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Excerpt from: Healthy eating reminders fortify brain's willpower mechanisms
By Melissa Healy/Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots Blog
July 28, 2011, 3:32 p.m.
When people who regularly make healthy eating decisions look at food, their brains respond differently from those of people who routinely succumb to dietary temptation. Brain scientists who explore human decision-making have mounting evidence that when we give greater weight to more distant rewards -- such as health -- than to shorter-term pleasures (tucking into a bowl of ice cream), the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is typically acting in concert with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. When we succumb as well, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is at work -- but without the more sober input from the lobe next door.
My thoughts...
I suppose this is why it is so dangerous to spend endless hours watching television...Whether or not we are paying full, conscience attention to what is playing in the background, our brains are being subliminally feed information and suggestions that may not be healthy.
Furthermore, many of us do "mindless eating". that is to say, we are eating, not because we are hungry but because our brains have been nudged into a state of thoughtless abandon.
After reading the aforementioned article this morning, I did a video search for "willpower". Several videos popped up on the 5 Tibetens. Here is a particularly good one as it shows all 5 on one video. There is another, a series showing each one separately, but for the sake of being more concise, I will post the singular one:
Here it is...
Starting at 12:00 Noon TODAY, I will use the Modified Bariatric Diet Menu to cleanse my gastrointestinal tract and to shrink my stomach. What I have been doing is working, slowly, but I constantly feel as if I need to eliminate a huge load, to put it delicately, and I am now tired of eating so much meat.
Additionally, I will follow a routine which includes supplementation and exercise as I will be returning to work soon and I REALLY want to shed 20 pounds between now and the next 14 - 18 days.
I will make a video update on day 21, after starting the Roca Labs Formula. Hopefully, I will have lost more than 3 inches and at least 5 - 10 pounds.
The Plan for Today, Tomorrow, and Wednesday
Liquids:: See Mayo Clinic's Recommendations
-Sip on water and gradually move on to sugar free juice/organic sugar free juice, diet gelatin and flat diet 7-up or Sprite soda. However, remember to consume them in small amounts, not more than 2-3 ounces at a time, 5 times a day.
5:00AM :::Yoga for Weight Loss
-Take Roca Labs
-Exercise/Yoga
6:00AM:::Breakfast (Workdays) or take a morning walk/hike/treadmill (weekends and holidays/vacation days)
-1 8oz cup of St. John's Wort Tea
-1 1000mg Fish Oil 300 mg Omega-3
-1 Hair, Skin, Nails
-1 800 mcg Chromium Picolinate
9:00AM
-1 Mega-T Green Tea
-1 600 +D Caltrate
12:00PM:::Lunch & Stretch
-1 8oz cup of St. John's Wort Tea
-1000mg Fish Oil 300 mg Omega-3
-1 Hair, Skin, Nails
3:00PM:::Snack & Listen to Motivational Lecture or Music
-1 Mega-T Green Tea
-1 600 +D Caltrate
4:00 - 5:00PM
-30 Day Shred(cardiovascular exercise, strength training, and an intense focus on the abs)
6:00PM:::Dinner & Evening Walk or Meditation
-1 8oz cup of St. John's Wort Tea
-1000mg Fish Oil 300 mg Omega-3
-1 Hair, Skin, Nails
-1 Qunol Ultra CoQ10
-Stress B-Complex w/ Vitamin C & Zinc
9:00PM Take Prescribed Medications
-1 10mg Lisinopril
-1 40mg Omeprazole
HOW I DID
12:00PM:::Lunch & Stretch
-1 8oz cup of St. John's Wort Tea
-1000mg Fish Oil 300 mg Omega-3
-1 Hair, Skin, Nails
Took the supplements, drank a cup of Chicken Flavored Bouillon and fell asleep. Woke up around 2:38PM. Boiled more hot water, prepared supplements for the next 5 scheduled doses. Feeling tired but NOT hungry.
Left- Photo of evening, prescribed meds in daily dispenser
4:38PM Raining Cats & Dogs.
Illustration as seen on Amber Padilla's page 8/1/11-1
-1 Mega-T Green Tea
-1 600 +D Caltrate
-Sipped on hot Chicken Bouillon
-Drank a cup of St. John's Wart
7:28PM
Made it to 6PM without eating today but I must admit, it wasn't easy. Sipping the HOT broth helped but I am pretty hungry now. Drinking water didn't kill the hunger pangs so I am having an evening snack of
-Organic Juice
-Luigi's Real Italian Ice
[In keeping with the suggestions from the Mayo Clinic, no pulp. No red dye.]
I have slight headache, which is to be expected, but feel surprisingly more limber. I will take one of the prescribed pain killers I have left over from the shoulder incident IF after the juice and Italian Ice my head still hurts.
@6PM I had:
-1 8oz cup of purified water
-2 St. John's Wort (wasn't crazy about the tea)
-1000mg Fish Oil 300 mg Omega-3
-1 Hair, Skin, Nails
-1 Qunol Ultra CoQ10
-Stress B-Complex w/ Vitamin C & Zinc
