Posted: February 22, 2017 at 7:50 am
Dr. Luke, accused of fat-shaming, says Kesha's kin outlined diet
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Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 8:51 PM
The music producer accused of abusing and fat-shaming pop star Kesha says it was the singers family and handlers who wanted to keep her off junk food, according to court papers.
After Keshas camp released emails last week from producer Dr. Luke criticizing her for breaking her "diet plan" by drinking a Diet Coke, Luke countered that the whole weight-loss initiative was her idea.
"Kesha and her managers know full well that they are mischaracterizing this conduct as 'abuse' because Kesha, her managers, and others in Keshas life, frequently discussed her weight and dieting practices and not in the most flattering of terms," Luke said in a reply filed in court Tuesday.
At issue are dueling lawsuits between Kesha, 29, and Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, over Keshas contract with Luke and allegations that the producer raped and drugged her.
Emails of Dr. Luke ripping Kesha's weight introduced into suit
Luke also denied claims he threatened Kesha to get her to sing particular lyrics for the song Crazy Kids.
But Luke says he asked a prominent third-party writer to provide alternative lyrics specifically to address Keshas concerns.
Lawyers for Kesha, whose real name is Kesha Sebert, could not be reached for comment.
Kesha has scored two number-one singles, "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R."
Lady Gaga roped into new Dr. Luke suit against Kesha
She has been trying to get out of her six-album deal with Sony and Luke.
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Posted: February 12, 2017 at 6:42 pm
Victor R. Martinez , El Paso Times 5:00 a.m. MT Feb. 12, 2017
Alexander Cisneros, 18, left, snacks on a plate of fat bombs, a dessert made with heavy cream, cream cheese and orange zest. Watching is his mother, Gladys Cisneros and Franco Lopez, a registered dietician and clinical nutrition manager at the specialty clinic at Providence Childrens Hospital. Alexander is on the Ketogenic Diet. Some of the foods in the diet are on the table.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)Buy Photo
A typical breakfast for Alexander Cisneros is a two-egg omelette with spinach sauteed in coconut oil and full-fat cheese.
And for lunch or dinner his mother, Gladys Cisneros, prepares four ounces of fish, chicken or beef with a half a cup of bell peppers, asparagus or broccoli sauteed in real butter and smothered in cheddar cheese.
For dessert it's jello made with heavy whipped cream or a fat bomb, whipped cream mixed with Stevia, a natural sweetener made from the Stevia leaf.
Not exactly what many people would consider a healthy diet.
But for Alexander, his mother and his sister Jacqueline, it works.
"There's three of us on the diet for three different purposes," Cisneros said. "He is onit because he has multiple disabilities, one of them being epilepsy so he is on it to address the epileptic seizures. My daughter is on it because she's a competitive swimmer with WETT. I do it because it helps to balance my hormones. Being middle aged, it affects my body. Plus it helps my energy level."
The Cisneros family is on the ketogenic diet, a very low-carb diet which turns the body into a fat-burning machine.
"Half the time, you can't even finish your meal because it's so rich and so good," Cisneros said. "Alexander has three meals a day, plus I'll send him a snack like pork rinds."
A plate of ground beef cooked in oil with avocados, tomatoes and green beens could be a typical lunch plate in the Ketogenic Diet.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)
Studies have found that this very low-carb, high-fat diet is effective for weight loss, diabetes and epilepsy. Theres also early evidence to show that it may be beneficial for certain cancers, Alzheimers disease and other diseases, too.
"It's a high fat, low carbohydrate, adequate protein diet where we restrict the carbohydrates," said Franco Lopez, a licensed dietitian with the Hospitals of Providence. "It's called the modified ketogenic diet which is a little more liberal than the classic ketogenic diet. The classic ketogenic diet has to be measured with grams with a scale so it was very strict. This one is more liberal where you can eat more vegetables."
A ketogenic diet is similar to other strict low-carb diets, such as the Atkins diet or LCHF (low carb, high fat). A ketogenic diet typically limits carbs to 2050 grams per day.
A hamburger patty without the bun and bacon strips topped with sliced avocados, onions and tomatoes is a typical dinner plate in the Ketogenic Diet.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, the ketogenic diet is one of the oldest treatments for epilepsy. It is intended to maintain the starvation or fasting metabolism over a long time. When the body is in a fasting state, it creates ketones, a by-product of fat-burning metabolism. It has been established that seizures often lessen or disappear during periods of fasting in some individuals with epilepsy.
"A lot of people are afraid of the amount of fat consumed in this diet," Lopez acknowledged. "But there's a big misconception that fat is harmful when in reality it's the carbohydrates that are causing the harm. Unfortunately what is being promoted is low fat, high carbohydrates so my role is to do seminars and educate people and have kids not only with epilepsy but who have elevated cholesterol in their diet, kids with diabetes, people with a brain tumors; I have a patient with a brain tumor which has been shrinking."
Lopez sees patients Monday through Friday at the Specialty Clinic at The Hospital of Providence Children's Hospital.
"I have about 40 to 50 patients on the ketogenic diet," he said. "The diet works on 50 to 70 percent of my patients. Any very good medication, at the most, will have a 30 percent effectiveness. This diet surpasses that."
Lopez, who is on the diet, said his triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood the body uses for energy, has improved and he haslost weight.
"The diet requires preparation, it requires committeemen, dedication and creativity," he said. "I encourage the entire family to adopt the diet that way everybody can eat the same food at the dinner table. Everyone benefits from the diet."
He has a patient who is a football player who experiences seizures.
"He is 6-4 and weights about 240 pounds," Lopez said. "His caloric intake is about 5,000 calories so his mom prepares a half dozen eggs and half a package of bacon. She cooks the eggs in the fat of the bacon juice so he can get enough fat into his diet."
Alexander's intake is about 1,620 calories.
Alexander Cisneros with a breakfast plate consisting of egg omelet cooked in butter topped with heavy cream and sausage patties.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)
"We haven't seen a complete elimination of seizures but they've gone from one to two a day to maybe two a week so there has been a drastic drop in the frequency, the duration and the intensity of the seizures," Alexander's mother said. "Once upon a time when he would have a seizure, he would sleep for three hours. Now when he has a seizure, nine times out of 10 he doesn't fall sleep at all. He's a little droggy but he doesn't sleep so his recovery rate is a lot better."
Cisneros and her daughter have also seen the benefits.
"For my daughter, her endurance is so much better," she said. "When she would compete, she was so exhausted. Now she feels like she can swim longer. She told me that that she is studying less but retaining more. Her energy level and her endurance are both up. Also her muscle tone has gotten more defined.
"For me, my energy levels were dropping and my menstrual cycle was off because I was very hormonal," she said. "I had to take a 2 o'clock nap almost every day. All of that changed. I no longer have to take a nap, my energy levels are high now, everything is different."
Victor R. Martinez may be reached at 546-6128; vmartinez@elpasotimes.com; @vrmart on Twitter.
A Ketogenic Diet dessert can be Fat bombs made with heavy cream, cream cheese and orange zest.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)
What: The ketogenic diet, a high fat, low carbohydrate diet which turns the body into a fat-burning machine.Studies have found that the diet is effective for weight loss, diabetes and epilepsy.
Who: FrancoLopez, a licensed dietitian with the Hospitals of Providence, sees patients Monday through Friday at the SpecialtyClinic at The Hospital of Providence Children's Hospital.
Information: 577-7888.
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Lady Gaga Weight Loss 2012 Lady Gaga Diet Programs - Isn't amazing how all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are shapely and healthy looking, and look good on camera. Others look like they haven't eaten in weeks, like they just got back from the famine in Ethiopia for a few weeks. Like they had been starving themselves to lose weight, and that is probably what they have been doing. You see it in all the tabloids, this person lost 100 pounds again, this one gained 100 pounds, and then lost 150 pounds. Some are not as dramatic; this one lost 40 pounds and is a television spokesperson, because the previous celebrity diet spokesperson gained the weight back. The fact is they may be starving themselves to lose weight, fasting like they are going through a famine.
Celebrities make dieting look so easy, don't they? One month they're on the cover of US Weekly for gaining too much weight and the next they're headlining the "sexiest beach bods" story. It is true that seriously overweight people can lose large amounts of fat in a quick amount of time, because of the large fat content in their cells. But those that are only a few pounds overweight, losing 40 pounds in a month, is not only starvation, it is malnutrition and can have serious side effects. Our body weight can fluctuate day to day and the best diets take the weight off gradually, the way it came on.
Researches indicate that individuals who indulge in a weight loss program by taking prepared meals end up losing an additional 31% weight as against those who cook their own meals. With help, losing weight is made easier and at times much faster as against doing it on your own.Diet delivery is gaining popularity in a big way as it is fairly affordable by even the common man, roughly around $20 a day with an increasing variety to choose from. A few of which include: Zone-compliant meal, low carbs plan, veggie meals, and gourmet too.
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With the rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity and increasing BMI levels, there is an array of products and diet plan to aid in combating obesity. Celebrity slim diet, the basic idea is to educate people and not to depict food as an enemy. Like a lot of famous diets in Hollywood, if your body thinks you are starving, it is going to hold on to every calorie you take in to keep you from starving to death instead of burning them for energy. When you follow a properly balanced weight loss diet, your metabolism Gaga hardly notice the decrease in calories and continue to burn fat it doesn't need to store. This is a more long-term weight loss strategy.
Celebrities do not have secrets about dieting. They are normal people like the rest of us but, unlike most of us, they have people working for them such as diet advisors and personal trainers. Celebrity diets involve a level of commitment and dedication which we struggle with. The best celebrity diets involve eating sensibly and limiting our calorie intake. Having these factors in mind Gaga allow you to have safe and easy weight loss that Gaga provide you with short term and long term consistent results.
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Posted: September 10, 2022 at 2:04 am
Maria Balhara, 16, will present her research on teen eating habits at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Maria Balhara)
Explaining her research, Maria Balhara sounds like a typical scientist: She had a hypothesis. She recruited participants to evaluate. She analyzed the data. Soon, she'll present her work at major scientific conferences.
This might be routine stuff for a professor or graduate student. For a 16-year-old high schooler, not so much.
Balhara, a senior at Cooper City High School in South Florida, will present her work, "Proposing a New 'Gateway Food Model' for Adolescent Eating Behavior and Its Implications for Modifiable Hypertension Risk Factors," on Saturday at the American Heart Association's Hypertension Scientific Sessions in San Diego.
Her research was conceived as she thought about how "gateway" drugs can lead people to try others. She thought something similar might happen with ultra-processed food in teens' diets.
"That hypothesis proved correct," said Balhara, who found that increased consumption of candy, prepackaged pastries and frozen desserts was associated with increased consumption of other ultra-processed foods. The findings are considered preliminary until the full results are published in a peer-reviewed journal.
It's not the only research she'll be presenting this fall. In October, she'll appear at an American Academy of Pediatrics conference in Anaheim, California, to present another analysis from the same data set. Meanwhile, other offshoots will be featured at conferences in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
Her work had its start in her high school's AP Capstone classes, a two-year program that culminates in a research project. She continued the work while dually enrolled in a human nutrition course at Broward College.
She spent about six months designing and completing the study. The initial plan, though, did not envision all those conferences. "It was just, you know, make some sort of questionnaire or survey," then communicate it in a paper.
When she did her analyses, her father, who works as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry, sparked the idea to submit it. She was eager to do that. "I think that a lot of times, teenagers place these restrictions on themselves, and they say, 'No one wants to read my research. No one will care.'" She hopes to help others overcome that kind of thinking, and follow in her footsteps.
Clearly driven and a self-described perfectionist ("I'm also a night owl, which is a bad combination") Balhara is poised and cheerful as she discusses how she got here. It's not like she started reading scientific journals as a child, she said. She considers herself "shockingly average," someone who enjoys classic movies "Back to the Future" is a favorite and trail hiking, when she can find time.
But it's true that she's long been fascinated with nutrition. Maybe a little obsessed.
"My friends and family tell me all the time, 'God you never shut up about food,'" she said, laughing. "I say, 'Well, it's important.'"
A lot of her interest stems, she said, from her multicultural background. Her father is from India; her mother, who wanted to be a biologist but ended up working in logistics, is from Brazil.
"Those are very different cultures, you know, very different foods," said Balhara, whose parents divorced when she was in elementary school. She was fascinated by the differences she saw in the two sides of her family and at school, where her lunch had things like Brazilian chicken when the kids around her were eating ham and cheese sandwiches.
So her first nutrition "research" was asking basic questions about what she was seeing. "You know, what kind of nutrients are in this food, or that food?" she said.
She also found herself thinking about how food and culture are entwined. "If you tell an Indian person who eats traditional Indian food that they have to start eating raw vegetables three times a day, they'll scoff at you," she said. "Because in Indian cuisine, vegetables are usually never eaten raw. You always have to cook them in some sort of curry." But Brazilian culture, she observed, was more open to uncooked foods.
Balhara has always had traits that set her apart, even among gifted children, said teacher Michael Jones. He teaches sociology and history at Cooper City High, but he also was her teacher in fifth grade.
Not surprisingly, he expects great things from her. "Maria is a very, very, very driven and motivated young lady," he said. "If you talk to her for more than five minutes, you'll get that sense. She has been like that since the first time I met her."
But Balhara, he said, isn't driven by external factors such as winning awards or approval from teachers. She cares about the work she's doing. The research, he said, is something she finds important, rather than just a useful way to achieve her academic goals.
She spent her summer in Boston, where she interned in a pediatric endocrine lab at Massachusetts General Hospital. Next year, she's hoping to get accepted to a university with a strong sciences program. Beyond that, she's interested in medical school and a career in research. But she's keeping her options open.
Meanwhile, Balhara hopes others might follow up on her work. And if some of those researchers are fellow teens so much the better, she said. "Adolescent eating habits are definitely an important subject, but it's one that adolescents themselves don't usually have the ability to contribute to in the scientific fields."
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Posted: August 1, 2022 at 2:15 am
PAUL McKENNA has called for hypnotic gastric bands to be made available on the NHS to tackle Britains obesity crisis.
The hypnotist spoke out after it was revealed this week that almost half of women have done no vigorous exercise in the past year, while a third of men have also given it a miss.
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The figures, from the Nuffield Health charity, come as Britains weight crisis is soaring.
Latest figures reveal 64 per cent of adults were either overweight or obese in 2019.
However, Cancer Research UK predicted last month that more than 42million adults will be overweight by 2040 a shocking 71 per cent of us.
So today Paul shares techniques from his updated international best-selling book The Hypnotic Gastric Band and an online trance exclusively to help Sun readers get thin this summer.
He is also offering a special discount on his Hypnotic Gastric Band app.
In an exclusive interview, Paul said: This is the closest thing to real magic Ive ever witnessed, as a hypnotic gastric band can help you smash off the pounds and get thin.
We should be prescribing this procedure on the NHS.
You can get CBT, EMDR, hypnotherapy, counselling why is this any different?
This summer Britain is facing an epidemic of obesity. As a nation we have never been fatter. But the reasons why people become overweight are very complex.
The scientific research is overwhelming for most people diets dont work.
Additionally, during these times of massive anxiety, stress, boredom and emotional challenges due to the pandemic, millions have been trying to change the way they feel through drinking, drug-taking, gambling, sex, shopping, television and the worlds drug of choice food, and particularly sugary food.
Thats why Im sharing what Ive learned over the past decades, along with additional techniques so Sun readers can change their lives.
As I guide them through the process in my trance audio online, I will get readers to do all the things they would have done, had they had a real gastric band fitted.
As we know, the real band is very expensive, and there is a potential risk, as with any medical procedure.
The beauty of the hypnotic, or psychological gastric band, is that it is safe. You go into a trance, you are told you are having this procedure, but you dont have to worry about physically going under the knife.
Your unconscious mind is instructed that the hypnotic gastric band has shrunk your stomach from the size of a melon to the size of an apple, so you will feel full faster.
You eat far less, without feeling that you are missing out.One man who lost 300lb later told me, Its like a switch has been flipped in my head.
It wont work for everyone, but in studies weve done, we have found significant success rates, with seven in ten people finding it works for them.
The eyes of love
PEOPLE who are overweight often tell themselves: I hate myself because Im fat.
One lady told me shed look in the mirror and her internal voice said: Fat cow.
You need to stop dishing out abuse to yourself, as in the past the solution to stop the feeling was to eat.
This technique gets you to a place where you love and accept yourself.
And by respecting yourself, you can lose weight.
Read through this whole exercise before you do it, so you know what to do.
1. Close your eyes and think about someone who loves and respects you.
2. Imagine that person is standing in front of you now, looking at you and smiling.
3. Next, imagine floating out of your own body and into theirs, and look at yourself through their eyes. See yourself through the eyes of love and respect. Feel the smile on their face as they look at you. Notice how you smile in return.
4. Notice all the things they love and respect about you. Take all the time you need to do that. Notice absolutely everything, even the little things, that you can see. Notice how it makes you feel.
5. Finally, take a snapshot of yourself in your mind and imagine seeing it up to the right in front of you.
6. Keep this feeling in mind, and any time you want to be reminded of it, look up to your right and see that picture again.
ALONGSIDE my online trance, these four golden rules are the foundation of my system and will help to support the changes you are making.
1. When you are hungry, eat: It is important to make a distinction between true physical hunger and emotional hunger. Real hunger comes on gradually. It is clear, constant and you feel it in your belly. It is not a reaction to fear, embarrassment, stress or anger, or a distraction when you are bored.
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2. Eat what you want, not what you think you need: All diets involve limiting and depriving the body. Healthy people eat what their body really wants. After hypnotic gastric band surgery you can eat what you wish.3. Whatever you eat, do it consciously: Give your food your complete attention. Turn off the TV. Slow your eating speed right down to about a quarter of your usual speed. With each mouthful, put your knife and fork down and chew your food 20 times.4. When you think you are full, stop eating: Listen for the signal from your brain that you are full, then stop. Its like a muscle the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
If at first you are not quite sure if you are feeling the full signal correctly, stop eating for three or four minutes and see if you are still actually hungry. If you are still hungry, eat a bit more and watch out for the signal again.
ITS important to no longer use food to change your feelings, or you will put on weight.
To feel good and interrupt or change your emotions, use this Havening technique, created by my friend Dr Ronald Ruden.
Please read through the following exercise before you do it.You should practise this sequence of eye movements, body touches and visualisations several times until you know it off by heart.
Then you will be able to use it any time you need to get rid of unhappy feelings and swiftly feel calm and relaxed. Many people experience remarkable positive changes immediately after a Havening session. Even if you are one of those people, keep doing this Havening exercise regularly.
1. Pay attention to any stress or unhappiness you wish to remove and notice what it looks like in your imagination and how stressful it feels.Now rate its strength on a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most powerful and one is the least. This is important, as it lets you measure how much you are reducing it.
2. Cross your arms, place your hands on the tops of your shoulders and close your eyes.
3. Now stroke your hands down the sides of your arms from the top of your shoulders down to your elbows, and keep doing this downward-stroking motion again and again throughout this process.
4. Now clear your mind, or just think about or imagine something nice.
5. As you carry on stroking the sides of your arms, imagine you are walking on a beautiful beach, and with each footstep you take in the sand, count out loud from one to 20. One, two, three...
6. Keeping your head still, while continuing to stroke your arms, move your eyes laterally to the left and laterally to the right ten times.
7. Still stroking the sides of your arms, imagine you are walking outside in a beautiful garden. With each footstep you take in the grass, count out loud from one to 20. One, two, three...
8. Now open your eyes and check on your scale from one to ten how much lower the number of the stress feeling is now.If it is way down the bottom of the scale, congratulations you have personally changed your feelings.
If you think that the stress feeling is not yet reduced enough, just repeat the Havening sequence until it is reduced as far as you want.
PEOPLE who are overweight tell me they are either hungry all the time, or they dont know when they are full.
From now on, never go below three or above seven again.
1. Physically faint
2. Ravenous
3. Fairly hungry
4. Slightly hungry
5. Neutral
6. Pleasantly satisfied
7. Full
8. Stuffed
9. Bloated
10. Nauseous
As you find it easier to live in the middle section of the scale, your relationship with food, your self-control and your body will all change for the better.
Offer: get the hypnotic gastric band app for 4.99
SUN readers can get an exclusive discount on Paul McKennas hugely popular The Hypnotic Gastric Band app.
For the next 72 hours you can buy it at the reduced price of 4.99 (usual price 6.99) from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store using this QR Code until 23.59 on Monday 1 August.
Readers can also listen to Paul McKennas online trance all this weekend for free at thesun.co.uk.
THIS simple technique helps to recalibrate your hunger settings.
1. I want you to remember a time when you felt really hungry remember what it felt like in your stomach and your mind, and your feelings.
2. I want you to remember a time when you felt really stuffed remember what it felt like in your stomach and mind.
3. Again, I want you to remember a time you felt really hungry.
4. Now I want you to remember a time when you felt stuffed.
5. Once more, I want you to remember a time you felt really hungry.
6. And again, I want you to remember a time you felt really stuffed.
Can you notice the difference now, between feeling hungry and feeling full?
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Posted: April 25, 2022 at 1:51 am
Great British Bake Off presenter Matt Lucas told fans he was approached by a woman who commented on his recent weight loss as he watched Arsenal take on Manchester United
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Matt Lucas has spoken out about being 'thin-shamed' as he watched Arsenal's clash against Manchester United on Saturday.
The popular Great British Bake Off presenter, 48, previously opened up about being inspired to 'get fitter' after putting on a 'lot of weight in lockdown.'
After looking noticeably trimmer in recent months, Matt's weight loss has been commended by his fans with the star joking he had never been 'thin-shamed in his life' until he dropped by at the Emirates Stadium this weekend to watch his team.
Taking to Twitter after the game, Matt posted: "Shout out to the lady who stopped me at football today to ask me why i've lost weight and to inform me I look a lot older.
"For the first time in my life, I think i've just been thin-shamed," he added.
After sharing the encounter, Matt's followers were quick to offer him support.
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"You look amazing, and most importantly, happy," replied one while another agreed, telling Matt: "You look fantastic! Sod the mood hoovers."
Another assured the star: "I get thin shamed when I lose weight and fat shamed when I gain a little. I've come to the conclusion a lot of people just want to drag you down no matter what."
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Matt opened up about his weight loss during an appearance on the Lorraine Show last year.
The ITV host told Matt she was amazed he'd managed to lose weight during lockdown and while hosting Bake Off.
Matt replied: "I've lost some weight, I needed to take the edge off, because I put on a lot of weight in lockdown.
"I just had to do something about it," he added, to which Lorraine replied: "Yes, just not eat as much and move around a wee bit more, that's kind of what you have to do."
Matt said: "I've still got a bit of a tum, I've got a little bit of a tum, I'm not a skinny Minnie."
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A year prior, Matt revealed he was keen to "get fit" during lockdown after believing he had gained weight.
He said: "The one thing I need to do is get fitter, I have put on a little bit of weight, thats my next challenge to do a bit more exercise.
"I might have to make a game of it when I go out and exercise to stay out of people's way.
I dont have a garden so I have to find a way to do that."
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Posted: January 14, 2022 at 1:54 am
Jenna Jamesons keto lifestyle may have worsened her Guillain-Barr symptoms, according to a registered dietitian.
While the former porn star remains hospitalized as she recovers from the rare autoimmune disorder, Brigitte Zeitlin told The Post that living on a mostly high-fat, low-carb diet as Jameson is wont to do could have played a role in her severe symptoms that left her unable to walk.
I do think it does play a role in how severe her symptoms are because she is likely undernourished given a severe keto diet, Zeitlin said. If that is still the same type of keto she was following, yes, she would be undernourished.
The most common cause of Guillain-Barr is a food-borne bacterium called campylobacter, which is found in undercooked poultry. Given that meat and poultry are a large part of Jamesons keto lifestyle, the BZ Nutrition founder said it could have been what caused the former porn stars infection.
The amount of fruits and vegetables that shes not taking in can also mean that shes not getting in enough phytonutrients to keep her immune system strong to fight off the campylobacter before it got out of hand, Zeitlin explained.
Zeitlin also noted that there are a variety of other causes of Guillain-Barr including COVID-19, the flu and very rarely, vaccines; however, Jameson already denied the coronavirus jab caused her syndrome.
I did NOT get the jab or any jab. This is NOT a reaction to the jab, she shared on Instagram. Thank you for your concern. (Jameson has espoused anti-vaccine viewson her social media.)
Jamesons rep didnt return The Posts request for comment.
While Jameson, 47, has been hawking the keto diet since 2018 when she lost 80 pounds after giving birth to her daughter, Batel shes fallen off the wagon of the controversial diet, which caused her to gain 20 pounds.
The constant, extreme yo-yo dieting is another factor that can harm a persons immune system, Zeitlin warned.
It can put your body into states of chronic inflammation in general, she explained of Jamesons on-again, off-again methodology. Youre going to put your body into a state of heightened alert and chronic stress.
Theres no homeostasis. Theres no common ground. Theres no balance, and that can weaken your immune system.
Zeitlin advised that a healthy lifestyle includes all the food groups because they give your body a variety of vitamins, minerals and nutrients that you need to keep up a strong immune system to make sure that your nerves are communicating properly to each other.
She added, We want to make sure were eating the rainbow and good carbohydrates, really good solid, whole ancient grains.
According to the CDC, Guillain-Barr is a rare, autoimmune disorder in which a persons own immune system damages the nerves, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. The symptoms can last from weeks to several years but most make a full recovery.
Jameson and her partner, Lior Bitton, detailed her terrifying medical malady in a series of Instagram videos over the weekend that revealed she had been throwing up for two weeks before losing her muscle strength.
Her muscles in her legs were very weak. So she wasnt able to walk to the bathroom. She was falling on the way back or to the bathroom, I would have to pick her up and carry her to bed, Bitton said. And then within two days, it got really not so good, her legs started to not hold her, she wasnt able to walk.
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Posted: December 30, 2021 at 1:46 am
Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted.
The past is entered through creaking iron gates laced with fog.
We who love Joan Didion each have our own, a version that, when we think of her, glides smoothly through the recesses of our minds just as the Monorail circles Disneyland. Most likely this version also includes an image of ourselves, who we were, where we were, when she first imprinted herself on our consciousness, our subconscious when she changed how we see, and, if we write, undoubtedly and most distinctly how we do that as well. Always she returns, circling.
Im 24, riding the L train from Lorimer St. in Brooklyn to Union Square in the city, where Im a junior at Eugene Lang, having transferred from Pasadena City College in Los Angeles, where Im from. I turn pages reverently, gingerly: Slouching Towards Bethlehem. The book has been assigned in my intro to nonfiction class. I stand rocking between the heels and balls of my feet, pulling a slim green peacoat around my small frame, leaning, looking into the darkened tunnel, waiting for train lights to bloom out of the darkness and whoosh to a stop before us, the doors opening onto a florescent city. Eager to sit and read again: a coronet of seed pearls held her illusion veil.
I saw Eve Babitz before I ever laid eyes on her writing. A high school classmate was the daughter of photographer Julian Wasser. I was hanging out at the long defunct Penny Lane on Melrose, it was the late 90s, and the street had become slightly more famous, caught up in the glitz of the television show but still holding on to its punk grunginess. In the middle of the store stood the rotating postcard rack. I stood before it and from a sea of James Dean, Drew Barrymore, Salvador Dal, and Edward Scissorhands emerged Eve, hunched forward, breasts voluminous, hair shrouding her face, playing chess with the then unknown to me Marcel Duchamp. I plucked her from the display. Alexis dad took that, a friend said casually. What? I asked. Yeah, like, a bunch of years ago. Its some writer and a famous artist. I returned the card to its place but never forgot the image. This was the most Babitz way to have first encountered Eve Babitz, through gossip and a tenuous connection to celebrity.
The Stingray, the scarf, the glasses. Bobbed beach hair parted loosely down the middle. Didion was a master of persona. She gave modern women possession over car culture, so that they were no longer just objects in it. Freeways were that cultures veins and escape routes, but where? The beauty and irony in Didions work was that she made Southern California such a delicious velvet coffin that most of her characters had nowhere better to go. In many ways she herself appeared to be without needs, happy only to observe. She hardly seemed to need food, as evidenced by the many profilers who delighted in describing her diet: almonds, a single ice-cold diet coke, cigarettes, slicing edges off slim cucumber sandwiches, sipping, flicking. As Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times in 1979,
Wearing a faded blue sweatshirt over brown corduroy levis, Didion at 44 strikes anyone who sees her for the first time as the embodiment of the women in her novels: like Lily McClellan in Run River, she is strikingly frail (Didion is 5 feet 2, and weighs 95 pounds); like Maria in Play It as It Lays, she used to chain-smoke and wear chiffon scarves over her red hair; and like Charlotte in A Book of Common Prayer, she possesses an extreme and volatile thinness she was a woman with a body that masqueraded as that of a young girl.
Joan was cool to the touch and helped paint a picture of a new Californian, the woman girl or girl woman who was more interested in standing in the corner at a party than in the center of it. Before her eyes, swingers, rockstars, drunk struggling and non-struggling actors soaked up 1960s and 70s reverie, while just outside the tall, wide glass windows, coyotes stalked the Hollywood Hills, traipsing through Beachwood Canyon as lights blossomed below. Bret Easton Ellis pays homage to the same coyotes in Less Than Zero, a book that borrowed heavily from Play It as It Lays detachment, malaise, the time we spend driving L.A.s wonderland of on-ramps and off-ramps, back alleys and city streets, afraid, apparently, to merge.
Like so many, myself included, Ellis tried to capture and emulate the mysterious drama of Didions prose, sun bleached, languorous yet taut. How can one write about L.A. without veering into her territory? She knew L.A. like the back of her hand. Not satisfied with Bukowskis one-trick-pony show of low-lifes, Didion moved through Los Angeles seeking the complete picture, from Malibu to the Ralphs in Hollywood.
Each piece of Joans writing was in service of a larger narrative, this story of the United States, often using California as microcosm for our American ailments. She looked through and under L.A.s facades, revealing the forces that shaped them:
Outside the Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica a hard subtropical rain had been falling for days. It scaled still more paint from the faded hotels and rooming houses that front the Pacific along Ocean Avenue. It streamed down the blank windows of unleased offices, loosened the soft coastal cliffs and heightened the most characteristic Santa Monica affect, that air of dispirited abandon which suggests that the place survives only as an illustration of a boom gone bankrupt, evidence of some irreversible flaw in the laissez-faire small business ethic.
That she included women as prominent figures in this narrative, made her writing all the more meaningful, radical.
Babitz was a child of Los Angeles, born to a film composer father and a painter mother. She wrote in a tone that in many ways was the opposite of Didions, even though they shared a love of Los Angeles. If Joan was in the corner smoking and observing, Eve was in the mix, laughing loudly, flirtatiously, but always with a sense of ownership. There is joy and levity in Babitzs writing. She makes you feel like her newest best friend. Despite her insider status she refuses to be a snob, and her openness about the pageantry of Angeleno society is one of her most endearing qualities. She hits the ground running on the first page of Slow Days, Fast Company:
This is a love story and I apologize; it was inadvertent. But I want it clearly understood from the start that I dont expect it to turn out well. Im not going to give you an although I am wry and world-weary, me and Sam have found the answer together which only we share and you cant come in except to press your nose against this book. Its bad luck for one thing. I know this lady who just made a fortune writing about her uplifting redemption, practically, from Falling In Love, and while she was on tour promoting the paperback the light of her heart ran into the night and disappeared off the face of the earth. Besides its being bad luck to even whisper that youre happy, its also not nice basically.
I discovered Babitzs writing after Id aged out of her characters demographic and was taken back immediately to my early 20s, before moving to New York, when I was still a drug-snorting hottie, hanging off bar stools. In those twilight years after high school and before a DUI that forced me to get serious about my future, life was a kaleidoscope of ascending hillsides viewed from jalopies into which my friends and I were stuffed like sardines, dressed in a feathery color wheel of thrift store clothes Id stolen from my job as the manager at the Buffalo Exchange on La Brea. Stumbling into crowded kitchens in search of cigarettes, booze, and warm bodies; shouting into cell phones the size of dildos at the end of the night to see if a friend was going to wake up next to a future member of Maroon 5 or was puking in a bush nearby and needed assistance getting back to the car.
Babitz had done it all, predicted it all. She makes you her uninvited plus one. She introduces you to her many lovers, opens her lingerie drawer and says, dont worry, only ignorant people think sex is taboo. I once wrote a short story about the artist Ana Mendieta that in many ways was influenced by Babitzs insider voice, in which I announced that having big tits at 13 was like getting a chainsaw for Christmas and being asked to carry it around in a bra: I had power but no idea how to turn it on. Babitz understood and utilized this power, as in the famous photograph of her and Duchamp. She understood that women had been reduced to objects and that their bodies were deemed consumables, like products at Ralphs, and yet she did not allow shame or fear to be deciding factors in her life. Instead she openly embraced her sexuality, leaning hard into her eras bohemian ethos. The L.A. women in her books defied classification.
Didion, too, had a knack for attracting the most fascinating and happening people into her orbit. Harrison Ford, still a carpenter, arrives at her home in Malibu to do renovations, stays three months, then explodes into a galaxy far, far away. In Slouching, Joan stumbles upon Sarah, a small child on Haight Street whos just dropped acid, licking her white-lip-sticked lips and turning pages in a childrens book. In a telling scene in her nephew Griffin Dunnes documentary The Center Will Not Hold, he asks Joan what it was like to stumble upon a child on acid. After some thought, replies, It was gold. Even Joans metaphors mine the depths of Californian consciousness.
Didion was a pure Californian, a fifth-generation descendent of manifest destiny. She wrote herself into the fabric of her larger California narrative. Even when she wasnt on the page, her persona loomed over it. When she was present, she was honest about her failings to compartmentalize, realizing that what she had created was in some ways a monster. From Where I Was From:
I began trying to find the point of California, to locate some message in its history. I picked up a book of revisionist studies on the subject, but abandoned it on discovering that I was myself quoted, twice. You will have realized perhaps by now (a good deal earlier than I myself realized) that this book represents an exploration into my own confusions about place and the way in which I grew up, confusion and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely.
Although Babitz stayed mostly within the confines of L.A. County, her pages were full of striking insight. In Eves Hollywood, she announces:
Culturally, L.A. has always been a humid jungle alive with seething L.A. projects that I guess people from other places just cant see. It takes a certain kind of innocence to like L.A., anyway. It requires a certain plain happiness inside to be happy in L.A., to choose it and be happy here. When people are not happy, they fight against L.A. and say its a wasteland.
Despite almost unanimous critical acclaim there is the notion that what Babitz did was more akin to unadorned autobiography than fiction, which negates her very real and profound talent as an imaginative author. She had a gift for uncovering the secret desire for Los Angeles, specifically Hollywood, within its fiercest critics, despite their continual denouncement of the place as culture-less. In fact, she illustrated that Los Angeles was a continuous center of culture, one that had more pull then the Woody Allens of the world were willing to admit. Just as men wanted Babitz, the snobs wanted Hollywood, and she wasnt going to let them forget it.
In 2018, I was finishing edits on my novel Fade Into You, and it was time to accumulate blurbs. My editor asked if Id put together a wish list of authors. Eve Babitz was first on my list. She had opened a space for unabashed smart girls to exhibit their cleverness without putting on airs. As a fellow Angeleno and former wild child, my affinity for her was beyond measure. After long awaiting a response to our inquiry, her publicist informed us that Eve was no longer doing blurbs, but that she wished me and the book well. That quiet blessing was enough.
Each writer tells a story of a changing culture, of changing attitudes toward women, and their influence can be found everywhere. Not content to let stereotypes dictate the female experience on the page, Babitz opened her lingerie drawer so that I could write, and write about the Lolitas of page and screen on my own terms. Didions contribution to the world of letters is indisputable. Having helped usher in what was then called New Journalism, and has now become the Long Form status quo. That fact that we readers are so accustomed to the style of writing Didion helped pioneer speaks volumes to the force of her talent. Disaffected heroines outside in the pool chaise, plotting and painting their toenails; whip-smart journalist driving full-speed through a headlit Mojave, cigarette hanging from a pair of red lips, a soft pack and hardboiled egg by their side. Restless women in the sunshine, with time aplenty. A sports car and a highway out of town, and always coming home; circling.
Nikki Darling holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC. Her debut novel,Fade Into You,was published by Feminist Press in 2018, and is currently being adapted into a scripted series. She is completing her second book,The Call Is Coming From Inside the House. She lives in L.A. with her cat, small dog, and partner.
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Posted: October 24, 2021 at 1:59 am
Cutting back on Hershey's, Ben & Jerry's, and Oreos may be one of the suckiest parts of dieting. But eliminating sweets doesn't mean you have to go without anything sweet-tasting. Seriously! Just eat fruit, especially picks that have been deemed the best for weight loss.
The natural sugars in fruit can be used to quell a sweet tooth, says registered dietician Bonnie Taub-Dix, RDN, creator of BetterThanDieting, and author of Read It Before You Eat It. "Beyond just being a healthier hit of sweetness, fruits are packed with essential vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, fiber and waterwhich candy and candy-sugar doesn't have," she says.
The fiber in fruit is especially clutch for those working towards weight loss. "Fiber is the nutrient that helps keep you full, so when you eat a fiber-forward diet, you decrease your likelihood of snacking between meals," says Taub-Dix.
Fruit is also lower in calories than other, less healthy foods, she says. Subbing a refined-carb snack with a piece of fruit easily slashes one to two hundred calories from your daily intake.
With that in mind, let us introduce you to the best fruits of blasting flab. The 9 fruits listed below all have two things in common: They are loaded with fiber and flavor.
There's a popular, but misleading, food rumor that eating grapefruit burns more calories than it contains. "It's a myth that grapefruit is a negative calorie food; No food is," says Taub-Dix. "But, high-in-fiber, low-in-calories, and flavorful still makes it a good addition to a weight loss plan," Taub-Dix says.
While she promises there's no wrong time to scarf down the ruby fruit, according to one study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food, eating half a grapefruit before meals may be most beneficial for weight and fat loss. For the six-week study, researchers found that participants who ate grapefruit before every meal saw their belly's shrink by up to an inch. Why not consider having half of a grapefruit before your morning oatmeal, and slicing a few segments to a starter salad?
Cherries may taste best on top of an ice cream sundae. But if you're trying to lose weight the oh-so-tiny and sweet fruit is not only pretty damn good on its own, but may also support fat loss. In one 12-week study by the University of Michigan, rats who were fed antioxidant-rich tart cherries showed a 9-percent greater belly fat reduction compared to rats who didn't chow on cherries.
Are humans rats? No. But, the study also found cherry consumption had the profound ability to reduce inflammation, which the researchers noted supports the idea that eating inflammation-fighting foods (like cherries) is beneficial for weight loss. So, nosh on!
Think of apples as the powerhouse weight loss food. "With 4 grams of fiber per serving and only 95 calories, apples are one of the best sources of fiber on the planet," says Taub-Dix. Apples are also exceptionally crunchy, which means they take longer to consume (all that chewing!) and more satisfying to eat compared to other snacks.
If you don't favor one apple type over others, opt for Pink Lady variety. Research conducted at the University of Western Australia found that the Pink Lady apples had the highest levels of flavonoids, antioxidants which are thought to keep the body in tip-top condition. The more you know!
Like apples, pears are full of fiberjust one pear contains about 6 grams. "Every time you eat a pear you're working your way toward your daily recommended fiber intake," says Taub-Dix. (FYI: For women, that's 25 grams a day, and for men, it's 30). Plus, pears contain something called pectin which, she says, "nourishes gut bacteria, improves digestion, supports bowel health, and has been linked to improved weight loss." Not too shabby, eh?
Time to see blueberries as your weight-loss BFF. Generally speaking, berries are packed with something called polyphenols, which are powerful natural chemicals that can help you lose weight and even stop fat from forming. But research on rats from University of Michigan suggests that blueberries have the added benefit of reducing belly fat. In the 90-day study, rats who had blueberry powder mixed into their meals had less abdominal fat at the end of the 90-day study than rats on a berry-free diet.
Taub-Dix suggests replacing snacks like popcorn and M&M's with blueberries, which are similar in shape and (almost) as sweet. "And, you can eat quite a few (18) in a single serving," she says.
Strawberries rank higher on your favorite berry list? That's fine! "Strawberries are full of fiber, water, and nutrients, and research has linked strawberry consumption to improved heart health and improved insulin sensitivity," says Taub-Dix. She recommends nuking them in the microwave and topping with a dollop of Greek Yogurt for dessert, pairing with cottage cheese, or adding them to a salad.
Watermelon sometimes gets a bad rap for being high in sugarafter all, one slice has 18 grams of sugar. But, compared to another summer snack (ahem, like ice cream), watermelon is way more nutritious. Plus, science says it's one of the best fruits for fat and weight loss!
In one study published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, researchers fed one group of mice watermelon extract for 12 weeks, and another group of mice none. At the end of the study, those that had been fed watermelon extract, had lost more body weight and fat mass compared to the non-watermelon eating group. While more research on humans is needed to confirm watermelons weight loss benefits, Taub-Dix gives watermelon the green light. "You probably don't want to eat the whole melon, but it's totally fine to eat when you're trying to lose weight."
Peaches make your hands sticky, but they'll help extra weight slide right off. A study at Texas AgriLife Research found that peaches (and plums and nectarines!) may help ward off risk for obesity-related diseases. "[The study] indicates that compounds present in these fruits have anti-obesity, anti-inflammatory, and anti-diabetic properties," Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos, AgriLife Research food scientist explained in a press release. "[Consuming peaches] may reduce the oxidation of bad cholesterol LDL which is associated with cardiovascular disease," he said.
Best part: Fruits with pits are among the lowest in fruit sugar. Meaning, peaches are sweet without being wildly high in sugar. A perk for folks on low-sugar diets and with diabetes.
Soda lovers, it's time to try the water-flavoring trick you've already heard: throw some lemon into your water bottle. "Drinking lemon water in place of fruit juices or soda can absolutely support your weight loss efforts," says Taub-Dix. Every time you have a glass of lemon water instead of a can of Coke or glass of OJ, you save yourself 100 to 200 calories and at least 20 grams of sugar.
Oh, and some people find that sipping on something sour slashes their desire for sweets. How's that for a win-win?
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The latest chapter in the Talkmistress' lifelong quest for un-fatness has circled back to a previous chapter ... but with a new twist.
That previous chapter involves intermittent fasting.
I'd thrown intermittent fasting into the back-closet pile of other weight-loss, eating-lifestyle plans tried and discussed in this space ... plans whose wagons I'd always eventually fallen off, either because of waning enthusiasm, life's various disruptions and/or dire disappointment after finding that not only did I not lose a zillion pounds in a month, but the scale had gone on strike and decided not to move anymore ... at least, not down.
I'd come to the conclusion that if trying to have J-Lo's body all the years of my youth had only resulted in limited success and scale yo-yo-ing, then trying to slim down with my 60th birthday knocking at the door would be an exercise in futility ... much like, well, exercising alone to shrink my corpulent form had been. During the weeks leading up to the dance contest I participated in this September Dancing With Our Stars to benefit the Children's Tumor Foundation I was getting in at or near seven hours of exercise a week, between Zoom fitness classes, Peloton-ing (I still come in a little over 200 people from dead last on the leaderboard in those spin classes) and dance rehearsals two days a week, 90 minutes each. And how many of us hate those magazine-newsletter articles that trumpet celebrities' "toned abs" and conclude with "(Celebrity Du Jour) stays fit by ... ," describing some routine that may sound demanding, but then we're working just as hard and we still fear wearing tank tops to the store lest our exposed "back boobs" show up on People- ofWalmart.com?
I'd concluded that I'd have to settle for the inner benefits of working out and forget about any outer ones. Then I found out I'd been doing intermittent fasting all wrong.
"Fast. Feast. Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny Intermittent Fasting" (St. Martin's Griffin, $16.99) is the latest book by Gin Stephens, who lost 80 pounds and kept it off by intermittent fasting.
Stephens' New York Times bestseller wows with a number of extensive-scientific-study-backed benefits of intermittent fasting, only a few of which I'd heard before. Stephens writes that it helps fight/mitigate/reverse/prevent all the diseases that have plagued my family (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease), along with Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, inflammation and some cancers. The benefits go on ... aging slowdown, joint pain mitigation, skin improvement. Intermittent fasting is even credited with getting rid of skin tags. In fact the book refers to it as "the health plan with a side effect of weight loss." So folks of all sizes can do intermittent fasting which has an advantage that's neon-sign-worthy: no need to weigh food, watch calories, eliminate foods or do all the other diet-y things that haven't worked for so many of us.
Stephens discusses how all the aforementioned benefits come about with "clean" fasting, something new to me.
My earlier fasts 16 hours a day, with an eight-hour food-scarfing window had consisted of the enjoyment of coffee doctored with sugar-free, flavored creamer and stevia, and water with lemon juice, lime juice and stevia, during what was supposed to be fasting hours. These are no-nos, Stephens shows, because even sugar-free drinks with any kind of flavor or additives make the body think food is coming and so it produces insulin. Sipping on these doctored drinks all day, let alone snacking all day, causes the body to produce insulin all day ... too much insulin, which can lead to the aforementioned health problems and definitely impede weight loss.
For a fast to be "clean," one can drink plain water; black, unsweetened coffee or unsweetened tea, no additives, during fasting hours.
Turns out plain water, which had become a stranger to me, isn't half bad. And yes, the avowed Coffee Milkshake Queen has been sipping black, unsweetened coffee ... something I'd been only too happy to leave to newsroom co-workers. Contrary to earlier suspicions it has not put hair on my chest. (Come to think of it, I wish intermittent fasting helped eliminate old-lady chin hair.)
Another thing I learned is that for those who want weight loss to be among the benefits of their fasting efforts, there are different kinds of the "clean" method to try. Among them, a smaller eating window per day ... five hours, three hours, even one hour.
On Sept. 21, I switched to the "Fast.Feast.Repeat" lifestyle, starting with its 28-day "FAST Start" to get newbies used to this way of intermittent fasting and shrinking my eating window first to five hours, then four. So far my shortest eating window has been 2 hours, 20 minutes, small enough that if it were an actual window, I'd be too hefty to get through it right now.
As Stephens tells us, these fasts may sound as though they would be unbearable, leave us weak and about to pass out and such. It can be done ... and the more that people do it, the easier it gets and the less they find they have any urge to go out the minute their eating window opens and rob a McDonald's just for the food. One can busy one's self through any hunger pangs, which soon pass.
There's also other forms of intermittent fasting: alternate-day fasting; having only one meal a day; fasts of 36 to 42 hours; dividing one's week into "up" and "down" days, etc. Stephens encourages switching up eating-window lengths, as well as forms of this type of fasting, for weight loss. (Note: Stephens also urges everybody to clear intermittent fasting with their doctors before trying any of this.)
It may just be a side benefit but let's face it, most of us who try intermittent fasting are gonna be in it largely for the weight loss. But we're gently warned in the book that not only is weight loss different for everyone, it may come more slowly and gradually for some; and there may be multiple weeks where the scale stays put and days it may even go up, even when we're behaving. We need to watch for loss of inches and of course, improvements via other health markers. In fact, we shouldn't "expect" to lose weight during the 28-day FAST Start. Watch how the clothes fit, Stephens urges, assuring us as backed up by testimonials in the book and on the Delay, Don't Deny Facebook support-group page that this is not a diet but a sustainable way of eating that includes no wagons from which one can take a hard tumble.
Having seen and felt a difference since starting this journey, I'm gaining optimism about this being the last stop on that weight-loss-attempt wagon trail.
Keep ya posted.
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