by: O.L.Shepperson

Western Weight Loss Institute (WWLI) promotes neither a quick fix nor a diet. WWLI does introduce weight loss, wellness and fitness plans presented in a curriculum, aimed to enhance personal development, self-actualization and discovery. Discover, by both exploring and investigating your foundations, how your nutritional background and upbringing were structured, in order to explain how you see your own physical and spiritual self. The WWLI system is developed to enable clients and patients to discover their own healthy habits and lifestyles. Our number one goal at Western Weight Loss Institute is to make fitness and weight loss a strategic part of your daily life, where dieting is no longer an option. Where nutritional eating habits and positive physical activity become habit.

-Definitions & Facts-

Overweight: any weight in excess of your Ideal Body Weight (IBW).# This means what?

“Overweight” is a concept of your own perception of your own self-image. “Overweight” is a subjective term, and it’s that subjectivity that leads to many eating disorders. An eating disorder is a serious illness and requires extensive medical intervention.

Are you happy with your body? Are you able to physically do all the things that you want to do? Do you fit comfortably with the clothes that you want to wear? Do you feel sexy and good when you wear them?

Body Weight and Measurements- Measurements of height and weight, and the comparison of these values using the standard charts, are the first steps in identifying obesity. These measurements produce erroneous results for most of us. Body Weight (BW) is an individual matter. BW tends to increase with age, generally, at a rate of 2 % per decade. It should also be acknowledged that weight charts are not equally relevant to people of all social-economic and ethnic groups.#

From our Home Page, the equation below is used to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI). You may go back to the home page at www.breakthedietcycle.com to have your BMI calculated for you. Weight1 lb (1.5 lbs).45 kg (.68 kgs)Height1 ft .3048 meters

Body Mass Index (BMI)= Weight (Kg) Height (meters) Reading your BMI results:

A BMI of more than 27.8 for men or more than 27.3 for women is in excess of the Ideal Body Weight (IBW)

The overweight individual is not always overly fat. For example, athletes with excessive muscle bulk may exceed their IBW, because muscles weigh more than fat.

Someone with a high % of body fat and a low % of lean body mass can be calculated as being obese, yet having a body weight within the normal range.#

Obesity- Obesity is based on an excess of 120% of the Ideal Body Weight (IBW). Mild obesity-120-140% Moderate obesity-141-200% Severe/Morbid->200%

Today, obesity affects 66 % of Americans, 26-75 years of age, according to statistics from The Centers for Disease Control. #

Obesity is a medical condition, and therefore requires assistance and guidance from a medical practitioner. WWLI’s focus is to help you avoid reaching the point obesity, so that you will never have to worry about treatment.

Our Consumer agreement and Privacy Policy may be viewed at www.breakthedietcycle.com/customer_agreement_privacy.html The knowledge and information found through the Western Weight Loss Institute will make any weight loss process easier, and will compliment any weight loss program.

Fads-”Low-carb” diets: The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Dr.’s quick weight loss diet (Stillman, Atkins Diets). These diets result in the breakdown of proteins, or Ketosis, and therefore result in a rapid weight loss. However, there is an abundance of fluid that is also lost, giving the impression of weight loss, but it is also quickly regained. Hyperuricemia- an increase of low-density, lipoprotein cholesterol (which is a contributor to coronary artery diseases), is also a troublesome consequence to these diet fads. There is also little to nothing accomplished, no continuation or sustaining with these diet programs to retrain eating habits. Therefore, all the lost weight is usually regained.#

Energy Put in (FOOD) must=Energy used

According to Western Weight Loss Institute’s Dietician:

Calorie Diet 2,000 2,500 total fat <65g 80g Saturated fat <20g 25g Cholesterol <300mg 300 mg Sodium <2,400mg 2,400 mg total Carbohydrates 300g 375g Dietary Fiber 25g 30g

Are you eating like a lumberjack? If you are you need to work like one too!

Few of us work hard enough to utilize the abundance of calories that we consume. Everyone loves to eat and it’s what you eat that counts.

Simple choices and portion control over long periods of time can have amazing results.

The knowledge and information found with Western Weight Loss Institute will make any weight loss process easier and will compliment any weight loss program.

Results from the Center for Disease Control statistics show that obesity effects 66% of Americans 26-75 years of age.# The financial cost of this obesity epidemic upon our country is major! The cost to individuals is much greater. A shortened life expectancy and diminished personal fulfillment are immeasurable results of obesity.

Obesity and weight concerns are an issue people can fix personally, but is easier if they are not alone. We at Western Weight Loss Institute are committed to your success in becoming healthier and happier individuals.

Utilizing a team approach, we explore the mental psyche and social enablers that stimulate cravings. Breaking this down and relearning to react to such external and internal stimuli, we learn, over time, to replace such cravings with a more positive fulfillment and breaking the diet cycle, for life.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” -Jim Ryun

-Ondi Laure RN-BSN Western Weight Loss Institute www.breakthedietcycle.com

Book One (Feeding the Overweight Body)

Preface

Orientation Chapter One- Definitions and facts Chapter Two- Causes of Obesity Chapter Three- Motivators Chapter Four- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Chapter Five- Behavior modification Chapter Six- Action Plan References

Book Two (The System-Overview)

Orientation-Theory of Change Curbing Cravings Portion Control The Feel of Hunger-Basic Needs Alternative Satisfiers-Physiologic Needs Pick your Pleasure Giving Back-Self Actualization

References:

1.) American Holistic Nurses’ Association: A new beginning, Raleigh, NC, 1988, The Association (pamphlet)

2.) Center for Disease Control (CDC): Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2003-2004, Hyattsville, MD, 2006, National Center for Health Statistics

3.) Flegal KM, Carrol MD, Ogden CL, Johnson CL. Prevalence and trends in obesity among us adults, 1999-2000. JAMA 288:1723-7. 2002.

4.) Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Curtin LR, McDowell MA, Tavak DJ, Flegal KM. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. JAMA 295: 1549-1555. 2006.

5.) Principles and Practice of Adult Health Nursing: Second Edition, St. Louis, Missouri,1994,Mosby

6.) Western Weight Loss Institute: Home page-Diet Alternatives. 10 Oct. 2006

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