42% of all Americans are projected to be obese by 2030. Other studies suggest that 100% of all Americans will be overweight by 2050. The cost of obesity is ballooning along with our waistlines. It’s no secret that health care costs are getting higher and higher. Obesity costs account for about 9% of annual medical costs. That’s a $147 billion per year price tag, even if predictions are wrong and obesity remains at 2010 levels. We cannot afford this. What are we thinking?! At Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss we know that we must have healthcare reform. Healthcare reform begins with each of taking personal responsibility for our own health care. Slender For Life™ has a solution that could put an end to this preventable obesity crisis.

Obesity has been one of the biggest contributors in driving up health care spending over the past 20 years.

Read USA Today, Obesity Could Affect 42% of Americans by 2030,
May 7, 2012

Fat Future: 42% of Americans May Be Obese by 2030

20-Year Estimate Predicts 2.2-Fold Bulge in Extreme Obesity

WebMD Health News, May 7, 2012: By 2030, 42% of Americans will be obese and 11% of Americans will be severely obese, Duke University and CDC researchers predict. There’s some good news. The study suggests that adult obesity in the U.S. is leveling off, albeit at an unacceptably high level. Previous estimates had suggested that 51% of Americans would be obese in 2030. But consideration of other factors suggests that figure is too full.

Whatever comfort that good news may bring is more than made up for by the finding that severe obesity — BMI of 40 or more — is skyrocketing. Severely obese people are at the highest risk of diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related conditions. Once rare, severe obesity now afflicts 1 in 20 Americans. By 2030, the study suggests, more than 1 in 10 Americans will be severely obese.

This means efforts to reign in obesity can pay big dividends. Just a 1% decrease in the predicted trend would mean 2.9 million fewer obese adults in 2030, resulting in $4.7 billion annual cost savings. If Americans could become no more obese than we were in 2010, the U.S. would save $549.5 billion over the next two decades.

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Left unchecked, we will see a 2.2 fold increase in extreme obesity. 9% of our annual medical costs are due to preventable behavior and lifestyle choices that people make. Reforming your healthcare can pay big dividends. Are you willing to to be part of the solution or are you choosing to continue to be part of the problem that is destroying your health and bankrupting America. Slender For Life™ has solutions for your healthcare reform.

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, the host of “the Dr. Oz Show,”reveals the Secrets to Achieve Dramatic Weight Loss. He’s on a mission to make America healthier and for the past 8 months as part of his challenge called Transformation Nation, more than 1.2 million Americans have committed to living better. When I first watched this on the Today Show on May 8, 2012, I shouted “YES! YES! YES!” because Dr. Oz is saying exactly what I have said for years as  the director of Slender For Life™. If you are ready to put these weight loss secrets to use, my book, Becoming Slender For Life and its hypnosis CD set can help you achieve dramatic weight loss and most importantly, keep it off.

Secrets to Achieve Dramatic Weight Loss

A doctor always learns from their patients. 1.2 million people who signed up and we have a snapshot into the health of America. A huge repository of information about how we sleep, how we eat. how we exercise. How much sex we have and the stress that we have sometimes trouble coping with. When you look at all that information, people who really made a big difference here are the folks who learn to show up in their own lives. People who realized they were worth it and they were worth it to the people around them, as well. Those are the folks who made the biggest difference over the last eight months of the transformation.

Secrets to Achieve Dramatic Weight Loss with Dr. Mehmet Oz

As the owner and director of Slender For Life™ for many years now and as one who was obese most of my life, I know what it takes to achieve dramatic weight loss. Slender For Life™ clients learn to value and to give care to themselves by eating healthy, being more active, living a healthy lifestyle and by controlling stress in their life.

Are you worth it? Are you ready to give yourself the time for self-care and lose weight? If you are, then contact me at my Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss (no matter where you live), and together we will develop a plan to support you in uncovering the secrets to achieving dramatic weight loss.

Becoming Slender For Life and its hypnosis CD can help show up in your life.

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Food Revolution Day

Worldwide, obesity has more than doubled since 1980. For the first time in history, being overweight is killing more people than being underweight, and at least 2.8 million adults around the world die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. This has to change, and it’s down to us. We need to get back to basics and start thinking about where our food comes from. We need to become a conscious community and understand the food choices we make on a daily basis. We can do this by improving food education.

Encouraging people to cook from scratch at home is at the heart of this. We all have family and friends who could make better food choices. On Food Revolution Day we can work together to empower people with the skills to improve their diet. Making simple changes to our food choices will improve our quality of life and our children’s. Forty-two million children under five are already obese and we need to reverse this. Let’s make some noise, raise our voices together and have a lasting and positive impact on their lives and ours. Food Revolution Day is our opportunity to get the world to focus on food issues and rally our efforts to bring food education back into schools.

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What about you? Are you ready to take a stand and fight obesity by reforming your own healthcare? With the projection that 42% of us will be obese by 2030 and the estimated health care cost of $147 Billion per year we cannot continue this madness. Obesity and its resulting diseases are preventable.

Eating real food such as a plant-based diet can improve your health and help you lose weight and keep it off. Cooking from scratch at home can be simple, easy, quick, affordable, healthy and taste great. At Slender For Life™ I have a collection of over 14,000 free healthy recipes. You can find great taste and health by clicking here.

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My Mom

Happy birthday Mom and Josh! Today is a special day in my family: My Mom is 90 years old and our youngest son, Josh,  is 30. Both were born on May 14, 60 years apart. One of the many things that I love about both of them is that they live their lives true to themselves. We are having a family reunion today in Colorado. My 91 year-old aunt and her little brother (age 76) have flown in from California, my aunt and uncle from Arizona are here and my cousin from Dallas have all come to celebrate. It is a weekend of food and family – lots of eating out. I know that I will have special food from the tribal feast and that I will eat only when I am hungry and only enough to meet my nutritional needs. For me, this weekend is about family, not about how much and how fast can I eat.

Mom learned hypnosis 18 months ago at the age of 88 to lose weight and to control pain. Josh has completed the Basic Hypnosis Course as a teenager. I’ve been using hypnosis in one form or another since the ’60′s and I know that self-hypnosis is one of my tools for celebrating life. No matter where you are in the aging process, learn hypnosis and celebrate your life.

Happy Birthday Mom and Josh!

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Don’t Forget Your Greatest Ally: Self-hypnosis

Finally, here are some additional hypnotic suggestions you can use when working on overcoming emotional eating and having healthier responses to stress.

Emotional eating

• I am in control of my emotions.
• I chose to experience love and joy in my life.
• I am at peace with myself, the world and everyone in it.
• I am excited about today.
• I am excited about my life.
• I love my life.
• Food nourishes my body; love nurtures my heart and soul.
• I eat only when I am physically hungry.

Stress control

• I am calm and relaxed in all situations.
• I see things in their true perspective and keep them in proper proportion.
• Whenever I feel the beginning of any tension, anxiety, or fear, I automatically use the Relaxation Response taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly. I instantly feel a wave of relaxation cover over me and through me from the top of my head down to the tips of my toes.
• I am more relaxed each and every day.
• I am free of stress.
• I remain calm, cool and collected at all times.
• I am balanced, relaxed and poised always.
• I am relaxed and calm in all situations.
• I feel profound peace.
• I relax frequently throughout each day by breathing deeply.
• I give time to myself.
• I recognize and control my negative emotions.
• Peace and inner calmness pervade my being.
• The past is gone; I am creating my future now.
• I am living in the present moment.
• I stop worrying about the future.
• I am becoming more aware in the present moment.
• I stop several times each day to breathe deeply and to focus on my important goals.
• I do everything with love, joy and laughter.
• I give myself time to relax.
• I enjoy what I am doing.
• I am emotionally calm and settled.
• My mind is becoming clear, calm and composed.
• I confront and handle any problem calmly and easily.

Becoming Slender For Life pages 123 – 124

Many people come to a hypnotherapist thinking there is something about trance that is different than their normal state of consciousness, but this simply is not the case. A light trance feels no different from relaxation. No matter how deep into trance one goes, there is a feeling of familiarity. Do not expect to feel hypnotized. Do expect to feel relaxed. Learn about hypnosis by reading Moore On Hypnosis.

Discover how you can be in control of your thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Read Are You Off Course In Your Life?

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Control Room For Weight Loss is one of my most favorite metaphors and it is this weeks hypnosis MP3 download. Imagine actually having a control room for your body that has your book of perfect health that tells you exactly what your body needs and that you can make the necessary changes that allow for greater health and wellness. In essence, you do have such a control room with your own personalized book for perfect health. It’s your unconscious mind and it does know what you need. Trust your unconscious mind and give it what it needs for your wellness.

Control Room For Weight Loss

Welcome to the control room of your body you notice that all of the gauges seemingly go on for ever and ever. In fact, there are so many gauges and so many dials that you can’t possibly see them all consciously, but as you look at them, you notice they are each labeled individually, why, one gauge is labeled “metabolism”, and another is labeled “cholesterol”, and another labeled “blood pressure”, blood sugar, hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, growth hormone, bone density, immune system, Ghrelin, PYY and another labeled “body fat”. And as you gaze among the millions and million of gauges you realize you are in the control room of your body, and sitting in the middle of this control room is a wondrous leather bound book with gold gilded edges labeled “owners manual for perfect health”. And as you look at this wonderfully powerful book, you see your name, embossed in gold letters in the lower right hand corner. Now, go over to that book and look inside…and as you turn the first page, you see that it is dedicated to you.

Go to the walls with all of the gauges and dials, and begin adjusting the dials at an infinitely rapid pace to resemble the gauges in your book of perfect health.

(NOTE: If you already have the Becoming Slender For Life hypnosis CD set, Control Room For Weight Loss is one of the many excellent weight loss hypnosis tracks included).
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