight for my age. I could be a bit tighter but I’m not ascetic. I enjoy my life. I’ve got vitality and a healthy body without doing all that tedious, regimented crap every diet book tells you to do.

I’m not a Spartan like some of them freaks I know who are one-dimensional health nuts. They drink chalk milk shakes, they know about all the vitamins and supplements, they read the latest fitness magazines and do Spartan things to stay fit like get up at six o’clock in the morning to exercise when all your instincts say you should sleep.

I do more physical activity than all of them but I do it when I wake up later after I’ve had a good sleep. I enjoy what I do. It’s not like some tedious, regimented exercise program. I do it for the feel of it, because I enjoy feeling my body work. It makes me feel like I’m riding my life the way I was born to do, kinda like a horse doing what he does best, run around the fields.

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My brain is mine for pleasant, interesting inspired, sensual thoughts. I don’t fill it up with all that crap about calories, glycemic index, carbohydrate gram counting, vitamins, minerals, recipes, etc. This is the only real, sane way to enjoy your life while staying thin. Ride it for the fun and inspiration it should be.

Another big thing is the capitalist, pop culture mindset that makes us buy useless things like home décor, junk food and more clothes than we need then we’re constantly craving for entertainment out there (TV, video games, movies) as opposed to living our own lives, doing things from that natural store of original, inspired thoughts we should have within our souls, our essences as individuals.

When you free up your mind from this bondage, you have more time to focus on you so you can do inspiring things that help you stay lean.

Most people on diets are following some trivial program of foods, food types, serving sizes, meal times and calories, obsessed with it, thinking about it therefore not enjoying their lives.

The cardinal sin they all commit is the focus on food, on depriving themselves of it and finding ways to satisfy their cravings through low calorie alternatives but my deal is that if you’re living an inspired, interesting lifestyle, you’re not focussing on food.

You’re enjoying the ride. You eat when you feel like it and don’t think much about it beyond that. There are naturally inspired people on the planet who live to honor their true essences as human beings and everybody else who are not morally bad people, just generic, one-dimensional people who have allowed themselves to get brainwashed by the system.

This is where the phony diet/ weight loss industry makes billions of dollars, on these weak, unenlightened, uninspired people.

They hype up these stupid diet books on the supposedly chique TV talk shows and lots of women want to be trendy so they buy them.

The truth is that you shouldn’t need any diet book, not even this one because it should all be intuitive within you: follow the lifestyles of your ancestors who worked the farms. Have enough self-respect that you cannot allow yourself to overeat.

The diet industry is really a marketing industry. It’s not there to help people but to make money off them in the guise of trying to help.

They wrap their so-called weight-loss and diet "programs" into both the cloak of official scientifically researched principles and an easy-breezy cool image of sophistication and elitism. Just look at the titles of some of the diet books. They try to give off the impression that cool, elitist, upper class people are part of the program.

The only really happy people around are people who enjoy their lives, who are not on diets but who live interesting, inspired lives with food as an afterthought at the end of the day as opposed to most overweight people or most people in general who live dull, uninspired lives and spend much of their time thinking about food as either a major source of pleasure, coping and/ or comfort.

People on diets, even if they’re not fat, are going about it all wrong. If you threw the diets away, threw the scale away because you intuitively know what your inner physical standard is based on the size of your stomach and how much spring there is in your step and simply live an interesting, inspired life resolving to get the most fun, interesting, intense, esthetically pleasing, sensual ride as you can for yourself, you will not be fat.

You’ll be like me. I’m not interested in the generic package deal of life offered to me by the system which is to buy a house then waste time manicuring your lawn, growing a flower garden, buying home décor junk, getting home improvements and buying useless stuff at the mall.

This Martha Stewart lifestyle will not give you the slim, sexy body you desire. That lifestyle is for generic nerds who barely scrape the icing off the intense, free essence they have inside but somewhere along the way they let their sensibility of who they could have been rot away to be replaced by this poor excuse for a life, this capitalist bliss pablum of making cookies, getting a makeover and buying all kinds of meaningless, trivial crap.

It’s not exactly like filling up your life with sixty seconds worth of distance run. It’s more like blandness. How can you be excited or inspired about any of that home décor crap that has saturated the souls of our brainwashed citizenry? Who cares about what kind of junk you decorate your home with?

My life is an attempt to live an intense, inspired-esthetic ride. My house is just a functional roof over my head. I don’t need junk from the mall to make me feel good. I’m constantly trying to release a bunch of physical, creative, sensual, hedonistic, esthetic and loving energy in order to keep myself in a state of a permanent natural high.

I don’t care about the talking heads on TV, not the serious ones on the so-called news channels or the phony bubbly ones pretending they’re insiders on the cusp of what’s off the hook in life on the entertainment tabloid shows and the E! network.

My life is geared for the active manifestation of my spiritual-esthetic essence. Every morning I get up. I’m all set to release a bunch of my natural inspired, sensual and loving energy to honor myself, get my dose of life and create memories of a glorious life for when I’m an old man on my last legs. I live my life for the glory of the experience in the moment.

I don’t need diets. What a dull way to live, to be on a diet. I eat what I want when I want. I don’t deprive myself of my momentary whims and I’m nowhere near being overweight. My life is plenty bohemian, creative and interesting such that food is just one minor pleasure among many.

If you live an inspired life following your soul and eat less junk food, the weight should come off in time and you should be able to maintain a healthy physique simply by virtue of an active lifestyle without getting all bogged down in trivial pursuits like all diets do.

You have an intuitive standard inside of who you are that was there when you were born given to you by your God. You know what you picture yourself as in your fantasy action shots. Tough people try to honor that by becoming it.

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God’s intention for you was to develop this seed which is your essence to manifest this potential that He or She endowed you with but throughout their lives, most people won’t realize they have this essence/ soul/ inner standard therefore they won’t discover it or live by it.

They will be brainwashed by the world system and follow the rules, conventions, protocols and traditions the world passes on to them through such entities as parents, religion, school, the media, pop culture entertainment, corporate advertising, politicians, peer pressure (a bunch of brainwashed people trying to keep you down like themselves), etc. so because they’re not tuned into their true inner forces, they won’t live in harmony with who they are really meant to be which is one of the reasons they will live a somewhat miserable, empty, unfocussed life and their relationship with food will go along with this disharmony within.

The emptiness will often manifest itself through an addiction or excess in some part of life to compensate for the empty feeling inside because you’re not living by your true nature and haven’t fulfilled your destiny according to the way you really feel deep in the core of your soul.

The two biggest excesses in a capitalist thinking society are food and consumerism, eating too much and buying lots of useless things to try to compensate for an empty soul.

Sex doesn’t even rate for most people despite the media portraying us as a sexy society but that’s a matter for my sex book.

We all want happiness now. When we open the refrigerator door, we’re looking for an instant dose of happiness because we are not happy enough with ourselves as is.

Sure, you could be genuinely hungry but usually after you’ve eaten your main meal for the day, you’re looking for something to make you feel comfortable and cozy. If you can find that sense of well-being within yourself without turning to food, you will lose weight and keep it off.

Enlightened, inspired people find this intuitive standard within themselves and live by their true natures. When you live like this, other pleasures take precedence over food as a pleasure.

My theory is that fat people are people who use food to make themselves feel good in response to their dull, empty lives but it doesn’t work because the food is temporary comfort that ultimately puts you in greater disharmony by making you more fat.

Find the explorer-artist spirit within yourself and live it with gusto to the hilt and your sense of who you are will demand that you be in harmony with yourself therefore not fat.

Many people in our society follow the illusions of the world which is why they’re so messed up, out of harmony with themselves, hence, one possible manifestation of this is a sedentary lifestyle, a fat body and a life of excessive addictions which are manifestations of an empty soul.

People connected to their souls, in harmony with themselves, feel good about their lives.

They have no negative addictions because they don’t need them while other people use their excesses like buying stuff and eating food as a temporary way to feel good because deep down inside they’re constantly empty and want to fill themselves up somehow but eating food or buying useless trinkets at the mall is not the right way.

God did not create people with a predisposition to be fat. He created you to live an active, inspired life releasing your natural energy, spreading your love and joy onto the world but you got fat following the illusions of the world, living out of harmony with the essence/ soul you were born with.

If you can find your way to your true soul and live by your true nature, food will not be an issue in your life.

Your life will be so spiritually-esthetically-sensually-lovingly inspired that low-level carnal pursuits like food will be virtually meaningless or just minor pleasures, no big deal.

They won’t rate as a topic worthy of consideration. This is the only way to lose weight without really trying all that hard then keeping it off.

If you take the time to prepare so-called low calorie recipes, you are spending time thinking about food, preparing it, smelling it as it cooks and the result is that you will eat more than a normal portion because you will rationalize that because it’s low-cal, you can but the hypocrisy is that you’re still taking in calories and obsessed with taste when you should try to flip a switch inside your essence as a human being that can turn away from food, not think about it much.

Do you believe any so-called diet or weight-loss program out there? If you do, you’re another brainwashed sucker of the massive money-making misinformation weight loss industry out there.

There is no magical chemistry of foods or food types to eat that will help you lose more calories than you take in except for fiber which can’t be digested so it comes out the backside.

The body is an equal opportunity food digester. It doesn’t care if you eat carbs, restrict them, eat fat, restrict it, eat protein, restrict it, etc.

A calorie is a calorie regardless of what source it comes from. You lose weight by eating less than you expend.

Your body processes everything equally and stores the surplus as glycogen then fat. Your body goes to your fat stores to use them up only when you’re eating less than you burn up through activity.

Try any diet for as long as you want then go back to your soul or go there for the first time if you’ve never been there before, live by it for awhile then come back to me and tell me who's right and who's the slickster feeding you with convoluted, phony knowledge acting like some happenin’ guru.

Despite all that smoke diet book authors blow at you about their so-called scientifically researched formulas of ideal food consumption and delicious, low-cal recipes, it’s all snake oil and mirrors.

The bottom line is that any diet that works does so by somehow making you reduce your overall caloric intake even if you think it’s because of the particular gimmick you’re following like the no carb diet, the high protein diet, carbs with protein, etc.

Go to #611-613 at the library for nutrition and exercise books, #641 for hundreds of cookbooks, #641.400-563 for healthy, low-fat cookbooks and #646.75 for books about beauty, body, i.e., body building, body sculpting, etc.

Specific weight loss books are at #613.25-70 or RM222.2.

Books about people with eating disorders who talk about how they dealt with it are at #362.27 or RC552 at the library.

Books about the spiritual aspects of food are at #641.3001 or BL65 of the Library of Congress system.

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An artist of life is someone who tries very hard to live purely by their true nature away from the brainwash of the world.

If you live as an artist of your life then you know that you inherently have certain images of yourself in your highest, most ideal state in your mind's eye. All of us see ourselves as strong, sleek, beautiful looking people in the fantasy action shots we get of ourselves in our minds.

If you want to be an artist of your life, strive to make these images come to pass in real life, at least to some extent. We all intuitively know what we have to do; move, be physically active, be inspired about your life, eat healthy foods and eat less of it. That’s all you have to do, live for that image you have in your soul of the person you want to be.

Draw pictures of yourself if you want of yourself as this beautiful, strong, sexy, sleek person.

Your true nature is the pictures you get of yourself in your finest moments, doing what you feel you should be doing with your life, looking like you feel you should by nature. You were born with a certain essence, a certain purity. Some people call it your soul.

The enlightened people among us know that you have to do your damnest to discover this purity then live by it if you’re to be anywhere near happy in life. Many of us do not discover this purity and allow ourselves to get brainwashed by the world.

It’s very simple. Nobody sees themselves as fat, uncoordinated nerds in the fantasy action shots in their mind’s eye.

The Creator of the Universe, God, made us to live in nature like the animals, to forage, garden and hunt for our food, to build our shelters with our hands but somewhere along the way we have lost our connection to who we really are as primal human beings.

We’re basic and simple. We should take a lesson from the way animals live, in harmony with their true natures. If we were truly active and ate in moderation like our ancestors did out of necessity in order to survive, we would be sleek, strong, healthy people feeling good about ourselves because everyday we would earn our food through our sweat.

I’m not saying go back to primal times to hunt for food but live in the spirit of your ancestors. Go out there and release some physical energy everyday. Eat in moderation. Eat food close to its natural state as opposed to processed food.

My nature is to be active. I believe this is man’s true nature as a whole but we went and screwed it up by inventing this modern world where we sit on our asses all day doing some sedentary job then go home and sit on our asses watching TV.

I enjoy my active life. That’s the key. Find out who you are and what you really like to do as inspired physical and creative activities then do them all the time.

Losing weight or being permanently at an ideal, moderate weight should be easy. It’s not a mechanical thing like all those diets and so-called fitness plans out there preach. That’s where they all fail, by implying some spartan regimen that’s unpleasant.

I enjoy my life. I enjoy my workouts. I enjoy my food. It’s all intuitive to me. I follow my true nature. That’s why I’m strong and sleek even though I’m almost 50 as I write this book. I’m enjoying my ride, releasing all that energy everyday for the inspiration, challenge and joy of it.

I’m not a young buck anymore but I don’t care. Sometimes when I start a run, I look like a waddling duck for a few minutes before I warm up but I’m cool with that because I know I lived up to full physical potential in my youth and I’m still doing it now in a modified form as an older person. I’m being the best I can be. You can’t do any better than that.

 

Weakness and Denial are Fat

 

People who love their lives are not fat. They’re too busy enjoying the ride to sit around stuffing their faces.

A fat society is a symptom of a lost society of spiritually empty people brainwashed by the excessive materialism of capitalism and the frivolity of pop culture entertainment.

Overweight or fat people are generic, uninspired people either brainwashed by the world system to follow something other than their true natures or simply too lazy to strive to become the person they really want to be.

For most people, it’s not physiological like a thyroid problem. It’s not about your metabolism since you create the speed of your own metabolism by the way you live.

It’s not about some psychobabble reason like your father didn’t love you enough as a child or you were sexually abused so now you put the fat on in order to subconsciously look unattractive so as not to be perceived as attractive anymore.

Strip away all the psychobabble and bullshit and only one thing causes fat; HUMAN WEAKNESS aka LAZINESS. You’re too weak to become the person you really want to be.

Food is the temporary pleasure and comfort that weak people use to try to feel good right now in response to the misery they feel at not being the person they want to be but all they’re really doing is making themselves fatter by eating now to try to feel good in the moment.

The only way to become the person you want to be is to get over everything you’ve ever been brainwashed by, mainly what constitutes success, happiness and pleasure.

All you ultimately own is this blob of flesh that is you. Why do people destroy their bodies and lives trying to earn more money than they’ll ever need? Why do you go to movies or watch silly TV shows? Why do you buy useless stuff at the mall? What does home décor have to do with happiness?

These are all the corporate-capitalist system’s formula for success and happiness but they’re not the true essence that is you. They’re just brainwashing tools meant to get you to become a pacified, working stiff consumer.

Going to a movie to eat junk food and watch some silly images on a screen is society’s definition of a good time but to me, it’s cultural brainwash. It doesn’t come close to me going for a ten mile run or swimming across the lake yet every Sunday afternoon, millions of stupid people go to silly movies that give them no deep feeling of goodness or joy in their souls. They just watch some meaningless images then forget about them that night when they watch some silly TV shows.

All you own is your essence as a human being and your body. Everything else out in the world is a smokescreen and a lie. The only truly happy people in the world are the people who know this and live to respect and honor who they are.

Everybody else gets blown away by some combination of capitalist and pop culture illusions. That’s why you’re all fat, because you’re brainwashed, generic, uninspired people hooked on capitalism and pop culture entertainment rather than focussing on the only thing that should really matter, examining who you are, discovering it then living to honor this essence that is you called your soul.

The truth hurts. Fat people I’ve talked to told me I was full of shit as I laughed at them and said, "Yah, but I’m still me and you’re still you and on my worst day, I still feel a hundred times better than you on your best day."