I Can Eat A Hot Fudge Sundae Daily and Still Shed Pounds, Melt Body Fat, and Chase Off the Energy Thief?
My client asked with this curiosity of a little girl: “I’m ready to hear about what I heard you said in a Webinar … did you really say that we can eat Blue Bell Ice Cream every day on your plan? And still lose weight?”
Obviously, she’d been listening to some of my talks on YouTube.
“Well, I used to say that … but I don’t anymore!” I said with a big smile.
She looked like a blow-up toy that had just been sliced with a pair of scissors. Totally deflated!
Then I added: “I don’t say it anymore (nor do I use my old website: www.EatBlueBellAndLoseWeight.com) … but … only because Blue Bell is a ‘southern thing.’ People from other areas of the country didn’t even know what I meant when I said it!”
I saw a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
“So … now I just say: ‘You can eat a hot fudge sundae every day on this plan and still lose weight’!”
I thought she was going to get up and cheer!
Maybe you are too!
Of course, shedding pounds and melting body fat goes slower when you do that. But I encourage people with this: “This is not a deprivation plan. It’s a LIFESTYLE plan!”
She asked, “I’ve heard that term a lot … what exactly does ‘lifestyle plan’ mean?”
I said, “It means it’s the way you will eat, exercise, and live for the rest of your life.”
Back when I wrote and published my original lifestyle book: What’s A Nice Person Like Me Doing in a Body Like This? … my mother was living with me.
She went to every seminar I did in Texas and the surrounding areas. She would work my book table afterwards, and people would ask her: “Does she really eat like this?” Or “Does she follow the plan?”
My mother would assure them I did, but then she would start in on how amazing the plan was … how it helped her drop some pounds but also lowered her cholesterol enough so that her doctor took her off that medication.
She would share how her energy skyrocketed, and how much younger she felt. (Evidence by trimming our trees on a ladder with a chainsaw in her 80s!)
But I MOST loved this one thing she’d say to everyone:
“Commit to this plan for the rest of your life … and you will have a MUCH RICHER life!”
She was so full of life … and so convincing … people who didn’t “get it” from my talk would make a lifelong decision.
I wish she were still alive for this second time around with my book and lifestyle plan. So that she would understand that her struggles with trauma as a little girl set her up for a long battle with unwelcomed pounds, unwanted body fat, and the energy thief.
I know she would love to encourage everyone of you! She was much better at it than me. But hopefully, you will feel encouraged by what I am sharing.
Let me encourage you to step into a new lifestyle plan.
A New Look at Breakfast & Lunch (Inoculate Yourself)
Remember, this plan is not about weighing, measuring, portion control … none of the typical plan components.
Instead, it’s about healing the systems in your body that trauma disrupted (endocrine system, digestive system, adrenal system, etc.) and programming your body to work as designed.
With you. And for you. Not against you!
Our brains and bodies have teamed-up by the hormonal signals that have been hijacked (to put it simply) by our sugar-laced diet … and our bent towards the cravings that have created this kind of dependency in our bodies.
The trauma had ZERO invitation from you.
But remember EVERYONE’S trauma needs comfort and resolution.
Some people eat to get it.
Some drink.
Some rage.
Some gamble.
You get my drift.
Let’s get back to YOU and what you CAN eat with complete liberty on this plan.
Here’s an overview of breakfast and lunch:
High protein breakfast …
High protein lunch …
BOTH with high protein veggies
No other carbs.
High protein (non-starchy) veggies have some carbs in them, but not much.
They inoculate your body to the insulin spikes that come with carb intake.
An inoculation is introducing a small amount of some microorganism into the body to help the immune system develop protection against a specific disease.
(Please don’t send me hate mail on this issue … this is not an ad for or against inoculations … I honor your position on that, whatever it may be. That is a totally different topic!)
In this lifestyle plan, we are inoculating your body to its usual insulin spikes that normally occur when we introduce carbs into our system. (Those carbs that trauma programmed our bodies to crave!)
Does that require a different way of looking at breakfast? YES!
DONUTS? NO!
Bacon and eggs? YES!
But veggies??? YES!
What on earth would lunch look like?
A perfect lunch would be a grilled chicken (or salmon, or steak) Caesar.
Extra cheese? YES!
Two chicken breasts? GREAT!
Croutons? NO!
What about snacks? I’ll starve without them!
High protein snacks only.
Again … if you don’t inoculate yourself … you cannot introduce carbs in the evening meal!
“WOW! I actually think I can do this! But doesn’t bacon cause high cholesterol and lots of fat?” my client asked.
“Only if there’s a big dose of insulin flowing … that acts a lot like superglue. Clogging veins and carrying all that fat to the cells,” I explained in an oversimplified way.
When I was an associate in the research program on diabetes, using a similar lifestyle plan, we found that there was a significant drop in the (bad) cholesterol numbers, blood pressure, and blood sugar.
The research was new at that time but now is well-documented.
But I must issue this notice: please check with your physician before making any lifestyle changes.
“My doctor said: ‘Give it a try and we will let your lab results speak for themselves.’ I just know they will be good,” then she paused and added: “Not just good … but GREAT!”
I validated her enthusiasm. “The truth is … only 20% of the success is a good plan. The other 80% is your ‘mindset.’ If we have a good mindset, our RAS (reticular activating system) in our brains will work with us for GREAT results. Otherwise, it will resist results and change.”
(From a friend in AA. You hear it constantly. I’ll be honest when I began getting sober … it really p*ssed me off when they’d say … “Just don’t drink for the next 24.” I wanted say, “Why don’t you just kiss my a**!” But I’d already decided to give up all reasons for knowing any answers or espousing them and you know what? I realized at BEST 24 hours is all we get.
When I started focusing on just one day at a time, all the cares for tomorrow became something I no longer had to manage with self-pity or booze. Living in the “now” is living in and under the spiritual mantel that being in the present supernaturally just makes happen. It’s void of brain and body when you commit your spirit to living only 24 hours at a time. That’s when and how the heart starts to run the show.)
I hope you will at the very least say to yourself: “I believe I can get some good things, some good results …”
That’s enough to disrupt the thinking that trauma set in us. (Usually containing disempowering thoughts like: “Nothing works for me.” … Or “I just can’t do this.” Or worse yet … “It’s in my genes!”
You can do it!
Your 70 Minutes
Your 70 minutes is your “treat time.”
You have 70 minutes in your evening meal (if you’ve eaten the proper breakfast and lunch) … to introduce some carbs. But the 70 minutes is the window where the first bite of carbs to the last bite of carbs must occur.
(Cheaters need not apply … let’s do this!)
Why 70 minutes?
Although the data is mixed, our “inoculation” seems to hold somewhere between 75-90 minutes of carb intake before it dumps insulin into our system like Niagara Falls.
-Don’t stretch it.
-Stay safe.
-Stay within 70 minutes.
“What kind of carbs?” she asked innocently, although I knew they real question behind it.
“Preferably healthier carbs. Like sweet potatoe fries instead of French fries. Whole wheat pasta instead of white pasta. Whole grain bread instead of Hawaiian bread,” I explained.
She nodded … clearly hoping for more.
I continued to explain that the healthier the carb choices during those 70 minutes …
-The more rapidly the dropping of unwanted pounds would occur.
-The quicker the body fat would melt away.
-And the faster the energy thief would be chased off.
“But I know what you really want to know … is that when you can have your BlueBell (or a hot fudge sundae)?” I asked.
She was almost holding her breath for the answer.
I had to laugh as I said: “Yes!”
I’ve been working with this lifestyle plan for years … and I’ve seen 100’s of thousands of pounds lost, bountiful percentages of body fat shed, a billion kilowatts of energy restored! All around the globe.
Some who made better choices than others during their 70 minutes. The only variable in results between those who made healthier choices, and one gal who popped 6 cans of Dr. Pepper, and prepared several greasy burritos during her 70 minutes?
The only variable was the amount of time it took them to get their ideal results.
JUST DO IT FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS!
-Then start again!
That simple that complex.
Helping Your Body Adjust
There’s one more thing I suggest to people embarking on this journey.
(Again, check with your physician before you try this.)
But I explained about glucagon and how it is the “spending hormone” in a recent blog.
In my original book, I was way ahead of my time.
I wrote decades ago that we needed a “magic pill” to activate glucagon … which spends our body fat and pounds like crazy.
Now we have all kinds of medications and semaglutides that basically pump-up glucagon (that’s an oversimplification of what they do, but gives you the general idea).
People often ask me if they should try to get on one of those new medications. I always refer them back to their physician for that!
But I have studied and researched various nutritional supplements to see if there were those with some efficacy and valid results.
Many of the new nutritional products boast GLP-1 types of responses yet show very little efficacy.
I have found one that I would recommend.
It was used in a study that compared results of brand name GLP-1 medications with this patch, and it was not better than or equal to those results. But only slightly less than the results of the medication, and significantly better than the test group that received no support.
It is slightly more expensive than most (and there are some very cheap ones that are likely very ineffective). Certainly, a worthy investment to help your body regulate. https://amzn.to/3UaQV96
I get asked regularly by my audiences if they “should” consider bariatric surgery.
Again, I defer to their physician.
Certainly, I’m not opposed to bariatric procedures or GLP-1 medications.
But I hope you’ll try something gentler to your body while you check out those options with your physician.
“Well, the patch is less per month than two trips through Starbucks … so I will definitely check it out. And I’m glad it’s not another huge nutritional supplement to swallow!” my client commented with great enthusiasm.
I hope you will do whatever it takes to reclaim your body from the damage of trauma! And I hope you can do it with the same enthusiasm I saw in my client!
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I am doing my best within the confines of a weekly blog to get you started.
My book will be off for the first edit in the next week.
But I’m not sure of the time frame of the actual release.
I know you’d like more details. And I’m sure you have questions.
I am doing a workshop next week for a great nonprofit: “Three Oaks Ranch.” It will be my first presentation in my re-launch.
We are hoping to have a great crowd there in Anna, TX.
But I’ve decided to do it virtually at the same time so that those of you eager to get started can attend online … and hear more details and get your questions answered.
It will be LIVE on Saturday, August 9 from 10 AM to 12 PM (Central Time). If you are not free at that time, but you’re ready to get started … You will receive the link to the recording by the end of that day.
I hope you will adopt a GENTLE lifestyle program … that heals your body … and drops those unwelcomed pounds, melts that unwanted body bad, and chases the energy thief off … running for the hills!
(From my friend in AA. “Looking into the future now never goes past my commitment. And my commitment is to the next 24 hours. I work on my past by recognizing new forms of humility to embrace. I work on my future by my surrender to the present. I do my best to be very present for each moment the next 24 hours brings me.)
