The "People Power" Food Superbook:
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 Minds Eye: Archetypal Visions
Archetypes and the Physical Body
My Inner Tarzan Archetype
Self-Respect: Honor Your Soul
Lose Weight One-Liners 1-2
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
This book covers my unique view on weight loss and vitality which I would call the esthetic-spiritual flow of life theory.
You cant 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 didnt 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. Its not like its rocket science. Its intuition and common sense.
You dont hide behind some pieces of paper the system gave you that says youre a good clone. Whatever wisdom they can give you is everywhere. Its 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 theyre taking a regimented, formulaic approach to weight loss which is boring and tedious.
Weight loss is life. Its 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 cant 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 dont 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 thats 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. Its easy. I enjoy me life. Food doesnt mean much to me.
For more extensive information about food, sports and spas, refer to my health book.
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 youre 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, youll never lose weight permanently.
Another thing is the food you eat. Dont 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. Im 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. Its not healthy to go under five percent body fat anyway.
Get to that state of life where youre 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 wont because nobody follows the "program" to a tee and doesnt 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 youre not a robot, life doesnt work that way, food is only one part of a fit body and all food is basic.
Theres nothing special about food you pay too much for that comes in the mail. Go to your local supermarket. Get real. Its a sales gimmick geared to make you feel special, like you belong to some elite group of people losing weight but its just you, your mouth and your life. They get rich exploiting your weakness a human being.
Theres 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 youre a beautiful specimen of humanity the way your God created you to be and live by it. Youre 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 cant 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 were 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.
Thats why youre 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 dont own your own life. The mainstream mass media mindset owns you. If you dont 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 its a big business venture masquerading as tribes of people united by common emotions?
Its because they got brainwashed by the world.
The bottom line is that excessive weight is an outward symbol of a persons inner disharmony. There is not one overweight person on the planet whos happy. If they claim to be, theyre lying because we all have a built-in self-judgment standard given to us by our Creator, God. If I dont feel like a physically strong, vital specimen of humanity, I dont feel good.
You can try to deny that you dont get bad feelings because youre 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. Its always telling you the truth which is that excess weight makes you feel yucky and out of harmony with yourself.
Its no surprise to me why multi-millions of Americans are depressed and many more might not be totally forlorn but theyre mundane. There are no highs in their lives. If youre overweight, it clouds your entire life. All you really own is your body. If its 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 theyre riding on air or dancing the tango gracefully.
If you dont answer to yourself and honor your inner voice, youll 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, youre not a bumbling, lumbering big bag of crap.
Youre strong, beautiful and vital. The problem is that theyre 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 Spirits 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 cant imagine living without my self-respect. I earn it everyday with sweat but its not a tedious chore to me. I love to feel my body move. Thats what God created people to do.
Its not really about food or diets. Its about a certain vision you have of yourself. Everybody sees themselves as beautiful and strong in their minds eye. Just honor it.
Thats 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 Spirits 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 its 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 wont 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 theres 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 Freuds 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 Ive done magic mushrooms, LSD and ayahuasca. Im 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.
Its 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 thats 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. Thats 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. Its the highest joy in life. People say they hate exercise and act like its 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 youve lived through serious injuries like I have.
People sit around eating junk food, watching TV then feel sorry for themselves because theyre fat and cant get it up. Im 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.
Its easy. I have the vision of my physical archetype always in my mind. Its all I need. I have enough self-respect such that Im always honoring it by eating right and moving physically. Its not tedious. Im 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 thats 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, youre never fat, dumpy, old, depressed or pale. Youre always strong, vibrant, vital, beautiful, powerful and free.
Even though Im 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, youll 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.
Thats 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. Thats all you have to do, honor your primal archetype.
If youre a guy, honor your inner Tarzan. If youre a girl, honor your inner Jane, Tarzans wholesome, fresh, natural and free girlfriend. If you see footage of 1950s buxom pin-up girl Betty Page, she doesnt have any of the classic features of beauty but shes 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 dont 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 cant let anything interfere with that, not religion, not pop culture entertainment and not the bad habits that many people have.
Because Im the way I am, its 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, dont poison your body.
I dont overeat, dont gorge on pop culture entertainment looking for something to pick me up, dont buy useless stuff that I dont need, dont care about the status games of the world, dont have an ego need to impress others, dont feel lonely, dont follow professional sports, etc.
Its 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 dont have the vices or excesses many people do. Its easy for me. Its 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. Thats all you need to stay permanently inspired for the rest of your life.
Its 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 youll eat less later.
Its 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 shouldnt 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 werent physically vital up until about a hundred years ago, unless you were a blueblood, you didnt survive.
I dont follow diets, I dont read diet books, I dont count calories yet Im 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 dont have a gut. Most 50 year-old men have something there unless theyre drunks or cokeheads.
I cant 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.
Thats 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.
Theyre 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 dont have time for that foolishness. Its trivial. It doesnt address the spirit that is you.
Rules dont work. Its about the holistic essence that is you. Its 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 dont 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, its sex and for a small minority, its 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 theyre 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.
Its a societal thing. Food is everywhere. Its pleasure. Its 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 dont 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. Thats 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.
Im 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. Its a great way to forget about food and focus on the flow within yourself.
Because Im 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. Thats who I feel I am and thats how I live, honoring what I feel in my soul.
Its the constant release of my natural inspiration. I live to feel anywhere from good to great everyday. I wont 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. Its 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.
Ive 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, Ive 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 Im feeling pretty good then right away I go and lift weights for awhile and I aint a spring chicken. Im a half a century old but Im still doing it like Im a young dude.
Its not plodding for me. Im 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 cant 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. Its 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 theyre such advanced people. In non-scientific matters of life, theyre 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 aint 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. Youre 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. Thats what diets come down to, temporary deprivation for a pay-off in the future.
Its 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 didnt 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 youre 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 minds 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. Thats how simple it is. Its about your lifestyle and life philosophy not about some stupid diet thats geared to suck you out of your money one way or another.
You dont have to buy special, overpriced food and get it delivered to your house in the mistaken belief that youre following some scientific program like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and Nutrisystem do in their marketing schtick to make money.
Its 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.
Im not saying theyre all bad but what Im 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 didnt 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 whats 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, its just that my version of hedonism doesnt 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 Im feeling good to great and transcendent about my life.
Its 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 youre so into living and enjoying yourself that youre not sitting around eating candy to try to fill some emptiness up within yourself.
All diets are artificial and mechanical. Its about culturing an active, inspired lifestyle such that food becomes a minor consideration, a minor source of pleasure because youre 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 youre 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 theyre constantly using drugs but youre destroying yourself at the same time.
I dont 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. Its 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 thats who you are, food becomes a secondary issue.
I dont think about food much, dwell on it or worry about what I eat and I never gain weight. Im 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. Im pretty tight for my age. I could be a bit tighter but Im not ascetic. I enjoy my life. Ive got vitality and a healthy body without doing all that tedious, regimented crap every diet book tells you to do.
Im 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 oclock 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 Ive had a good sleep. I enjoy what I do. Its 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 Im 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 dont 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 were 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 youre living an inspired, interesting lifestyle, youre not focussing on food.
Youre enjoying the ride. You eat when you feel like it and dont 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 shouldnt 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. Its 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 theyre 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.
Youll be like me. Im 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.
Its not exactly like filling up your life with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Its 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 dont need junk from the mall to make me feel good. Im 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 dont care about the talking heads on TV, not the serious ones on the so-called news channels or the phony bubbly ones pretending theyre insiders on the cusp of whats 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. Im 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 Im an old man on my last legs. I live my life for the glory of the experience in the moment.
I dont need diets. What a dull way to live, to be on a diet. I eat what I want when I want. I dont deprive myself of my momentary whims and Im 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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Gods 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 wont realize they have this essence/ soul/ inner standard therefore they wont 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 theyre not tuned into their true inner forces, they wont 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 youre not living by your true nature and havent 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 doesnt even rate for most people despite the media portraying us as a sexy society but thats a matter for my sex book.
We all want happiness now. When we open the refrigerator door, were 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 youve eaten your main meal for the day, youre 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 doesnt 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 theyre 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 dont 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 theyre 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 wont 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 its low-cal, you can but the hypocrisy is that youre 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, youre 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 cant be digested so it comes out the backside.
The body is an equal opportunity food digester. It doesnt 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 youre 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 youve 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, its 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 its because of the particular gimmick youre 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. Thats 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 youre to be anywhere near happy in life. Many of us do not discover this purity and allow ourselves to get brainwashed by the world.
Its very simple. Nobody sees themselves as fat, uncoordinated nerds in the fantasy action shots in their minds 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.
Were 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.
Im 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 mans 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. Thats 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. Its not a mechanical thing like all those diets and so-called fitness plans out there preach. Thats where they all fail, by implying some spartan regimen thats unpleasant.
I enjoy my life. I enjoy my workouts. I enjoy my food. Its all intuitive to me. I follow my true nature. Thats why Im strong and sleek even though Im almost 50 as I write this book. Im enjoying my ride, releasing all that energy everyday for the inspiration, challenge and joy of it.
Im not a young buck anymore but I dont care. Sometimes when I start a run, I look like a waddling duck for a few minutes before I warm up but Im cool with that because I know I lived up to full physical potential in my youth and Im still doing it now in a modified form as an older person. Im being the best I can be. You cant do any better than that.
People who love their lives are not fat. Theyre 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, its not physiological like a thyroid problem. Its not about your metabolism since you create the speed of your own metabolism by the way you live.
Its not about some psychobabble reason like your father didnt 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. Youre 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 theyre 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 youve 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 theyll 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 systems formula for success and happiness but theyre not the true essence that is you. Theyre 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 societys definition of a good time but to me, its cultural brainwash. It doesnt 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. Thats why youre all fat, because youre 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 Ive talked to told me I was full of shit as I laughed at them and said, "Yah, but Im still me and youre still you and on my worst day, I still feel a hundred times better than you on your best day."
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