Body Whispering

From: The 4-Day Win by Martha Beck

Stage 1 ~ Pre-Contemplation ~ Body Whispering

If you have ever seen a horse or dog being trained through brute force and punishment you will observe the creature become panicked and frightened. Panicked and frightened animals often lash out and attack those trying to control them. And it gets worse the more you try to “pull them into line”.

Animals rely on their instincts to stay alive. If they are treated like prey, then their instincts is to run first, and then to fight if they are cornered.

The only way to successfully rehabilitate an abused animal is through trust and kindness in a safe environment. Horse whisperers and dog whisperers use these techniques to calm even the most violent and disturbed animals.

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Famine Brain ~ The Fattening Way to Lose Weight

From: The 4 Day Win by Martha Beck

Stage 1 ~ Pre-Contemplation ~ Famine Brain

Fact: Your brain is an astonishing complex and powerful instrument specifically evolved to keep you from losing weight.

Fact: Because it is an evolutionary imperative, eating is highly rewarding physically and psychologically. Not eating food makes us hungry, but it also makes us afraid.

Fact: Dietary restriction and strenuous exercise cause the brain to fixate on finding food and comfort, while pumping out hormones that signal the body to lay in supplies by becoming more sedentary  and storing fat.

Fact: Famine responses are far stronger than conscious intention. They are will outwit, outplay and outlast your attempts to diet by will power.

Fact: Eating less and being hungry will escalate your stress responses until they make you want to everything in sight and they will also cause your personality to change (not for the better!)

Fact: Read about the Ancel Keys Minnesota Starvation Experiment 1950

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Eat Less, Move More ~ Just Do It!

Introduction to The 4-Day Win by Martha Beck

We share a cultural belief that a combination of information and willpower should be enough to ensure compliance with any weight loss program. Eat less, move more, just do it! If this worked, we would all be thin already. Martha tell us that there is something amiss in our diet strategy.

The problem isn’t that we don’t know what to do, the problem is that we don’t do what we know. Why not? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the most compelling answer is not in our refrigerators, our restaurants, our mouths, our stomachs, our weak wills, or our basically vile and godless natures. It’s in our heads.

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To the 130 People Reading This in Google Reader

This Blog has moved to Head♥Heart♥Health

There are 130 people who read this blog in Google Reader who have been missing out on my wonderful insights (ha!) into the joys of smashing out of the diet/binge cycle. I know this because Google Reader tells me I only have 28 subscriptions to my Wordpress Blog.

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This is the FINAL POST

The time has come the walrus said to speak of other things  to make a significant change. I have been thinking about this for awhile. I am leaving my past behind and embracing a new, exciting future as a healthy living blogger.

This blog is going into retirement as a memento of my old fucked up life learning experience.

I can now be found blogging at

Head ♥ Heart ♥ Health over at Wordpress.

Head over there to check out the easiest way to free yourself from the diet mentality by learning how to listen to your inner wisdom.

I do hope that you follow me down this fresh new path. If not, I wish you peace, joy and happiness in all that you do.

Thanks for the ride -- see you later ♥