Cortisol Weight

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1.   Did you know that stress lowers your immune system so you’re more susceptible to disease?

2.   Are you aware that headaches are generally stress-related?

3.   Do you feel fatigued, such as experiencing the mid-afternoon slump?

4.   Do you find that you can’t relax when you finally have some downtime?

5.   Did you realize that stress produces non-restorative sleep?

There are many ways that we can fail in keeping stress down to a dull roar. How many of these do you see as your typical patterns? Place a check mark beside all that apply:

1.      Consuming highly processed foods; nutritionally-deficient foods

2.      Using stimulants to keep going; coffee, chocolate, alcohol, etc.

3.      Craving low-nutrient foods, sweets, breads, cheese or  alcohol?

4.      Being an over-achiever

5.      Engaging in the “Superwoman” or “Superman” Syndrome

6.      Not asking for help (Being an “island” instead of team member)

7.      Having unrealistically high expectations

8.      Undone projects really bother you

9.      Having low expectations

10. Lack of planning

11. Procrastination

12. Low self-esteem/confidence levels

13. Negative self-talk (e.g. “I’m so stupid”)

14. Comfort and/or stress eating

15. No regular fitness

16. Very little or no play in your life

17. Very little laughter; life is serious

18. Lack of friends; social supports

19. No relaxation (through play or utilizing relaxation techniques)

20. Not enough sleep; or not enough quality sleep

How many did you find applied to you? And the next question is: what steps can you put in place to alleviate the stressors you found in this quiz.

Having a comprehensive nutritional assessment could be the first step in handling your physical stressors. Once you’ve eliminated them, then you can see how to balance your lifestyle in order to create peace and harmony.  Contact me to address any questions you may have in determining whether a nutritional assessment is your next logical step.

And in the meantime, enjoy the process!

Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS or CFS) is a group of symptoms associated with severe, almost unrelenting fatigue. The main symptom is fatigue that results in constant and substantial reduction in your activity level. Oddly, despite their constant exhaustion, people with CFS typically find that they can’t sleep (analyze your symptoms).

CFS can begin gradually, usually following a period of severe physical or emotional stress. It can also begin suddenly, feeling like a “drop dead flu” that you can’t fully recover from. Other common symptoms may include:
Insomnia
Achiness
Forgetfulness

Brain fog
Increased thirst
Bowel disorders

Recurring infections
Easily exhausted
Weight gain
Low libido

CFS’s sister illness, fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS or FM), is characterized by muscle pain — sometimes all over the body, or sometimes only in specific areas. These painful areas can be transient or persistent. FM pain is caused by a shortening, or tightening of the muscles. These muscles need sleep and nutrition, among other things, in order to heal. Since CFS/FM sufferers rarely sleep well, these muscles stay knotted and painful. For most sufferers, CFS and FM are the same illness. However, some people have fatigue without pain, whereas others have pain without fatigue (see articles and videos on CFS/FM).
What Causes These Illnesses?

Hypothalamic dysfunction. The hypothalamus is the body’s master gland and can be likened to the main circuit in your home’s breaker box. The hypothalamus is weakened by long term exposure to physical or emotional stress, which will cause it to “blow.” When the main fuse blows, all of the systems regulated by the hypothalamus malfunction. These systems include the glands (affecting the thyroid, adrenals, and sex hormones), the autonomic system (which regulates body temperature, blood pressure, and the anti diuretic hormone), and the sleep center.

People with CFS/FM typically suffer from a combination of different problems. The pattern can include infections (viral or bacterial), insomnia and hormonal problems, a combination Dr. T refers to as the “autoimmune triad.” Other possible underlying issues include immune system dysfunction, mild chronic low blood pressure, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), and iron deficiency anemia.

What The Health Industry Hopes Will Never Be Discovered:

A Better Way To Lose Weight Using Brain Foods

The holistic health industry just got its wake-up call: Holistic Nutritionist Mary-Anne M. MacPherson’s latest nutritional tool: using specific foods to feed the brain, promoting weight loss: www.CreatingInfiniteSuccess.com.

London, Ontario, Canada — Mary-Anne M. MacPherson has officially put the health industry on notice: losing weight is now faster, easier and more affordable than ever before.

Globally, there are over 1 Billion adults that are overweight. In the USA alone, over $60 Billion dollars are spent on weight-loss every year. How about dropping the weight-loss “diets” and creating a lifestyle of healthy food choices, nutritional supplement needs and lifestyle habits that support what the body requires?

Stress is such a huge issue in our society. 80% of Doctor visits are reported to be stress-related. When cortisol levels rise (stress hormones), then serotonin hormones (happy hormones stop producing until the stress dissipates. Weight-loss is then blocked. Eating disorders have become an epidemic as people use food to cope with life, even though it may destroy their health in the long run. Mary-Anne’s blog has some answers that will support new habits and beliefs around healthy weight.

As Mary-Anne added, “Our Company, Creating Infinite Success, has done the weight-loss industry one better. Where most companies in this market promote ‘one-size-fits-all diets’ that don’t work in the long run, our web-based Nutritional Assessment and Lifestyle Questionnaire provides detailed information on a personalized food, nutritional & lifestyle program that meets the needs of the clients. Coupling that with a coaching program, it creates a new healthy lifestyle that works.”

Mary-Anne specializes in the mind-body connection, helping clients to integrate their physical health with their emotional, mental and spiritual natures to create Ultimate Lifestyle Harmony.

Nutrition consulting with Creating Infinite Success has identified several key steps most important to weight-loss when it comes to stress and comfort eating:

• Feed your cells the nutrition it requires based on your brain neurotransmitters.
• Include the healthy fats that nourish your brain and your body.
• Understand that daily fitness keeps your body healthy, dumps toxins, assists weight loss, reduces stress levels and balances all your brain neurotransmitters.

These cortisol-weight steps are just part of an entire weight-loss solution.

The complete step-by-step solution is fully documented in a new special report, “How To Support Healthy Weight”. The report is available for immediate download on the offer page. And to help as many people as possible, this valuable report is available now for only $1.

Mary-Anne M. MacPherson has over 15 years of experience in the holistic health field. Mary-Anne is recognized as a member of the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants, as well as degrees as a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner and a Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner. Mary-Anne is also a Reiki Master/Teacher/ Practitioner as well as a Feng Shui Consultant.

Creating Infinite Success is headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada and is also pleased to work with corporate wellness programs anywhere in North America.

If you are a Corporation, understand that statistics indicate that for every dollar spent on preventative health, the average savings are between $2.50-$7.00 for every dollar spent. The Word Health Organization has identified job-related stress as a world-wide epidemic. Statistics Canada calculates $12 million to be the annual cost of work time lost to stress. Other less obvious results of workplace stress are anger, hopelessness and frustration. 34% of Canadians who have health plans in place have felt so overwhelmed by their demands that they became physically ill. It’s time to focus on a solution that works for the company as well as the employees.

Many Corporations have benefits for Registered Nutritional Consultants, Registered Holistic Nutritionists and/or Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioners. Many Health Savings Accounts cover these services as well. Call 519-668-3095 Monday to Friday between 10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST.

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Dr. Eric Braverman has studied brain neurotransmitters for many years now and understands that how we feel, physically and emotionally, is directly related to the power of our brain. He has connected the dots between excess weight and a dopamine deficiency, mood disorders and other neurotransmitter deficiencies; even sleep disturbances having a connection to imbalanced brain neurotransmitters. His scientific research is brilliant.

As a nutritional consultant, I find it important to include Dr. Braverman’s brain quiz as a bonus when a client receives a nutritional assessment. How we eat can enhance our brain chemistry (or create a greater imbalance), so it has tremendous value in rounding out a proper nutritional program for clients.

Dr. Braverman has even created nutritional supplements that supports each of the 4 specific neurotransmitters, and I’m excited to share that I have access to them. Once you know what you need, you can order these supplements and have them sent directly to your door. And no, it’s not network marketing. You only need to have direction from a Doctor or a Registered Nutritionist (such as myself) in order to have access to them. I will provide you with a Patient Reference Number and you take it from there.

So, if you’re truly committed to enhancing your health, check out www.CreatingInfiniteSuccess.com and check out the “Products” page. Take advantage of the specials while they last.

And while you’re at it, enjoy the journey!

Learn the tricks that many are using to gain that extra 5 lbs. of weight each and every year, for the rest of your life, GUARANTEED!

1.    Eat lots of refined foods, such as breads, sweets, pasta’s and all those other goodies that help you become a zombie for the rest of your day. Your boss won’t appreciate it, but you can certainly get through the day easier, without worrying about that irritating to-do list.

2.    Don’t eat your fruits and vegetables, as they help to create an energized state of being and keep away that beer belly that you’ve been training so hard to get.

3.    Drink lots of coffee and other caffeinated products to enjoy the caffeine high’s before you crash.

4.    Include aspartame as part of your goals. It hunts for the sugars you will instantly crave and thereby assist you in getting that pot-belly sooner. Hey look; more carbs!

5.    Skip breakfast! You’ll find yourself binging on all those delightful goodies in step one later in the day.

6.    Don’t drink your water. Better yet, drink lots of pop, which is dehydrating and helps to create cavities as an additional bonus.

7.    Sit around as long as possible in the evenings and weekends because exercise is the best forrn of losing weight (through improved metabolism). So that’s a no-no.

8.    Essential fatty acids (like olive oil, flax oil and fish oils) are to be avoided at all costs, because they’re one of the beneficial fats we need more of (for weight-loss, energy, concentration) so instead, go to those trusted trans fats which will help clog your arteries and ensure a shorter lifespan. Remember, less days at the office.

9.    Drink lots of mucous-producing dairy products, sure to slow down your system on all levels.

10.    Oh yes, be a workaholic to raise cortisol levels and stress your adrenals. Then the weight goes directly to your stomach, achieving your goal effortlessly.

Utilize these 10 important tips for helping you build the bulge with ease.

Mary-Anne MacPherson, RHN, ROHP

Registered Nutritional Consultant

Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioner

www.cortisolweight.com

Did you know that we’re vibrational beings? In fact, everything has a vibration; our bodies, our furniture and even our thoughts. A vibration is “energy”; a moving, swirling vortex of power that brings us up into a better energy state or a down to a lower energy state. This depends on whether we are sending out positive “vibrations” or negative “vibrations”. We emit a vibration every moment of every day.

Happy people send out a high vibration, and unhappy people send out negative vibrations. We love hanging out with high-vibration people because of the high vibration they’re emitting and we want to avoid low-energy people because they’re emitting a low vibration and you know it, either consciously or subconsciously.

Where are we getting this vibration? Our vibrational energy goes up or down based on the foods and beverages we consume, toxins in our body, people we surround ourselves with and our emotional as well as mental conditioning; you know, the rules we were raised with. Some things have a high vibration for one person; let’s say high school memories. The same thoughts and feelings about high school memories may provide great vibrational energy for one person because of the great times experienced, yet they may be a low-vibration for someone else because of unique-to-them unhappy experiences.

So, if everyone and everything has a vibration, and it does, so does food. The higher the quality of foods, the higher the vibration of these foods. When we’re feeling happy, confident and healthy, you’ll more easily gravitate to higher quality foods. Some foods could be high-vibrational and healthy for one person, yet be low-vibrational, and unhealthy to another. For example, strawberries could enhance one person’s health and it could interfere with another person’s health and energy levels. This is where everyone is unique.

But when we’re stressed, depressed, lonely, tired; we’ll find ourselves more easily gravitating to low-energy or no-energy foods, possibly those comfort foods from our childhood that we thought connected us to the love of our family.

Or, there could be foods that quickly raise the brain chemicals that have been falling or have become imbalanced because of stress. High carbohydrate foods, salty foods, fatty foods, pop and chocolate are the common ones that come to mind.

And it’s a vicious cycle. Someone starts off on a health program, yet before the day or the week is over, they give into certain comfort foods, despite their best intentions. They can’t understand why, when they’ve made a commitment to health, they can’t even make it through the 1^st week, which is why many New Year’s resolutions fail.

Also, when the blood sugar in the brain becomes depleted, it overrides your conscious mind with its good intentions and it demands instant energy. Our brain requires a variety of specific nutrient-dense foods to balance it again. But we’ll generally choose low-vibrational quick-energy foods in a crisis situation because the wisdom of the brain says “I need fuel NOW”. Unfortunately, it’s that instant low-vibrational foods that raise it the quickest. So, what and when you eat is crucial to maintaining a high vibration in your mind and body.

How many eating disorders, depression, obesity and stress issues are connected to imbalanced hormones, deficient brain neurotransmitters, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, amino acid deficiencies or toxicities in the body which travel to the brain through our bloodstream?

We really are our own best research projects. We need to be present and attentive to our habits, our thoughts, our feelings and of course, our actions.

1.       STRATEGY # 1: KNOW YOUR HIGH VIBRATION FOODS

Those are the healthy foods you always keep on-hand, foods that you want to gravitate to in restaurants, at parties; anytime, anywhere. It’s the foundation of a solid healthy eating program. An abundance of different coloured fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, lentils, lean proteins, nuts & seeds, healthy fats and healthy beverages help to create a healthy body. This makes sense, doesn’t it? Also, when you keep your emotional vibration high, you’ll more easily stay on track with high vibrational foods. Not to say that you can’t have a little fun food once in a while, but typically those of us on the health path choose high quality foods most of the time.

2.       STRATEGY # 2: KNOW YOUR TRIGGERS

Trigger foods are generally cookies, pastries, creamy carbs, ice cream and other dairy products, salty foods, chocolate, pop (especially with aspartame); all things that you’ll find on the low-vibrational chart. The more stressed you get, the more you may find yourself gravitating to these foods.

Do you find yourself craving any of these foods? Well, the truth is, most people do. According to my friend who specializes in eating disorders, about 95% of the population stress or comfort eats, either a little or a lot.

I knew a lady, whose dad was a baker, and he brought home fresh warm bread as a treat when she was a child; in other words, that equated to food being love for her. As an adult, when life got stressful or overwhelming, bread, and especially warm white bread, brought back the love and she felt safe and comforted again. Do you have a food that brings back the comfort of love for you? The next question to ask is this: is it healthy or nutritionally lacking?

Here’s another example: Have you ever hurt yourself as a child and then heard your mother say “Oh honey, don’t cry. It’ll be all right. Here, have a cookie.” My job for many clients is to reprogram them to healthier self-loving habits that’ll serve them so much better. The parents were unknowingly programming their children to stuff their feelings and these now-adults are still stuffing their feelings with cookies. That’s called self-sabotage OR a softer name is called

stress and comfort eating.

3.       STRATEGY # 3: CREATE ULTIMATE LIFESTYLE HARMONY

Review your entire lifestyle regarding food, beverages, your fitness program, high-quality nutritional supplements, getting your 8 hours of deep restful sleep, healthy financial habits and a positive social life. You need to have a balance between your work, play and sleep, which is really difficult for many of us to do with our North American rush-around lifestyles. Society rewards us for being workaholics, even though it’s shaving years off our lives.

So, the bottom line with the 3 strategies for getting through the Christmas season or any season is this: Pay attention to your vibration at all times. You’ll actually become sensitive to feeling it and using it as your barometer in all situations, throughout the Christmas season and any other time in your life.

Did you know that emotional stress can cause real concerns in your physical and mental well-being? Unresolved stress appreciably impacts on your metabolic processes and can have a dramatic effect on the physical and emotional well-being. The truth is that no one likes stress or is even particularly well suited to living with it. Although there are some who do tolerate high levels of stress better than others, most of us have a very hard time.

If you are one who has difficulty with stresses and haven’t yet found a reasonable way to deal with a the stress levels in your life here are a few strategies you can use that have worked for others and may work for you as well. But before reading further, keep in mind that how you react to stress and how you deal with it is a choice. It is possible to learn to react much differently to stress than you probably do now. What it takes is a desire to learn and the will to do so.

Here are just a few strategies that may well help you learn to diffuse your stress levels in a positive way.

• Put some money aside for an emergency. It really doesn’t even matter how much you put away. What matters is the act of taking charge and being responsible for your own life. Not surprisingly, financial concerns are one of the leading causes of stress and worry. But the simple act of putting away even $20 a week, or whatever you can, in a different account is very empowering. Try it and see.
• Watch your diet. The fuel you put in has a marked effect on how you feel and how you feel has a direct effect on how well, or poorly, you are able to handle and react to stress. Eat more fruit and vegetables and fewer carbohydrates and processed sugar. Get some exercise, even if it’s just parking at the rear of the parking lot or taking the stairs. Talk with your doctor and come up with a sensible diet and exercise plan you will stick with. The point here is not to lose weight, although you probably will, it’s about keeping the bodies systems in good working in order. Proper diet and exercise will do wonders in your ability to deal with the stresses and strains of everyday life.
• Develop other interests. Find a hobby that interests you and, if necessary, schedule time for it. No, watching television doesn’t count. And neither does aimlessly surfing the internet. To be effective as a stress reducer, a hobby must engage you mentally and provide a respite from thinking about your other responsibilities and challenges. Some advocate getting a pet but I don’t. While pets like dogs and cats are a great diversion, they also have their own real needs that must be taken care of regardless of your schedule.

Remember that how you deal with stress is really up to you. If you want to, you can learn to adjust your reaction to stress so it is not the dreaded beast in your life that it is now. These ideas can help but, in the end, it is your decisions that will decide how stressed, or not, you really are.