Women's Life, Women's Identity, Women's Sexuality: Book 7. Diet-Busters 1 (Honor the Archetype of Beauty & Power Inside of You by Releasing Your Natural Energy)

You can’t buy your way to weight-loss. It comes down to the strength in your spirit. All the diet books, exercise equipment, weight-loss programs and diet food in the world is bull next to this one thing. You have to respect yourself highly if you want to lose weight.

This is not a technical, physiological book about losing weight or a book about health. There are thousands of those around. If you want some of that basic nutritional information, go to #611-#613 at the library, read some of my other books. Find health cookbooks at #641.

Get the free catalog from the government's Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, CO 81009, 888-8pueblo, pueblo.gsa.gov) which offers many nutritional booklets for either free or a buck or two.

Go to usda.gov or mypyramid.gov for the Food Pyramid Guide.

This book is about how I stay at a moderate weight regardless of what eat. I generally do physical activities as part of my regular lifestyle but I have gone through periods of time without any physical activity because I was injured and didn’t gain weight because it was a mental-spiritual-esthetic relationship with food and life as I will explain later.

The first few sections about losing weight are my thoughts written at different times so you may find some repetition there. Take it in stride as food for thought, pun intended.

I'm not a doctor nor do I make any health claims. In fact, I think most so-called experts parading about with some credentials from the system are full of crap anyway. It’s not like it’s rocket science. It’s intuition and common sense.

You don’t hide behind some pieces of paper the system gave you that says you’re a good clone. Whatever wisdom they can give you is everywhere. It’s common knowledge.

Virtually all the system clone experts out there are all brainwashed by the same thing which is their clinical, piece-by piece approach to weight loss. They analyze the calories in food, the calories burned in physical activities, what time of day you eat, what types of foods you eat, etc. which is where they all fail because they’re taking a regimented, formulaic approach to weight loss which is boring and tedious.

Weight loss is life. It’s intuitive. It comes from a flow within the human spirit.

How do you want to live? Do you want to dance and lose weight as a natural effect of living a fun, inspired life or do you want to follow some diet regimen that will fail as soon as you go off it?

All the psychobabble diet programs in the world can’t compete with someone losing weight intuitively by listening to the beauty in their free spirits.

The real deal is how you live everyday and your ability to bare your soul as honestly as possible without reverting to some study done somewhere or using some celebrity endorser who lost fifty pounds on your so-called diet or exercise plan but they don’t tell you it was their fulltime job with a fulltime trainer and chef accompanying them.

Everybody loses the weight same way; eat less, move more.

The difference is in the way one thinks about it. Some people lose weight by the boot camp method but it ultimately fails. They gain it back because it was a tedious way to lose it. Lose it in a way that’s fun for you and it becomes part of your lifestyle.

I know what really works, my formula that I came to after about 30 years on this planet which has kept me at a normal weight for a long time. It’s easy. I enjoy me life. Food doesn’t mean much to me.

For more extensive information about food, sports and spas, refer to my health book.

Chapter 1. Losin’ Weight

Life Should be Joy, not the Deprivation of a Diet

Life should be joy, fun and active. Nowadays, they say kids sit in front of screens. I say kick them in the ass. Get rid of those screens if you must. A computer is fine for education purposes but if you’re in any way a good parent, do not buy your kid a video game console.

Bikes are expensive. You can buy a used one or a cheap one from some place like Walmart. The guy at the bike shop told me I must have gone 10,000 miles on my bike. He had never seen the front sprocket worn out before. I used to bike because I loved it then after the helmet law came in, I stopped all those long-distance bike rides but the point is that I live an active life because I love my life and the only way for anyone who truly loves their life to live is to go all out physically just for the feeling of euphoria you get from it.

All that that diet bullshit for sale everywhere is a big scam, as though you need the moral support of Weight Watchers for x number of dollars a month or you need to buy special food at exorbitant prices.

You just need to love your life and run with it. Until you do that, you’ll never lose weight permanently.

Another thing is the food you eat. Don’t deprive yourself. Live an active, happy life and eat what you want within reason.

I have a slim body by any standards but it is not anorexic. It could be if I deprived myself but I enjoy my life and eat what I want within reason. I’m not trying to win the anorexic Olympics.

I live a healthy lifestyle. Eight percent body fat is healthy and athletic which is where I am then I go to the gym and see my bodybuilder extremist friends who want to be under four percent body fat. It’s not healthy to go under five percent body fat anyway.

Get to that state of life where you’re active, enjoy your life and eat what you want without using food as a psychological crutch to try to drown out negative feelings.

The Modern World is Selling us Artificial Values

Society has brainwashed us on the idea that we need some official or exotic sounding "program" or "diet" to lose weight. This is all capitalist marketing to sell diet books. They even sell packaged food by mail with the lie that eating that food and following that regimen will lead to weight loss.

It won’t because nobody follows the "program" to a tee and doesn’t eat anything else, the food they send you in the mail is no more special than the food you buy at the local grocery store plus the fact that you’re not a robot, life doesn’t work that way, food is only one part of a fit body and all food is basic.

There’s nothing special about food you pay too much for that comes in the mail. Go to your local supermarket. Get real. It’s a sales gimmick geared to make you feel special, like you belong to some elite group of people losing weight but it’s just you, your mouth and your life. They get rich exploiting your weakness a human being.

There’s physical activity, state of mind, state of being, inspiration, lifestyle, self-concept, the amount of sleep you get, the amount of sensual pleasure you get, love, hedonism and other things that are relevant besides food.

You just have to do one thing. Say to yourself you’re a beautiful specimen of humanity the way your God created you to be and live by it. You’re either Adam or Eve, two primally natural people who lived in the Garden of Eden. They were strong and vital. They lived close to nature.

Can you look in the mirror every night and say you honored who your God created you to be for today?

I live by my Adam archetype. I can’t allow myself to be a pacified, overweight, spectator-consumer clone. I have way too much self-respect for that. All I do is live to honor who I was born with the power to be.

I believe everybody has this inherent sense of inner accountability within themselves but most of us bury it deep either because we’re lazy, brainwashed by the artificial values of the world system or both. You can sit back, watch life on the tube and do what all the talking heads there tell you to do.

That’s why you’re fat. You sit around being passively entertained then buy the junk food and other junk the TV commercials tell you to buy. You get sucked into that capitalist-pop culture lifestyle where you don’t own your own life. The mainstream mass media mindset owns you. If you don’t believe me, look around.

Why do women color their hair?

Why do guys wear earrings?

Why do people plaster themselves with Nike logos?

Why is 70% of the modern, Western population overweight?

Why do a lot of men act like they get excited about watching professional sports when it’s a big business venture masquerading as tribes of people united by common emotions?

It’s because they got brainwashed by the world.

The bottom line is that excessive weight is an outward symbol of a person’s inner disharmony. There is not one overweight person on the planet who’s happy. If they claim to be, they’re lying because we all have a built-in self-judgment standard given to us by our Creator, God. If I don’t feel like a physically strong, vital specimen of humanity, I don’t feel good.

You can try to deny that you don’t get bad feelings because you’re overweight but everything about you is tied together as one holistic essence. You cannot divorce your body from your mind and soul. Your holistic essence is your intuition. It’s always telling you the truth which is that excess weight makes you feel yucky and out of harmony with yourself.

It’s no surprise to me why multi-millions of Americans are depressed and many more might not be totally forlorn but they’re mundane. There are no highs in their lives. If you’re overweight, it clouds your entire life. All you really own is your body. If it’s not springy, strong and sexually vital, you really have nothing despite the size of your bank account and the people who love you.

All the love in the world cannot make a fat person feel in harmony with themselves like they’re riding on air or dancing the tango gracefully.

If you don’t answer to yourself and honor your inner voice, you’ll never feel harmony therefore you will never know happiness, euphoria and the feeling of unbridled freedom.

Losing weight and being vital are simple: honor who you feel you were born to be. In your dreams, you’re not a bumbling, lumbering big bag of crap.

You’re strong, beautiful and vital. The problem is that they’re fantasies. Only the strong, inspired people live to make their fantasies real. Everybody else becomes a passive consumer-spectator which is what my book A Free Spirit’s Search for Enlightenment is about.

Nobody forced you to immerse yourself in pop culture entertainment for several hours a day. Nobody forced you to stuff your face and play video games. I can’t imagine living without my self-respect. I earn it everyday with sweat but it’s not a tedious chore to me. I love to feel my body move. That’s what God created people to do.

It’s not really about food or diets. It’s about a certain vision you have of yourself. Everybody sees themselves as beautiful and strong in their mind’s eye. Just honor it.

That’s the way your God made you to be. You violated it or dishonored it by buying into less than honorable ways to live, some of which is the fault of the modern world we have set up for ourselves with all our gadgets, passive entertainment and good tasting junk food.

Excessive weight is a sign of spiritual-esthetic disharmony. All overweight people are not honoring the inherent dispositions they were born with. The weight is just one part of it.

This book is somewhat a repetition of my book A Free Spirit’s Search for Enlightenment where I talk about the major problem of life in the modern world being that people live by the artificial values of the world rather than following their true natures.

Your natural inspiration for your life comes down to your attempts to reach a sense of transcendence day by day plus a craving for the pleasures of life which is sometimes called the ideology of hedonism. Pleasure is not just about food. It encompasses many dimensions.

Live for these things and you will be happy enough to not crave stuffing food down your throat. Enjoy your life so much that it’s not centered around food as a major source of pleasure.

If you can figure out how to live an inspired-esthetic-sensual-loving lifestyle all the time, food will just be an afterthought or one part of a rich life. You won’t think about it much. You will be too busy living an interesting life.

Spend less time in front of a screen and more time actively doing things regardless of what they are. The process of doing things earns you some self-respect, burns some calories and takes your mind off food.

My Primal Archetype: Adam & Eve in the Mythical Garden of Eden

I believe that within all of us there’s a primordial memory left over from prehistoric days sitting on the lower brainstem and possibly locked away in our genetic code housing our emotions and instincts but it goes further than this.

I talk about this primordial memory in my free spirit books, what Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud’s buddy, called the collective unconscious, a part of the common human experience stored within us all that hails back to the early days of humanity back to the Garden of Eden.

I believe there is a memory hidden away in our genes that comes out when the conditions are right such as the times I’ve done magic mushrooms, LSD and ayahuasca. I’m not promoting drug use, just saying that I experienced some really cool images and visions when I was doing this stuff that seemed to originate from beyond me. It was always me in some mythical Garden of Eden in Nature with some beautiful, vital, Amazon type of girl who had a primal feminine beauty about her.

It’s simple and basic. We came from nature. We used to live close to nature. In this modern world, I have not succumbed to indoor living. I need to be outdoors everyday because that’s where I feel I belong, like a human animal living close to my roots.

When I was a kid, we would use catechisms, Bible coloring books and picture Bibles. Anytime Adam and Eve were portrayed in the Garden of Eden, they were always vital, strong, beautiful, natural and naked. Then I saw Tarzan on TV in the mid-1960s. I felt primally connected to Adam & Eve and Tarzan. That’s it for me. Why would any sane person want to be any more than a vital, untamed creature? I am who I am, nothing more or less than my primordial archetype.

I feel this is right to live like this, physically strong, vital, natural and close to nature. It’s the highest joy in life. People say they hate exercise and act like it’s a tedious chore. I laugh at them because physical motion is a joy. What could be greater than feeling your natural power flowing through your veins?

This is what we were born to do, to live out in nature as hunters and gatherers. What a privilege, especially after you’ve lived through serious injuries like I have.

People sit around eating junk food, watching TV then feel sorry for themselves because they’re fat and can’t get it up. I’m not a pacified clone. I live my life my way. I have not allowed myself to become a wimp passive consumer-spectator. I did not buy into the lie of the chubby, balding man in the gray flannel suit as the picture of success in a capitalist world.

It’s easy. I have the vision of my physical archetype always in my mind. It’s all I need. I have enough self-respect such that I’m always honoring it by eating right and moving physically. It’s not tedious. I’m not an extremist drill sergeant type health freak. I enjoy my life. My body feels good.

My childhood was spent as an untamed kid, running around the woods with my dogs and my tribe of friends, swimming in the lakes, feeling wild and free.

As I got older, I realized this was my true nature, a basic man close to my physical body because that’s all any of us really owns, our bodies.

When I experimented with life by using mind-altering substances, the images I got while stoned or in these altered states of consciousness were always magnificent archetypes in the mythical Garden of Eden where I was a primordial man with a beautiful, healthy, feminine woman indulging our ids, our lusts and our love of our lives.

This is what the upper reaches of my ride of the human condition inspires within me. If it does this for me, why would anyone else be different? I believe the purpose of life is to make the private Garden of Eden in your mind real to some extent.

Deep within ourselves, we all have our own private, mythical version of paradise in our minds. All you have to do is try to make it come to pass to some extent in your life here on Earth as opposed to being brainwashed to follow images of glamour and fashion that corporate marketers sold you.

In your deepest, fantasy, lusty, bodacious visions of beauty, strength and youthful vigor in your own mythical Garden of Eden, you’re never fat, dumpy, old, depressed or pale. You’re always strong, vibrant, vital, beautiful, powerful and free.

Even though I’m over 50 as I write this book, I still see myself as a young, strong, free guy in the image in my mind. If you ever read the obituaries like I sometimes do because I want to see how many people my age are dying of diseases, you’ll notice that in many profiles of old people dying, the photograph is them when they were young, not them as old people. The greatest life is to live for the sense of eternal youth within yourself.

That’s it right there. Live for those beautiful primal archetypes you feel within yourself. Make an effort to make them real to some extent in your life. That’s all you have to do, honor your primal archetype.

If you’re a guy, honor your inner Tarzan. If you’re a girl, honor your inner Jane, Tarzan’s wholesome, fresh, natural and free girlfriend. If you see footage of 1950s buxom pin-up girl Betty Page, she doesn’t have any of the classic features of beauty but she’s got a kind of wholesome joy and exuberance about her that beats any manufactured look in a fashion magazine.

Get that image in your mind of the larger-than-life primordial character you are buried somewhere deep in your id and do what you intuitively feel you must to make it real in your real life to some extent.

Tied in with this is the way I live but I don’t want to repeat my book A Free Spirit's Search For Enlightenment here except to say that I need to purge whatever is inspired, pure and original about me as an individual.

I can’t let anything interfere with that, not religion, not pop culture entertainment and not the bad habits that many people have.

Because I’m the way I am, it’s natural for me to not drink much alcohol except for wine which is healthy for you. My inner, intuitive wisdom stops me. Even when I decide to catch a buzz, I never overdo it. I catch a moderate buzz and something inside of me tells me to stop, don’t poison your body.

I don’t overeat, don’t gorge on pop culture entertainment looking for something to pick me up, don’t buy useless stuff that I don’t need, don’t care about the status games of the world, don’t have an ego need to impress others, don’t feel lonely, don’t follow professional sports, etc.

It’s very simple, I just focus on honoring who I am as an individual by striving to release a good to great dose of natural energy everyday to match my inherent standard.

When you live like this, you cannot disrespect yourself which is why I don’t have the vices or excesses many people do. It’s easy for me. It’s not a struggle like it is for most people.

It comes down to your identity. Who is the person you were born to be, are and want to be?

I live to honor my identity. That’s all you need to stay permanently inspired for the rest of your life.

It’s not about all those trivial, calorie counting type rules and silly gimmicks like eat a piece of whole wheat bread with olive oil on it to fill you up so you’ll eat less later.

It’s about the holistic experience of your life.

I like the motion that I create with my body. I like the feeling of physical action. I shouldn’t be anything other than who I was born to be and want to be. I believe everybody was born to be physically vital because if you weren’t physically vital up until about a hundred years ago, unless you were a blueblood, you didn’t survive.

I don’t follow diets, I don’t read diet books, I don’t count calories yet I’m still feeling pretty good at 50 even after all the injuries I had through a life of hard physical living. I heal and keep going. I don’t have a gut. Most 50 year-old men have something there unless they’re drunks or cokeheads.

I can’t imagine any other way to be than to feel like my body is an instrument of joy and power and honor it everyday by working it with some gusto because I want to because I love it.

That’s the real way to be slim without getting bogged down in all the psychobabble bullshit of the world in the ten thousand or so diet books currently on the market.

They’re all trivial-neurotic, following some silly formulas and rules of eating certain foods, counting calories and following a bunch of other stupid steps.

I even saw one guy on TV saying to eat at least one meal a day blindfolded. His schtick is conscious eating which is to take a mouthful then meditate on it while you eat it very slowly. I don’t have time for that foolishness. It’s trivial. It doesn’t address the spirit that is you.

Rules don’t work. It’s about the holistic essence that is you. It’s intuitive and holistic. Follow that mythical image in your mind of the person you want to be.

If you have a problem focussing on yourself as a beautiful, strong, vital person, I suggest you buy some crayons and draw a picture of the ideal you in it every few nights in order to help you keep that image close in your mind while you make the effort to reach it.

Artists of Life Respect Themselves 1

Life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Luke 12:23, Matthew 6:25

The major hook of this book that flies in the face of every diet book ever written is that being at a balanced weight has nothing to do with diets.

Diets are like using a band-aid when you have a gaping wound or a crying soul. They don’t address the real issue which is who you are as a human being and how you live day by day.

Diets are like fighting the most powerful force in the Universe which for most people is food as either pleasure or in response to hunger. For some people, it’s sex and for a small minority, it’s the experience of life itself, living for the sensations, fun, thrill, sensuality and nobility of it.

The trick is to live as though food and hunger are no big deal like they’re just minor considerations in your overall enjoyment of life.

Up until a hundred years ago, most of us had to constantly worry about getting enough food to survive but all of a sudden, for a few bucks, we can get more food than we need right now so we eat it and get fat.

It’s a societal thing. Food is everywhere. It’s pleasure. It’s a lifestyle, sit around and eat while watching TV and engaging in pop culture entertainment. All of a sudden, we changed from being hearty folk working the fields to being fat asses sitting in a building buying junk food as opposed to cooking it for ourselves from scratch.

The reason I don’t have a food problem is because I purposely live to honor who I am as an individual. I believe I was born with a blueprint for my life which gives me a standard of what I should do everyday with my time and I follow it. I honor my standard to try to constantly ride my life and doing something worthy with it.

My need for self-respect and a transcendent feeling about my life override my craving for food. I would rather be active and burn off some natural energy to give me a rush and make me feel good about my life than sit around somewhere eating a large meal while watching a movie or something. That’s the difference between me and the average fat guy.

To him, sitting around eating stuff while playing video games is his definition of a good time. To me, having a great workout or a great creative session working my mind makes me feel much better than eating a jumbo hot dog with extra onions possibly could.

I’m an artist of my life. I believe in following what I feel intuitively within myself. I know that we are as primal as our ancestors despite this modern civilization we have developed and from this I also know that my true nature is to be physical and to eat foods from nature as close to their natural state as possible.

Another thing I do is use mind-altering substances then dance around like a fool for several hours. It’s a great way to forget about food and focus on the flow within yourself.

Because I’m an artist of my life, I try to honor this inner standard I feel within myself to be the person I was born to be. One of my archetypes is the physically strong, lean, primal man who likes to be outdoors doing things to burn off my natural energy. That’s who I feel I am and that’s how I live, honoring what I feel in my soul.

It’s the constant release of my natural inspiration. I live to feel anywhere from good to great everyday. I won’t lie and pretend that I wake up bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I feel tired most of the time when I get up but what separates me from the mass of humanity is that everyday I know I must release x amount of physical energy right off the block both in order to earn my self-respect by matching my inner standard and in order to feel anywhere from good to great.

Most people never get over this initial hump. It’s just not an issue to them that they feel they owe it to God to try to honor who they are physically by working the body.

I’ve been doing it for so long now that I know when I start a run, it generally starts slow and average but by the middle of it, I’ve accomplished something therefore earned some self-respect plus the fact that the physiological endorphin release has perked me up then I listen to some music and by the end of my run I’m feeling pretty good then right away I go and lift weights for awhile and I ain’t a spring chicken. I’m a half a century old but I’m still doing it like I’m a young dude.

It’s not plodding for me. I’m riding it, riding my life to try to feel good. The release of physical energy to me is one of the few ways I get a rush out of my life. I can’t think of anything else that can match it aside from the few hedonistic activities, namely sex and drugs.

Releasing a load of physical energy is one of the few true fountains of youth out there, the other for me being the release of my creative-intellectual energy in the pursuit of the esthetic lifestyle of an artist.

This is the only way you can stay at a moderate weight for life without trying too hard. It’s just a part of your natural lifestyle.

Artists of Life Respect Themselves 2

Diets are all wrong. They are a creation of this overanalyzed, mechanical system we have set up for ourselves giving our individual power away to so-called system experts who were all educated by the same paradigms in colleges. Some are just straight-out con-artists pretending to have advanced knowledge because they’re such advanced people. In non-scientific matters of life, they’re a bunch of one-dimensional clones regurgitating what they were taught which is all wrong.

Psychoanalysis is a lie that the field of psychology uses to suck people out of money in therapy sessions. Life really ain’t that deep. The past has no bearing on you right now simply for the fact that you create your life as you live it. If you want to be a victim and buy into that lie that the past affects your life, go ahead, be a sniveling little wimp sucker.

The field of weight loss or dieting is a lie because trying to lose weight by following trivial, little programs that focus on temporary food deprivation and stupid psychological tips to "help you stay motivated" as they say are like putting a finger in a dyke to stop a raging storm swell. The water is gonna eventually crash through.

Why? Because of the psychological mentality behind it. You’re consciously making a decision to temporarily deprive yourself of food so that you can lose weight so that you can eat all that junk food again. That’s what diets come down to, temporary deprivation for a pay-off in the future.

It’s all wrong because the real issue is one of identity. You have to identify your true identity then honor it. In the blueprint for your life your God gave you, He didn’t make you a fat ass who likes to play video games or watch ten hours of TV a day.

He made you a strong, lean, graceful person born to do something fun, glorious, inspired and noble with your life. If you’re too weak to honor that, blame no one but the mug in the mirror.

Nobody sees themselves as fat in the fantasy action shots of their mind’s eye yet many millions of people are fat. They are not in harmony with themselves.

Live true to the soul/ identity your Creator endowed you with and you will not be fat. That’s how simple it is. It’s about your lifestyle and life philosophy not about some stupid diet that’s geared to suck you out of your money one way or another.

You don’t have to buy special, overpriced food and get it delivered to your house in the mistaken belief that you’re following some scientific program like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and Nutrisystem do in their marketing schtick to make money.

It’s a big, for-profit money racket. You can eat whatever you want that you buy in your local area. Just be true to the person your God wants you to be.

America and the rest of modern, western society is going through a megalith of brainwash. We have given our natural, intuitive powers that were originally given to us by God to the system out there which I call Big Brother. You might call the system such terms as the medical profession, the News, mainstream media, pop culture entertainment and formal academic knowledge.

I’m not saying they’re all bad but what I’m saying is that up until about a hundred years ago, we, as individuals, were the masters of our lives. We either took care of ourselves and lived or didn’t and died.

Now, in the past 50 years or so, the system has come in and offered to replace all our intuitive, natural wisdom with its version of wisdom, a kind of formal, official wisdom based on supposed clinical studies analyzed by so-called experts but underlying all of it is the hidden agenda to make you an eternal consumer buying into the capitalist ideology as the path to happiness and success.

The first thing this has done is detach a lot of us from our personal natures the way we were born.

The second thing this has done is to make us a bunch of brainwashed clones, looking to the experts on TV and in so-called academic books written by so-called experts for the answers to what’s ailing us in our lives while I look at all of them, think the world is going crazy and live my life day by day by my own intuition, my own standard, staying slim without really trying too hard because my life is all about living by my own inspiration and the pursuit of hedonism, beauty and love, it’s just that my version of hedonism doesn’t include food much.

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I live to feel free. In order to do that, I have to run with my life, release lots of my inspired creative and physical energy to keep that feeling within myself that I’m feeling good to great and transcendent about my life.

It’s that simple. I think all the phony diet gurus and all their books are full of crap. When you focus on food as with any diet which every diet book author does, your mind is fixated on it.

This is counter-intuitive to living for the spirit of life such that you’re so into living and enjoying yourself that you’re not sitting around eating candy to try to fill some emptiness up within yourself.

All diets are artificial and mechanical. It’s about culturing an active, inspired lifestyle such that food becomes a minor consideration, a minor source of pleasure because you’re more interested in other sensations and experiences.

All you need to know is your true essence as a human being and live by it. All you need is inspiration, to love your life so much that you’re willing to take action for what you want.

Do you enjoy your life? Have you taken it for a good to great ride today? Do you do this everyday? Do you live with the spirit of this in mind, taking your life for a good to great run of experience and sensations everyday?

This is the only reasonable way that people stay thin without trying too hard. Junkies stay thin because they’re constantly using drugs but you’re destroying yourself at the same time.

I don’t count calories, educate myself extensively about nutrition to the point where I know every mineral and vitamin nor do I read food labels to see if a product has the good fats in it or the bad fats.

I live for the spirit of running with my life or riding it for the inspired-esthetic-sensual-loving experience it should be. This way of being is superior for losing weight and keeping it off than the 300 or so diet books I can see in the #611-613 section of any library.

A journalist went to a bookstore, asked for a list of the current diet books and got a printout for over 2700. The documentary I saw on CBC called Diet Confidential tells it like it is. Dieting books are marketing vehicles more concerned with presenting an image rather than providing solid, useful content.

They actually followed the creation of a current, pop diet book by a publishing company (Rodale) whose founder had high ideals to bring health knowledge to the world which has now eroded into a sales giant, selling hype and packaging over substance.

Imagine a cool place called South Beach that conjures up images of wealthy, healthy people in a wealthy, sunny area then they designed a cool cover that gives an image of an easy, breezy, idealistic beach scene.

They got a few good looking doctors to promote the book then wrote a bunch of articles in the magazines they own and made the rounds of all the news/ talk shows.

It was a total marketing job with very little substance. It’s like promoting the latest music CD. They were packaging it as a trendy book that the movie stars and cool people are into.

When you focus on trying to enjoy your life by purging all that natural life energy you feel within yourself for fun because that’s who you are, food becomes a secondary issue.

I don’t think about food much, dwell on it or worry about what I eat and I never gain weight. I’m wise enough to know I should eat more natural foods than processed foods but I eat junk food virtually everyday. I have a bowl of ice cream with oatmeal just before I go to sleep virtually every night.

I add chocolate to my granola, eat some potato chips and ice cream. I’m pretty tight for my age. I could be a bit tighter but I’m not ascetic. I enjoy my life. I’ve got vitality and a healthy body without doing all that tedious, regimented crap every diet book tells you to do.

I’m not a Spartan like some of them freaks I know who are one-dimensional health nuts. They drink chalk milk shakes, they know about all the vitamins and supplements, they read the latest fitness magazines and do Spartan things to stay fit like get up at six o’clock in the morning to exercise when all your instincts say you should sleep.

I do more physical activity than all of them but I do it when I wake up later after I’ve had a good sleep. I enjoy what I do. It’s not like some tedious, regimented exercise program. I do it for the feel of it, because I enjoy feeling my body work. It makes me feel like I’m riding my life the way I was born to do, kinda like a horse doing what he does best, run around the fields.

Women's Life, Women's Identity, Women's Sexuality

Friday, 2 May 2014

Book 7. Diet-Busters 1 (Honor the Archetype of Beauty & Power Inside of You by Releasing Your Natural Energy)

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