Posts Tagged ‘Freedom’
How To Hire A Life/Business Coach
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Meet Derrick Sweet. He is the Executive Director and Founder of the so-called “Certified Coaches Federation”. According to Sweet, the longer and more detailed a coach training program, the more diluted the education you receive. Therefore, if you want to by-pass the hefty tuition and the extensive hours of work required to become a real coach, you can pay Sweet $979, attend a two-day seminar, and get a fancy piece of paper at the end that claims you are a “certified” coach.
There are literally thousands of people running around today claiming to be coaches who have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. Sure, they know how to charge you plenty of money to hold you accountable for your written goals, but if you want any help removing the obstacles that stand in your way of obtaining those goals, you’d better look elsewhere.
Unlike many people are lead to believe by companies like Sweet’s, coaching is not about pep-talks and inspiration. It’s about doing serious internal work to tear apart the limiting beliefs, false assumptions, false interpretations, and inner demons that are really holding your clients back. Once you are able to help them dismantle the limitations they have built for themselves, only then can you forward them onto setting and achieving their goals. Mastering the skills to do that internal work takes longer than a two-day weekend.
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Sign Up For My FREE Weekly Sweet Solutions Newsletter!
Friday, September 11th, 2009
I’m excited to announce starting next Wednesday September 16th, I will release the first edition of my new FREE weekly Sweet Solutions Newsletter!
When you sign up for my Sweet Solutions Newsletter, you will receive a FREE copy of my eBook “The Four Blocks to Freedom” which is full of tips on how to control your blood sugar and brain chemistry so you can achieve your ideal weight and be happy.
Additionally, each week you will:
- Be motivated and inspired.
- Find new ideas and recipes for meals, snacks, and Sunday Feasts.
- Get cutting edge coaching insights that will help shift your focus to move you forward.
- Receive exercise tips & tricks from some of the best Personal Trainers in the country.
- And much, much more!
So, hurry up and sign up in the box on the right hand column of Slave2Freedom.com!
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Sugar Addicts Unite: Join Our New Stop SUGAR SHOCK! Social Network!!
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
I’m thrilled to announce that Connie Bennett, the author of SUGAR SHOCK!, and I have teamed up to bring you a new, robust, interactive Stop SUGAR SHOCK! social network over at Ning.com
In your supportive, nurturing Stop SUGAR SHOCK! community, you will have a chance:
- To share recipes
- To encourage each other
- To meet and befriend each other. (You can even create profiles and post photos, music, and videos.)
- To follow whichever topics most appeal to you
- To start your own discussions topics in our community forums
- To ask questions
- To share what you’ve done successfully when sugar cravings strike
- To talk about why and when you turn to sugar
- To tell your sugar-free success story — or read inspiring tales from other people.
- To learn about the dangers of sugar addiction.
- To learn what to eat to live a vibrant, healthy life
- To share tips and tactics with each other
- To learn about hypoglycemia and type 2 diabetes
- To watch cool videos
- And much more
This new Stop SUGAR SHOCK! social network had its origins in November 2002, when Connie founded the KickSugar support group at Yahoo. Now, nearly seven years later, KickSugar is moving to Ning, which offers many more features and gives you more opportunity to support and connect with each other.
Hurry up and join us now at Stop SUGAR SHOCK! to start sharing your thoughts, ideas, etc.
We want to build a strong, vibrant community, so tell your friends too!!
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Counting Calories is Modern Bloodletting
Monday, August 24th, 2009
According to Wikipedia, doctors drained blood from their patients trying cure them of diseases for well over 2,000 years. That’s right, for 2,000 years, the most “learned” men in the world took part in a practice which did nothing to improve their patient’s health. In fact, in most cases, it hurt them by opening them up to further infections by weakening their immune systems.
After reading this LA Times piece on the controversy surrounding a junk food tax, I finally came to the conclusion that our current obsession with calories is the modern equivalent to bloodletting. Much like our ancestors, we put blind faith in doctors and nutritionists who tell us this practice actually works. Yet year after year, we continue to count calories and we continue to get bigger and bigger. You would think that after a while people would wise up. In a country that counts calories with the same zeal as a small child counting days until their birthday, why are we all so overweight?
The answer lies throughout all of the conversation surrounding the obesity epidemic. For example, “A clinical trial of 810 adults in May found that reducing soda intake by 100 calories a day was linked to half a pound of weight loss after 18 months.” First of all, do we really need clinical trials to know that cutting back on soda will lead to weight loss? Secondly, who cares how many calories are in a can of soda when it’s the 10 teaspoons of sugar in the can that brings on the blood sugar spike and drop that leads to massive weight gain? Lastly, since studies like this rely on self-reported information, their findings are completely misleading.
Do you really think all 810 of those people cut their soda intake by exactly 100 calories every day for 18 months straight? What was their other food intake like? Did they exercise? How much sugar was in the rest of the food and drinks they consumed? Short of following all 810 people each and every day of their lives for 18 months straight, it’s impossible to answer these questions, so it’s impossible to put any credence in the study’s findings.
It is time to move the conversation away from individual nutrient information, like calories, and toward whole foods. Why waste time asking, “What happens when you drink 100 calories less of soda?” The real question is, “With all we know about sugar and artificial sweeteners, why is anyone drinking soda at all; diet or regular?” Again, they’re missing the point. Solving the epidemic is is not a question of mathematics, it’s a question of culture.
It’s really not that complicated, you don’t need to turn every meal into a science experiment.
Eat less, move more, and enjoy life.
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You’re Fat; You’re Fired!
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Delos M. Cosgrove, chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic, decided to stop hiring smokers two years. Now, he would like to take his hospital’s health initiative a step further and stop hiring obese people. However, legal issues have stopped him from making that decision.
Given the negative PR that could result from a story like that, I find it fascinating that Cosgrove is so public about his opinion. But, that is exactly what we need in this country.
We need journalists to take politicians to task for their poor policies, bold executives who aren’t afraid to generate meaningful discussion, and (most of all) we need to hold each other accountable for what we’re doing to our bodies and our future.
This New York Times piece offers a few interesting angles on this multi-tiered issue. One of the most intriguing statistics sited is, “The real price of soda has fallen 33 percent over the last three decades. The real price of fruit and vegetables has risen more than 40 percent.” With prices like that, it’s no wonder we’ve all got sugar addictions!
From personal responsibility to public policy, whatever your role, please do everything you can to help us reverse this epidemic today!
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Freedom From SnackWells
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
David Kessler is practically a regular contributor to Slave2Freedom these days. I really respect Kessler and the work he is doing because he fought and overcame a sugar addiction of his own. His book The End of Overeating seeks to uncover the reason you cannot stop eating some foods.
Here is a Washington Post interview where Kessler summarizes a few of his key points.
As always, I have a favorite quote, “We’re going to need to change how America looks at food…Our kids are growing up in an environment where fat, sugar and salt are on every corner and have been available 24/7. It’s socially acceptable to eat anytime. We’ve made food into entertainment. Walk into Union Station on the lower-level food court and watch kids and adults eat. It’s as if we’re living in a food carnival.”
The article’s a quick read, enjoy!
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Iran Thinks You’re Fat!
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
It’s interesting to watch the interplay between enemy nations. In the cold war, we worked extremely hard to build a strong hockey program and beat the Russians. We eventually pulled off the “Miracle on Ice” and made history.
Today, the role of the evil enemy nation is played by Iran and we have been working equally hard preparing for the imminent battle. But, I’m pretty sure they don’t play hockey, so, from the looks of this Tehran Times piece, I think we should challenge them to a duel; either a hot dog eating contest at Coney Island or an international Biggest Loser contest simulcast on NBC and Al Jazeera. Seriously, do you think they could down 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes? Not a chance! And, look at the report. We would be so much bigger losers than they could ever dream of being.
What better way is there to demonstrate our moral superiority as a country?
p.s. The picture was taken from their story. The file was named “11_American.” What a fantastic image we’ve built for ourselves around the globe!
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Debunking Nutritionism; Seeing Food As More Than Nutrients.
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
I’ve been recommending and quoting Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food” since I read it last year. If you’ve had a conversation with me since then, you have no doubt heard the phrase, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” This simple philosophy has helped to shape my view of the modern food landscape. I have intentionally stayed oblivious to the sort of hyper-scientific emphasis on nutrients found in food that Pollan so eloquently destroys. I cannot tell you one thing about what’s in broccoli, but I can tell you it makes me feel good, so I’m going to keep on eating it.
Nutritionism, Pollan explains, is an ideology that sees food as nothing more than a collection of nutrients. Therefore, according to this worldview, the only valid discussion we should have around food concerns its health benefits. This has brought about the advent of modern food science and is the biggest contributor to our modern health crisis. Highly processed foods loaded with sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup can be re-engineered every other year with a sexy new “health” claim featuring the “savior nutrient” of the day. The most laughable example of this I’ve seen was a package of sugar-free cookies boasting its abundant supply of “Omega-3 Fatty Acids!”
Pollan brilliantly explains that, while food science seems to have some value, it is ultimately a very young science that has only served to make us sick. My favorite quote of the talk underlining this point was, ”As I see it, nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1,650; really interesting, really promising, but I’m not ready to get on the table. And we should not be ready to change the way we eat based on where they are right now.”
“In Defense of Food” is a very quick read, but if you still haven’t had time to read it, this presentation will serve as a great summary.
He walks on stage at 7:36 in the video.
Enjoy!
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Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
My brother Joe turned me onto this fantastic presentation by Robert H. Lustig, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco. It’s an absolutely amazing dismantling of the poison we casually refer to as sugar or fructose.
There are a number of gems in this presentation, but one of my favorites was, “Fructose is ethanol (alcohol) without the buzz.” He then explains that alcohol is made by fermenting sugar cane. This gives us another explanation as to why virtually every alcoholic is also a sugar addict.
Another major revelation was the amount of sugar found in baby formula. He points out that Similac Isomil contains 43.2% corn syrup solids and 10.3% sugar (sucrose)! He then states, “It’s a baby milkshake.” Indeed, and we wonder why childhood obesity is such a problem. If babies come straight out of the womb and we immediately get them hooked on sugar, of course they are going to continue to crave and demand foods containing this poison. If we started feeding them booze, they would get hooked on that too. That may seem like a far leap, but he masterfully shows that going from a can of coke to a beer is hardly a leap; they are virtually one and the same.
If you have an hour and a half, bust out your pen and paper and get to work. If you only have time for the quick and dirty, fast forward to 1:16:00, watch the last 14 minutes, and come back when you can.
Enjoy!
p.s. (update 08/03/09) This video had 580 views when I posted it yesterday. It has since climbed to 1,183. I am convinced this thing needs to go viral and be seen far and wide. So please pass on the link, post it on message boards, facebook, myspace, etc., and do everything you can to get people to watch this!!
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One Day at a Time
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Bryan Tuck has made a monumental decision. He is going to conquer his sugar addiction once and for all!
The best part, besides the fact that I get to coach him through it, is that he is sharing his journey with the world. At beatingmysugaraddiction.bryantuck.com you can read about his daily progress and witness someone breaking free first hand.
He started Monday at 230 lbs. and I can’t wait to see him 6 months from now!!
Today is the end of his first (business) week, which is by far the hardest, so stop by, say hi, and cheer him on!
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