Is Your Body Ready To Lose Weight? (Part 1/2)

We all get times when we want to burn more fat and lose weight quickly.

You know, when you've got a holiday coming up, or a party where you want/need to look amazing and make people want to ask "hey, you look great. What's your secret?"

The question is... has this ever actually worked for you?

Really?

Honestly?

If it has then well done to you! You're one of the elite in this world that can eat better and lose weight on demand.

Quick question - how long did it take to lose the weight?

Did you have to starve yourself, fight off cravings and strictly count calories for 4-6 weeks before the big event?

Yes? Thought so.

That meant you had to really work to get the body to burn fat and lose weight. The reason you had to work at it for so long is quite simply your body wasn't ready to lose weight.

The problem lies with today's modern society.

• We breathe air full of pollution.

• We eat far too much processed food.

• We get bombarded with adverts for fast food.

• Every shop you go into has shelves stacked up with fizzy drinks.

• We're led to believe that if something's got fruit in the name, or says it's low calorie then we should eat more & more of it.

Sadly this isn't good for the body. All of the above are full of toxins that we pump into the body daily without a second thought.

When these toxins get into the body they stay in the body.

Now pay attention for "the science bit" to explain what happens next.

Each cell in the body (and we're made of about 50 trillion of them) has a small layer of fat around it to protect it from harmful chemicals in the body.

When these toxins enter the body each cell simply thinks "I don't want that to affect me, I'll wrap it up in fat and protect myself", and that's exactly what it does. The toxins that get near to the cell get coated in fat to bind them and maintain the cellular health.

Now think of this - what happens when all the cells in the body coat toxins in fat to stop them harming the body, what happens?

I'll tell you - the cells get a little bigger (and so do we) and eventually the fat-wrapped toxins break away and get stored as fat.

"Where does this happen?" I hear you ask.

• Your stomach

• Your arms

• Your legs

• Your butt

• Anywhere from your nose to your toes & everywhere in between! So as you can see our lifestyle makes us bigger & fatter! Now with this in mind we need to think of why you struggle to lose weight.

If you are filling your body with toxins, and all of your cells are surrounded by fat-wrapped toxins, these cells can't perform their normal activities. These include using calories for energy, cleaning up infection and of course breathing. When this happens your metabolism slows down at a cellular level.

A slow metabolism while you still eat plenty will do one thing - make you fatter!

"Ok Simon, I think I get it. I need to cut these toxins out then, yeah?"

YES! Exactly. To allow the body to work as you want it to, and to get it ready to lose weight, you need to eliminate the toxins in the body.

Sounds easy, right? Just don't eat processed foods, drink sugary drinks, don't believe the hype about low calorie foods, oh yeah and from the list above - don't breathe!

Hm... that may be difficult. Not breathing again so you don't fill up with toxins again.

There must be an easier way (at least we hope so!)

The answer is to cleanse the body. To sum it up in another word - detox.

Now I'm not talking about rushing out to Boots for an over the counter detox kit as, to be honest, a lot of high street detox kits simply don't work. Instead you are going to work through a controlled diet and combine this with a supplementation programme that will literally force the toxins out of your body, leaving you feeling fresher, healthier and lighter as it pushes the fat out of your body too!

The detox is made up of 2 components: diet and supplementation

The diet solution is something known as "The Elimination Diet", created by UK personal trainer Dax Moy. This is a strict method that needs 100% effort, but if you commit 100% effort Dax guarantees you will lose weight and see results. From my own experience with my own clients I have used this with I can confirm this is right. You will lose weight.

The aim of the elimination diet is to restore the health of your digestive & intestinal tracts, so that you can make the most of the nutrition from the foods you eat. This in turn will allow the nutritional and biochemical status quo of the human body to be re-established.

As you follow the diet plan you'll notice several things:

You will lose a rather large amount of 'stubborn fat' and excess water in a relatively short period of time.

This is because the human body, when overwhelmed with toxins, will 'dump' many toxic substances within the adipose tissue stores (fat) in order to reduce their circulation throughout the body. When there are no longer toxins entering the body, those toxins will then be processed and expelled along with the fat (and a lot of

excess water) that is storing them. Of course, the downside of this is that temporarily you may feel a little off-colour as those toxins 'hit' you.

Your food cravings and non-physiological (emotional) hunger will reduce or go away entirely

When your body no longer has to produce chemical reactions against a background of toxic 'static' you will find that you are able to extract a greater amount of nutrients from the foods you eat. Because of this you will notice that your hunger will reduce substantially.

After all, if you're getting all of the vitamins and minerals and other nutrients that your cells need, then why would you be sent 'eat' signals, right? A body that is getting the correct quality and quantity of nutrients self regulates,

giving you 'feed me' signals when nutrients are low and 'stop' signals when they are topped up. Just as nature intended!

Your health and your general vitality will improve

After the stored toxins have said goodbye and you're no longer adding others, you'll notice that many ailments will either reduce or go away entirely. For similar reasons to reducing appetite and emotional hunger, you will find that once your body is getting everything it needs to 'build' good health that you'll be repairing yourself more effectively and your aches and pains will fade away.