Makes 4 Servings  

1 pound Baby Bok Choy, trimmed & cut in quarters length wise

1 Cups of Shiitake Mushrooms, cut into quarters

3 Tablespoons Sesame oil

1 Tablespoons of garlic cloves, minced

1 Tablespoons of shallots, minced

1 Tablespoons of thinly, julienne fresh ginger

1 Tablespoons of Brags’s Organic Soy Sauce  

1/8 Teaspoon of fine sea salt

1/8 Teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes (optional)

Bring 4 cups of water and ½ teaspoon sea salt to boil in large pan. Add Quartered Baby Bok Choy and cook until Baby Bok Choy is bright green and just tender. 1 to 2 minutes. Drain thoroughly and set aside.

Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium –high heat. Add the garlic, shallots and the ginger and cook until browned, about 1 minute. Add the Shiitake mushrooms and the Bok Choy sprinkle with Soy sauce, Sea salt, black pepper and sprinkle the crushed red pepper flakes and stir fry for 2 minutes.

We live on a very toxic planet with over 80,000 synthetic chemicals registered for use in the U.S. These toxins lock in on our fat tissues, glands, liver and other organs. They are effectively known as “endocrine disruptors” because they mimic and destroy our own hormones.

The main oil filter in the body is the liver. Being 3 ½ pounds, it can clean and purify pesticides, heavy metals, viruses, bacteria and the list goes on and on. However, with the overload of toxicity, it becomes overwhelmed and these toxins start backing up through the skin, eyes, and other organs.

As our liver becomes toxic, it begins to leak fluid in the abdomen. It amazes me how many people, especially men, have this condition and don’t have a clue. You would think it would be on the front page of every magazine and newspaper. This is called ‘ascites’, which is Latin for fluid. These men are not really fat, they are filled with fluid and all the sit-ups in the world will not budge this stomach.

Fortunately, there are specific foods that naturally detoxify and dismantle toxins from the body. These are called “cruciferous”. They are the bitter vegetables and those that people rarely eat, especially the guy wearing a Speedo on the beach with the pot-belly.

Consuming cruciferous and/or concentrate cruciferous food is a natural way to slowly detoxify the body without side-effects. The way it works is through delicate enzymes the cruciferous plants naturally have, which turn poisons into harmless particles so they can be eliminated through the urine and bowel. The nice thing about these vegetables is the high amount of potassium, which helps in getting rid of fluid from the stomach.

Toxins also come from the foods we eat. It’s amazing that the ingredients that make up cookies, cakes, pies, donuts, etc., all are the same crap – high fructose corn syrup, modified corn starch, partially hydrogenated oils, artificial colors and flavors and preservatives. These are aesthetic looking, creaming colors that call your name, tempting you to take a taste. Food manufacturing companies know that if they put modified food starch in the mix, you will keep coming back for more. This is called MSG, hidden as modified food starch, which dilates your taste buds, tricking your body into the food tasting better than it really is.

A very interesting product that is about to be released is called NC 24/7, which stands for No Cravings! 24/7. You can spray this on your tongue and all the taste for sweet will instantly disappear leaving only the sensation for all the other ingredients. People are shocked to find out that without sweet, you can actually taste all the other disgusting chemicals – like baking soda.

Sugar is very toxic to the body. There are many other hidden sugars, which by the way, deplete your body’s nutrients. These include breads, pasta, alcohol, cereals, flavored and vanilla yogurt and juice. Sugar forces a tremendous amount of stress on the liver.

A great product to try is called “Revivatox”, which is a whole body cleanser. I personally formulated it with over 18 of the most powerful detoxifiers. Combine this with Berg Essentials and you have a powerful and complete package because Berg Essentials is a blend of both cruciferous food and cruciferous sprouts, not to mention 35 additional whole food ingredients. One teaspoon of sprouts is equivalent to 10 cups of adult vegetables in phytonutrient levels.

I recently presented at a seminar on weight loss, and a man in the audience stood up and said, “weight loss is a matter of simply eating too much and not exercising.” I asked him if he was sure about this?  If being overweight is simply a matter of eating too much and not exercising, how do you explain the skinny guy who can eat like a horse and never gain an ounce, yet others barely eat anything and exercise all day long and they still can’t lose an ounce?  This guy proceeded to tell me that the skinny folks must must be cheating because everyone knows that calories in equals calories out.

I hear comments like these a lot, and they all stem from the “everyone” knows or “they” say mentality. Someday, I will find out who “they” are and give them a piece of my mind for spreading false information. It actually made no difference that I tried to educate this particular guy; he had his mind made up – he refused to consider any other information other than what he had already decided was fact.

This type of misinformation is a huge problem that overweight people run into – the false perception that these people are just eating junk foods, and are lazy, couch potatoes…..

Having worked with thousands of people, I can tell you that most overweight people are far from lazy – in fact, the reality is usually just the opposite. They should get an award for trying so many things and putting so much effort into weight loss.

If you find yourself in this category (the perceived overweight lazy person), here’s what to do – first off – ignore the people who insist that your weight problem means that you’re lazy, and then step back and ask yourself this one question:

Are you absolutely sure you are combating the right problem?

If a problem doesn’t solve easily, it’s not that you don’t have good solutions; it’s usually that you are targeting the wrong problem. The reality is that you have probably been trying to solve the wrong problem.

The problem of weight gain is really a problem of energy storage and usage. Fat is an energy storage tank, and it releases energy only under very specific conditions. These conditions are ideal when the body is very well rested, non-stressed and energetic. Being tired, stressed and overtired will ensure that the fat you’re trying to shed will stick to you like glue no matter what you do. The theory that says, push yourself even if you are tired or take a metabolism booster is extremely bad advice.

Do yourself a favor and avoid the next 10 years of fruitless struggle – find your specific body type, apply a new strategy to your body that focuses on “getting healthy” and I promise you this WILL work!

So, tune out the naysayers, get healthy, lose weight, and feel great!

It’s amazing how the corn syrup industry has invaded SparkPeople’s free weight loss site.  Their Dietitian, Becky Hand, wrote an article that covertly promotes consuming the synthetic man-made corn sugar “High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)” by first telling people there is no difference between corn syrup and sugar, and then by telling them that it’s okay to consume 8 tsp of it per day.  Unbelievable!

She states, “The American Medical Association (AMA) has extensively examined the available research on HFCS and obesity. This organization has publicly stated that, to date, there is nothing unique about HFCS that causes obesity. It does not appear to contribute more to obesity than any other type of caloric sweetener.”

Nothing unique that causes obesity? Well, if you completely ignore basic physiology, then I guess it’s nothing unique.

A quote from the respected medical school textbook, Guyton’s Textbook of Medical Physiology, page 926, physiology, states, “Insulin (triggered by sugar) has several different affects that lead to fat storage in adipose tissue. Insulin also promotes fatty acids synthesis (production).”

Hand goes on to say that “Healthy adults who consume approximately 2,000 calories daily should limit the amount of all caloric sweeteners to no more than 32 grams (8 teaspoons) of sugar daily”.

What!  This is crazy!  No one is going to lose weight if they are allowed, even encouraged, to consume this much sugar. Even if you did everything else right, all day long, in the presence of sugar, all fat burning is nullified.

Hand’s falling prey to this fallacy is the same old focus on the calorie, and ignoring the nutrients in those calories. What makes people healthy is not manipulating calories up or down, it’s how much nutrition a person consumes.  Sugar, by the way, robs your nutritional reserves.

Anyone buying into this crap is simply not going to lose weight.  You might as well give up now and start the next weight loss program.

What we need is more unbiased truth!

So, use your head when listening to diet “experts”, lose weight, get healthy, and feel great!

When reviewing key hidden blockers to fat burning, orange juice is at the top of the list. People think that good old OJ is loaded with vitamin C.

Did you know that, in reality, there is no REAL vitamin C in orange juice? The only vitamin C in orange juice is the synthetic chemical version they add to the juice. Take a look below at the natural vitamin C complex versus the synthetic counterpart.

Vitamin C is very sensitive to two things: (1) heat and (2) oxygen exposure. When you juice an orange, most of the vitamin C is gone (oxidized) within 10 minutes.  If any does survive past the first few minutes, it will soon be killed during the heating or pasteurization process.

Each day you need 90 mg of vitamin C to fulfill your Recommend Dietary Allowance (RDAs).  You would need to eat one orange, 9 apples, or two cups of kale to get as much vitamin C to meet this requirement.

If you want to know for sure if you are getting all the RDAs for 31 nutrients, click the link and then enter the code below to take the analysis.

www.Nutrientsfromdiet.com

Code: 317-49200

So, get some REAL vitamin C, get healthy, lose weight, and feel great!

I’ve discovered that many people have this idea that if they build more muscle mass, they will burn more calories and, thus, lose more weight. It is true that you may burn more calories, but the type of calories you burn with this logic are not what you think.

Check this out…

Calorie n. a unit of energy produced by food. [Latin word calor meaning heat]. Calorie refers to the quantity of energy in a food or stored body fuel.

Don’t assume that the calories you burn are fat calories. Depending on which hormone is activated, the body will determine which fuel source is burned as calories. The body is designed to use stored sugar calories before any fat stores are tapped.

People with more muscle mass generally also have a good amount of body fat.

Instead of using the “bulk up with muscle mass to burn more calories” method, try this instead:

Keep the insulin to a minimum. Because in the presence of any insulin, all 6 fat burning hormones are cancelled, nullified, and blocked!

How do you do this?

Avoid sugar, and the hidden not-so-obvious things that turn into sugar quickly (like wine, vanilla yogurt, whole wheat bread and juice.). Other items to avoid are be breads, pasta, cereals, crackers, briskets, waffles, pancakes, soda and Mad Dog 22. Other than these items, you can eat what you want!

What will this do?

It will cause a significant shift to fat burning because you just eliminated the main counter to losing weight – the go-to fuel source – sugar.

Try this and make weight loss easier,

So, kick the sugar habit, get healthy, lose weight, and feel great!

Logic is the reasoning surrounding why something works. The results of any given task depend on how good your logic, or reasoning behind how and why you do something, is.  Somewhere along the line, people adopted the idea that calories in equal calories out.  But how do you explain the skinny guy who eats like a horse and never gains an ounce?

The omission in this faulty logic is a very misunderstood thing called hormones. Hormones are those things that regulate metabolism and control how fast you burn the fuel your body consumes (food). Hormones help the body survive by adjusting the speed of a metabolic rate even to the point where the body can run on almost no fuel for short periods of time if it needs to.

If you combine the subjects of hormones and dieting, all logic seems to fly out the window. The logic surrounding weight loss is actually opposite of what you might think. You actually have to increase your calories to speed up your metabolism.  Pretty strange, huh? But this twist has to do with the type of calories you consume.

Getting your hormones to work is dependent on making sure you avoid starvation, or stress, and enhancement of nutrients IN those calories. Each hormone needs different supportive nutrients. The key nutrient the Adrenal Shape (belly fat shape) needs is potassium. I designed the Berg Essentials product with high amounts of potassium to ensure the adrenals gets what they need to do their job. And when you shop for food, just do one thing – buy and consume only high quality, nutrient dense foods. Forget about counting calories!

The second faulty logic in losing weight relates to increasing your exercise to burn off more calories. Sounds good in theory, and it might work if you are under 28 years old. As you age, you have to factor in what happens to hormones as you grow older.

All the benefits of exercise only occur after exercise, not during. And for people with belly fat, over-exercise is one way to guarantee that you never lose weight. Start with walking outside; not on a treadmill, but on a bike trail. This helps maximize stress reduction. As you get healthy and can handle more and more stress, the after-effects and benefits from your exercise will be greater and greater.

So, what’s the secret to weight loss?

Use better weight loss logic!

Get healthy, lose weight, and feel great!

Finally! Spring is just around the corner! Are you thinking about losing a few pounds before you put on that swimsuit? I have created a program called “Targeted Weight Therapy” that just might help you shed the weight before swimsuit season.

In order to reach your goal of being slim for summer, you will need to identify “where” you gain your weight.  Based on your unique body structure and lifestyle, this knowledge will help you determine “what” to eat in order to burn more fat and shed pounds.

The Targeted Weight Therapy program is based on my 7 Principles of Fat Burning. Eating your favorite foods and eating in moderation may be the worst advice, for people who want to lose weight, that I’ve ever heard.

Through my research, I have isolated six hormones that either burn off or produce fat within the body.  I’ve also identified the diet and exercise “triggers” that activate them.

Each of these triggers, activated by specific foods and exercise, targets one of four body shapes, and causes fat to accumulate on specific areas of the body.

So, target your weight therapy, get healthy, lose weight, and feel great!

What if the diet program you’re doing is the wrong one for your body?

When I first got married, I surprised my wife by making her an incredibly delicious desert. It was my first attempt at cooking for her, and I was so eager to see the final product that I really didn’t take the time to read all the steps in the recipe.  One small error later turned out to be a huge disaster. I accidently substituted baking soda where the recipe said to use flour.  Now, those of you who are experienced cooks can imagine the result.

As she took her first bite, I was all set be labeled as a ‘great cook’ but to my surprise, I was blocked out of the kitchen.

It’s amazing how one tiny mistake can lead to such a disaster.

I’ve recently uncovered a very interesting new concept of weight loss that relates to a common, yet tiny, mistake people make when trying to lose belly fat.  I have discovered that people, who are overweight, can be categorized into one of four different body types, each requiring four different plans. Each of these types relate to where people carry their weight. Some people have sagging bellies, some have protruding ones, yet others carry weight in the hip area or are just overweight all over. The fundamental mistake people make is doing the wrong program for their body type. This is a small error that puts a dieter on the wrong road towards achieving their weight loss goal.

Some people are successful with high protein diets and others do better with higher amounts of carbohydrates, but if a person is storing fat in the belly, it is because of a hormone imbalance, not a lack of doing sit-ups. The person with a lot of belly fat often craves salty foods and generally needs to polish off a meal with something sweet.  Interestingly, this body type may also be prone to the occasional twitch under the left eye and tight calf muscles.

By diagnosing your body type, and finding the gland involved in telling fat where to accumulate, you can get a customized program that matches the problem to the solution.

So, uncover your body type, get healthy, lose weight, and feel great!