How To Lose Weight Easily, Safely And Permanently

Are The Old Ways The Best?

By now everyone should know that in order to lose weight you need to diet sensibly, exercise moderately and live a healthy lifestyle.

Yes, you could spend a fortune on weight loss surgery, diet pills and expensive gym equipment, if you’re looking for a quick fix. Most of these drastic measures may well lose you some weight at first, but you’ll no doubt put it all back on again as soon as you let up the torture. And with some of them you stand a good chance of them actually killing you.

How to Live Sensibly

There are so many sensible, well balanced diets available nowadays that there really is no need to go overboard with faddy, celebrity driven diets of edamame beans and grapefruit juice. These will only deprive you of essential nutrients and set up damaging side effects.

To eat healthily you need:

• Proteins                     Meat, fish, dairy products, peas, beans and lentils

• Carbohydrates          Pasta, rice, potatoes, bread

• Fats                            (Yes, you do need these) Preferably non-animal unsaturated ones

• Vitamins & minerals}          

• Trace elements}       Found in all types of fruit & veg

For exercise you need to:

• Get up off your bum from time to time and move about a bit

• Walk to the corner shop instead of driving

• Take up an activity that gets you moving, like gardening, dancing or rambling. Even shopping is a form of exercise, as long as it’s not done over the Internet.

That’s All There Is To It. It’s A No-Brainer, Really, But Why Is It So Difficult To Stick To?

It’s difficult because Temptation is never far away, and the best way to deal with temptation is obviously to give in to it. Cream cakes and doughnuts litter our everyday paths; sausages and chips are sold conveniently from street corner vans and there’s always good stuff on the telly to sit down and watch, even when it’s really absolute rubbish.

Besides which, we have been brought up to believe that eating makes you happy – why else do we have the phrase “comfort eating” in our vocabularies? And why is Santa Claus such a jolly fat man? Chocolate is sold as the ultimate happy fix. Chips are for sharing, and therefore fulfil a social need. Everything points us towards eating more and more and exercising less and less. So we end up with a dangerously obese society and the medics all start panicking about the cost of looking after everyone when they all keel over with heart attacks or obesity related calamities.

Result = stress, panic, drastic knee-jerk reactions that in the long term only serve to make a bad situation infinitely worse.

So, how are we going to deal with this alarming situation? Well, first let’s have a look at a few clinical facts:-

Obesity Is A Natural Born Killer

Clinical tests have proven that excess body fat:

• Is responsible for 58% of all cases of Type II diabetes

• Is a factor in 21% of all cases of heart disease

• Causes 42% of cancers of the womb, breast and colon

• Reduces your life expectancy by an average of 9 years

• Is a major factor in the breakdown of relationships

What’s more, we all know that it also:

• Makes you breathless after even moderate effort

• Restricts you to wearing shapeless and frumpy clothes

• Attracts taunts and cruel remarks from rude, skinny people

• Gives you a negative body image

• Makes you feel dissatisfied with yourself as a whole person

• Stops you from visiting pubs and cafés where the seats are fixed to the floor, thus ruining your social life

• Makes you miserable

Basically, being overweight is likely make you unhappy, unlovely and unloved, and it will eventually kill you.

Thin Is Beautiful

On the other hand, while you don’t have to go overboard and achieve the extreme anorexic look of some top models and celebs, we all know, deep down, that not being overweight is definitely better for your health, your self-esteem and your social life.

• You get to wear all the latest figure-hugging fashions

• You can become a magnet for potential partners and get involved in deep meaningful relationships

• You can feel good about yourself, knowing that you look your best

• You avoid all the debilitating conditions and diseases that excess body fat can lead to

• You live longer

• You can be more active, and thus even healthier

So, How Do Skinny People Stay Skinny?

We know –(because we read it in the papers, so it must be true, mustn’t it?) – that celebs like Madonna and Angelina Jolie work out 27 hours a day on punishing exercise routines in order to achieve the perfect bod. The fact that they now have muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger is politely ignored. Victoria Beckham is able to wear faintly ridiculous, but very expensive, designer clothes because she eats like a bird and is so stick-thin that she has to watch herself when stepping over drain grids in case she slides delicately through.

It’s not just women who are obsessed with whittling away the pounds, either. Just take a look at the line-up of current heart-throbs such as Brad Pitt, David Tennant, Mika, Johnny Depp……. You could go on all night, couldn’t you? And not a fatty amongst them. Even perpetual ageing rockers like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin have managed to keep the beer bellies at bay.

But Do You Really Want To Spend Your Life Avoiding Drains Or Crushing Walnuts Between Your Fingers?

Do you really want to risk your life by eating nothing but bacon and sausages on the Atkins diet and dying of a cholesterol-induced heart attack at a ridiculously early age?

Do you want to spend all day dreaming of doughnuts and cream cakes because you’re only allowed a lettuce leaf and half a radish for lunch?

And do you really want to waste your life hefting massive bits of iron and running a hundred miles a day on a treadmill, when you could be out and about doing much more interesting and useful things?

You Could Always Take A Pill

Ah yes – the magic pills. The instant answer to everybody’s problems. Pop a pill and it all goes away. Well, an awful lot of people seem to think so, and so do a lot of doctors. The National Health Service is spending nearly £1million per week on prescriptions for anti-obesity drugs, reaching the forecast £47.9 million by the end of last year. 32,000 prescriptions a day are being written for the only two anti-obesity drugs considered safe enough to prescribe. These two are Orlistat and Sibutramine.

Orlistat works by blocking the action of lipase, the substance in your body that breaks down fat into a digestible form. The fat is prevented from shedding its calories into your system and simply travels on through. This is a bit like the Gastric Bypass –(more about that later)  Eat as much as you like, but only a fraction of it will actually feed you.

Unfortunately, one of the by-products of all this undigested fat is a frequent leakage of an oily black tarry substance out of somewhere you really don’t want an oily black tarry substance to leak!

Subutramine, on the other hand, works in a completely different way. It boosts the production of Serotonin, a chemical that is released into your brain to tell your body when you’ve eaten enough.

That’s OK if you really have eaten enough, but if you haven’t, you could well be missing out on the essential nourishment your body needs to keep going. As it can also increase your blood pressure as well, this sounds like a fast track to heart attacks and strokes.

There is a whole raft of other diet pills that can be bought without prescription. Some fill you with fibre so that you feel full. Others claim to boost the fat digesting enzymes in your body or neutralise the starch digesting ones, so that the fattening elements are eliminated before they can put the pounds on you.

More dangerously, those claiming to ‘boost your metabolism’ are generally based on amphetamines, whose side effects have been widely publicised since their heyday in the 70’s.

Whether in reputedly ‘natural’ herbal form or blatantly synthetic ‘marvel’ drugs, none of these pills and potions have been through sufficiently rigorous clinical tests, so we don’t really know what their long term – or even their short term – effects are.

Perhaps the most worrying ones, though, are those that alter your brain chemistry to make you think you’re full up. Just think what a Bond villain could do with that! Introduce the chemical into your enemy’s drinking water, and soon you could be the only one left who hasn’t starved to death.

OK Then, Forget The Pills. How Much Is A Series Of ‘Nip & Tuck’ Operations Going To Cost You?

(The faint-hearted may want to skip this bit – it gets pretty graphic)

Gastric Banding

This is where they squeeze off a portion of your stomach to make you think that you’re full up already, and you therefore eat less.

Unfortunately, your weight loss is measured over a period of from 3-6 years, so it’s by no means immediate. And 61.9% of patients experience some sort of clinical complication afterwards, with 12% opting to have it taken out again because it hasn’t worked at all.

Cost? £6,560

Gastric Bypass

This has the exotic title of the ‘Roux-en-Y’ Procedure, and involves stapling off a part of your stomach, so that you feel fuller quicker. Then they run a tube from your stomach to the end of your intestines so that the food that you are able to eat doesn’t do you any good, because you’re not given the chance to absorb the nutrients before it’s all shot out the other end.

Yum! Now that sounds like a particularly useful exercise, then, doesn’t it?

Cost? £7,550

But if you want it done laparascopically – ie, where they stick little tubes into you and wiggle them about inside, £8,630

Liposuction

Now this is an interesting one. First they inject a salt solution into your fat bits, which breaks down the fat into a kind of soup – a bit like Cream of Chicken, I should imagine.

Then they stick in another big needle –(and it is big - see picture) – with which they suck out the soup, leaving you considerably thinner in that area.

[Did you see Jeff Goldblum in The Fly? He used a similar process with his food, didn’t he?]

What they probably won’t tell you at the clinic is that not only can this cause bruising, scarring and a lot of pain, but if any of the liquidised fat gets away and into your blood stream, it can cause a fatal embolism, which is generally not a good thing.

Cost? Up to £5000, depending on how much you want sucked up

Abdominoplasty

This is for when you’ve lost too much weight too quickly by one of the above methods, and are left with a saggy bag of floppy skin stuck to your front.

First, they cut a line below your belt and peel the skin back up over your chest. (Ever skinned a chicken? Bit like that)

Then they scoop out all the fatty tissues underneath, stretch the skin back over, stitch it together neatly and trim off the excess skin.

Result: a much flatter tummy, but below your waist you’ve got wrinkles in your skin that would put a prune to shame, and your belly button’s somewhere down by your knees. (But don’t worry, they’ll punch you a new one with their patented belly-button-hole-punch machine. Guaranteed almost as good as the original.)

Cost? Up to £5,200

Side effects? Well, I wouldn’t be too quick to reach up to that high shelf, if I were you. Not without checking that they’ve put in a pretty strong zip.

Add these all up, throw in the cost of a facelift to mop up all the loose skin on your face left by the liposuction, and you have the grand total of £31,190 !

Many People Opt For These Operations, Despite The Outrageous Cost And The Lack Of Guarantees Of Success. Are They Nuts?

Don’t be too hard on these poor people, though. Maybe they’ve got a sickeningly thin friend who can eat the hind legs off a donkey without getting fat. They should do – there’s at least one in every group you come across. These people can eat as much of whatever they like and never put on a pound.

But that’s the worrying thing, isn’t it?

How come some people never get fat, but others only have to look at a plate of chips and they start to puff up? What have they got that you haven’t? And how can you get some of it, so that you too could lose weight effortlessly and permanently?

You know that you could slim down if you half-killed yourself with exercise, or put yourself through some of the costly and traumatic experiences described above, but how on earth could you manage to do it without dieting, taking slimming aids or living off bran and macadamia nuts?

By Using “The Secret” And Tapping Into The Inner You. That’s How

‘The Secret’, that hugely popular little book of ancient wisdom and hidden knowledge long held only by the chosen few, tells us that it is your subconscious mind that governs your life, your luck, your health, and even your body shape.

Throughout your life you build up an inner picture of yourself and how things should be for you:-

• Who you are and what sort of person you are

• What’s right and what’s wrong

• How you believe people should react to you

• How you believe you should react to other people

• How you think outside events can adversely effect your luck and prosperity

• What state of health you believe yourself to be in

• How different foods effect your body

You pick up messages both consciously and subliminally, from your family and friends, from what you hear on the telly or read from books, and what society in general lays down for you.

Unfortunately, your subconscious is unable to distinguish the positive from the negative, so a lot of the messages that you send to yourself get changed in the translation.

For instance, if you start worrying obsessively that you’ll be persistently shunned or ignored by the ‘In Crowd’, your subconscious picks up the idea of “Shunned / Left Out/ Excluded”. The panic that this brings on spills back over into your conscious mind, and you try too hard to be included in the gang. All you achieve by this is to be branded as the weirdo who is always on the outside looking in.

If, on the other hand, you can concentrate on the thought that you already are one of the ‘In Crowd’, then your subconscious picks up the idea of “Inclusion / Acceptance / Fine, OK”. So, you act perfectly naturally, you’re accepted for who you are, and the ‘In Crowd’ actually become part of your gang instead of the other way round.

It’s the basic difference between being the mutt who is controlled by everyone else, or being the one who is in control.

And That’s Where Subliminal Messaging Comes In

This is the key by which you can regain control over your own life.

You could, of course, learn the techniques of positive self-messaging and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. You could train yourself to avoid even thinking of the word “fat” and only ever thinking the word “thin”. However, this takes years of rigorous training. Just think of the Tibetan monks who are told to go into a darkened room and not think of a snow tiger. (Try it yourself sometime – it’s almost a physical impossibility!)

Yet there are practitioners and mentors who are able to introduce life-changing messages into your subconscious that will reinforce your own efforts to become exactly the person you want to be.

One of these practitioners is Tony Quinton, the driving force behind the Subliminal Wisper tracks. Tony has made it his life’s work to understand how our minds operate, and he has built up a range of relaxing CDs that each contain a supportive message that will help you to get your life back on track.

“Hang About!” I Can Hear You Say. “Isn’t This A Bit Like Brainwashing?”

“Not at all” we reply. It was brainwashing that got you where you are today – with a poor image of yourself and low self-esteem. Now all your subconscious needs is a bit of spring cleaning to clear away all the rubbish that everybody else has been shovelling in. This is what stops you from being exclusively your own person – the person you want to be.

How subliminal messaging works is to speak directly to your subconscious, completely bypassing your conscious mind. All you will hear on any of the CDs is the relaxing backing track. The real work is going on below a level that you can actively hear.

Think of a dog whistle. You know that the sound is there, because the dog goes crazy, yet you can’t hear anything yourself. This is exactly what is happening with the subliminal message. Your brain is picking it up although your ears are not registering anything that you are aware of.

This positive, supportive message is being repeated over and over again, without you being given the chance to argue with it or think of a ‘rational’ reason why it shouldn’t apply to you. This gives your subconscious the opportunity to take it on board and make it a part of your repertoire of reactions.

In effect, it is positivising your negativity, washing out the “No, I can’t” and reinforcing the “Yes, I can.”

But What If I Start Going Round Blowing Raspberries At Everyone With Ginger Hair?

If you do, it certainly won’t be anything to do with the Subliminal Wisper CDs. You’d be on your own with that one, Sunshine!

Subliminal messaging can’t make you do anything you don’t already want to do or that you know is wrong. It won’t plant post-hypnotic suggestions into your brain and make you bark like a dog every time someone says “Walkies”, and it won’t turn you into a genius overnight, either.

What it will do is to reinforce all the positive ideas that you already have but which circumstances, lifestyle or life events have prevented you from bringing to the fore.

Unless you’ve never watched TV, read a magazine or listened to your mother, you know yourself what is good for your health and what isn’t. You know that chips and chocolate don’t really make you deliriously happy. You know that a bedtime snack of cheese sandwiches and treacle pudding probably isn’t the best thing for a restful night.

So why do we all still do these things?

Simply because the Sensible Eater inside us gets drowned out by the Comfort Eater that we build up as a defence against whatever the world wants to throw at us. This then becomes a habit, which turns itself into a guilt trip every time the Sensible Eater gets its head above water for long enough to send us a warning message.

By listening to the Subliminal Wispers Permanent Weight Loss CD you will be gently but firmly strengthening the Sensible Eater and whittling away at the Comfort Eater. Eventually you will find that you have established healthy eating and exercise patterns that will not only help you to lose the excess weight that you are currently carrying around with you, but will also stay with you for the rest of your life, making sure that you don’t put the weight back on again. The Comfort Eater will have gone forever, and the New You will be infinitely more healthy, energetic, full of life and long-lived.

So What Have You Got To Lose? Weight, Of Course!

• You can lose however much weight you want to in whatever time period you want to lose it in – (Within reason. 30lbs in 30 seconds is probably a bit ambitious)

• You can release the skinnier, healthier You from the blanket you’ve currently got it wrapped in and become the person you’ve always wanted to be.

• You can save yourself an indecent amount of money by not undergoing painful eye-watering surgery.

• You can throw away those Weight Watchers charts and complicated calorie counters and simply rely on your own Sensible Eater to keep you on the straight and narrow.

• Thus eliminating any sense of guilt, because you make the rules, so you can do as much goalpost-moving as you see fit.

• You can add at least another 9 years to your life and, realistically, quite a lot more because of your new healthy lifestyle.

• While you’re losing weight you can also chill out and relax to the soothing backing tracks, thereby further extending your lifespan by eliminating the life-threatening effects of stress and anxiety.

• You can strut your stuff down the High Street and try on the sort of clothes you haven’t even bothered to look at for years.

• You can go into MacDonald’s again – (if that’s what really turns you on)

• You can blow raspberries at people with ginger hair – as long as they were the rude, skinny people who were nasty to you before you lost all that weight.

You can do an awful lot of things. All it takes is a little bit of self-confidence, a little boost to your self-esteem and a helping hand from Subliminal Wispers.

Wishing you everything you could possibly wish for yourself,

Sally & Bob

Casper Publications

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