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How to Drop the Weight, Look Better, and Feel Better … Made Easier

12.31.2025 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

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Mount Shasta, CA, December 31, 2025: In a recent move, researchers at Beth Israel Medical, Harvard, and Yale University have recommended adding the obvious waist circumference to the definition of “obese,” with good reason. But that also means that three-quarters of all U.S. adults are obese.

Here’s what happened: Over time, in this culture the food-sources have changed, and if you eat “normally,” your health goes downhill fast. But it’s actually not complicated to fix that.

It’s not *fun* to fix it, because you can’t continue eating corporate-engineered addictive fake-foods and fake-food snacks. That’s what has cost you your youthful body and energy. Those “normal” foods are engineered to keep you fat and addicted, so you gotta tell them no. However, it’s not actually difficult … if you know how.

The Magic Trick

When it comes to re-training your body, here’s the trick that makes it much easier. It’s a sequence …
  • Do each step then go to the next, and you’ll first remove the addiction.
  • When you remove the addiction, you’ll stop creating the obesity.
  • When you stop creating the obesity, your body will revert to a more functional, stronger, healthier, better-feeling state.

Here’s the magic sequence. It can take some weeks or months, so be prepared for a slow marathon and not a wild sprint. Calm your mind to be patient and simply continue day after day. Weighing yourself every single day will aid your motivation. Yep, it will go up and down a bit, but there is learning to be found in that. 🙂 Here’s what to do …

1) Get off addictive foods

These are fast-converting carbs (all grains, all sugars, all seed-oils, all salty “snacks), and they keep your body craving more, just like a junkie wants heroin, and a smoker wants cigarettes. The best way to do this is: for a period of time, eat *only* single-ingredient foods that you prep yourself.
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Think about your great-grandparents. If they could get the food–anywhere in the world–it’s actual food.
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But anything “invented” after 1950, anything that requires an advertisement, anything prepped or packaged is probably not actual food. All soups, sauces, chips, prepped-meals, frozen meals, snacks, all fast food, restaurant food is no longer actual food.
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The best approach: Eat things like eggs and bacon (no toast), huge salads without croutons or sweet things like sugared nuts or cranberries, make veggie and meat soups without potatoes (other than japanese or purple potatoes, which are a different species). Eat meat/fish/fowl with low-carb veggies. Have a very few fruits from: berries, citrus, pears, peaches, apples, kiwi. Absolutely *stuff* yourself with these things, to stay away from the newer, invented, damaging “normal” foods. Those are the problem, and they are killing us.

2) “Intermittent Fasting” — Eating Only in a Window of Time

Once you’re free of addictive foods, your addiction will fade away over a number of days. You’ll still have bad habits, but if you focus and continue, those bad habits will weaken after three weeks. If you cave in, your three weeks starts over. But now, once free of addictive foods … stop eating all day long.
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Set a window of time, for example, 8 hours and eat ONLY within this window. This allows your body 16 hours to rest, take a break, and focus on stuff other than digestion. Your body will function better, and you will sleep better, feel stronger, and have better energy.
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And since you’ve weakened the addiction, you’ll find that now … it’s reasonably easy to only eat within this window. Especially if you really, really tank up, especially in the beginning. Got the impulse to eat some more? Tank up like crazy, if necessary, with these non-poisonous, non-addictive foods before the end of your “eating window.” 🙂

3) Learn to do a One-Day Fast … It is now Easy!

Once you can do this “intermittent” fasting and are no longer gobbling food all day long, then learn to take a one-day fast. Nothing other than water, coffee, or tea. That’s it. No carbs of any kind. No protein of any kind. No fats of any kind. (So no milk or cream or fake sweetener in your coffee; take it black.) Now here’s the surprising part.
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Since you’ve already turned off the compulsive “gobbles,” and you’ve regained the ability to say no to eating, you will find that a one-day fast is actually rather easy. You may still have some habits, or thoughts, but your body and addictions will not actually stop you.
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And now, finally, your body can begin to function as it was designed, because it uses this time to clear out the “trash” in the body, removing damaged cells, and restoring even better response to insulin. Again, your sleep, energy, and mood improves. It’s like taking the trash out of the kitchen. Before, it just piled up forever, and that’s lousy.

4) Find some Easy Exercise

Begin some kind of exercise, whatever you can do every day is best. Doesn’t have to be difficult or painful, just something you can do *regularly* like walking or gardening or yoga or lifting tiny weights at home or calisthenics or taichi. What matters, at first, isn’t what or how hard. What’s important is regularity.

5) Remove Poisons

Remove all poisons from your house, they keep you off-balance. They’ve become “normal” during the same time we became near-universally sick and fat, but these things are totally damaging your body. So these poisons include all kitchen tools, pots, food-containers, plates, glasses made plastic, silicone, teflon. This includes plastic air-fryers. Remove all scented cleansers or air-fresheners or laundry-sheets or pods. All are toxic. Swap out your undergarments that use synthetics, then pants and shirts and dresses and skirts and outer clothing built of plastic. All these damage the hormones that keep you healthy and feeling good.

And If You Want to Go a Bit Further …

  • You’ll feel even better if you add some daily sunlight, and if possible, give your body doses of too-cold (cold shower) or too-hot (sauna), and add some form of higher-intensity exercise.
  • There are other things like mold, EMF exposure from electrical devices or powerlines, and light-pollution disturbing your sleep. But by now you’re already in way better shape.

Congratulations!

At this point, you’re no longer obese. Wow! It happened along the way, just by changing “normal” poisons all around us into actual food, actual movement, actual sleep. Cool!

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Easy-Peasy Exercise and Eating – Stay Trim, Strong, and Healthy

11.30.2021 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

After failing, since age 26, to find an exercise-and-eating method that worked well and that I could keep up, because I never actually quit trying, not long ago I stumbled across a combo that works for me: (Exercise = X3Bar stretchy bands 15 minutes is the main part.)

Eating: Turns out that fast-converting carbs are my nemesis. Once I have more than about 30-50 grams of “fast carbs” like breads, potato, sweets, then I have the “gobbles” for the rest of the day. Further, these carbs make me feel bad, and I grew fatter and fatter from 40 up through almost 75 years old. (Picture to the left is me at age 40.)

Not because of any real wisdom but really through accident, I found a “gradient” of changing things that made each step easy, and yet it took me in just a handful of months to a low-carb diet largely free of processed foods and fast foods, a daily intermittent-fasting schedule of eating within an 8-hour window, and 14 days during the month when I fasted completely (no food, no juice, no broth),

Seen in retrospect, it’s become clear why this sequence worked —

THE HIDDEN “FOOD” THAT DOOMS YOU TO BEING FAT

a) First, get OFF the fast-carb roller-coaster. You will NEVER be healthy eating todays high-carb diet. The invention of agriculture was destructive to individual humans, but elongated the survival of the species. But, the body body wasn’t originally designed on such a diet. Recent changes from big agriculture and big business have made carb-heavy foods even more addictive and more damaging. So the first step is — how to cut the foods that have you addicted and ruin your health?

The answer is to find low-carb veggies and clean protein, and TANK UP all day long. After some number of days, your urges to gobble grains and sweets will diminish, and (by avoiding processed foods) you’ll avoid poisons which trigger over-eating (like MSG) and hidden sugar.

Don’t be afraid of eating fat. The energy from fat will keep you feeling satisfied, and you’re replacing sugar/grains with fat as your main energy source. Just make sure they are the clean and healthy fats. There’s lots of lies in food marketing. For example, Canola Oil is a manufacturing byproduct, Crisco is harmful, “vegetable” oils are mostly bad for you, as are most commercial salad dressings with soybean oil, and as is margerine, and any “low-fat” imitation fat.

If it’s a fat without manufacturing, it’s probably OK: olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and butter are all pretty good for you. Others aren’t. They were made up to make money for their makers, not for your health.

You want to get your carbs UNDER 40 grams a day. To calculate, here’s a free tool: https://cronometer.com/

Use it till you got this down. Note: three normal corn tortillas are about 45 grams of carbs. But you can tank up on salads, soups (without potato or grains), and stir-fries of the right ingredients. All leafy greens and the sulphur veggies, and many others. So for example: huge salad with seeds and healthy salad dressing, curry made with cauliflower and spinich or other greens and coconut oil, soup made with chicken carcass and all the healthy veggies you want. All these will fill you up with high nutrition and satiety, without addictive, fast-converting carbs. All the steaks and chicken and pork you want, avoiding additives as much as possible.

THE EASY WAY TO DROP WEIGHT WHILE EATING TONS OF FOOD

b) As your compulsive urge to over-eat fades away, choose an eating window for every day. Instead of eating all day and all night, eat ONLY within a 6-hour to 8-hour window. Eat TONS so you cannot be hungry. And in a surprisingly short time, you’ll find it’s actually easy to only eat within this window, which is MUCH closer to how we ate over 100,000 years, and for which the body was originally designed.

If you have to, you may need to start with a longer window (eg: 10 or 12 hours) and then when that’s comfortable, narrow it down.

LIVE LONGER, AVOID ALZHEIMERS, KEEP YOUR IMMUNE HEALTHY

c) When the 6-hour or 8-hour window becomes easy — probably a matter of some weeks since you began this … Try a ONE day fast.

I discovered that it wasn’t a big deal. Seemed weird, but I wasn’t particularly hungry. To make it really easy, start your day with “Bulletproof Coffee” (look it up), which is black coffee with butter, or MCT oil or coconut oil added in. This gives your body some fat, producing satiety.

And once you can do a one-day fast, then you can do another one. My first step was to fast one day on the first and 16th of each month. After a couple months of this — easy peasy — you can add another day or two. Once this was comfortable, I thought to try a 3-day fast. Holy cow! It wasn’t all that troublesome.

Now at this point, your body is already making your immune stronger, and autophagy is starting to kick in, which recycles dead and damaged cells, and the study above suggests you’re getting some protection from Alzheimers.

You just keep adding some more fast days. I finally got to a 3-day fast on the first and 16th, then three one-day fasts in each two-week period. And … it’s bloody easy, energy goes up, sleep gets better.

EXERCISE FOR BETTER STRENGTH, ENERGY, AND SLEEP

d) Now, I combined this with an exercise plan. I do not know if this is essential or not, but that’s what I did. I purchased the X3Bar system, which is heavy duty bands and a short routine of 4 whole-body exercises most days, takes 15 minutes, and takes your muscles to exhaustion in a clever manner, with super-low chance of any injury.

Now, because my work is sedentary, I found that a couple more very short exercise periods kept me awake better. I added a walk up the hill behind my house in the morning, and when that became comfortable after a month or two, then I began short bursts (sprints), and now it’s a couple blocks of hill sprints. I wear minimal clothing, because low cold strengthens the immune system, and the impact of the sprinting is good for bone density. And this takes under 10 minutes.

And then I added a brief kettlebell session in later afternoon, kettlebell swings and presses just enough to make me breath heavy.

That’s it. I dropped 70 pounds fairly quickly, got stronger, sleep better and my mood seemed to improve as well.

IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY —

If you try it, I’d love to hear your experience.

Categories // All, amazement, enjoying life, habit, health, making changes, self-help

Creating Your Reality

03.07.2020 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

Today I was online reading something, and I was *so* tempted to respond in argument with something that someone said.

Even knowing better, I find it hard to stop myself, all too often.

And my particular reason for desiring to restrain myself is this —

A) We greatly create our own experience of life (our reality) by the thoughts we harbor in our heads. Some say these thoughts actually create reality, but for certain they create our experience of life.

B) If you create ill-will thoughts, no matter where you intend to aim them, you are creating ill-will thoughts. And it’s in YOUR head.

C) You suffer as a result of the painful thoughts in your head, and it paints your picture of your universe, and you create your painful experience of life.

D) The more you focus thought on negative stuff (problems and pain), the more you overlook (or miss) many of your opportunities, and you miss out on enjoying the bliss you could be enjoying from your life.

E) So it boils down to — It’s your gun. It’s your foot. Do What Thou Wilt.

Want to live in a world of devils? Or a world of bliss? Although it may seem strange the first time you hear this, with a bit of practice, it is actually possible to control your own mind, and your thoughts WILL create your happiness (or suffering) in this life.

(A word to the wise is sufficient. Let he that hath ears hear!)

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Categories // All, amazement, consciousness, enjoying life, habit, happiness, how to tune a human, law of attraction, magic, manifestation, mental health, mind, non-conscious mind, personal growth, power, self-help, subconscious mind, unconscious mind, Wisdom Log

Healthy Progress

08.31.2019 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

Mount Shasta, August 31, 2019 – Today on Facebook, someone was railing against low-carb, animal-based diets.

But you know, my current way of eating — low-carb, moderate protein, with lotto lotto veggies … it’s working for me, better than anything I’ve ever seen. I stuff myself every day, and I’m dropping excess weight, but before going into that …

In fairness, I gotta say I see a lot of extreme variants of “low carb” approaches, and my guess is some are not optimum. I settled on the formula that Dr. Joseph Mercola espouses in his “Fat for Fuel” book. (See it on Amazon here.)

So, yeah, I eat “low carb,” usually no more than [Read more…]

Categories // All, amazement, habit, health, making changes

Are You a Pirate?

02.08.2018 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

In one of the last scenes in the fun movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” the heroine makes a statement about the leading man. She says, lovingly, “He’s a pirate.”

As you may recall from the movie, that young man started out hating the pirates, and yet, in the course of his adventures, he’s become bolder and he has dared great things, and by golly he has become a pirate. And that’s a good thing.

And so … why is it a good thing to be a pirate?

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Categories // adventure, comfort zone, enjoying life, fun, habit, how to tune a human, making changes, personal growth

Focus and Consciousness and the ‘Unconscious’ Mind

03.28.2010 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, March 28, 2010]

In another article (‘What is the Unconscious Mind?‘), I described how the so-called Unconscious Mind consists entirely of things learned by habit or happenstance, and which then sunk below what we call consciousness, so as to operate automatically to promote our survival.

There are many things which our culture believes are automatic and unknowing processes — such as regulating our blood pressure, remembering to breathe, regulating the salinity of our blood and the acidity of our stomach acid — and that these processes are built into the body, are automatic, and cannot be controlled.

Yet we know by observation that there are yogis who have in fact taken control of many of these processes, and so we know it can be done. But why don’t you and me have awareness of these things?

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Categories // consciousness, habit, how to tune a human, making changes, non-conscious mind, unconscious mind

Mental Health Made Easy

08.17.2008 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, August 17, 2008]

What is it about taking a shower that causes new ideas to pop into your head?

Is it the invigorating ions that are caused by splitting water droplets?

Or is it a simple as Murphy’s law triggered because you will never have pencil and paper in the shower?

I don’t know the answer to this time-proven rule, but as of this morning’s shower, I do know a super-simple way to look at mental health, a simple way to be happier and more productive.

It’s simply this —

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Categories // All, consciousness, enjoying life, habit, happiness, health, how to tune a human, making changes, manifestation, meditation, mental health, mind, Prosperity, reprogramming, self-help, subconscious mind, unconscious Tags // conscious, habit, happiness, meditation, mental health, mind, Thought, unconscious

Spare Change?

05.02.2007 by bloggard // Leave a Comment

[reprinted from my former site How to Tune a Human, May 2, 2007]

A blog that I enjoy is called “Evolving Times,” and recently the writer described the situation of being “spare-changed,” on the street.

People in my parents generation used the word “beggers” to describe people who beg on the street. Or sometimes “moochers,” “panhandlers,” or “bums.” Of course, in tiny Henrietta, Texas, where I grew up, the town was too small to have an official panhandler, so the town drunk filled in part time.

Friends of mine as I grew up didn’t seem to like the word “Begger,” though it would seem to be accurate. And I guess the phrase, “Buddy, can you spare a dime?” from that older time had mutated into “Spare change?” by the hippie period in the 1960’s.

THE SPARE-CHANGER

The writer in “Evolving Times” was describing what we’ve all felt in that situation. You’re walking along and you are suddenly asked, “Spare change?” Which as we all know, means “Do you have any spare change, that you could give to me?” (I guess those beggers are either very lazy, or they are astonishingly efficient.)

And then what happened?

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