Science of Happiness.

Positive Psychology 

and the Science of Happiness.

On the internet and in bookstores, a thousand gurus tout different remedies for human misery. How can we find out which remedies work? We need to consult one of our greatest gurus, the scientific method. Recently we have seen a dramatic upsurge in scientific studies on Positive Psychology and the science of happiness or to put it simply, discovering what makes happy people happy. Fortunately, many of these studies point to specific ways of thinking and acting that can strongly impact our sense of well-being and happiness. The resulting discoveries are enriching the practices of counseling, clinical psychology, psychiatry and life coaching. In these pages, we review the most scientific studies and translate the results into non-technical English.

DISCOVER: The 7 Habits of Happy People

Is self-control is to blame for obesity?"

John Robbins asked SUSAN PEIRCE THOMPSON 
this really juicy question: 

"Do you think a lack of self-control is to blame for obesity?"

And here's how she answered:

 "I do not think a lack of self-control is to blame for obesity. Not at all.

The brain is wired to keep the body's energy reserves in a tight range, and modern foods have conspired to hijack these homeostatic mechanisms and force body fat reserves upward. Self-control, unfortunately, is not part of this equation.  

 My best analogy is this:
 There are some bodily processes over which we have conscious control ("self-control" if you will) but over which the brain is also exerting control. Breathing is one of them. You can choose to breathe fast or slow. You can choose to hold your breath. But if you're running upstairs, deciding to breathe slowly is only going to work for a short while. At some point, the brain is going to demand the oxygen it needs, and you WILL breathe faster. Self-control has no role in that, once a certain point is reached. 
Fuel is similar, and so is water. You can voluntarily eat less, or drink less, than the brain knows the body needs. And you'll win out for a while. But at some point, the brain is going to kick in and demand more fuel. Or more water. The time scale of this is much, much longer, so our illusion of control is way more pronounced than with breathing. 

Here's how our current patterns of eating have messed things up:
What's going on is that modern foods are raising baseline insulin levels up to 2x or more than their natural level. This is blocking the hormone leptin at both the hypothalamus and the brain stem. Leptin is one of the key hormones in our body's negative feedback loop that controls body fat homeostasis. The fatter our fat cells get, the more leptin is released. That leptin circles back to the brain and says, "You're not hungry anymore. No more fuel, please. And oh, by the way, you feel great, and you want to go get ACTIVE, because you have the fuel on board to go kill a wildebeest or build a hut or find a mate." If the brain sees little or no leptin, it knows fat stores have dropped dangerously low and the body is starving. It kicks in mechanisms to force our prioritization of eating more and seeking food at all costs. AND it makes us conserve energy at all costs.  With today's fatness, leptin is released but insulin is also high. And remember that insulin blocks leptin at BOTH the hypothalamus and the brain stem. So, the leptin that's there is never registered, never "seen" by the brain. The obese individual actually shows all the biological markers of starvation, no matter how much food is consumed.  In another part of the brain, something equally insidious is going on. The sugar and flour that form the foundation of the Global Industrial Diet flood the nucleus accumbens with dopamine. That causes dopamine down-regulation, exactly the same as with cocaine or heroin addiction. The cravings that result form a massive motivational impetus to get more food.  With easy access to sugar/flour food practically everywhere, the brain is going to get what it needs.  And finally, as the obese person rallies to diet one more time, the cruel trick is that the seat of willpower in the brain, the anterior cingulate cortex, goes offline if blood glucose drops. So at mealtime, it's not possible to rally "self-control" and make a healthy choice about what to eat. Self-control is beside the point. *Sigh.*"

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SUSAN PEIRCE THOMPSON's BRIGHT LINE EATING (online bootcamp).

SUSAN PEIRCE THOMPSON's BRIGHT LINE EATING BOOTCAMP VIDEO MODULES TEACH.

Ten weeks ago, I started SUSAN PEIRCE THOMPSON's 
BRIGHT LINE EATING BOOTCAMP. I was exhausted from being fat, thinking about being fat, and beating myself up for not being able to change what I knew had to change. I felt overwhelmed and powerless.

ENTER: Susan Peirce Thompson, with her perky smile and bubbly-way, but also with her facts, SCIENCE, and true life experience with addictions & food. She made promises. Promises I could only hope and pray could be true. 

She promised that if I followed the BLE (bright line eating) path that I could become what she calls, "HAPPY, THIN AND FREE!". That path meant at its core:

     1:  restricting all sugar and flour

     2:  eating only 3 meals a day (NO in-between snacking) 

     3:  weighing and measuring everything I ate.


To tell the truth, at first, it sounded too hard to do. Give up beer and nachos? What kind of life would THAT be? I imagined a bleak world, a very empty place indeed. But I later found out that that was just the addict inside me talking, fighting to stay comfortable in my uncomfortable, overtaxed, over-weight, confused body. 

With a little help from the universe, I joined the bootcamp and was assigned to a Facebook "community support group" of about 400.  I was skeptical of all the LOVE & SUPPORT from that group at first, but slowly learned to accept it. 

One week into the program, with my new food scale getting a regular workout, I began to feel a little more in control of myself. I began to think that this just might work. My tight pants began to fit me just right and then even felt loose.  The inflammation in my knees began to lessen. My constant food binging and urges began to diminish. 

I listened to each "module" closely and appreciated the un-judgmental tone. I adapted the program to suit myself and did not beat myself up when I "broke the bright lines", I simply RE-ZOOMED!

I also found listening to positive affirmations by Louise Hay helpful, and listened to the ideas of ABRAHAM HICKS to understand the laws and power of attracting what I want into my life. I watched multiple videos about the powerful negative effects of SUGAR on the body, including an important one called "SUGAR, THE BITTER TRUTH".  The more I learned, the easier it was to stay on the right path. The path to a happier, thinner me. 

The Universe also provided a path so that I was able to attend the BRIGHT LINE EATING "Family Reunion" in San Diego, (which was the first BLE convention). This was important, because it was here that SPT unveiled two  NEW key elements of the Bright Line process:   

THE POWER OF LOVE & THE NEW POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY.  

But EQUALY important, it was here that I met and connected with some many amazing Bright Line People, so full of love and hope and compassion.  I realized we really were a TRIBE. An emerging cultural phenomenon called the FOOD REVOLUTION. (By changing what eat eat, we change what we buy, which in turn changes what the market will provide. If we all ate simple, healthy foods, the highly sugared, highly processed foods would just be left sitting on store shelves collecting dust...and eventually would stop being produced and marketed.)

Today, I am not even half way to my ultimate goal weight, but (in another way) I am achieving my goal every day... 

Because my goal is to eat the right foods, in the right portions, at the right times, so that my body can best process the nutrients I need. I know I am eating in a way that allows my body to Heal Itself, simply by getting out of my out way (by eliminating the junk and sugar that was bombarding and sabotaging my body's effort to be healthy and well run). As a result of my efforts and following the bright lines,  I think more clearly, my A1c blood sugar levels have dropped by 3 points, I can stand up with less effort and bend over with out grunting and groaning. I feel better and I have energy.

I truly believe that through this process I am finally manifesting what and who I truly am. A successful, happy person. And now as I grow thin and re-gain control of my life like never before, I am free to be of service to others, to succeed in areas I felt incapable of succeeding in in the past. I have a new lease on life. 

Thank you Susan Peirce Thomson and Crew. Thank You! 

FIND OUT HOW YOU SCORE on the SUSCEPTIBILITY SCALE!

Take the free test: http://happythinandfree.com/

Tackling diabetes with a bold new dietary approach: Neal Barnard

MAKING A CHOICE

JUST WHEN YOU THINK HAVING FREE CHOICE IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD.

The Surprising Science of Happiness | Dan Gilbert

THE FAT BLAME GAME

TOO MANY CARBOS=TYPE 3 DIABETES

INSTEAD OF OATMEAL: Coconut Chia Porridge

http://wellnessmama.com/53518/coconut-chia-porridge/

I love serving up a big bowl of this delicious coconut chia porridge. It’s grain-free and the figs, pistachios and vanilla beans give it a real depth that everyone in my family appreciates. The best part: You can even combine the seeds and coconut ahead of time in a jar with your own choice of spices and dried fruit for an easy, ready-to-go, hot “cereal” mix. As always, I buy all my ingredients in advance here so I can save money and time—I hope you and your family enjoy this hearty breakfast as much as we do!

4.4 from 5 reviews

Coconut Chia Porridge

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Prep time

2 mins

Cook time

5 mins

Total time

7 mins

A healthy hot breakfast cereal or Porridge with chia sees, flax seeds, hemp, coconut and figs + pistachios for flavor. Hearty and satisfying...

Author: Wellness Mama

Recipe type: Breakfast

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 1 cup almond milk
• 1 vanilla bean, cut in half
• 1 tablespoon flax seed, ground
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1 tablespoon hemp seeds
• 4 tablespoons unsweetened shredded coconut
• Pinch sea salt
• Pistachios, dried figs, and raw honey to garnish

Instructions

1. Pour the almond milk into a small to medium-sized saucepan. Slice vanilla bean in half, lengthwise, and scrape seeds into milk. Warm the milk over medium-heat until it comes to a gentle boil. Add the flax, chia, and hemp seeds along with the coconut, and stir to combine. Reduce the heat to simmer and stir over low heat until porridge thickens.
2. Season with a small pinch of salt. Serve immediately with pistachios and figs, and honey drizzled over top.

Painting Your Future with THOUGHT: LOUISE HAY

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS, WHETHER IT'S THOUGHTS OF FOOD OR ANY PART OF LIFE. AFFIRMATION IS POWERFUL STUFF. IT MAY SOUND NUTTY, BUT GET OVER IT, STOP JUDGING AND DO THIS FOR YOURSELF.

BECOMING "HAPPY, THIN AND FREE" IS ELUSIVE.

FREDERIC J BROWN VIA GETTY IMAGES

On September 22, news broke that governor and U.S. presidential candidate Chris Christie had given General Michael Cunniff, the leader of New Jersey’s 9,000+ national guardsmen, a weighty ultimatum. The general had 90 days to slim down — or he would face dismissal.

As it turns out, General Cunniff did not meet the military’s basic combat-readiness criteria, and the governor was the one who had to issue the command.

In response, Cunniff said: “Many people struggle with weight control — I am not immune from this.”The irony, of course, is that Governor Christie himself has had his own share of weight struggles. In fact, in 2013, the governor had surgery — known as a gastric band procedure — to close off a section of his stomach. At the time, experts believed he weighed in at more than 400 pounds.

Many people pointed the obvious finger at Governor Christie, accusing him of hypocrisy.

But I think these people missed the whole point.

Whatever you think of their politics or positions, there is no doubt that both Governor Christie and General Cunniff are smart, motivated, successful men.

And therein lies the powerful enigma of obesity.

More than two-thirds of all Americans are overweight. And right now, more than108 million Americans are on a diet. The average dieter makes four or five attempts each year. And less than one percent of these attempts actually result in long-term weight loss.

We hear these statistics all the time, but I think we’ve become numb to what they’re actually telling us. Is there any other sphere of endeavor where so many people try so hard with so little success? What would we think if fewer than 1 percent of people who enrolled in college ever graduated, while the other 99 percent spent billions dropping out and re-enrolling four or five times each year?

Many of life’s problems can be solved by an onslaught of intelligence, ambition, motivation, and perseverance. But for the vast majority of people, that just isn’t true for weight. So clearly our approach and commonsense understanding are flawed.

The fact is that, for most people, lasting weight loss takes a lot more than willpower or desire. According to recent research, it takes a fresh understanding of how the brain interacts with food.

Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson is a tenured psychology professor with a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For 16 years she struggled under a torturous relationship with food. She dieted again and again, only to watch her weight balloon back up. She was clinically depressed, and, in her darkest hours, would lie in the fetal position and weep for a solution.

Finally in 2003, Dr. Thompson’s cognitive studies put her in the path of the answers she’d been seeking. She shrank from obese to slender in six months and today she’s among the top .01 percent of successful weight loss maintainers.

Now Dr. Thompson has created a program called Bright Line Eating to share what she’s learned about how the brain blocks weight loss and so far the results are promising. She reports that for the first 1,000 graduates, her program was three times more effective and seven times faster than Weight Watchers.

I asked Dr. Thompson if she had any insight into why Governor Christie and General Cunniff might be struggling to lose weight, despite intense scrutiny from the public and the threat to the viability of their future careers, not to mention theirhealth.

She had this to say:

I don’t know them, of course, but my guess is that they’re both really high on the Susceptibility Scale. That’s the scale that measures how susceptible someone is to the addictive properties of refined foods. They’re not alone. Research shows that one-third of people are high on the Susceptibility Scale. It makes it nearly impossible to lose weight unless you understand what you’re up against. If you’re low on the Susceptibility Scale, indulging in a craving makes it go away. But if you’re highly susceptible, indulging just makes the craving stronger.

In evolutionary terms, Dr. Thompson explained to me, being highly susceptible was a good thing. But today we’re surrounded by cues to eat foods that have been refined to affect our brains exactly the same way as drugs do. We have a food industry that spends tens of billions of dollars every year marketing highly processed, highly sweetened, and highly addictive foods. In this context, being susceptible is seriously dangerous.

We live in a society that, all-too-often, blames overweight people for their suffering — as if they lacked willpower. But, according to Dr. Thompson, the problem isn’t at all a deficiency of willpower. The problem is that some of us are highly susceptible to food addiction — and have no roadmap to conquer it.

Fortunately, there are answers that can help. And Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson has developed something that appears like it could provide tremendous help to a lot of people.

Perhaps even Governor Christie and General Cunniff.

To find out how you score on Dr. Thompson’s Susceptibility Scale, take her free quiz here.

Rethinking Weight Loss: Why We’re ‘Always Hungry’

Recently, we caught up with Dr. Ludwig to talk about which foods act as “fertilizer for fat cells,” why he thinks the conventional wisdom on weight loss is all wrong, and long-term strategies for weight loss. Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.

Q.

What is the basic message of your book?

A.

The basic premise is that overeating doesn’t make you fat. The process of getting fat makes you overeat. It may sound radical, but there’s literally a century of science to support this point. Simply cutting back on calories as we’ve been told actually makes the situation worse. When we cut back on calories, our body responds by increasing hunger and slowing metabolism. It responds in an effort to save calories. And that makes weight loss progressively more and more difficult on a standard low calorie diet. It creates a battle between mind and metabolism that we’re doomed to lose.

Q.

But we’ve all been told that obesity is caused by eating too much. Is that not the case?

A.

We think of obesity as a state of excess, but it’s really more akin to a state of starvation. If the fat cells are storing too many calories, the brain doesn’t have access to enough to make sure that metabolism runs properly. So the brain makes us hungry in an attempt to solve that problem, and we overeat and feel better temporarily. But if the fat cells continue to take in too many calories, then we get stuck in this never-ending cycle of overeating and weight gain. The problem isn’t that there are too many calories in the fat cells, it’s that there’s too few in the bloodstream, and cutting back on calories can’t work.

Q.

That’s very different from the conventional wisdom that weight loss boils down to calories in, calories out.

A.

Yes. An analogy would be like trying to treat a fever with an ice bath. Imagine going to the hospital with a very high fever, and the doctor says, “Fever is just a problem of heat balance – too much heat in the body, not enough heat leaving the body.” That’s true from a physics standpoint. So the doctor decides to put you in an ice bath. That will work temporarily. An ice bath will break your fever. But imagine what’s going to happen. Your body is going to fight back furiously with severe shivering and blood vessel constriction and you’ll feel miserable. You’ll want out of that ice bath as soon as possible. For that reason, ice baths are not a popular treatment for fever.

Q.

So in this analogy, how do you treat the underlying cause?

A.

A much more effective approach is to lower the body’s temperature set point, which is done with medicine like aspirin. Put biology on your side by eating the right way, and weight loss occurs naturally as a fever would break if you treat the underlying cause of the fever.

Q.

If it’s not overeating, then what is the underlying cause of obesity?

A.

It’s the low fat, very high carbohydrate diet that we’ve been eating for the last 40 years, which raises levels of the hormone insulin and programs fat cells to go into calorie storage overdrive. I like to think of insulin as the ultimate fat cell fertilizer.

When someone with Type 1 diabetes first comes to attention, their blood sugar is high because they can’t make enough insulin. They invariably have lost weight. They may be eating 5,000 calories a day, and they’re still losing weight. You can’t gain weight without insulin. The opposite is also true. If you give someone with diabetes too much insulin, they will inevitably gain weight. Insulin programs the body to store calories, and most of those calories get stored in the fat cells. If you’ve got too much insulin, you’re going to store too many calories. This has been very well established scientifically.

Q.

How do you get your obese patients to lower their insulin?

A.

The quickest way to lower insulin is to cut back on processed carbohydrates and to get the right balance of protein and fat in your diet. A high fat diet is really the fastest way to shift metabolism. It lowers insulin, calms fat cells down and gets people out of the cycle of hunger, craving and overeating.

Q.

It sounds like the program you’re advocating is the Atkins diet.

A.

No, this is different. The Atkins diet is a very low carbohydrate diet, which in its classic form means you can’t eat much fruit let alone any other carbohydrate. Many people don’t require – and are probably unwilling to sustain – the rigors of a very low carbohydrate diet. I think that except for people with already very severe metabolic problems like Type 2 diabetes, such restrictive regimens are not usually necessary.

Q.

How does this program work?

A.

Our program has three phases. First we tell people to give up processed carbohydrates, added sugars and all grain products for two weeks. The carbohydrates you eat should be a range of nonstarchy vegetables, fruits and beans. After two weeks, we reintroduce whole kernel grains, potatoes – except for white potatoes – and a little bit of added sugars. You do this until your weight comes down to a new, lower set point. It could be a few weeks, or it could be many months for someone who has a more significant weight problem.

Q.

Where do you stand on saturated fat?

A.

I think throughout the public health establishment we’re recognizing that saturated fat isn’t Public Health Enemy No. 1. But it’s also not necessarily a health food. There are many different kinds of saturated fats, and each of these has different effects on the body. But when you reduce processed carbohydrates and your insulin levels decrease, the saturated fat you consume burns faster and it doesn’t stick around the body as long.

We have to stop thinking about saturated fat as either just good or bad. Our meal plan is based on whole natural foods, which include saturated fat. But we make sure to balance that with lots of mono- and polyunsaturated fats like olive oil, nuts, avocado and flaxseed oil.

Q.

Ultimately, what do you want people to take away from this book?

A.

Until we address the underlying drivers of weight gain – which are fat cells stuck in calorie storage overdrive – we are going to be in a battle between mind and metabolism that we just can’t win. Cutting back on calories won’t do it. That doesn’t change biology. To change biology, you have to change the kinds of foods you’re eating.

NY TIMES: How to Lose Weight: 9 Strategies to Try

By VICTORIA SHANNON MARCH 18, 2016

There’s more than one way to lose weight — and recommendations are constantly evolving. Here are some we've highlighted recently.

FIND OUT MORE HERE: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/17/health/100000004278061.mobile.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow&_r=1

Robert H Lustig's 20 min. TED TALK

Robert H Lustig, the man who gave us SUGAR: THE BITTER TRUTH (90 MINS.) breaks down his research into bite-sized portions in this 20 min. TED TALK:

SUGAR: THE BITTER TRUTH

THIS IS THE ONE OF THE DEFINITIVE STUDIES ABOUT SUGAR (AND THE POLITICS BEHIND FOOD). 

THE TALK IS LONG AND SOMETIMES WEIGHED DOWN WITH DETAILS. BUT NEVER-THE-LESS THIS IS "MUST SEE" MATERIAL IF YOU WISH TO UNDERSTAND AND OVERCOME SUGAR ADDITION. MANDATORY VIEWING:

"If you have any interest at all in diet, obesity, public health, diabetes, epidemiology, your own health or that of other people, you will probably be aware that sugar, not fat, is now considered the devil's food."

ENSŌ, THE SYMBOL OF ABSOLUTE ENLIGHTENMENT

In Zen Buddhism, an ensō (円相 , "circle"^?) is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create.

The ensō symbolizes ABSOLUTE enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and mu (the void). It is characterised by aminimalism born of Japanese aesthetics.

Drawing ensō is a disciplined-creative practice of Japanese ink painting—sumi-e (墨絵 "ink painting"^?). The tools and mechanics of drawing the ensō are the same as those used in traditional Japanese calligraphy: One uses a brush (筆 fudé^?) to apply ink to washi (a thin Japanese paper).

The circle may be open or closed. In the former case the circle is incomplete, allowing for movement and development as well as the perfection of all things. Zen practitioners relate the idea to (wabi sabi), the beauty of imperfection. When the circle is closed, it represents perfection, akin to Plato's perfect form (Plato), the reason why the circle was used for centuries in the construction of cosmological models, see Ptolemy.

Usually a person draws the ensō in one fluid, expressive stroke.^[1] When drawn according to the sōsho (草書^?) style of Japanese calligraphy, the brushstroke is especially swift. Once the ensō is drawn, one does not change it. It evidences the character of its creator and the context of its creation in a brief, contiguous period of time. Drawing ensō is a spiritual practicethat one might perform as often as once per day.^[2]

This spiritual practice of drawing ensō or writing Japanese calligraphy for self-realization is called hitsuzendō (筆禅道 "way of the brush"^?). Ensō exemplifies the various dimensions of the Japanese wabi-sabi perspective and aesthetic: Fukinsei (asymmetry, irregularity), kanso (simplicity), koko (basic; weathered), shizen (without pretense; natural), yugen (subtly profound grace),datsuzoku (freedom), and seijaku (tranquility).

WHAT IS "ABSOLUTE EATING"?

There are many plans, programs, diets 
and ideas about how to lose weight and be happy- 
what makes this one different?  

ABSOLUTE EATING IS NOT JUST ABOUT WEIGHT, 
IT'S ABOUT SANITY, CLARITY & MAXIMIZING HEALTH.

There are 3 ABSOLUTE RULES:

   1: NO SUGAR, NO FLOUR, NO PROCESSED FOODS

   2: EAT THREE BALANCED & WEIGHED MEALS PER DAY (NO SNACKING)

   3: FOCUSED THINKING: LOVE & RESPECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS

These 3 Rules are the ABSOLUTES. Follow these rules and everything will fall into place.
Imagine a world where you are healthy, fit and free, a world where you are no longer trapped inside a body that is not serving your best interest, a body that is holding you back, making you feel helpless, self-conscious and un-lovable. 

Consider the possibility that the time may have come to let go of that cozy (isolated) world of over-indulgence and binging. But how? How to STOP and start again? 

Allow me to present a ROADMAP that is simple and clear. One that is well defined and absolute. This is tough love for a tough problem. But at the end of the road, and all along the way, there is a person who will emerge who is stronger, better and more self confident than previously thought possible. That person is YOU!

IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HARD

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, SERIOUSLY, 

FOR JUST ONE MINUTE, IT'S NOT REALLY THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND:

IF YOU ARE OBESE, PRE-DIABETIC OR TYPE 2 DIABETIC 

AND YOU CONTINUE EATING SUGAR IN ANY OF ITS WICKED FORMS 

YOU WILL CONTINUE TO GET FATTER, AND FATTER NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. 

YOU WILL CONTINUE TO CRAVE SUGAR AND ALL FOODS (EXCEPT HEALTHY ONES) 

AND YOU WILL GET SICK AND DIE SOONER THAN YOU NEED TO.

YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE WILL BE LIMITED, 

YOUR SENSE OF SHAME AND SELF HATRED WILL GROW, 

AND YOUR RISK OF LOSING YOUR SIGHT, LOSING YOUR TOES WILL INCREASE IN TIME.

IF YOU CONTINUE EATING SUGAR,

YOU WILL NEVER FEEL COMPLETELY COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN BODY.

BUT!

IF YOU GIVE UP SUGAR & FLOUR, YOU WILL ALLOW YOUR BODY TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF HEALING ITSELF. (BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT'S TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU ARE NOT LETTING IT). YOU ARE POISONING YOUR BODY WITH COMPLICATED CHEMICALS THAT INHIBIT HEALING AND ACTUALLY DESTROY THE INTERNAL BODY CHEMISTRY BALANCE.

LET GO OF PAST EATING HABITS AND RITUALS! 

GET RIGHT WITH THE NOW. BEGIN A NEW DAY.