Did you see Natalie and the video I posted from YouTube on foods not to eat or at least the worst 10 foods?  Really none of them are food, they are edible, there is a difference.  I know it takes time to change behavior.  People who see that video are going to say what can I eat?  These are likely to be guys who eat a number of meals out and on the run.  FAST FOOD!  Or perhaps it should be rephrased as FAST EDIBLES!

Well, here is a book you could buy for that person. EAT THIS NOT THAT! is a book of fast food recommendations from the editor of Men’s Health.  Now, I don’t want you to think Men’s Health has good health information in it. It doesn’t.  Perhaps a few interesting facts, but over all, not what to read for your health information.  The Editor, David Zinczenko, has done a good job of steering us towards better fast food selections in his book.

Eating fast food is not what a person should do regularly i.e. more than once per month! But if you know they are going to for now, help that person to make choices lower in fat, sodium and calories with the book Eat This, Not That! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds–or More!

A few do nots from the book. Do not eat the Subway 6″ Tuna sub.  It has 1000+mg of sodium and 530 calories.  Do not eat the 900 calorie multigrain pancakes with syrup at Bob Evans.  What should you eat at those places, get the book. Now if you purchase through my link I will make about 35 cents. There is full disclosure.  I own a copy, that is really full disclosure.

If you purchase this through the above link or not, send me a picture of you with your copy and tell me how it helped you with your food choices.  If you gave it to someone, post a pic on Flicker and send me a link with a story of how the person benefited.  I look forward to your comments and stories.

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If you exercise you belong to a small elite group.  If you exercise regularly, then your group is even smaller and more elite.  More and more people around the world are becoming overweight (BMI above 24.9) or obese (BMI above 30).  To reverse this trend, exercise is necessary along with modifying the diet.  Reduced calories and increased activity are the formula for increased healthy longevity.

I recommended a pedometer for tracking your lifestyle exercise previously.  Another thing you can do to benefit your weight control plan is to increase the intensity of your exercise.  The way to measure this and to get a picture of your improving fitness is to keep track of your heart rate.  The beats per minute are a measure of work intensity.  As your fitness improves, your heart rate will be lower at rest and not increase as much when you exercise.

Reasonably priced and accurate Heart Rate Monitors are available from Amazon.  I don’t have one yet but plan on adding one to my workout monitoring.  I want to know if I am making progress in my overall fitness. Even if I do not lose weight, it is better to be fit and overweight than thin and out of shape.  Of course, thin and in shape are best.

Want to assess your fitness level?  Try the 12 minute test as described in this article in the Washington Post.

Then click on the next page or go here to see how you did. These were published in 1999, so these links should be accurate for a while if you find this long after I published it. If the links do not work, search for 12 minute fitness test results to find the answer to your test result.

I will have a challenge for all those who subscribe to my email updates via this blog.  It will begin next year and will allow you to win prizes for improving your fitness.  What kind of a prize would you like to win?  What do yo think you should have to do to win one.  Let me know in the comments section.

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What is the Power of Positive Habits?  It is an eBook, an mp3 audio course and an aid at the change process.

I have written here before about the process of change.  It is well documented in Dr. James Prochaska’s book

Changing for Good.   The process can’t be shorted, meaning you have to pass through the 6 stages in order for behavior change to become permanent and reach what Prochaska calls TERMINATION.  This means your habit changes are permanent and you will maintain them with minimum effort.

We all need help with the process.  If you are a visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner, then The Power of Positive Habits is for you.  Read, listen and implement involve all the phases of learning and make for a good foundation from which to launch permanent changes.  It comes with a money-back guarantee so you have nothing to lose and now the author, Dan Robey is offering a number of additional perks that sweeten the deal.

Take a look at Dan’s offer and his information.  Consider this as a present to yourself or for someone you know is making changes and could use something to help them build momentum.  Don’t give it as a gift to someone you thing “needs it”.  That is a recipe for it to do noting but waste on a hard-drive unused!  OK, below is a link, check it out.

Click Here! to be taken to The Power of Positive Habits

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Malcom Gladwell is a NY Times best selling author.  He has written Blink, The Tipping Point and now Outliers.  I was very impressed by this Excerpt published in the Guardian, a UK newspaper.

I was most impressed by how much timing and dedication played in becoming wildly successful.  The take home lesson for me was Practice, Practice, Practice.  Below is a link to pre-purchase the book to be released November 18, 2008.

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I have had an iPod Nano since the first generation.  I can’t get along without it.  I know there are other “better” iPods and other MP3 players.  I am an apple fan with two Apple computers and one Dell PC in my office.  I have struggled with listening to my iPod in my car and now that I have a regular travel companion, I wanted to be able to listen through my car speakers.  I have a 2008 Toyota but no direct wiring for my iPod.  Then I found this gem and wanted to share it with you.

Why is it a wellness present?  It is if you listen to podcasts about wellness and especially if you buy my Recipe to Look Better Naked mp3s later this month, it becomes a wellness player.  I will let you know when and where you can get the Recipe to Look Better Naked mp3s soon.

Mean while, I am using this Belkin TuneBase FM transmitter to play my iPod over my car speakers.  It works like a gem.  I found the price to be reasonable and now books, business mp3 material, medical learning, anything on mp3 is playing on my car speakers as I commute or travel.  Below is a link and picture.  I get a rebate if you buy but I own one and that is why I can recommend it. I bought it new for $70 and think it was a good purchase.  If you have a person who has a long commute to work or travels by car long distances, this would be a great present for them.

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There are a few things that can assist anyone to improve their wellness.  Of Course, Wellness is not the absence of disease.  It is the presence of attitudes and habits that lead to better functioning of the body, resistance to disease, better rest and less stress, and greater fitness with a close to ideal body weight.  This is the ideal outcome and is the result of steady effort to get to a state of wellness and stay there. Here is the first of a few recommendations for equipment or books to help in getting to that state and staying there. This is the first in a series before Christmas.

First, to track your daily activity and improve your “lifestyle” exercise I recommend an Omron pedometer. It is Aerobic activity, more than any other that helps us burn our excess stored fat and makes us look better and be healthier.

This pedometer model does not need to be perfectly vertical to work and therefore can be carried in a pocket, backpack or purse.  It will track the number of steps you walk working, shopping and allow you to track your progress with software for your computer.

It has a large display that is easy to see, a clock that shows the time of day and time spent aerobic walking, a 7 day history in the device, plus the ability to download information and track progress on your computer.  I have an earlier version and really like it. Below is a picture.  If you click on it it will take you to Amazon where you can purchase it.  If you do, in the interest of disclosure, I get a small percentage of the purchase price.

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If you do not know Dr. Roger Gould M.D., a UCLA psychiatrist can tell you.  He wrote about those layers in his new book .

Those five layers which ultimately lead to emotional eating are:

1. Self Doubt

2. Frustration

3. Vulnerability or feeling unsafe

4. Rebelliousness or anger

5. Emptiness

Read the book to “delve more deeply into your psyche”.  Learn to develop a more mature and clear view of who you are and who you are becoming.

“The book has two parts.  First the five layers of powerlessness are introduced.  Then there are the sessions that provide exercises to help you arrive at the insights and understanding you need to achieve real change.”

I bought a copy and find it very helpful to my patients. You should get a copy too. Click on the picture to get yours coming now.

If you haven’t done it yet, sign up for Get the Skinney via email.  There are a bunch of extra info all inserted into an email machine waiting for you to request it.  The sign up page is to the far right.  A special contest begins Thursday, so sign up now.

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 My patients often tell me they try to eat a healthy diet.  I have studied this area often and still am somewhat confused.  I have looked at and am still looking at caveman type diets but most of us don’t want to eat like a caveman.

You don’t have to eat like our earliest ancestors but it is possible to optimize your diet without sounding like you shop on another planet.  Your food may cost you more per ounce on an optimized diet but since you will eat less and end up going to see your doctor less it will be less expensive over all.

I think one of the best systems I have read lately is The Diet Solution Program by Isabel De Los Rios.  It is inexpensive, easily readable and combines with my class Recipe to Look Better Naked seamlessly.  I bought a copy and in addition to her 183 page manual, got a quick start guide, an exercise guide and an abdominal strengthening guide and a well written opinion on medication for cholesterol.

She has some other offers but I passed on them.  I would have gladly paid the asking price for just the manual.  The other items were bonuses.  I am familiar with one bonus author, Mike Geary, also.  He wrote the manual on The Ultimate Fat Burning Workout which I received as a bonus with my Diet Solution Program manual.

If you want to take a look at Isabel’s book and the package she offers, click on this link.  It will take you to her sales page where you can read about the program and the offer.  I recommend you pass on the upgrade offer if you click the buy button for what I recommend.  I bought mine using PayPal and the sales process was efficient, seamless and delivered everything on the same page.

I recommend when you buy, that you set up a folder and download everything into the same folder.  Then you can access it easily and print out what you want to have handy.  Her suggestions for meals, recipes and references for things like krill oil, which I take myself, are excellent.

If you are over weight or obese by BMI (there is a calculator in my static pages – just look down the middle column until you the link to the page that contains it) then I recommend you think about purchasing this item and joining my class which is ongoing every Thursday night at 830PM eastern time.  The current class is on week 4 this Thursday (Sep 25, 2008) and finishes on October 9.  It restarts on October 23 and runs another 6 Thursdays except for Thanksgiving, finishing on Dec 4.  The class is free through this December.

I look forward to hosting you on Thursdays and discussing a Diet Program and your own Recipe to Look Better Naked.

Sign up for class in the far right column just under the sign up form for my blog.

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The sex toy industry – not clothing or candles – but the stuff the parties for women are made of – is over 500 million dollars per year. Mostly bought by couples over age 35 in committed relationships.

There are reports that many of theses items could be harmful to your health. What is safe and what is not? Where do you find safe products? What about these items could be harmful?

I have a special series of reports that are sent via email to all my subscribers. They will arrive once a week and will report on how to be safe when using products that are used for sexual pleasure and or intercourse. To receive this series of reports all you have to do is to subscribe to my blog using the sign up form at the end of this article.

I use Aweber to process subscriptions and to email reports. It is one of the most reputable companies in the industry. To stop any email from Get the Skinney requires only the click of a mouse one time.

I will never sell or loan or reveal any information you provide me with anyone else.

OK, if you want the reports, please sign up.

I am converting to this method of delivery. If you are receiving email from FeedBlitz or FeedBurner, it will continue through 2008 but I am stopping that email source in 2009. The offer of special reports is to encourage you and reward you for taking the time to change your subscription. Thanks so much for switching.

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