JK Lee on Food

use the poll to get the answers you want

2011-08-18T03:20:00.000-07:00

Hi there

Notice the poll on the right hand side? Please use it, I will take the result and use it to give you answers to your weight problems. Gaining weight is not as simple as people might think. Its not all about eating too much and not exercising enough. You need to consider many things. Some of the reasons are not just with you thinking, some are social, some sexual, some genetics and so on. Eating a balanced diet also requires you to get a balanced outlook on your eating and living. Everything exists together, there is not just one problem or one answer. Prepare to be open minded and think carefully about what, how and where you eat. Who you eat with and who you have eaten with in the past all take their toll on your body.

So go ahead and make my day, fill in the poll now.

JKLee

Space to think

2011-08-01T12:17:00.001-07:00

Hello there,

If you want to feel good about yourself, make better decisions, see different perspectives, help other people. Then this is worth a read.

A short ebook which reads really well on a kindle or iphone. However the words in it are designed for many people with many different problems.

Take this blog, we all would love to lose some weight. In the ebook you can use some of the techniques to help you do just that.

Spread the word, not your waist line.

http://www.focusdaytraining.com/

Regards

JK Lee

Your environment helps you to put on weight

2011-06-18T08:23:00.000-07:00

I remember a time when you had to get up to answer the phone. There were no mobile devices. People would have the phone in the hall of their home. Burning off calories when they ran to answer it before it stopped.

Now we just take a phone from our pocket or bag and in the process help to gain weight. The average person would lose 2kg per year if they had to get up and answer a telephone that was in another room.

other things that make us lazy are lifts and escalators, just walking up and down the stairs at work can shed the fat. We were never designed to for comfort. We were evolved from beings that were constantly on the move, fighting against the odds to survive. Now the same amazing body has been set free of challenge by our intelligence. We have created comfort and in so doing created our own demise.

What will you do, next time you here your mobile in the lift?

JK Lee

How did you get so fat?

2011-06-15T13:45:00.000-07:00

If you where fat through your childhood then you were always going to be a fat adult. If you had a fat mother you also would find yourself getting fatter, the older you get.

If you had a period of time when you got fat but then lost it only to put on more the next time, might be due to the fact that your body created more fat cells when you got fat. When you got thin the fat cells only got empty, they did not disappear. Therefore when you eat fats and sugars the fats cells just absorb it all and you get fatter.

Some people from indigenous populations are genetically programmed to be able to live on less calories. This is a genetic make up of the past when tribes would hunt for food. These people now eat a more calorie rich diet with less exercise and so just get bigger and bigger while the food companies get richer and richer.

If you eat less and exercise more the chances are you will lose some weight.

Make the change now......

JK Lee

Confirmation from others

2011-06-09T13:15:00.000-07:00

I was at work today listening to the women talking about their diets. I mention the psychology of not restricting your food intake as it tends to lead to over eating or binge eating. Straight away one woman sat up and said 'thats true'. She had been attending another weight loss class and the information she was being given was that its ok to eat what you want, just balance and be mindful about what and when you eat. She said she felt free of the bindings of a diet and finally she had a good relationship with food.

Listening to her I gathered there was still some work to do , especially with her alcohol intake, but I was impressed about her new relaxedness about her weight. She had lost 10kg in a month. Meanwhile another women said she couldn't go to weight watchers because she new she had lost weight and could not wait the eat some of her favorite food after her weigh in. Sound familiar, food restriction causes binge eating.

So there you go, just a simple example from daily life. Keep your ears open and you will hear women talk about food and diet and body shape alot of the time. Restriction causes conflict and you cannot think about anything else.

JK Lee

Dont think about food and you will eat more

2011-06-08T13:50:00.000-07:00

Strange title,

Well it is true, if we decide to restrict our food intake many of us will actually consume more, especially binge feeding which makes us fatter and feel much worse about ourselves. Just try it now, for the next minute do not think about the favourite food you love to eat. If you do, then tap your feet. Amuse yourself with how
many times you have to tap your feet. Some of you will be straight for the fridge or the cookie jar when you try not to think about your favourite food.

My advice to you therefore is to become more relaxed in your thinking, do not restrict your thoughts or your food. Just begin to educate yourself about a balanced diet and more exercise. Ever seen the yin yang symbol? It represents balance and an ever moving universe. Life only works in balance. What happens when you restrict the flow of water with a damn. You get more water.

Relaxedness is the key to all good health, peace of mind will restore the balance your body and mind crave. Do not impose control on your food, restriction causes conflict and ultimately more consumption.

If you want to lose weight then begin stop dieting and start eating in a balanced way. Chill out and get thin.

JK Lee

Lets educate each other

2011-06-04T04:34:00.000-07:00

Well we are nearly at the 3000 mark in nearly 2 months of writing. I hope you all like the content.

Now is the time for us all to spread the word. Send the blog to your friends in need, start adding comments, I would love to see your point of view and discuss the topics in more detail.

Fill in the polls and lets get an idea of what people want and think about food and their weight.

So lets do it people, time to spread the word. Coming soon is an ebook on Amazon, its all about coaching and helping others. The principles can be adapted to many issues people have.

Watch this space.

JK Lee

It all starts in the womb

2011-06-03T13:35:00.000-07:00

Lots of our health problems start way back in time when we were in our mothers womb. The nutrition your mother received from the food she cooked and ate will have affected your own body and the diseases it may have. Poor diet in our own mothers make our chances of survival in a more abundant world less than if we too lived in a world of shortage. Our bodies develop in the womb and are programmed by the food our mothers eat. We are born big or small depending on this. However our bodies find it hard to adapt if our own food intake is different from our mothers. We are in greater danger of getting fat if our mothers ate less food in poorer circumstances than ourselves.

So be careful what you eat if you are pregnant. Ask your mother what she ate when she was younger and her mother before that. Chances are you will notice that your great grandparents and grandparents are thinner than you. They ate in a time when food was short and money was tight.

Now here is where the problems starts, if you actually get pregnant and eat well, in the future when money gets tighter and the world food supply gets smaller, your own children will have trouble adapting to a different type of diet.

Be careful what you eat, each mouthful reaches out into the future and touches the unborn in ways that many of us will never appreciate.

We are what we eat, we are the sum total of our thinking, we are creating the future with what we eat.

JK Lee

Making choices when you shop

2011-06-02T03:33:00.000-07:00

Did you know that in an average supermarket in the UK there are over 6000 items on the shelves. With this incredible amount of stuff to choose from our brains become overloaded. Our processing ability is hindered by the sheer volume. So what does is do? The brain deletes these choices from your thinking and helps you to create a nice short list of things to pick. Then week after week we buy the same stuff from the same shelf.

The there you go, supermarkets do not offer any more choice than if you grew it yourself or used a small local grocer. What you would get if you did the later was a greater connection with your food and the willingness to try more different things.

Simple really, we must rely on our inherited feeling and intuition and not really on big companies to direct our choice and ultimately mess with our natural in born psychology

Happy shopping, next time you are at the veg table buy something for me, then smile.

JK Lee

fat - there are no limits

2011-05-30T07:05:00.000-07:00

The body has an unlimited capacity to store fat. It is a hang over from our cave man days when storing excess fat would help us to survive in th absence of food. however in todays world were most of us can eat more that we need the capacity to store fat has not gone away.

It may take millions of years to get rid of this capacity through evolution but i fear we will all be too fat and dead for this to have any affect. There will be no human race to evolve.

Fat is the biggest form of energy there is. If you are full, if you are constantly eating even a healthy diet, any excess fat will be stored up. Mix that with no exercise and we are turning ourselves in to a walking fat bomb, just waiting to explode in your living room and letting all those people you love pick up the messy pieces.

Stop eating fat now.......exercise more now. Stop the cycle of obesity by taking control. I don't care how good it tastes, it will kill you early. You are needed in your family, the cycle of life needs older wiser people to educate the young ones. When you are gone, who will do that?

JK Lee

Pakistan is the biggest reader this month

2011-05-28T03:22:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone.

Just to let you know that out of all the counties dropping in and reading this blog, Pakistan has the biggest number.

Well for all you in Pakistan the best thing you can do to start losing weight is to stop cooking with Ghee and replace it with sunflower oil or olive oil. Ghee is an animal fat, full of saturate and trans fats. Trans fats are hard to break down in the body and so end up as fat in your skin. Trans fats are not only made in the factory which make us westerners fat but it is present in all animal fats especially cows.

Cooking is a traditional way of life for some of us, habits are hard to change. Your family may have been cooking the same way for generations. Diets are created from available produce, climate and people. In this world of information we can now use it to alter out food intake for a healthier life.

Ditch the ghee, throw it away and keep your traditional foods but cook with vegetable oils instead. Encourage to boys in your family to cook as well. it will help change your culture in the future and allow the women to do other things too.

Take you time and look at your family and people around you. How many of them are over weight. In the past a little extra fat may have been considered a sign of wealth and good fortune. These days it is in reality a sign of neglect, laziness, uneducated, unwilling to embrace life.

God or gods put us on this planet to live and survive, not to sit back and die

Your choice, salaam

JK Lee

There is a choice if you choose to exercise it

2011-05-23T14:38:00.000-07:00

This week I have been coaching people, all with different problems that they could not solve on their own. One thing that has come across very clearly is that solutions were found by enabling the person to realise that the source of their problem came from themselves and not in the outside world. The actual solution was definitely with their own thinking and the way they felt, helping them to see new choices.

Making choices about what you eat is, for some people, taken for granted. There is so much choice available that these people then tend to restrict what they choose as a form of gaining control of this mad situation. This psychological effect on our thinking can force us to stop choosing altogether, failing to assert our potential.

Start taking back full control of your life, get your body mind and spirit to reach its potential to be what it is supposed to be.

What will your first choice be when you get hungry?

remember, when young babies are placed in front of two contrasting piles of food, they naturally pick fresh produce. We are hardwired to choose.

JK Lee

A little reflection on Sunday

2011-05-22T12:51:00.000-07:00

So many people from around the world looking in on this blog, thank you so much. Please use the polls and start to add comments. Then I can really start to give you what you want to lose weight and eat a healthy balanced diet. Tell me about your world and send me links on eating and obesity from your perspective.

All these people from around the world, and i bet you all eat differently. We eat for many different reason, firstly the obvious one like survival, but other things affect our diets. Have you ever considered that your eating patterns may not be right for you. We should feed a baby we it is hungry so that it develops and understands what hungry and feeling full after eating is. The body needs to be taught these things even if it means the mother is exhausted. Who said we need to eat three times a day. In the affluent world this is considered the norm, but in poor countries just eating to be full at any time of the day is a blessing. Consider all the refugees in the world, food becomes their only way of holding on to their culture. Food becomes comfort and a life line to history.

So many things to consider, tell me what food it to you......... come on interact and add some food for thought.

JK Lee

Eating fat will not fill you up

2011-05-22T08:18:00.000-07:00

Did you know that when you eat protein or carbohydrate your body naturally sends hormones to tell your brain that you are full. Unfortunately for you fatties out there when you eat high fat products your body does not react as quickly in sending messages to your brain. So what is happens is that your body will absorb all the fat but you will not feel full. Yes you guessed it, you keep on eating and eating and eating. Fat creates fat so watch out.

Be mindful of this next time you go shopping or eat on your own or with your fat buddies. Watch them load themselves up, see it in action. THE LARGE BAKERIES DO NOT TELL YOU THIS FOR ONE GOOD REASON. THEY WANT YOU TO BUY MORE. Its all about the bottom line, excuse the pun

JK Lee

State of the planet

2011-05-18T12:33:00.000-07:00

Hello there, Salaam

Its very interesting to look at the statistics of this blog. So far we have had people from over 30 different countries looking in. Please complete the poll. Anyway what I am curios about is that its not just from the western world that people are from. The interest in obesity, food and weight loss, so far appears to be world wide. Is consumerism catching up with everyone, the new world order is already here. The move away from individual responsibility towards state control and dependence is everywhere.

We have reduced a noble and intelligent animal into something slave like. Eating expensive, nutritionally poor food, watching the world go by on a diet of TV ads that promote a false ideal, extracting money and information from us every second of every day.

If you get the chance to watch Jamie Oliver's food revolution on channel 4 UK then you will see the problems that will soon be every ones problem. Nations getting fat on misinformation, greed, ignorance and laziness. People have been led to believe that others can provide for their needs. The only way you can guarantee where your food has come from is to grow it yourself.

Reducing consumption across the globe may cause short term economic pain, however the long term benefits for you and the planet far out way the way things are at the moment. What do you want as an nation, a wealthy yet unhealthy population draining resources by the second. Or a poor nation with healthy people utilising the worlds harvest in a way that feeds everyone.

What makes people really happy wealth or health. Time wake up and act now

JK Lee

look into the future

2011-05-17T13:53:00.000-07:00

Well we all know it is hard trying to eat and exercise in this crazy world. A world that has set us on a path of destruction. Capitalism will kill us all in a nuclear war or by amking us all obese. We need to make money, so we go to work. In doing this we unwittingly sign our own slow death warrants. We fail to eat at the correct times, we have less time for any form of exercise. The TV controls our ideas and we all shop at the supermarket to by food in boxes. We are all screwed!!!!

What does the world have to look like for use to all eat well at breakfast and lunch and less at night. For us all to get at least 30 minutes good exercise a day and spend time relaxing and educating ourselves. This is the future, but can it exist. Will or can capitalism support it?

What job do we need to do to allow this to happen. What new ways of working do employers need to engage in?

These are old big questions for society and the world, we have got it wrong so far and no one is looking to help it change for the better.

I am therefore going to change my own life. We need to take charge of our own destiny. However we are not all going to make it. Most of us will give up on the way and resign themselves to a life of fat, misery and death.

Imagine the type of person you want to be. What jobs do they do in order to be that way. Your mind will give you the clues to find a way forward. You must focus on what you want not on what you dont want.

When you feel bad, remember to refocus on what you want to feel like. THINK AND THE BODY WILL FOLLOW.

Take control of your thoughts not the other way round.

jk lee

comfort eaters show an early lead

2011-05-16T12:35:00.000-07:00

Hello there everyone

Its great to see so many of you are from around the world, it really is good to have you all and wishing you all the best of health.

The poll is slow to start however already you can see that the leader of moment is comfort eating. Comfort eating can haappen for many reason. What ever the reaon is it is the food that fills the gap. It is the food that you seek comfort it, it is the sence of feeling full that makes you feel better. Problem is, as we alll know, all that food has to go somewhere, and if you have not exercised in any form today then shame on you.

What would be good to see is people starting to comment on the blogs, lets get some interaction going here. After all we have some many people dropping in and having a look, UK, Russia, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Jamiac, Malawi, Nigeria to name but a few and of course the fatest country on the planet USA.

Once this poll becomes more informative then we will start to discuss the various reasons why people put on weight.

For now one little tip to start doing on a daily basis. The simple act of praying before your meal or just beign thankful and mindful about what you are about to eat, actually aids digestion and absorbtion of nutrients and burns more calories when eating at breakfast and lunch.

JK Lee

can you really lose weight?

2011-05-15T08:34:00.000-07:00

Salam,

How many of you that read these blogs have actually started to make changes. Motivation for many of us is a major factor. The problem is for many people is that we all give up too quickly. We make changes and then fail to carry on, we loose our will to do it.

One of the many secrets that I wll let you all know about is that in order to affect real change in your life, is to maintain the changes for at least 30 days. 30 days will ensure that new habits have a chance to embed themselves in your brain.

This will be tough, one of the few ways to get through is to relax more. Take time out when ever you can and begin to close your eyes, listen to the sounds around you and the feelings in sid and then begin to see yourself as you would like to be. Do the mirror exercise.

30 days to add years on to your life. Not a bid deal really. More years to enjoy your friends and family, more time to learn more things, more time to contribute to society.

Loosing weight has benefits for all. Just focus and count the days down. Stick to it. Later will follow some freaky mind techniques to help you focus and rid your selves of old habits and beliefs.

please add to the poll. I need your votes to fine tune the info you need to lose more weight

JK Lee

more than one way to eat an elephant

2011-05-13T11:41:00.000-07:00

Many people think that to loose weight is a simple thing. Just eat less and exercise more. However we all know that it just does not work out that way. Its very fustrating for millions of us around the globe. We are getting fatter by the second.....tick tock....

You will not loose weight if you participate in the following activities:

eating at night
not eating brreakfast
eating a light lunch
not snacking
getting stressed out
eating in front of the tv or pc
eating quickly

loosing weight will depend on many factors other than exercise you will loose more if you participate in the following:

eat breakfast and a large lunch and a small dinner
eat when you are hungry, just make sure it is fruit or wholemeal based
relaxation aids digestion and burns more calories
appreciate and give thanks for your food. Midfulness burns calories
slow down and make time to make your own food

simple really, but can you really be bothered. Its not just doing simple things, how bad does it have to get. How big do you have to be before you make an effort.

JK Lee

Look into the mirror

2011-05-09T13:11:00.000-07:00

Look at yourself in the mirror. You are the some total of your thinking so far. Most of us will not like what we see. Most of us have a distorted image of our selves. This internal image is what our brain will try to achieve for us. if only we had realized this earlier we could have saved putting on a few kilos or pounds.

So close your eyes and see your self in front of an imaginary mirror. See your self as you want to be. Make it vivid, colourful, moving, and pleasing to all your senses. The mind cannot tell the difference between a vivid imaginary picture and the real thing.. So go ahead and make the image a you would like to be, now the real magic lies in the mirror, imagine jumping into the image you see. Try on the image for size, make sure you feel how it feel to be this new shape, this will teach your mind what it is it needs to do. Now jump back out and wake up.

You will notice over the next month how you are starting to feel and act differently around food and exercise. you must do this exercise for the next month for it create a real change. Remember you are what you think.

Enjoy JK Lee

take a look in the imaginary mirror

2011-05-09T12:56:00.001-07:00

Hello there

Well at this point in time if you look in a real mirror you will see the some total of your thinking right in front of you. You are at present everything you ever thought of. Scary thought eh! Do you like the picture or not?

My guess is that most of us out there are not completely happy with what they they see. And what you see is what you think. So here what to do about it.......

Relax, close your eyes, take some nice long deep breaths, and begin to see an imaginary mirror. Wait until the picture is vivid. the more real you make it the better. No in your imagination, stand in front of the mirror and see the picture of you that you would really like to see. Notice all the curves and shape of the new you. Make it real, moving , colour, add smells, and good feelings. Now jump into the mirror and try on the new you. Really feel what it is like to be this new you. By doing this you actually teaching your mind what it has to achieve. Before you did this you probably imagined yourself bigger than you actual are. So that is what your mind set out to do. Not jump out of the mirror, affirm that this is the new you that you want to be . ND THEN COME BACK TO NOW, FULLY AWAKE.

Do this as often as possible. your brain cannot tell the difference between a vivid imagined image and the real thing. The more you visit this metal space the stronger you mind will associate with it and you will notice changes in yourself ower the next month. Notice how you attitude to food and exercise changes and your mind tries to find new ways to achieve its new target.

Good luck JK Lee

what doyou believe

2011-05-08T06:12:00.000-07:00

You might realize that something is wrong when you cannot loose weight. When you have been fighting for years to shed those excess piecesof flab around your belly. You get depressed when nothing happens, you give up at the very thought of more unsuccessful effort to loose weight.

Does this sound familiar, well its true for most of us. The problem is actual YOU. Your own thinking is preventing you from loosing wieght.

You actually believe that you are fat and that nothing can help you. Your own self image is fat or even fatter than you already are.

Well you can change all that is some very easy simple non effortful ways. Just using your mind. I will post hese later in the week, spread the word and tune in this week. Its free and easy . no con, just the will to be slimmer and more positive about yourself.

2011-05-05T13:13:00.000-07:00

Did you know that to burn more calories you need to eat more at breakfast and lunch and then eat light at night. Most of us do not and soon the whole world will be eating in the incorrect order. We get fatter with our ignorance of the facts. To loose wieght you need to educate yourself and stop relying on other to feed yu disinformation.

If we continue to do this over time we will effect our development and the power of evolution according to Darwin will cause us to change our bodies for ever. We will end up smaller and fatter with shorter legs to allow our bodies to cope with this way off eating. You may already see this happening with our youth.

Why have we become so reliant on others to feed us. Why do we allow oursleves to accept that work comes first and eating comes a lot lower on the scale of things that are really important. We are only on tis planet because of the way we have eaten in the past. Look at our anscestors and think about what they ate and when they ate.

You need lots of food to have the energy to go out hunting or gathering. You do not need lots of energy at the end of the day when you are tired and in need of rest and the body is slowing down. Simple really, but modern life is quickly de tuning us all in blind acceptance of the way it is.

What can we do? Probably nothing, people are too busy to change, people are too lazy to educate themselves on the reality of eating at incorrect times with incorrect calorie intake. Do people deserve to get fat, should we really bother to educate people.

The fatter the masses get the earlier they die. After all there are too many people on the planet, so why bother helping people to live longer. I am getting increasing frustrated by the amount of overweight people I see. Most people do not notice it when they look at people because they are over weight themselves.

Are humans really the most intelligent animals on the planet? I wonder...

2011-05-05T12:56:00.001-07:00

We are designed to consume food at breakfast and lunch and eat light at night. We have the in built ability to burn more calories in the morning and afternoon than at night. Yet because of the ever increasing pressures of work we tend to eat light at breakfast and lunch and then pig out at night. This is no good for our bodies. The inability to burn calories at night leaves your body with an excess of food to burn. Guess what? It turns to fat.

We know this, science knows this and therefore politicans know this, yet we still conform to the new eating patterns. We are eating and working ourselves into early graves. We are eating ourselves further into a situation which binds our bodies closer to fat and weigth gain more than at any time in our history.

Will employers ever realise that a productive work force is a happy workforce. happyness starts from within and it all centre around food and how we eat. You need to make some choices to ever breakfree from this vicious cycle.

What are you going to do about it? What can you do about it?

Lets just forget about it and continue to eat at night in fromnt of a tv or pc or mobile device, god help you because you obviously cannot help yourself.

top tips for loosing weight

2011-05-02T10:11:00.000-07:00

If you really are serious about loosing weight and getting back into a healthy way of eating. I have 4 tops tips that will blow your mind. So simple and effective that anyone anywhere can start today.

When you get the information you may think that I am joking, joking I am not, make the change today and start thinking about what you eat. Literally that is what it ias all about ......thinking about whaht you are eating.

If you think this is for you and it is totally free of charge because it is so simple, just drop me an email .

JK Lee