Weight-Loss Apocalypse

I have been asked on numerous occasions why I don't discuss leptin resistance, or even mention the fact that all science speculates that the more leptin you produce the less it works. First, I am not an expert. I am a motivated person who really appreciates explanation for why and how things works. If there isn't an answer I'm not afraid to work to find one that might make some sense of things. Second, the idea that there is leptin resistance is because scientists are still not quite sure why the body is doing what it's doing because there is still an incredible amount of research to be done, and leptin resistance is an easy way to explain that something changes from what we'd expect, which creates a point of diminishing returns. To make this easier to understand: leptin resistance = more doesn't function the same as less. I see leptin from two angles: 1) Leptin within the endocrine system, 2) and leptin within fat cells for fueling purposes. The science o...

Have you ever attached to something so intensely that you modified your character for it? Did it change the way you talk, dress, act, behave, the people you allow yourself to engage with, and change the direction of your life?   Maybe that something was your parents, your religion, your friends in Jr. High or high school, a boy/girl friend, your spouse, or even drugs, work, education, a hobby, etc.   When you made the decision (or was forced) to change who you were to match that “something” did you have to memorize or conform to a certain dress code, like specific things, was there a certain music you listened to in order to be liked by others with the same label, or to avoid being different?   Did you give yourself a name such as a “hippie”, “religious name”, “EMO”, “athlete” or any title that lets people know the general list of character traits they should expect from that label? I have− in many areas. I was raised religious from the day of my birth.   I memo...

How many of you link your over eating and emotional eating to your parents? There must be some memory you have, sitting at the table, being forced to eat. Or you accomplished something they approved of, wanted to give you positive reinforcement, and rewarded with a cupcake or some other food of their choice. Or maybe you grew up in a large family like myself (9 siblings) and remember the scarcity of food and the frantic feeling when the dinner bell rang. As soon as the blessing was said we were hyenas, fending for ourselves.  I was number 9 of ten children so eating dinner was pretty intense. Today I’m 34, have three children and a mild mannered husband who eats methodically and slowly. There is no threat of hunger, and no panic over how much food we have to share, and no need to continue to eat so quickly.  Then why do I continue to eat as if I’m an 8 year old girl competing for food with an 18 year old brother, and everyone in between? The more I observe other adults and ...

You can always tell when someone really understands what they are talking about. The first sign is by how humbled they are by the astronomically large amount of information we don't quite understand yet. The more they know, the more they realize they know very little. These individuals want to know more, want a deeper understanding, and are willing to dig deeper for information to questions unanswered. On the other hand, there are others who think they know everything, have no desire to seek new information and continue to believe there is nothing more to learn. The less they know, the more they think there is nothing else to learn. They only discuss the superficial information, and never go deeper to understand the human body. In this case, because they know very little they are naive to how complex the body really is, so they can't go deeper than memorized statements. The more you know, the more complex the body becomes, and the more information you seek to learn. Here...

  “ I have never had an opportunity of conducting the laboratory investigations which are so necessary for a theoretical understanding of clinical observations, and I can only hope that those more fortunately placed will in time be able to fill this gap .” – Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, Pounds & Inches DR. SIMEON'S HCG PROTOCOL: A NEW HYPOTHESIS   By Robin Phipps Woodall, Author of Weight-Loss Apocalypse    http://www.mindbodyhcg.com/ HCG injections of between 100IU and 150IU might stimulate, from fat cells, sufficient amounts of leptin to prevent symptoms of starvation imposed by the very low-calorie protocol (VLCP), as described by Dr. Simeons. The controlled hCG/protocol environment should stimulate enough leptin to minimize hunger, to maintain a normal and healthy thyroid signal, and to prevent significant reductions in lean body mass by effectively maintaining energy homeostasis through fatty acid oxidation of leptin-sensitive fat stores. The controlle...

“In treating obesity with the HCG + diet method we are handling what is perhaps the most complex organ in the human body. The diencephalon’s functional equilibrium is delicately poised, so that whatever happens in one part has repercussions in others. In obesity this balance is out of kilter and can only be restored if the technique I am about to describe is followed implicitly. Even seemingly insignificant deviations, particularly those that seem to be an improvement are very liable to produce most disappointing results and even annul the effect completely.” - Dr. A.T.W. Simeons, Pounds & Inches Unfortunately, because most participants and practitioners know very little about the new science of leptin and its role in starvation, the protocol is still misunderstood, and misdirected, and many have attempted to “socialize” it, to make it appeal to the masses. In particular, new methods that include more food, are now being introduced—and not because of proper laboratory resear...