Boost your metabolism and shrink your fat cells back to their natural, healthy state by eating a proper ratio of good and bad fats, choosing specific foods and eliminating inflammatory foods such as sugar, refined grains, and artificial sweeteners from your diet to reprogram your fat cells to behave like that of a lean person.
It IS possible to lose weight, look great, and achieve the optimum health you’ve been striving for.
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Here’s What to Expect in This Episode
- How do we shift our body image?
- Understand that most women buy into cultural myth of beauty
- The red carpet effect leaves a woman feeling that she is not enough as it’s defined by other people’s parameters
- It’s really about optimal health in the end
- Optimal mental and emotional balance happens when you are healthy
- Accept that you are a beautiful worthwhile person
- It is a choice how we perceive ourselves
- The first step is to love yourself enough to create a happy healthy body that will lead you to a happy life
- How to change the distorted self image and change into something positive?
- Societies standards are different
- Strengthen the pathway to better health with healthier choices
- What is Optimal Health?
- Culmination of healthy lifestyle choices
- Body is functioning at peak level with energy and vitality… a longer lifespan
- It is more than just the absence of disease
- Inflammation and it’s role in weight gain
- Inflammation is the core cause of disease, faster aging and weight gain
- Two Types of Inflammation
- Acute
- Low Level / Silent – causes obesity, cancer, heart disease. When your immune system is out of whack this takes over. It’s like a sore that doesn’t heal and you can’t feel it until symptoms appear.
- Prevent inflammation and keep it away
- What are the triggers?
- What we eat
- Most inflammatory food is sugar
- It triggers insulin and that stores fat
- Reduce carbohydrates that are refined or ideally avoid them
- Chromium Picolinate – takes away sugar cravings and creates lean muscle mass
- Choose whole foods, high in fiber, no transfats
- Lack of nutrients create cravings. Ingesting proper nutrients reduce these cravings
- Ideal portions: Half Veggies and quarter grains and quarter protein
- How critical is water?
- Water is critical – Our body is made up of 80% water
- People are walking around dehydrated
- Your cellular functions are down when dehydrated
- Your metabolism is functioning well when you are hydrated
- Water is thermogenic – it fires up that fat burn
- Don’t wait to be thirsty to drink
- Alkaline Water – You don’t want a body that’s acidic
- Basic Action Steps to Optimal Health
- Drink Water – Hydrate
- Minimize the sugar – slowly let it go
- Eat organic – close to nature and is not processed / refined
- Get rid of sodas
- Avoid trans fats
- Move your body even if it’s just walking around the block or do squats
- Be careful of label – Hydrogenated Oil in the ingredient means there’s trans fats in it
- Whole Wheat Flour should be in the ingredient for wheat breads
- Plan and prepare your meals
- Be educated – Pick up magazines and books
- What role does fat play in weight gain?
- The right type of fat is going to help you burn fat and create optimal health
- Omega 3 Fats is healthy
- Get on nuts, seeds, cold water sheed, flax oil, chia seeds, olive oil
- If we don’t have healthy fat we don’t burn excess fat
Selected Links from the Episode
- Lori Shemek (Website)
- DLS Healthworks (Website)
- Fire Up Your Fat Burn (Book)
About
Dr. Lori Shemek is leading health expert, also known as “The Inflammation Terminator”. She has made it her mission to educate the public on the toxic effects of certain foods and lifestyle choices and how they create inflammation in the body. Dr. Lori is also the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show ‘Ignite Your Life with Dr. Lori Shemek’
Dr. Shemek holds a Doctorate in Psychology; she is a Certified Nutritional Consultant and a Certified Life Coach.
Her international reputation has drawn rave revues such that, The Huffington Post has recognized Dr. Shemek twice as one of the TOP 16 HEALTH AND FITNESS EXPERTS alongside such names as Dr. Oz andDavid Zinchenko author of ‘Eat This, Not That’ and the Huffington Post also recognized her as one of the TOP 35 DIET AND NUTRITION EXPERTS. She is also a health expert for the ABC TV show, GOOD MORNING TEXAS. She is a leading authority on inflammation and its role in weight loss, preventing disease and optimizing health.
She has appeared on numerous top-rated radio talk shows as well as TV; She has been featured in Ladies Home Journal, Shape Magazine, Woman’s Day Magazine, Health Magazine, I-Village, Yahoo, Livestrong, CNN, Fox News, The Ricki Lake Show – Friends of Ricki and many others. Lori has authored numerous articles and is actively speaking.
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