Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part I: The Principles

need to nurture a growing fetus. 1 These programs are common to all mammals. Hibernating animals, for example, have their FAT Programs turned on in the months prior to winter in order to force them to gain as much weight as possible. 2 Even though today most of us no longer have things like famines to worry about, these FAT Programs are still very much a part of our genetic inheritance. The problem is that some- times your body can be tricked into activating these programs, so your confused body thinks that being fat or staying fat is, for some reason, protecting you. Your body is actually acting in your best interest. It’s not trying to punish you and it doesn’t hate you. When the FAT Programs are on, certain subtle hormonal and chemical changes take place in your body that will virtually ensure that you get fat and stay fat. This is what happens:

Chemical changes cause:

And the result is that:

You to be hungrier and crave more fattening foods. Your metabolism to slow down; you become tired, lethargic, and sedentary. Your body to go into perpetual fat storage mode. It becomes

You consume more calories.

You burn fewer calories.

All the excess calories you are

consuming get stored in your very efficient at storing fat and fat cells and don’t come out. resists burning it.

With these chemical and hormonal changes taking place, your body directs you to be hungry, have more cravings, and consume more calories while at the same time burning fewer calories and storing all it can in your fat cells. Right now, this is what you are experiencing and this is why you are fat. For some reason, your body has been tricked into activating the FAT Programs. It could happen to anyone and it would happen to anyone under the

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