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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nQuestion The Advice, Not Your Ability To Follow It<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe advice we\u2019ve been given is incomplete for the most part. And some of it is altogether wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are someone engaged in her own \u201cweight loss\u201d battle, you know that. Deep down inside you know that after years of following conventional wisdom\u2019s advice, something is just not working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But instead of questioning the advice, you question yourself. Your ability to \u201cdo it right\u201d. Your ability to follow through. And the piece du resistance\u2026 your \u201cwillpower”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You question your worth and your abilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not you. It’s their advice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clean Up On Aisle XX<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThere are environmental factors that impact your ability to maintain a body composition that promotes health and wellbeing, versus one that promotes disease and illness. The environment in which we live our life adds a massive amount of complication to the mix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, these environmental factors are part of the reason you pack on more fat than is needed in the first place. You need some body fat on you, by the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Environmental factors such as endocrine disruptors in personal care products, microplastics in pretty much everything we eat and drink, chemical additives to processed food, pesticides, herbicides; these are problems. And they are not going away. We are inundated with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The list is too long to go through here. Check the Environmental Working Group\u2019s website for more details. They\u2019ll set the record straight. But be prepared to lose your ever-lovin\u2019 mind when you read through their information. Don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t warn you. (LINK: https:\/\/www.ewg.org\/<\/a> ) <\/p>\n\n\n\nIt Doesn\u2019t Have To Be This Way. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nYou have many more important things to be focused on than your love\/hate relationship with the scale. That number on the scale does not define you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you end the war with your weight you\u2019ll have so much more time to do important things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What will you do with all that time? The options are endless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A way to compress the learning curve and jump straight to the stuff that works is to join us in our CoWorking community: the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot. Join us HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNever again will you count calories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Never again will you waste countless hours thinking less than loving thoughts about your body; its shape, its size, its appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After completing a 12 Week Metabolism Reboot with yours truly and my posse of rebellious midlife women, you will have a whole new relationship with your body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your hormones get back to working the way they\u2019re designed to work. And by \u201chormones\u201d, I\u2019m talking about all of them. The metabolic ones, the sex ones, as well as others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s Not About \u201cThe Weight\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ll be able to leave the \u201cweight loss\u201d conversation where it belongs: in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The conversation around \u201cweight loss\u201d is not really about the weight. Weight is just a measurement of how our body relates to gravity at that moment in time. That shows up as a number on some scale. A scale that has no business being on anyone\u2019s bathroom floor, in my opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We make that number mean something. We make it not just the objective measurement of weight, but we make it a subjective measurement of our worth in some way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The higher the number on the scale, the lower we think of ourselves. Let\u2019s just say it like it is, shall we? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We engage in this personal battle \u201cwith our weight\u201d because that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been brainwashed to think matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things I Don\u2019t Care About, Nor Should You<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t give a rip what you weigh. I don\u2019t give a rip what I weigh. I care what we\u2019re made of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What goes into the making of that which is us? Our body? Bone, muscle, skin, organs, blood, and some other goodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is part of our weight that isn\u2019t \u201cour body\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things that aren\u2019t \u201cour body\u201d are things like excess water. That has a weight to it. We hold onto some of that excess water to tamp down the damage from the massive toxic load in our system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our very intelligent body retains water to mitigate the toxic fallout that would result if the toxins were not buffered by water. The larger the toxic burden, the more water retained to attempt to deal with it. And the more fat we carry around with us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the water, some parts of our body will pack on excess fat to house those toxins that our body cannot deal with by sweating, breathing, peeing, or pooping them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s A Limit. And We\u2019ve Reached It.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nNow, sometimes our inborn detox system can\u2019t deal with those toxins because there are just too darn many of them. And then other times it\u2019s because our liver and other detoxification pathways are not up for the job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our inborn detoxification system gets bogged down over the years. The sheer burden shouldered over those years is just too much. It simply can\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does that mean you give up and buy into the \u201chere take this\u201d mentality of conventional wisdom? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Absolutely not. That is, if you\u2019re anything like me and those drawn to the holistic approach to our menopause and our metabolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn\u2019t a permanent situation if you don\u2019t want to make it one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can chase all the detoxes in a box. You can do the latest challenge or join a bootcamp. And you can choke down supplement after supplement if you choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those are all temporary \u201csolutions\u201d, if they even are a solution at all. So many of those things are just marketing hype. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cEasy Button\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nYou can opt to push the \u201ceasy button\u201d. But buyer beware, some of those \u201cproprietary\u201d shenanigans do more damage than help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In stark contrast to the \u201cquick fix quest\u201d, you can heal your body at a cellular level with real food, cycle coordinated fasting*, gentle movements to restore motion, and a heaping helping of mindset work. Because without your mindset on board, everything is just a temporary Band-Aid, and at best a \u201cquick fix\u201d. A \u201cfix\u201d that\u2019s more like a drug hit than a true fix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cquick fix\u201d fixes nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Cycle coordinated fasting is proactively choosing the timeframe that you are not eating so your body can do the behind-the-scenes metabolic clean up it needs to do. When we follow conventional wisdom and eat every 2-3 hours, our body never gets a break from digesting food, except overnight. Nor does it get a reprieve from releasing insulin to deal with all the glucose taken in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How To Turn It Around <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nA few years back I introduced a program called the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot. At that point in time it was focused for anyone with human DNA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve now dialed it in specifically for women. I show you how to coordinate your metabolism with your female sex hormone cycle. From about our late 30s on, there are so many things that can hijack that cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our female hormone cycle is greatly influenced by a metabolic machinery that runs everything. And most of that ties back to our cells and their relationship with insulin and cortisol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it\u2019s a functional relationship, all systems are \u201cgo\u201d. When it\u2019s a dysfunctional one, such as the one most of us have, all systems are not \u201cgo\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phooey, I Got The \u201cGo To Jail\u201d Card<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s similar to when we draw the \u201cGo To Jail\u201d card in Monopoly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- You \u201cDo not pass \u2018Go\u2019.\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- You do not “collect $200.\u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- You \u201cGo directly to jail.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
That \u201cjail\u201d is an adipose cell, AKA body fat. When that jail gets too crowded, you build another one. And another one. What\u2019s behind the bars, so to speak, is the toxic load we carry around thanks to the environmental factors mentioned earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cweight loss struggle\u201d starts with insulin and cortisol. Unless we address those two gals right there, anything you do to \u201close weight\u201d, if successful, is temporary. Very temporary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When whatever it was that kind of worked stops working, we chalk it up as another failure. We then armor up and walk back on to the internal emotional battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It Doesn\u2019t Have To Be This Way. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nEnrollment in the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot opens a few times a year. As a member, you have access to the time-tested approach. \u00a0Though I dial the Reboot in to the female sex predominantly, men can benefit too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether you are actively having a menses or not, you are a \u201clong cycle creature\u201d. I go into more about what that means in the Reboot, but in short it means different things for the different sexes. If you are female, your body has a longer cycle than somebody who is male.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Male and female bodies have to go about resetting their metabolic machinery differently. We have to go about everything physiological differently. Especially as we get into our late 30s and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Tiny Male With Breasts And A Uterus?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nA female is not just a tiny male with breasts and a uterus. Some of us are not all that tiny to begin with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m just shy of 6-foot and maintain a fair amount of muscle. I\u2019ll never be petite, or tiny. Nor do I want to be. Seriously, if you look at me and think, \u201cman, she\u2019s one thin chick\u201d, there is something uber not bueno going on. Throw me a grass-fed, grass-finished steak and a vat of butter and get out the way! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For far too long we women have been excluded from scientific research because female bodies are \u201ccomplicated\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You\u2019re darn right they are, but they\u2019re not an unsolvable mystery! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s demystify this whole process, bring it out into the open, and get you the information you need to take action upon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now when you resist taking that action, and you will, even when all the science supports it, we have got to dig into why you\u2019re having the resistance. Where is that struggle coming from? This is where that heaping helping of mindset work comes into play. And where having a community of others navigating similar waters comes into the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Collective Of Women Pooling Our Wisdom<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWhen you join us in the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot, you are invited to our weekly CoWorking sessions. They happen every Monday evening rain or shine, holiday or not (minus the major ones). Therein, you join a collective of people putting in their own inner work.\u00a0 A gathering of women (and a few men) who rebel against the status quo because they know they\u2019ve been misled by it and are now choosing to approach their health and wellbeing from a holistic point of view.\u00a0 They want different results; and they know they need a different approach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Details at 12 Week Metabolism Reboot<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\nI go into this topic as well in \u2018Lose Weight\u2019. Another phrase to retire in 2022<\/em>: <\/p>\n\n\n\nLISTEN: <\/strong>https:\/\/drsamgraber.com\/podcast\/episode-029-lose-weight-another-phrase-to-retire-in-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nREAD:<\/strong> https:\/\/drsamgraber.com\/lose-weight-another-phrase-to-retire-in-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n__________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are environmental factors that impact your ability to maintain a body composition that promotes health and wellbeing, versus one that promotes disease and illness. The environment in which we live our life adds a massive amount of complication to the mix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, these environmental factors are part of the reason you pack on more fat than is needed in the first place. You need some body fat on you, by the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Environmental factors such as endocrine disruptors in personal care products, microplastics in pretty much everything we eat and drink, chemical additives to processed food, pesticides, herbicides; these are problems. And they are not going away. We are inundated with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The list is too long to go through here. Check the Environmental Working Group\u2019s website for more details. They\u2019ll set the record straight. But be prepared to lose your ever-lovin\u2019 mind when you read through their information. Don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t warn you. (LINK: https:\/\/www.ewg.org\/<\/a> ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n You have many more important things to be focused on than your love\/hate relationship with the scale. That number on the scale does not define you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you end the war with your weight you\u2019ll have so much more time to do important things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What will you do with all that time? The options are endless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n A way to compress the learning curve and jump straight to the stuff that works is to join us in our CoWorking community: the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot. Join us HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Never again will you count calories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Never again will you waste countless hours thinking less than loving thoughts about your body; its shape, its size, its appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After completing a 12 Week Metabolism Reboot with yours truly and my posse of rebellious midlife women, you will have a whole new relationship with your body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Your hormones get back to working the way they\u2019re designed to work. And by \u201chormones\u201d, I\u2019m talking about all of them. The metabolic ones, the sex ones, as well as others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ll be able to leave the \u201cweight loss\u201d conversation where it belongs: in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The conversation around \u201cweight loss\u201d is not really about the weight. Weight is just a measurement of how our body relates to gravity at that moment in time. That shows up as a number on some scale. A scale that has no business being on anyone\u2019s bathroom floor, in my opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We make that number mean something. We make it not just the objective measurement of weight, but we make it a subjective measurement of our worth in some way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The higher the number on the scale, the lower we think of ourselves. Let\u2019s just say it like it is, shall we? <\/p>\n\n\n\n We engage in this personal battle \u201cwith our weight\u201d because that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been brainwashed to think matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t give a rip what you weigh. I don\u2019t give a rip what I weigh. I care what we\u2019re made of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What goes into the making of that which is us? Our body? Bone, muscle, skin, organs, blood, and some other goodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What is part of our weight that isn\u2019t \u201cour body\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Things that aren\u2019t \u201cour body\u201d are things like excess water. That has a weight to it. We hold onto some of that excess water to tamp down the damage from the massive toxic load in our system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our very intelligent body retains water to mitigate the toxic fallout that would result if the toxins were not buffered by water. The larger the toxic burden, the more water retained to attempt to deal with it. And the more fat we carry around with us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the water, some parts of our body will pack on excess fat to house those toxins that our body cannot deal with by sweating, breathing, peeing, or pooping them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, sometimes our inborn detox system can\u2019t deal with those toxins because there are just too darn many of them. And then other times it\u2019s because our liver and other detoxification pathways are not up for the job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our inborn detoxification system gets bogged down over the years. The sheer burden shouldered over those years is just too much. It simply can\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Does that mean you give up and buy into the \u201chere take this\u201d mentality of conventional wisdom? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Absolutely not. That is, if you\u2019re anything like me and those drawn to the holistic approach to our menopause and our metabolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn\u2019t a permanent situation if you don\u2019t want to make it one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can chase all the detoxes in a box. You can do the latest challenge or join a bootcamp. And you can choke down supplement after supplement if you choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Those are all temporary \u201csolutions\u201d, if they even are a solution at all. So many of those things are just marketing hype. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can opt to push the \u201ceasy button\u201d. But buyer beware, some of those \u201cproprietary\u201d shenanigans do more damage than help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In stark contrast to the \u201cquick fix quest\u201d, you can heal your body at a cellular level with real food, cycle coordinated fasting*, gentle movements to restore motion, and a heaping helping of mindset work. Because without your mindset on board, everything is just a temporary Band-Aid, and at best a \u201cquick fix\u201d. A \u201cfix\u201d that\u2019s more like a drug hit than a true fix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cquick fix\u201d fixes nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Cycle coordinated fasting is proactively choosing the timeframe that you are not eating so your body can do the behind-the-scenes metabolic clean up it needs to do. When we follow conventional wisdom and eat every 2-3 hours, our body never gets a break from digesting food, except overnight. Nor does it get a reprieve from releasing insulin to deal with all the glucose taken in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A few years back I introduced a program called the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot. At that point in time it was focused for anyone with human DNA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve now dialed it in specifically for women. I show you how to coordinate your metabolism with your female sex hormone cycle. From about our late 30s on, there are so many things that can hijack that cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our female hormone cycle is greatly influenced by a metabolic machinery that runs everything. And most of that ties back to our cells and their relationship with insulin and cortisol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When it\u2019s a functional relationship, all systems are \u201cgo\u201d. When it\u2019s a dysfunctional one, such as the one most of us have, all systems are not \u201cgo\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s similar to when we draw the \u201cGo To Jail\u201d card in Monopoly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That \u201cjail\u201d is an adipose cell, AKA body fat. When that jail gets too crowded, you build another one. And another one. What\u2019s behind the bars, so to speak, is the toxic load we carry around thanks to the environmental factors mentioned earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cweight loss struggle\u201d starts with insulin and cortisol. Unless we address those two gals right there, anything you do to \u201close weight\u201d, if successful, is temporary. Very temporary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When whatever it was that kind of worked stops working, we chalk it up as another failure. We then armor up and walk back on to the internal emotional battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enrollment in the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot opens a few times a year. As a member, you have access to the time-tested approach. \u00a0Though I dial the Reboot in to the female sex predominantly, men can benefit too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you are actively having a menses or not, you are a \u201clong cycle creature\u201d. I go into more about what that means in the Reboot, but in short it means different things for the different sexes. If you are female, your body has a longer cycle than somebody who is male.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Male and female bodies have to go about resetting their metabolic machinery differently. We have to go about everything physiological differently. Especially as we get into our late 30s and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A female is not just a tiny male with breasts and a uterus. Some of us are not all that tiny to begin with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m just shy of 6-foot and maintain a fair amount of muscle. I\u2019ll never be petite, or tiny. Nor do I want to be. Seriously, if you look at me and think, \u201cman, she\u2019s one thin chick\u201d, there is something uber not bueno going on. Throw me a grass-fed, grass-finished steak and a vat of butter and get out the way! <\/p>\n\n\n\n For far too long we women have been excluded from scientific research because female bodies are \u201ccomplicated\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re darn right they are, but they\u2019re not an unsolvable mystery! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s demystify this whole process, bring it out into the open, and get you the information you need to take action upon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now when you resist taking that action, and you will, even when all the science supports it, we have got to dig into why you\u2019re having the resistance. Where is that struggle coming from? This is where that heaping helping of mindset work comes into play. And where having a community of others navigating similar waters comes into the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you join us in the 12 Week Metabolism Reboot, you are invited to our weekly CoWorking sessions. They happen every Monday evening rain or shine, holiday or not (minus the major ones). Therein, you join a collective of people putting in their own inner work.\u00a0 A gathering of women (and a few men) who rebel against the status quo because they know they\u2019ve been misled by it and are now choosing to approach their health and wellbeing from a holistic point of view.\u00a0 They want different results; and they know they need a different approach.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n [Details at 12 Week Metabolism Reboot<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n I go into this topic as well in \u2018Lose Weight\u2019. Another phrase to retire in 2022<\/em>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n LISTEN: <\/strong>https:\/\/drsamgraber.com\/podcast\/episode-029-lose-weight-another-phrase-to-retire-in-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n READ:<\/strong> https:\/\/drsamgraber.com\/lose-weight-another-phrase-to-retire-in-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n __________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt Doesn\u2019t Have To Be This Way. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
It’s Not About \u201cThe Weight\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Things I Don\u2019t Care About, Nor Should You<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s A Limit. And We\u2019ve Reached It.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cEasy Button\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How To Turn It Around <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Phooey, I Got The \u201cGo To Jail\u201d Card<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n
It Doesn\u2019t Have To Be This Way. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A Tiny Male With Breasts And A Uterus?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A Collective Of Women Pooling Our Wisdom<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n