Reshaping Garments & Weight Loss

Here is an article written by JC Rawley discussing the benefits of wearing a reshaping garment, specifically the corset, to maximize weight loss.

Corsets for Weight Loss

Corsets are making a revival as fetish wear and couture fashion, but more importantly as a comfortable back support option.

But corsets also can be used as part of a weight loss program of healthy eating and minimizing portions. A corset can be a non-surgical tummy tuck.

History

1. From the old French word "cors" which is the body and "cotte" which is a tight fitting garment, corsets were first seen on Minoan priestess and then Grecian women. These stiff garments were worn up through the end of the Edwardian period. Beginning with the Victorian or 18th century an hourglass styled corset offered support and comfort to both men and women.

Weight Loss

2. A comfortable laced-up corset will cinch in the waist and instantly move the organs downward and the breasts up giving the appearance of a smaller waist. A custom or well made corset can be worn for hours at a time. You will be able to eat less food and still feel full.
   
   Consult a physician before attempting to use a corset for weight loss training. To begin, slowly introduce wearing a corset for two hours a day covering a meal time. Gradually increase the hours of wear to no more than eight hours a day. The organs need to get used to the restriction and your body will also need to get used to the restrictive movement.

Under or Over the Bust Corsets

3. Most medical corsets are made to wear under the bust. Fashion corsets offer an option of two styles. Under the bust corsets can be worn longer and seamlessly underneath clothing. Over the bust corsets push the breasts together and upward for a sexy appearance. Over the bust corsets can be worn as outer garments.
   
   A corset presses in the abdomen area, which brings support to the lumbar region. This improves posture and reduces pain on the spinal column. The longer length and contoured corset limits anterior and posterior motion and rotation while remaining comfortable given those restrictions.

Read more: Best Way - Corsets for Weight Loss | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/way_5434893_corsets-weight-loss.html#ixzz0rmXkufPh

Body Magic Our Reshaper Solution

The Body Magic is an innovative creation that will sensationalize your body by giving you the appearance of a liposuction transformation without the surgery. Innovative in design to lift your bust and stomach as it flattens and controls your abdomen muscles. This body shaper lifts and reshapes the buttocks and helps thin your thighs and hips while pulling the shoulders back to correct posture.

• Helps to firm and control your abdomen
• Helps to lift and hold your lower stomach in position
• pulls your shoulders back and corrects your posture
• Provides upper and lower back support
• Thins hips, and lifts buttocks

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Compression Garments As A Weight Loss Aid

Are you a good steward?

Here is a wonderful article written by Richard Joseph Krejcir (He is the Founder and Director of Into Thy Word Ministries, a missions and discipling ministry, with a call upon his heart to bring discipleship materials to pastors and everyone who needs them here and overseas. He is the author of numerous articles, curriculums and the book, Into Thy Word, and is also an ordained pastor, teacher, and speaker. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena California (Master of Divinity) and holds a Ph.D. (Practical Theology) from London.). It is great food for thought!  

 

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The word, stewardship, simply means to manage someone else's property.

For the Christian, as Scripture proclaims everything belongs to God, we manage the property of our Lord. Since everything belongs to Christ, we need to have the attitude and view that our things how little or great, what we have now or potential are His things. Our stuff that we have now or what we want to acquire are His stuff, that all we could have now, all we have lost, all we will have, is His, including our very bodies, opportunities and spiritual gifts. We are mere lessees of the property, money, relationships, talents, time, and even our lives.

That means all that we are and all that we have is not really ours to begin with. They belong to God. So, the duty of the Christian is to learn how to become responsible stewards of our Lord's resources entrusted into our care. To manage everything to the best of our abilities for His glory, 1 Cor. 4:2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.

Here are some things to think about

· Stewardship is a priority! We need to take what we have and put it to the right use.

· Stewardship is also about exercising the gifts He gives, not letting them waste away or control us. We are to find them and put them to use with joy and not allow their results, such as money to rule over our will and plans. To do otherwise is a big waste and a travesty.

· Stewardship is being His faithful servant. It is the understanding of who we are in Christ and being grateful for that. In addition, it is being willing to put forth the effort to please Him, even though we do not have to.

· Stewardship sees tithing as an investment, with eternal values in mind, not a loss of temporary goods.

· Stewardship means trusting in our God, who provides for our spiritual and physical needs.

· Stewardship is also being wise to the ways of the world, so we do not fall prey to it.

Nutrition & Metabolism

This is a great article I want to share with you as well as some supplement choices to help you balance out your metabolism, increase your energy levels and promote good health. Please read on and at the end review the suggested supplements to get you on your way to better health. For questions regarding these supplements or how to order yours please call (203) 565-1229 or email jaquiparedes@gmail.com.

 

Nutrition & Metabolism
By Dr Tom Bilella

Your body has an incredible ability to be fit and healthy and to operate at a high level of performance. However, stress can create some health related ups and downs. If you have ever experienced things like fatigue, cravings, gaining weight too easily, anxiety, depression, blood sugar disorders, sleep disturbances, sarcopenia (age related muscle loss) and/or digestive disorders, this is your body’s way of telling you that you are out of balance.

The food choices you make, the quality of the supplements that you take, the training and exercise you do or lack of getting well rounded exercise plus the phenomenon of too much stress (distress) on your body all contribute to putting you and your body out of balance.

To get your body in balance and functioning like a high performance engine, you must understand something about metabolism. The chemical reactions in the body’s cells that convert food into the energy required to do everything from walking, running and jumping to thinking to growing are called “metabolism”.

Metabolism is a constant process that begins when we’re conceived and ends when we kick the bucket. It is vital for all life forms — not just humans. If metabolism stops working properly, life cannot go on.

We create our metabolism, we are not victims of it. In other words, what we feed our body and when, along with the balance of calories from carbohydrates, fat and protein, largely dictate our metabolic capacity and metabolic health.

People are made up of three metabolic types: Protein, Carbo, and Mixed type. The type of metabolism of an organism determines which substances it will find nutritious and which it will find poisonous. For ultimate health and fitness, your metabolic type must be determined. You just might be feeding your body the improper mixture of food. Sort of like too much oil, not enough gas.

What you put in your mouth determines how your genes are expressed. Poor food choices and consumption of empty calories (alcohol, sugar-rich drinks) promote degenerative conditions (diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc…) even if there is no major genetic link.

The above point does not lessen the importance of supplements. In fact most people are not getting the needed nutrition from their foods. In today’s world, with its unprecedented mixture of toxic substances, and the generally poor quality of foods produced by modern agriculture, supplements are a necessity for optimum performance and health.

Your choice of supplements is important. Choose a product with biologically active nutrients. For example, look for ionic minerals in liquid form and B vitamins that are easily assimilated. Otherwise, you may be putting more stress on your body trying to assimilate these non-active forms.

Targeted Nutrition

Thermogen Plus

Thermogenesis is considered as one of the most effective methods of losing weight. ThermogenTea helps you curb the appetite, restore the natural balance of your body, and lose weight by increasing the metabolism.*

Ardyss Multi Plus       

              

Multi-Plus is a delicious and refreshing premium supplement formulated with multivitamins, antioxidants, aloe vera, minerals, and herbal extracts.

Enerlife

Boost your day with this delicious Citrus/Berry drink that provides fresh energy when you are on the go 24/7. Enerlife contains the essential amino acids to improve your physical stamina and mental clarity. It is a perfect complement to a healthy diet and exercise program.* 

Top Fiber   

    

The odds are you’re consuming only 50% of the recommended daily fiber intake! TopFiber is effective yet “gentle on the stomach” complex, comprising all seven sources of fiber plus nutrients that promotes natural cleanse. A delicious apple pie & berries flavor blend consists a variety of nutritious fiber rich ingredients.*

*These statements have not been evaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, mitigate, cure or prevent any disease.

Ways to Develop Financial Stability

Getting your finances stable and becoming financially successful requires the development of good financial habits:

1. Make saving a priority.  Make it the first bill you pay each payday, by having a set amount automatically transferred from your checking account to your savings (try an online savings account).
2. Control your impulse spending. The biggest problem for many of us. Impulse spending, on eating out and shopping and online purchases, is a big drain on our finances.
3. Evaluate your expenses, and live frugally. Track your expenses, evaluate how you’re spending your money, and see what you can cut out or reduce.

4.    Invest in your future. If you’re young, you probably don’t think about retirement much. But it’s important. Even if you think you can always plan for retirement later, do it now. The  20+ Investment Club & 40+ Retirement Plan is a blueprint to sustained health and wealth.  It helps you get healthy while simultaneously making you wealthy.  For the first time in almost a century, we are in jeopardy of living with less and leaving less to our families than the generation before us.  We have the power to not only create a legacy, but to live it right now! The 20 + Investment Club & 40+ Retirement Plan is a viable option to the current plight of the American health care system and bleak economy.  Only $100 of disposable or redirected income allows us to achieve better health while preparing us and perpetuating us through retirement financially.  The 20+ Investment Club & 40+ Retirement Plan will not only transform your life, but the lives of others around you.

5. Keep your family secure. Save for an emergency fund, so that if anything happens, you’ve got the money.
6. Eliminate and avoid debt. start a debt elimination plan. List out your debts and arrange them in order from smallest balance at the top to largest at the bottom. Then focus on the debt at the top, putting as much as you can into it, even if it’s just $40-50 extra (more would be better). When that amount is paid off, celebrate! Then take the total amount you were paying (say $70 minimum payment plus the $50 extra for a total of $120) and add that to the minimum payment of the next largest debt. Continue this process, with your extra amount snowballing as you go along, until you pay off all your debts. This could take several years, but it’s a very rewarding process, and very necessary.
7. Use the envelope system. This is a simple system to keep track of how much money you have for spending. Let’s say you set aside three amounts in your budget each payday — one for gas, one for groceries, one for eating out. Withdraw those amounts on payday, and put them in three separate envelopes. That way, you can easily track how much you have left for each of these expenses, and when you run out of money, you know it immediately. You don’t overspend in these categories. If you regularly run out too fast, you may need to rethink your budget.
8. Pay bills immediately. One good habit is to pay bills as soon as they come in. Also, as much as possible, try to get your bills to be paid through automatic deduction. For those that can’t, use your bank’s online check system to make regular automatic payments. This way, all of your regular expenses in your budget are taken care of.
9. Read about personal finances. The more you educate yourself, the better your finances will be.
10. Look to grow your net worth. Do whatever you can to improve your net worth, either by reducing your debt, increasing your savings, or increasing your income, or all of the above. Look for new ways to make money, or to get paid more for what you do. Over the course of months, if you calculate your net worth each month, you’ll see it grow. And that feels great

 
Ref: http://zenhabits.net/10-habits-to-develop-for-financial/

Debt dieting and weight dieting are exactly the same.

I'm on  diet!

I allowed myself to get lazy and get into debt with bad spending habits, and now I’m trying to work it off (debt-free by early next year with the 20+ Investment Club ). I also allowed myself to get overweight with bad eating habits (and a lack of exercise), and now I’m working it off with Ardyss structured diet and detox plan.


Let’s take a look at the 10 habits and principles of successful dieters:

1. Be mindful of calories & saturated fat. It seems difficult, but it’s not really, and it works.
2. Keep track of your weight. Daily weigh-ins work for weight maintenance, but really you should weigh in once a week when you’re trying to lose weight.
3. Exercise. Walk, run, zumba, etc. GET ACTIVE!
4. Watch less TV. TV makes you fat. You can probably figure out why.
5. Write down goals. If you put your goals down in writing, and make them specific, you’re more likely to achieve them.
6. Journal meals and exercise. Writing down what you do really makes you more aware of it, and motivates you to do better.
7. Accountability. By telling others about your goal and your progress, either in some type of program or an online group or just your spouse and friends, you motivate yourself to do well.
8. Baby steps. No one gains 100 lbs. overnight, and you don’t lose it that way either. Take small steps to eat healthy and get more active, and one step at a time, you’ll get closer to your goal.
9. Lifestyle change. You can’t go on a drastic diet or exercise program and expect to sustain it. It has to be small, gradual changes that you can incorporate for life. You’re not restricting yourself, you’re changing the way you live.
10. Rewards. You have to find (non-food) ways to reward yourself. Treat yourself without blowing your calorie limit.

So how do these weight-loss principles apply to debt elimination? Let’s take a look:

1. Track spending. It seems difficult, but it’s not really, and it works. I’ve done it, and you can really see where your money goes. And it makes you more aware of your spending.
2. Check-in weekly. You could actually do it monthly, but balancing your checkbook once a week really helps you to stay on top of your budget. And keep a graph of your debt elimination, updated weekly, so you can watch your progress.
3. Income. Almost everyone who loses and keeps off debt incorporates an increase in income. It’s like exercise: you still need to diet (or control spending), but exercise (increased income) helps burn off the fat (debt) faster.
4. Watch less TV. TV makes you spend. You can probably figure out why.
5. Write down goals. If you put your goals down in writing, and make them specific, you’re more likely to actually achieve them.
6. Budget. You really need to plan your spending, and log it to make sure you’re following the plan.
7. Public accountability. By telling others about your goal and your progress, either in some type of program or an online group or just your spouse and friends, you motivate yourself to do well.
8. Baby steps. No one gets into $30K of debt overnight, and you don’t lose it that way either. Take small steps to be more frugal and earn more, and one step at a time, you’ll get closer to your goal.
9. Lifestyle change. You can’t drastically change your spending habits overnight and expect to sustain it. It has to be small, gradual changes that you can incorporate for life. You’re not restricting yourself, you’re changing the way you live.
10. Rewards. You have to find (inexpensive) ways to reward yourself. Treat yourself without blowing your budget.

If you follow these 10 principles of dieting to help you get out of debt, you’ll be successful, without a doubt. They’re working for me, and they work for many others.

Maintenance Phase

Once you’ve lost the weight, or eliminated the debt, how do I rebuild wealth? 

The  20+ Investment Club & 40+ Retirement Plan is a blueprint to sustained health and wealth.  It helps you get healthy while simultaneously making you wealthy.  For the first time in almost a century, we are in jeopardy of living with less and leaving less to our families than the generation before us.  

We have the power to not only create a legacy, but to live it right now!

The 20 + Investment Club & 40+ Retirement Plan is a viable option to the current plight of the American health care system and bleak economy.  Only $100 of disposable or redirected income allows us to achieve better health while preparing us and perpetuating us through retirement financially.  The 20+ Investment Club & 40+ Retirement Plan will not only transform your life, but the lives of others around you.

Ref: http://zenhabits.net/fiscal-fitness-eliminate-debt-with-10-successful-diet-principles/

The 40+ Retirement Plan

-The Mission-

Promoting Health + Building Wealth

The 40+ Retirement Plan is geared toward one of the fastest growing segments of the American population – people 40 years old and older. At this stage in our lives, we desire to live a life with sustained health, well-being and wealth.  We also look to lead lives that still matter.

At 20 years old, we bought into the American Dream of getting a good job, working it until we retire at the age of 65, then living well off of the monies we saved through our IRA’s and 401k’s with possible decades of life ahead of us to enjoy the fruits of these labors.  At 40+ we are dealing with the 

American Reality – retiring is a luxury that many of us will never enjoy.  Until now.

The  40+ Retirement Plan is a blueprint to sustained health and wealth.  It helps you get healthy while simultaneously making you wealthy.  For the first time in almost a century, we are in jeopardy of living with less and leaving less to our families than the generation before us.  We have the power to not only create a legacy, but to live it right now!

The 40+ Retirement Plan is a viable option to the current plight of the American health care system and bleak economy.  Only $100 of disposable or redirected income allows us to achieve better health while preparing us and perpetuating us through retirement financially.  The 40+ Retirement Plan will not only transform your life, but the lives of others around you.