Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part III: Physical Stresses that Activate the FAT Programs

your doctors to make sure they understand that you don’t wish to overload your system with pills. You only want to take drugs when absolutely necessary . Always find out what natural alterna- tives are available. I’d also recommend that you be cautious about taking over-the-counter medications. Cortisol Medication Cortisol is one of the hormones that activates your FAT Programs. If you’re taking any medication that either directly or indirectly increases the levels of the hormone cortisol in your body, that hormonal imbalance will undermine everything you’re trying to achieve. Artificially increasing your cortisol levels for an extended period of time will activate the FAT Programs, 9 so, please ask your doctor if any medication you are taking can raise your corti- sol levels. Female Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) HRT can also cause a resistance to weight loss. One woman told me that, for the last three months, she had gained weight, and she could not get her body to lose weight no matter what she did. I asked her if she was taking any female hormone replace- ment therapy, and it turned out that she just started taking prog- esterone about three months prior. There are certainly pros and cons to female hormone replacement therapy, but the fact that it can cause a resistance to losing weight needs to be factored into the equation. Food Additives Artificial flavor enhancers like MSG are not only addictive, 10 causing you to eat more MSG-flavored food, but they activate the FAT Programs as well. 11 As a matter of fact, one of the ways researchers make a rat or mouse fat when they want to study obesity is to feed it MSG. There is even a term for it: MSG- induced obese rats. MSG is in most seasoned, processed foods and is known by many different names, such as flavor enhancer 621, monosodium

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