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Recap: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith Shares How to Lose Weight the Healthy Way

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Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith on DivaTalkRadioDr. Saundra Dalton-Smith was our guest today instructing us in true healthy weight loss as a journey. We focused on asking yourself the right questions as you get fit. Then she told us more about her wonderful book and how you can get it.

If you are embarking on a weight loss plan ask yourself:

1. What is the underlying goal you are trying to attain by losing weight? And what is it going to do for you? If its a way of validating yourself, it is a setup for disappointment.

Best perspective: See it as a health issue. This is a health journey with daily choices.

2. What short term goals do you have for your weight loss?

Instead of saying 10 lbs in 2 months. Let it be something you can control. “I will do zumba 2 days a week.” If life happens and gets in your way you can make it up at home and attain your goal. Let it be less regimented. Find ways to be flexible. You can do it on your terms.

3. What is your long term goal. If it is a number let it be a range. Ask yourself, “At what weight do I feel the best?” When you get to that number, that is the highest you should ever weigh again.  Then you will find a number that you kind of sit at. Call that your “happy number.”  That may be higher than the body mass index, but if you keep doing the right stuff, let God make up the result.

4. How will you define your successful plan?  Get away from a certain number and tune into a good feeling!

5. When will you terminate your plan?  -This is a trick question! We are looking for you to embrace the journey!
This was a great show! We encourage you to get Dr. Saundra’s book: 

Set Free to Live Free – Breaking through the Lies Women Believe
www.setfreetolivefreebook.com

Saundra Dalton-Smith MD is a board-certified internal medicine physician who has been practicing medicine since 1999. She treats a predominantly female patients and has firsthand experience with the struggles women face trying to imitate the American dream. Dr. Dalton-Smith has been an adjunct faculty member at Baker College and Davenport University in Michigan. She lives in Alabama.

 

 

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Show Recap: How to Finally Lose the Weight and Keep it Off With Michelle Pearl

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SHOW RECAP: Our Guest Michelle Pearl had some startling and disturbing insight followed by very ENCOURAGING and practical steps to finally losing weight and keeping it off.

After a lifetime of struggling with obesity, (just shy of 300 pounds) Michelle’s research led her to discover that…

-People who had an ongoing weight problem had totally different metabolic response to food.  The brain actually sent out messages to your brain that you are HUNGRY all the time.  The body acted like it was starving. The naturally slender body never has the same issues.

“That’s why you still feel hungry all the time.” Says Pearl. “Your body is getting endless messages to – EAT!!!  You lose
it and finally think its under control but you haven’t.”

Michelle also explained:

If  one was overweight as a child or had a Body Mass Index over 40 as adult, that person  has an abundance of fat cells that never go away. They are waiting to be refilled.  You have to learn how to handle that ongoing feeling of hunger.

After about 2 weeks you start to adapt. Make changes in 2 week baby steps. Grit out the change for awhile.

The only thing you are “failing” at is bucking the natural biological responses. Its not a matter of weakness.  Diet pills are “bull.” So the pill will work chemically only as long as you are taking the pills.

Of course she tried them all.

wake-up-book-by-michelle-pearlFor true success at real life weight loss, Michelle has 10 steps:

1. You must EAT! The worst thing you can do is starve yourself.

2. Understand the biology of a craving! There is a physiological reason for food cravings: Body makes a chemical reaction to fat mixed with sugar goes right to the opiate receptor. Meats have a lot of fat – cooking it triggers the opiate receptors. sensory memory is saying “I want that.”  Chocolate – fats and sugars.

3. Eat some regular staple food: Most thin people tend to eat staple food all the time

4. Eat less fat – 75% less fattening cheese cabbott cheese for mexican food, mac & cheese,

5. Trash the Temptations – don’t keep them in the house

6. Cut out Fast Food – the fat in it is addictive! Find substitutes – nearest starbucks – hot cocoa w/ no whipped cream,
and sugar free flavored syrup

7. Exercise!! If you truly want to lose weight and keep it off, than exercise is essential. The only thing that can RAISE your metabolism is exercise.  Choose something you can love!

For Steps 8-10…

Get Michelle’s Book at www.imperfectfitness.com

Wake Up – You’re Probably Never Going to Look Like That (Second Edition)

This was a great show – and we loved interviewing Michelle.

Replays are available. Original air date: 11/10/10

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Weight Loss and Fitness Guru, Michelle Pearl, on 11-10-10

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michelle-pearlThe Divas are super excited to be interviewing weight loss and fitness guru, Michelle Pearl on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST.

Atypical fitness guru Michelle Pearl has a message for all those…who have suffered with ongoing weight problems: “You are not weak, losing weight has nothing to do with willpower, and you really can be happier, healthier and imperfectly fit.”

Through humorous anecdotes, backed by extensive research, Wake Up! You’re Probably Never Going to …Look Like That: How to be Happier, Healthier and Imperfectly Fit takes on the mass-media-driven myth that we should be striving to achieve the perfect body and meticulously dissects the weight loss myths that are constantly being perpetuated in the media.

In Wake Up! Michelle shares how she lost over 100 pounds twice in her life, and kept those pounds off the second timewake-up-book-by-michelle-pearl around. Additionally, she introduces The Pearl Principle™; 10 steps that anyone who has suffered with an ongoing weight problem can follow to lose weight and become healthier and more fit.

Pearl is also the owner of multiple businesses, including an online exercise service called Imperfect Fitness (www.ImperfectFitness.com) which creates customized DVD’s for exercisers based on their general health and fitness level. To drive home her message, Pearl features exercise assistants in her videos who are healthy and fit, but do not have “perfect” bodies. The motto of her Imperfect Fitness business is, “You don’t have to be perfect to be fit.”

Phone lines and interactive chat room will be open during the LIVE show to answer any and all of your questions. Mark your calendars for this show…you don’t want to miss it!  If you will be listening to the rebroadcast of this show, send us your questions for Michelle and we’ll be happy to ask them for you. Simply type your questions in the comments section below.

This episode airs LIVE at 11/10/10 11:00AM PST – 11/10/10 1:00PM CST – 11/10/10 2:00PM EST.

Join us! http://DivaTalkRadio.com/live

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Diva Taunia is our Guest on 3-10-10

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Everywhere you look, you see people losing weight, wanting to lose weight, or have given up on losing weight.  Our Featured Guest on DivaTalkRadio is Diva Taunia and she will share with us how she has lost more than 165 lbs by opting for a surgical procedure, better known as gastric bypass.

Diva Taunia promises to speak candid and open about the details leading up to her decision to undergo the procedure, the complications she endured, the remarkable results she has obtained, and finding the love of her life for which she is now planning their marriage.

Diva Taunia is a professional vocalist, radio host, and activist for the weight loss surgery community.  For most of her adult life, she was morbidly obese at 300+ lbs.  It wasn’t until her weight began seriously affecting her health and her music that she began researching weight loss surgery.  After six months of research, she chose RNY gastric bypass and on 3/25/08 her surgery was performed by Dr. Donald Hess at Boston Medical Center.  To date, she has lost over 165+ lbs and continues to document her weight loss journey on her website, blog, and YoutTube channel.  To watch Diva Taunia from 300+ lbs to now, please visit her YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/divataunia.

Plan on joining us LIVE on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST.  Diva Taunia will answer all your questions and I may be able to get her to sing us a song.  Here’s my favorite from Diva Taunia…Enjoy!

When:  Live show airs Wednesday, March 10, 2010.  Downloads available shortly after live show on the DivaTalkRadio website and on iTunes.

Where:  www.DivaTalkRadio.com/live

Here’s your chance to ask all of your weight loss and gastric bypass questions from someone who has first hand experience.

That’s it for now. I’ll see YOU at the show!

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