Weight Loss Success: It Can Happen For You Too!

Those extra pounds have been there too long. Friends of Whitacre Wellness are kicking those pounds out for good! Several of our friends started weight loss challenges and are successfully losing inches, pounds, and fat. What they are gaining is self-confidence and strength. They are gaining better health and resistance to injury also! You can’t beat that!

We have been teaching our friends about the advantages of supplementing while on your weight loss journey. So many of our friends have taken these videos and articles seriously and have begun applying what they learned. The result is our friends are losing weight steadily! One couple started in January and they have lost a total of 44 pounds together. They just had a new baby, so they did not add exercise to their regimen yet. All their friends are asking them what they are doing and they are teaching them about the benefits of a good healthy diet and then adding in supplementing for an advantage. They were taking the Slimmetry™ and Carb Blocker 2. Another lady started her weight loss journey 3 weeks ago and lost 9 pounds. She utilized the Slimmetry™, Carb Blocker 2 and the CLA 500. She then went on a Celebrity cruise for 4 days. Most of us would gain weight on a cruise, where there is unlimited free food, but she actually lost one pound. While on the cruise, she continued to take her supplements and still got a great result! Another gal started her weight loss journey in January and has lost a total of 23 ½ pounds! She ate a carb reducer diet, exercised (mostly walking ) and utilized the supplements Slimmetry™, Carb Blocker 2 and CLA 500 - softgels.

From what she learned about eating healthier, she inspired Dr. Jason to eat healthier at a Chinese restaurant. For the first time, he skipped the fried food, rice and noodles. He ate lean chicken and beef and lots of veggies. Wow! Dr. Jason started his weight loss challenge on February 19th. He has already lost 8 ½ pounds and is feeling great! It may seem like work at first, but once your success is inspiring others, it gets to be so fun! If you would like to join our weight loss challenge, give us a call or let us know on our face book page, Friends of Whitacre Wellness.

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So many struggle with weight loss. To gain control of this part of our lives, we try to establish disciplined habits in eating a healthier diet and exercising. I personally always look for ways to make this an easier task and ways to motivate myself to get a better result. One herbal product that I have come across that is very helpful in this is Rhodiola rosea. It is a great weight loss supplement or all natural “diet pill” to help you lose weight for several reasons that we will discuss here.

First, what is rhodiola and where does it come from? It is an herb that comes from the polar Arctic regions of Eastern Siberia. Historically, it was highly valued by traditional Arctic tribes as a strengthening tonic to increase physical and mental stamina. This is why traditionally it has been used by Russian athletes. Also, it has been prized for its ability to help the body adapt to stress. It supports the nervous system, and helps with mental focus as it increases the blood supply to the brain. It supports the immune system and is known to improve endurance and physical performance. This herb has many benefits to it, but the main focus of this article is to outline its benefits in weight loss.

One of the biggest hurdles of weight loss is stored fat or adipose tissue. It usually shows up around the waist, hips, and buttocks. Once fat is stored in this tissue, it is hard to get rid of. That's why some people just can't seem to get rid of certain fatty spots, including "love handles". The body does possess an enzyme called hormone-sensitive lipase that is capable of breaking down fat stored in adipose tissue, but this enzyme is not especially active. This is where rhodiola rosea comes in. Extracts of rhodiola rosea have the capacity to activate hormone-sensitive lipase, thus increasing the breakdown of fat stored in adipose tissue. Rosavin is one of the active ingredients in rhodiola that specifically contributes to fat breakdown. It does this by activating hormone-sensitive lipase, thus increasing the breakdown of fat stored in adipose tissue. The broken down stored fat is then released in the bloodstream, which is why it is a good idea to exercise in addition to taking the supplement.

We all know that exercise is good for us in general and we know that exercise will help us to lose weight, if we do it properly. Rigorous work schedules and life responsibilities leave a person tired and fatigued, so they do not exercise. Also, fatigue is known to cause us to make poor food decisions. When we are tired, we tend to eat what is readily available like fast food instead of cooking a healthy meal. Rhodiola can be a great help in this, as it gives you more energy to work out and has been shown to increase your productivity in workouts and naturally improves mental alertness and decreases fatigue, as it increases blood flow to the brain.

Here is some evidence that shows how Rhodiola can actually improve your exercise program, thus over time positively affect your weight loss. According to a double blind placebo-controlled randomized study conducted in Belgium involving 24 volunteers, published on Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab, patients were administered with either Rhodiola rosea intake 200-mg Rhodiola rosea extract containing 3% rosavin + 1% salidroside plus 500 mg starch or placebo (700 mg starch). Over a 4 week period, volunteers taking Rhodiola showed improvement in physical capacity, muscle strength, speed of limb movement, reaction time, and attention, compared to placebo group.

As we discussed, rhodiola has been shown to improve mental alertness and decrease fatigue. Research conducted at the Department of Neurology, Armenian State Medical University,Yerevan, the effect of repeated low-dose treatment of Rhodiola extract on fatigue during night duty among a group of 56 young, healthy physicians was studied. Total mental performance was evaluated measuring overall level of mental fatigue, complex perceptive and cognitive cerebral functions, such as associative thinking, short-term memory, calculation and ability of concentration, and speed of audio-visual perception. During a period of three weeks, volunteers taking Rhodiola extract were shown to have significant improvement in these tests compared to placebo group. These results suggest that Rhodiola can reduce general fatigue under certain stressful conditions. It helped night working physicians to have less fatigue and be more alert and it can help you. With your improved energy and alertness you can cook healthier meals and make better decisions, when it comes to food choices. Lastly, rhodiola can help us choose to eat a healthy diet and choose to exercise, as it helps improve our mental alertness and energy levels.

As you can see, we are promoting healthy weight loss and not a get slim quick scheme. Rhodiola helps us to make good choices, and over time those good choices will give us a good result in our weight loss efforts. In addition, with its ability to activate hormone sensitive molecules to break down stored fat, it is a real help in increasing our weight loss efforts. This is one weight loss tool we don’t want to be without.

How do these supplements work to give you an advantage in your weight loss goals?

All the food we take in can be categorized as glucose, lipids, or amino acids. The first two can be broken down to be stored as fat. The latter one, amino acids are the building blocks of our lean muscle. When one takes Carb Blocker 2, it blocks up to 500 calories per meal of carbohydrates. It does this by binding to the carbohydrates and making the molecule larger in size, therefore it passes through the body like fiber would. This prevents that glucose from breaking down to fat. Another advantage product in your weight loss journey is Slimmetry. It gives you energy, helps reduce water weight and bloating and helps put your metabolism into a fat burning type of metabolism. With the body rid of the glucose and switched to fat burning mode, this leaves the body with more lean muscle mass overall.

One more advantage product is CLA 500. This product is also helpful. Let’s look at the research. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, published in the December 2000 issue of the Journal of Nutrition found that CLA reduces fat and preserves muscle tissue. According to the research project manager, an average reduction of six pounds of body fat was found in the group that took CLA, compared to a placebo group. CLA is a fat found in raw dairy and animal meat that has been grass fed, which is why our diets typically lack this fat.

The other helpful benefits of CLA are that it often helps with many of the symptoms found in thyroid patients. It helps to increase your metabolic rate, decreases abdominal fat, enhances muscle growth, lowers cholesterol and lowers insulin resistance -- reduces food-induced allergic reactions, and enhances the immune system.

With this type of advantage, you will be telling everyone of your weight loss success in 2012. You will be showing off those inches lost! Lean muscle will be showing up on your body that was covered up before. You will see the results of those small daily decisions that were easy to do, and given enough time have yielded you a wonderful result in your health. We wish you much success this year and we look forward to hearing your testimony!

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