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Have you ever wondered, with all the talk about losing weight,
if it's all about that, or are you maybe sacrificing your health,
just to get where you want to be, or believe you should be.
We have Dr. Carol Roberts,
a background not only in conventional medicine as a surgeon,
who was at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
a Harvard graduate, and University of Texas Medical School.
But she's integrated 20 years of experience in nutritional, natural, healing,
and can talk to us a little bit,
about where we might be a little distorted in our way of thinking,
of sacrificing the pounds for our health.
Carol, can you tell us a little bit more about that?
Oh sure, sure. Thank you for asking.
People are really doing themselves a disservice by this yo-yo dieting.
First of all, they eat a pretty bad diet.
Most people think they eat well, but they really eat too many carbohydrates,
refined carbohydrates that have no vitamins attached.
These are empty calories, so the first thing that people need to do,
is eat nutritionally dense foods, which means real food.
So, eat from the produce department.
Eat meats, the way they come from the hoof, so to speak.
And no more boxes and processed foods.
So, that way, you build a quality body,
and you're not just running on empty all the time.
And things will start to change for you.
Taking diet pills is flogging generally dead adrenals.
And it makes you feel good, it makes you run around like a crazy person.
And makes you OK with not eating.
But ultimately, you're going to run your body into the ground,
the way you would a car that has no gas.
You cannot exist with no fuel.
So, make sure you fill up on really high-quality fuel.
Don't take drugs.
Drink at least two glasses of water before each meal.
Spread your meals out, so that you're eating something every 2 hours,
and something good: a handful of nuts,
or you know, a little tuna salad that you've made yourself,
so you know exactly what's in it.
So, take good care of yourself, give your body what it needs,
then move, move, move, more.
You want to build muscle.
Now, muscle is denser than fat, and it weighs more than fat.
So your scale may not show the difference,
but your mirror will show the difference,
your clothing will show the difference,
and your boyfriend can tell you the difference, too.
So that's the right way to do it.
And you'll feel the difference as well.
As you said, 'running around like a crazy person',
I think most of us are doing that anyway.
But when you get on that treadmill,
believing that this is going to be your weight-loss formula,
you can run into a lot of problems,
that Dr. Robert's helped us become more aware of that,
in simplicity, and just generally taking one step and baby steps at a time,
I imagine, is a big part of it.
So, we start enjoying that good food again,
and realizing how simply we can start cooking again,
or making things our own way,
and knowing what was going inside our body.
So, if you want to find out more,
go to www.carolrobertsmd.com,
and look at her book, Good Medicine: A Return To Common Sense.
And it sounds like that's what she's talked to us about today.