Eastern Medicine – answer for morbid obesity?
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at
3:48 pm
black river asked:
After many years of dieting/counseling/etc. I am considering bariatric surgery. I, unfortunately, am quite cowardice when it comes down to it. So.. I am curious about alternative means of weight loss.
After many years of dieting/counseling/etc. I am considering bariatric surgery. I, unfortunately, am quite cowardice when it comes down to it. So.. I am curious about alternative means of weight loss.
I would be up for visiting an Eastern medicine practitioner or something akin to it, however I am in a fairly small town with limited options.
I would also be up for hypnosis..
Has anyone tried either with any degree of success?
And as far as combining diet and exercise, twenty years of attempting that and failing is almost enough for one lifetime.
Tagged with: Diet • Exercise • Morbid Obesity
Filed under: Obesity
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Are you combining dieting with exercise? That works well.
You know I am all about looking into more options before surgery. You cut into all those meridians and it causes all sorts of problems. I know quite a few people whom have had surgery and have lost the weight and then gained it back. I would be happy to help you with your nutrition…free of charge…and maybe seeing some things that might be hindering you weight loss. I would go and see a Eastern Medicine Practitioner and see what they have to say. Good luck!!! Cheering for you!!!
Why do most diets fail? Because most of them go the wrong direction. Most buy into the cholesterol cartel, the myth that diet cholesterol is connected to blood cholesterol and that blood cholesterol is connected to myocardial infarction (heart attack).
In addition fat is seen as the culprit when manufactured carbs are the real culprits.
A modified Rosedale diet is a better way.
I’ve lost 30 pounds in three months so far. And I don’t feel the least bit hungry.
I’m fat and I can attest to anyone who suggests that we exercise and eat lettuce…..Shove it. I would love to see someone who got skinny after losing 150lbs and keep it off. They say Diets don’t work. I’m stuck being a fat slob who can’t drive because I don’t fit behind the wheel. Losing weight is impossible And I won’t have surgery done to my gut.
I can relate to the frustration of failed diets and exercising.
I hope that you have the means to get tested to see if you have anything hindering your weight loss goals (diabetes, hypothyroidism, Cushing’s disease, etc.)
I will tell you from my personal experience, the only foods that helped me lose weight were ground flaxseed, coconut milk and oil, and apple cider vinegar ( 2 tbsp.) mixed with an equal portion of honey in a mug of hot water. I wish you the best.
Become Vegan. Yeah, it’s tough, but you can do it. It is better and healthier than surgery. Eastern Medicine will want you to be on a very close almost strictly vegan diet anyways. Acupuncture will help, but only if you change your diet first. Vitamin therapy is a must as you are nutritionally starved, irregardless of your weight. Purchase a pedometer and monitor your walking steps over the course of a week. Your goal is to eventually walk 10K steps a day (considered active at that point). (This will take months to achieve so don’t set impossibly high goals for yourself, ok?) Since everyone walks, that is the only exercise you need to do, really. Start by increasing your steps by 200 per week. No it isn’t a lot of steps, but if you do to much, you will hurt yourself and become exhausted and will have a major setback that might last for weeks, or even months. Hypnosis might help, but it would be expensive short-term and long-term. I too have battled my weight for years, continuing to put on the pounds. I am now considered obese for my height and body structure. I’m telling you what I am currently doing and I am loosing now about 2 pounds a week, without feeling starved or eating foods that I don’t like. I don’t purchase frozen diet entrees anymore. I’ve just went Vegan. Also, your body has to heal from the inside out before you begin to see any outside physical changes. You will notice a change in your energy level and your attitude first, then your bowels will loosen up and you will have more regular movements. Your skin will be next in line with more softer skin, less itching and unexplained bumps and lessened bruising. Athlete’s Foot will disappear along with other skin rashes. Your breath will not stink anymore and your gums will be healthier. Your eyes will be more clear and you will loose the puffiness. People will swear you are loosing weight before the scales actually show the difference.
Oh, and get the video “Supersize Me”. It is good and also kinda scary, too, but it will help with the mind set of changing your life.
P.S. Almost all health conditions will automatically clear up once you become Vegan. However, if you are on prescription medicines, do NOT stop taking them unless you have your doctor’s permission. But insist that your doctor monitor your meds more closely because eventually you will no need them anymore, one by one.
I had a lot of trouble losing weight (including months at a Weight Watchers club – which did nothing) until I went raw vegan.
Eight months ago I was Australian size 18 / 20.
I am now a size 10 / 12 and still toning up.
Here are some websites that may help you.
These people overcame morbid obesity through eating raw vegan:
It is NOT a diet, it is a lifestyle choice.
Good luck
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Hi there!
A good herbalist who knows Chinese herbs may be able to help you. You may also try tai chi or qigong for gentle exercise. Sometimes our qi (energy) is imbalanced such that we don’t get enough nutrition from our food, so we eat more than our body can handle to try to get the nutrients (or qi), but the extra calories get stored as fat and make the cycle worse. Tai chi is not the usual aerobic, heart-pumping exercise recommended to lose weight, but it can help you get more qi from the environment, which could lead to eating less to try to bring in qi.
Good luck,
an alternative practitioner
You need to see a mental health professional. Start a good diet. Weight Watchers is the most proven. Start a small exercise regimen(even just a walk around the block) and go through an addiction program (like the 12 steps for aa) all at the same time. Trying one thing at a time will not do it. Obesity is always tied with depression of some sort, and low self confidence. I also suggest going for a make over and buying at least one to two really nice **** professional out fits that you feel amazing in. Plus sizes are hard to find, may need a specialty store, and may need to forget about the cost on this outfit and pull out the credit card. Then get 2-3 other outfits that you look and you think you look good in. That will help your motivation and self confidence a LOT.
So then you do the other stuff that I mentioned. Start all at once. Insist that there be NO junk in the house what so ever. If someone wants to eat something on your forbidden list, tell them they can go down the road and eat it, and then ENFORCE THAT. Go through your kitchen before you start the diet what ever it may be, and get rid of everything in your cabinents that you should not be eating. If its possible, have someone else do the grocery shopping. You know the saying, never go to the grocery store hungry? Same thing applies when you are craving junk.
On the other hand, if you do ***** up, its ok. One evening of ‘junking out’ isnt gonna kill your diet. What will is the guilt you feel after junking out. You just have to climb back on the horse rather than give up.
Another way to approach the diet is to just start replacing your snacks. Say this week you eat a straw berry every time you want a cookie. Next week you keepdoing that, but also eat a banana everytime you want chips, or whatever. That is a slower process and more tempting in my opinion.
Also in the midst of all this keep a food journal. Not just what you ate and the math, but also write down what time it was, what you were doing when you stopped to eat/while you were eating. Write why you are eating. Are you hungry? Depressed? Board? ect. Write down your mood when you got food and how you felt immediatly after you ate. At the end of the day make a notation of how you feel of your over all day.
I am a hypnotherapist who works with morbidly obese people who want to release their excess weight. And, like you, they have tried every diet on the market plus a few that they invented and combined them with exercise only to fail to release their excess weight or sometimes even to gain more weight.
When I see these clients I do a thorough intake to determine if there may be some metabolic reason for their inability to release weight. If so, I send them an MD to get treatment. If not, we proceed to release the mental and emotional reasons they may be blocking releasing their weight. Then we re-educate the body and mind, using their unconscious mind, on how they are supposed to function to keep you at a healthy weight. We do this at the unconscious level because it is your unconscious mind that runs your body–very much like a computer runs a robot.
Basically, you are asking your unconscious mind to run your body differently than it has been.
This is an overly simplistic explanation but I think you will get the idea. We use your unconscious mind to help you make the lifestyle changes that will allow your body to release your excess weight and keep you slender. Of course, everyone including me wants magic. It isn’t a one shot fix. However, with as few as 6 sessions I’ve had clients release 100 to 150 pounds and keep it off, without “dieting”, feeling frustrated or deprived.
No, after a few hypnosis sessions you are not going to magically wake up and be 100 pounds thinner. But you can release your excess weight without all the frustrations you are feeling now. But, those programs must be changed at the unconscious levels before you can do this.