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Personal Metrics

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Albert Einstein was on to something!  He helped develop an experiment called the EPR paradox, which explained the Copenhagen interpretation.*
It’s a physics experiment that deals with a crazy thing called “quantum entanglement.”

Without turning my health blog into a science class let me explain what quantum entanglement means.  Basically it’s when you look at and actually measure something, it changes its very nature and outcome. So the very act of attempting to measure matter or even observe it actually changes the matter. Einstein called this the “spooky action at a distance.”

So on a quantum level it’s a proven fact that when you look at or measure something you physically change the possible outcome. And that’s what I want to talk about today.

Personal Metrics – the measurement of things directly related to your life.

With weight loss and measuring, there are usually just two types of measurements that the average person looks at. The first is the use of a scale to measure our weight. Secondly if we want more information we might use a tape measure to gauge the amount of inches we are round. Most people never go any further than that when it comes to metrics.

I want to encourage you to begin examining the idea of adding some new types of metrics into your daily life. Let me explain why it’s important for weight loss and your overall health

Below is a graph that I developed to help illustrate my point. This graph represents the health and fitness levels of the average American population in 1930.

1930

Notice that in those days the mortality of the unborn and children was very high. But when you look at the overall health and fitness of the people of that time it was quite remarkable. I believe this was possibly attributed to the agrarian lifestyle featuring more sleep and physical activity and a diet of less salt, sugar and more fresh non-processed foods.

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Plateau Busters

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AGGGGGGHHHH!

You’ve hit the dreaded weight loss plateau and now you can’t seem to get yourself out of this stuck place. I’d like to explain to you why we get to these plateaus.

All of us have a thing called a “Circadian Rhythm”. I call it your “Bodyrhythm™” and it governs more than you can imagine. Most people think that it’s only related to sleep and only think of its effects when daylight savings time rolls around.

But your circadian rhythm controls much more than your likely aware of. Things like your hormones, metabolic rate, fat stores, calories burned, your brain, sleep and feeding patterns and many other areas within our bodies. Our body is a truly amazing thing.
It wants and needs to stay balanced at all times. It’s this balance that keeps us alive.

Every 28 days your circadian rhythm takes an inventory of what you’ve done. How much food you ate daily, how much sleep you’ve had, how many calories you’ve burned daily over the last 28 days. Then it resets and instructs your whole metabolic system, your brain and even your cells for the next 28 days. When you get stuck in a plateau it’s just your circadian rhythm doing the job it was designed to do… trying to keep you balanced. So it just resets itself to what it’s become accustom to.

So how do you break out of the plateau?

I believe in changing your approach to weight loss and health. I call it “Pursuing Mastery™”.

I’ve determined after years of research that if you chase after a particular diet, or a certain weight, or even a single type of exercise i.e. aerobics, you will always yo-yo and end up right back where you started or worse. For long-term success and real change quick and easy is not the solution.

There is a great quote by Lao Tzu that states, “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” With weight loss and better health this is absolutely the truth. You didn’t put on 10 pounds in 2 weeks and anyway you try to lose it in 2 weeks will eventually fail.

So if you find yourself at a plateau, remember that to get to a mountaintop sometimes you must change your route and continue to climb to master it!

I’ll share with you my best “plateau busters.”

First you have to understand that the average person goes on a diet for 3 weeks or 21 days before they give up or fall back into their old habits. If they only knew that they were just 7 days away from resetting their body’s circadian rhythm and shifting their whole metabolic engine and seeing some real long-term results, maybe they would have kept going.

Chain Breaking Tips

Here are some of my best Plateau Busters!

Eat Breakfast!

Eat protein for breakfast – two eggs or egg whites, one piece of turkey bacon or oatmeal ( a good complex carbs) with half an apple in it, with a protein shake. Getting 30 to 40 grams of protein as early in the morning as possible is essential. Do it for 28 days straight. It will reset your circadian rhythm to a higher rate of calorie burn.

Go to Sleep!

Get into bed at least 15 minutes earlier, 30 minutes is even better. It doesn’t matter if you actually get to sleep any faster. Make your room as dark as possible. It shifts your hormones and effects melatonin production. Do it for 28 nights.

Take your Vitamin!

Take vitamin D3, at least 2000 mgs. a day. Take them any time you want just get more vitamin D. Do it for 28 days.

Change it up!

Change the time and duration and intensity of your exercise routine. If you walk 30 minutes in the evening, switch it to 20 minutes in the morning. If you’re walking at a constant pace, switch to 5 minutes slow – 2 minutes fast – 5 minutes slow – 3 minutes fast and repeat. Then work toward to reversing it to 5 minutes fast – 2 minutes slow

I know these “Chain Breaking Tips” will help you move off that plateau.
I know you can do it! What’s 28 days? No problems!

What you believe about yourself… it all comes true. Believe the best!™

Tim 2 Taylor

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Getting Stung

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an image of a flying beeMy granddad used to say, “You probably won’t run from one bee, but you dang sure will run from ten.” His old saying really applies to what I call “one bee” calories. These are calories we hardly ever think about when we are consuming them. Sort of like a single bee buzzing around you. You may swat at it, but mostly you just ignore it.

When I was just starting to lose my weight, I discovered I was consuming an average of 300 “ignored” calories everyday. That’s 2100 unaccounted for calories every week. That was like eating a whole extra day’s worth of calories! These “one bee” calories were enough to make me gain another pound every two weeks!

To have an extra pound show up on your scale you’d need only to consume 1814 calories of high calorie dense foods or as much as 4082 calories of low calorie dense foods.

I discovered most of these unnoticed calories were in condiments. Things like ketchup, mayo or a slice of cheese, different salad dressings or sauces I cooked with. All of these “add on” calories were secretly sabotaging my efforts to lose weight.

OUCH!

For example at dinner, I’d start with a healthy salad and pour some Thousand Island dressing on it, which added 354 calories. I’d eat a piece of meat loaf covered in ketchup and never considered the calories. I was using 10 to 12 servings at one sitting. That was at least another 180 calories. So in just one meal the condiments added up to 534 additional calories! That doesn’t count and jelly I used on my breakfast toast or the Bar B-Q sauce I used at lunch.

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