Lose Weight Today, and Keep it Off Permanently, with Cliff Kuhn,
M.D.'s Fun Factor Diet
P.T. Barnum, who dedicated his life to entertaining the masses,
often relied on size-related adjectives to sell his attractions.
His posters and announcements were peppered with words like
mammoth, extraordinary, colossal, and gargantuan.
Unfortunately, if you're like most of us those words might be
used to describe you as well. Americans have an obsession with
losing weight and with good reason; the percentage of overweight
people in the United States is doubling every ten years - from 1
in 200 in 1986, to 1 in 50 in 2000. Pretty soon there won't be
enough room for us all on this continent!
We've identified a curious paradox: Americans are obsessed with
weight loss and spend billions on it each year, yet 140 million
of us are overweight or obese - and that number grows (pun
intended) each year. With all that energy and money thrown at
it, why can't we lose that excess weight and why do we pack it
on in the first place?
Let's quickly move beyond simple, though true, solutions. We
intellectually "know" that there are only three things necessary
for maintaining our proper weight (outside of a medical
condition): eating the correct foods, eating less, and getting
more exercise. We "know" these things are true, yet why don't we
do them?
The answer is simple and, luckily for you, so is the solution.
As you learn the following diet you will realize that with a
little willingness and discipline you need never worry about
your weight again. You will come to believe, in short order,
that you will lose your extra weight and you will never gain it
back because you will see how logical and powerful my diet is!
Let's just be honest about it - we love food! Eating is an
enjoyable ritual and we commonly use food to reward ourselves
because it feels good to eat. Whenever we feel unfulfilled or
frustrated (when we need affirmation or esteem) we are naturally
drawn to fill that void with food. When we're lacking pleasure
in our lives we rely on the eating ritual to make up the
difference.
And this formula works; overfilling ourselves with food does
fill our emptiness. It works so well that, just like any addict,
we become gluttons - regularly overstuffing ourselves and/or
eating too much "comfort" food to fill our emotional void. The
end result, despite our best intentions, is a constant, steady
weight gain because we're using food for a purpose it is not
intended - support.
The healthful solution I've created to fill your emptiness
exists already inside you because you were born with it. Unlike
food, this solution fills your void while also fostering lasting
and sustainable health, vitality, energy, and fitness. Instead
of food, what you need is more fun because fun is the most
accessible and constant source of energy and support known.
Because it is an energy, fun is readily and abundantly in you
and around you. Once you learn to find more fun in your
relationships, your work, and your home life I guarantee you
will quickly do away with those excess pounds - and they'll
never return. And the best news is...I will teach you exactly
how to do this using my Fun Factor Diet.
My Fun Factor Diet is based upon my unique prescription, The Fun
Factor, because The Fun Factor delivers you to new heights of
health, wellness, and success. Years ago a terminally ill
patient, Lisa, taught me about the incredibly powerful natural
medicine of humor. I used Lisa's lessons to create my Fun
Commandments, eventually molding them into my unique
prescription, The Fun Factor, capable of producing health,
energy, and vitality that others will envy.
My Fun Factor Diet works because it is based on my Fun
Commandments and, thus, enables you to unleash your powerful
humor nature on every aspect of your life. As you learn to have
more fun in your relationships, your work, and your home life,
you will rely less and less on food to meet your emotional
needs. With the Fun Factor Diet the urge to overeat melts away,
along with the excess pounds because you will be using food for
its natural purpose - sustenance.
And, as a bonus, since my Fun Factor Diet is based on fun, you
will laugh more frequently. Laughter is an excellent form of
aerobic exercise; a hearty, belly laugh produces the same
physical response as thirty minutes on the Stairmaster. When you
laugh it gives your heart and lungs a good work out so...you are
burning additional calories just by practicing my unique diet!
The first strategy of my Fun Factor Diet is to Always Go the
Extra Smile. Smiling is a deliberate and controllable behavior
that almost always calms inner stress and attracts outward fun.
Smiling unleashes the natural medicine of humor anytime and
anywhere because it has a profound physical and emotional impact.
The key is to increase your conscious effort to smile
constantly, especially when there is nothing in particular to
smile about. Before you begin an activity, you remind yourself
to smile first; before each conversation, you remind yourself to
smile. You'll soon be wearing a genuine smile on your face
everywhere you go because the good results you experience will
create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And here is the beautifully powerful secret behind the first Fun
Factor Diet strategy: your internal physiology is fooled by your
smile. Whether spontaneous or forced, your body thinks you're
having fun when you smile, whether you are or not, because
smiling activates the pleasure centers of your brain. By smiling
you literally become more physically relaxed and enjoy a greater
sense of fulfillment and enjoyment.
The amazing benefit of this Fun Factor Diet tactic is that the
lessening of your internal agitation decreases your cravings to
eat when you're not really hungry. And, as a bonus, your smile
attracts more social attention - leaving you less time to stuff
yourself because people are mysteriously attracted to you
without quite knowing why. By Going the Extra Smile you're well
on your way to filling your emotional void with fun rather than
food!
Step two in my Fun Factor Diet is to Be Willing to Laugh at
Yourself. This is not a step of humiliation or self-denigration
because those things are definitely not fun; it is a strategy of
being willing to take yourself lightly. Easing your harsh
expectations you impose on yourself, relaxing some of your
self-administered pressure, sets the stage for astounding
personal gains (or in your case personal "losses")
At this stage of my Fun Factor Diet, you will make a deliberate
effort to take yourself and your expectations less seriously.
You will adopt a kindlier stance toward your fears and
inconsistencies because you have been much too hard on yourself.
The results will be a dramatic lightness (both figuratively and
literally) of mind, body, and spirit.
Freed from the tyranny of your unrealistic expectations, you
will be able to relax and have more fun. Things you have dreaded
doing in the past will become enjoyable activities because you
won't have expectations of perfection. Combined with your
commitment to Go the Extra Smile, you will find your use of food
to calm and comfort yourself almost extinguished because taking
yourself lightly helps you see yourself as, literally, less
"heavy."
The third step in my Fun Factor Diet makes the most dramatic
difference in your actual eating habits. The employment of my
Fun Commandment, Stay Focused, yet Flexible, keeps you grounded
in the moment, the here and now, because it challenges you to
give 100% attention to what you are doing right now. Staying
Focused, yet Flexible provides the dramatic weight loss
breakthrough you've been waiting for because you entire paradigm
of eating is about to change!
On the Fun Factor Diet you Stay Focused, yet Flexible by not
engaging in any other activity while you are eating. Activities
that have commonly accompanied your eating are to be shunned
while putting food in your mouth - including reading, watching
television, or socializing at get-togethers. With the exception
of reasonable table conversation, eating becomes a focused
activity for you, not connected with any other behavior because
you are about to halt the underlying cause of your weight gain.
Once you begin disciplining yourself to separate eating from all
the pleasurable and stressful activities with which you have
associated it, you will discover a disturbing fact: you will be
shocked by how much you've been using food as both a stress
reliever and a pleasure enhancer. Your weight loss can be
dramatic when you change your use of food from pleasure
enhancement and stress relief to simple nourishment. You're
ready for this change because, with the first two steps, you've
already begun to fill your emotional and spiritual void with fun
rather than food.
This step of my Fun Factor Diet has two primary benefits: you
become more acutely aware of your opportunities for fun away
from food, which allows you to become even more effective at
satisfying your emotional needs with fun, and by eating with
full focus you increase the enjoyment and appreciation for your
food, which allows you to use food as nourishment rather than
pleasure. When you combine having fun apart from food with
getting greater enjoyment from the food you are eating, you eat
less food because you are no longer using it in a contrived and
artificial fashion!
The final step in my Fun Factor Diet will make your weight loss
permanent because it centers you in the unique paradigm of
lasting success. My Fun Commandment, Practice Wanting What You
Have, Rather Then Getting What You Want, increases your
awareness of gratitude because it stops the merry-go-round of
always needing "more" to feel satisfied. Ongoing gratitude for
what you have has the amazing benefit of making it possible to
get and keep more of what you want.
We all make the mistake of taking for granted the things we
truly value and focus, instead, on all the things we want that
we do not yet possess. This focus makes us desperate and puts
conditions on our happiness, because our success never satisfies
us and we only wind up needing more. If you ever want to have
more fun in your life (as you're going to be doing on my Fun
Factor Diet), you begin by counting the blessings you already
have because that will make your gains and achievements lasting
and real.
Becoming adept at this portion of my Fun Factor Diet does two
things: it continually reminds you of the many gifts you've
already been given and it decreases your appetite for those
things you think you want will. Realizing that you have
everything you need to be happy today eases the stress of not
having everything you want because all the pressure is gone -
you're already a success! The end result of this strategy is
that you will not feel as empty, resulting in even less desire
to fill your void with food.
Filling yourself up with gratitude is not a platitude, so to
speak because it works in real practice. You eat in excess to
fill an emotional and/or spiritual void, not because you are
hungry; you eat too much to provide yourself with emotional
comfort, fulfillment, and reassurance. The strategy of
Practicing Wanting What you Have, Rather than Getting What you
Want, actually fills this emptiness in a meaningful, lasting
manner because your emotional appetite is satisfied by the
things that really sustain it!
Smiling fools your body and attracts socially fun attention,
Taking Yourself Lightly releases you from the tyranny of your
unrealistic expectations, Staying Focused, yet Flexible teaches
you to use food for nourishment rather than fun, and Wanting
What you Have allows you to fill your emotional void with fun
and gratitude rather than food. There you have it...my Fun
Factor Diet. Welcome to a life free from weight worries!
By the way, in one of his museums, P.T. Barnum found that he was
having trouble getting the crowds to leave once they had seen
all the attractions. So he devised a clever sign, elaborately
lettered to draw as much attention as possible, which read "This
Way to the Egress"
Most of the patrons expected to see some bizarre animal that
Barnum had collected from one of the far corners of the earth
when they followed the sign through the door. What they didn't
realize, however, was that "Egress" is simply another word for
"Exit." Funny...and true.
Today you begin your "egress" from excess weight and from all
your worries surrounding it. Start using my Fun Factor Diet
right now!