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Natural Weight Loss™ Will be posted April 1, 7 p.m. eastern

Spring, 2009 -- Holistic Weight Loss
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In this issue

Holistic Weight Loss Workshop

Spring Cleaning Your Body

Detox for Mind and Emotions

Healthy Weight Loss Products

Home Study Programs

FREE Coaching Session

What Clients Have Said

Welcome to the Spring issue of my Natural Weight Loss™ e-newsletter. My vision is to help you create a healthy, fit body and mind in safe, healthy, effective, enjoyable ways.

The statistics are growing-63% of Americans are overweight; 31% are obese; childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled in the past 2 decades.

These statistics are a good indicator of the ineffectiveness of the modern approach to weight issues. There is another way. You were not born to struggle with weight and health issues. A Holistic perspective can help you understand why you have these issues.

Are you ready to make the shift that will end your struggle?

Twenty years ago I developed a Holistic Weight Loss Program and have had much success with individual clients and Workshop participants.

I'm happy to announce that I will be co-presenting a live Holistic Weight Loss Workshop in Pittsburgh on April 16 with Sanna Carapellotti, Hypnotherapist and Performance Specialist (no, we're not going to hypnotize you). I seldom do these live events anymore and hope you'll be able to attend. Scroll down for details.

If you don't live in Pittsburgh I'm offering some Teleclasses and Tele/Coaching in May, and you can participate from anywhere in the world. Scroll down for details.

I know you want to be in the best shape possible for summer. Spring is an opportune time for a fresh start and a healthier, kinder perspective. You can look and feel better sooner than you know.

The focus of this issue is spring cleaning for your body and mind. I hope you'll implement some of these suggestion. Nothing will change until you make new choices.

Holistic Weight Loss Workshop -- April 16, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Tired of Counting Calories? Frustrated with rigid diets? Are you taking harmful drugs or ineffective supplements?

Holistic Weight Loss offers a kind and gentle approach to weight loss and radiant health! Satisfy your body, mind, emotions and spirit to yield permanent results.

Holistic Weight Loss Workshop offers the blueprint for creating a slender, fit body, emotional harmony, improved health and vitality.

Register by April 6 and save $10.

Click here for details and registration

Don't live in Pittsburgh? Join me for my upcoming TeleSeminar series beginning May 9.

Be Your Own Weight Loss Guru TeleSeminar

You can participate from anywhere in the world. All you need is a phone and the ability to receive class materials via email.

Click here for details and registration for Be Your Own Weight Loss Guru Teleseminar

Save $30

Spring Cleaning Your Body

Spring has arrived. We're moving from winter-a time for rest, conserving energy, storage and preparation-into a period of rapid growth and expansion, new beginnings and fresh starts. It's time to clear out the old, and for planting seeds, literally and metaphorically.

We associate getting rid of the old stuff and spring house cleaning with this time of year. Cleansing your body of toxins and residues of food excesses and purifying your mind and emotions are fitting at this time of the year. Cycles of rejuvenation and purification are at their height in the spring.

Spring is one of the best times for inner house cleaning. There are certain foods and practices that will help support your efforts in clearing your body of stored fats, toxins and other excesses.

Go green for spring. Include plenty of dark green leafy plants daily. They reduce excess and liver stagnation and toxicity; improve weight loss, bloating, gas, distention, and water retention. Include dandelion, watercress, kale, collard greens, and turnip greens. Steam them for 8-10 minutes and squeeze fresh lemon on them to help you assimilate the minerals in them.

Use alfalfa and other sprouts for their cleansing and cooling properties daily throughout spring.

Daikon and red radishes act as a solvent to break down stored fats. Use them regularly throughout spring.

Fresh lemon and lime do the same thing. Squeeze into water, tea, or over vegetables.

You may want to include a high chlorophyll product. Vitamineral Greens is my favorite. It is cleansing, detoxifying, enhances regularity, supports liver, kidneys, blood, bones, circulation and immune function. It is organic and deeply nourishing. Click here for ordering.

Hulled barley and Hato Mugi (also called Job's Tears) grains are excellent for spring and eliminate excess fat. Barley contains gluten; Hato Mugi can be substituted for barley in any recipe.

All of the above reduce cholesterol, cleanse the arteries, detoxify the liver, and have antioxidant properties.

A Spring Nutritional Cleanse will do wonders for your overall health and support weight loss. I do not recommend excessive use of cleanse products. Doing so can seriously damage your metabolic and digestive health, even weaken you in the long run. Click here for a simple nutritional cleanse using specific foods for their ability to eliminate toxins and excess while rejuvenating your system.

Toxic Thoughts and Emotions

TCM associates the liver with the spring season. The liver regulates emotions and when there is excess and stagnation, these emotions will prevail: anger, impatience, frustration, resentment, edginess, control, stubbornness, aggression, and an explosive personality. Mood swings are liver related as well.

When these states are repressed and not transformed, they cause depression. Emotions are an expression of qi (pronounced chee). When the liver is overloaded its energy becomes stagnant causing many health issues and difficulty in losing weight.

Emotions are feelings you attach to your thoughts. Thoughts have no meaning other than the meaning you give to them. Are you suffering from chronic negative thinking? Do you always expect the worst from others, your job, your body, and your life?

How do you treat yourself mentally? Are you self-critical? Do you berate yourself? Do you tell yourself that you are not good enough, somehow unworthy?

Please do not underestimate the power of the mind to create a healthy, fit body or the lack thereof.

Mental, Emotional Transformation

It's not possible to simply make negative thoughts go away. They have a frequency to them; they are energy. Energy never dies. It is continually transformed into something else--by you. Are you transforming your body, health and life back into the way it's always been?

As part of your spring cleaning, take a few steps toward transforming the stagnant energy of thoughts and emotions that are holding you back.

The first step is to become aware of them. Just notice them. Separate yourself from them; keep a safe distance between yourself and the negatives.

Create a new vision. Write down how you do want to experience your mind and emotions.

How can you peacefully resolve the hurtful feelings? Is there some communication you need to deliver? Have you been making unfounded assumptions about another? Are you internalizing things that have nothing to do with you?

Asking these questions with a sincere desire to understand and transform thoughts and emotions that are hurting you will take you pretty far in creating a healthy body.

Some of you don't like questions. Without them your body, health and life will unfold in the same predictable ways.

Chronic negative thinking and repressed emotions are the beginning stages of health and weight problems. Simply going on a diet does little to transform them.

Learn more about the mental and emotional aspects of weight issues by joining me for Holistic Weight Loss on April 16. For long distance learning, participate in my Be Your Own Weight Loss Guru Teleseminar beginning May 9.

If you prefer to work in individual sessions, call me at 412.361.8600 to schedule a complementary 30-minute session. 50% of my clients are out of state. Phone sessions are very effective.

Safe, Effective Weight Loss Products

You can create a healthy, fit body with the right foods for your constitution and condition, along with Holistic mind and emotional practices. The further you are from balanced health and weight, the more you may need some temporary help with supplements.

There are some excellent high quality products effective for reversing some of the internal disharmonies that cause weight issues. Many of my clients have gotten good results. They all should be combined with exercise, stress reduction and appropriate foods for your condition.

Click this link for money saving discounts

Enteromend addresses the symptoms of food intolerance including cramping, bloating, belching, intestinal gas, nausea and diarrhea. It helps those with wheat and gluten intolerance and includes a full complement of enzymes to digest dairy products, protein, carbohydrates and fats. Click here for ordering.

Quiet Digestion resolves digestive dampness and phlegm; treats gastric distress, abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, abdominal distension and belly fat, intestinal gas, bacterial or viral gastroenteritis; poor food absorption; motion sickness, handover, jet lag; useful for food allergies; regulates digestive qi (chee). This formula is rich in enzymatic activity. Click here for ordering.

Astra 18 Diet helps reduce dampness and phlegm which cause bloating and puffiness; reduces appetite, improves digestion, invigorates energy. Click here for ordering.

Greenexcellent promotes weight loss, reduces bloodglucose, increases lean mass. It reduces fats from adipose tissue, increases glucose sensitivity and has antioxidant activity. Does not contain caffeine. Click here for ordering

Astra Diet Tea reduces dampness and phlegm which cause bloating and puffiness; reduces appetite, improves digestion, invigorates energy, and the fiber content of the herbs promotes digestion and proper stools. Pleasant tasting. Have a cup after meals. Does not contain caffeine or tea. This tea is NOT laxative or diuretic. Click here for ordering

Leantain is a natural appetite suppressant with calorie burning effects. It has antioxidant effects, helps maintains fluid balance, supports healthy blood pressure, cholesterol, and insulin response. Leantain reduces appetite and promotes physical energy. Click here for ordering.

Home Study Programs

Eliminating Belly Fat

You'll learn:

How digestive health and immunity affect mid-body weight;
How bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast overgrowth, and parasites contribute to belly fat;
How to assess your own condition (there's no one solution that works for everyone since no two people are alike);
Why you bowel habits matter; solutions for constipation and diarrhea;
Why how you eat affects belly fat;
Why many foods that are recognized as healthy are creating this condition;
Nutritional solutions and recipes;
Safe, effective, high quality herbal remedies;
And much more!

You'll receive the Whole Health e-book, Eliminating Belly Fat, and the MP3 recording download (70-80 minutes).

Click here to order and save $10 through April 21

Creating Healthy Metabolism

You'll learn:

The relationship between kidneys and adrenals and metabolism;
Signs and Causes of Slow Metabolism;
Self Assessments for determining your internal disharmonies and best path for reversing them;
Many tips for improving metabolism and the health of kidneys, adrenals thyroid and other related organs;
Therapeutic Foods that Heal Imbalances;
Recipes;
Safe, effective high quality Herbal remedies

You'll receive the Whole Health e-book, Creating Healthy Metabolism, and the MP3 recording download (70-80 minutes).

Click here to order and save $10 through April 21

Coaching/Counseling Services

Free Offer 30-minute Coaching/Counseling Session -- By Phone or at my Pittsburgh Office

Are you suffering with weight and health problems? Have you accepted as normal problems that you know can be changed? Are you too close to your issues to recognize what may be holding you back? Do you think you'd benefit from having a counselor or coach who can strategically help you achieve your health and personal goals, and make a difference in your life?

For over 25 years I have been helping clients achieve renewed health, vital energy, weight loss, passionate living, a nourishing lifestyle, and inner peace with my unique whole person approach.

My background is in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nutritional Therapy, Holistic Health, Attitudinal Healing, Energy Medicine, Yoga, and Spiritual modalities. CLICK HERE for Complete Bio I help clients make choices that create radiant health and harmonious emotions, reverse health problems, create radiant health, and joyful, living.

I will help you gain clarity, achieve results more quickly and easily, remove obstacles, teach you creative problem solving, and make the process of change easy and joyful. FREE initial session (30 minutes) can be done in my Pittsburgh office or by phone. Offer expires April 20 and applies to new clients. Call 412.361.8600 or send an email to health@wholehealthresources.com to schedule. CLICK HERE for additional Coaching information.

What Clients Have Said

"I don't know how to explain it--but I feel better inside. I no longer have feelings of anxiety about my weight since I began working with you. I've lost 15 pounds in 2 months even with eating many meals in restaurants; my blood pressure is now normal without medication; I no longer have to take pain medication; and people are constantly telling me how great I look. I'm amazed at how much better everything is since I've been working with you." K. I., Pittsburgh

"I've tried every diet in the world. I got deathly sick on Atkins and my cholesterol spiked; Jenny Craig was so restrictive and expensive I couldn't maintain it; with Nutri Systems I was buying expensive, mail order food that tasted like cardboard. Your approach is so flexible and I love eating real food. I am never hungry and have no cravings. My overall health and energy have improved. Best of all are your inner fitness techniques for quickly working through stress and emotional eating." G. M. Boulder

"I've stopped fearing food with your very wise help. I never realized how much my emotions affected my energy. Now that I am no longer obsessing about food I have far more energy to enjoy my life. Thank you for helping me understand how to listen to my own body and emotions and eat for my personal needs. My work with you has given me freedom--a huge bonus to the weight loss and better health." J. W. London

"Getting a pay-off from being overweight was something I never considered. Exploring this with you has brought me to a place of greater self respect and a much healthier weight." B. S. Harrisburg

Your weight issue has many gifts within it. Let me help you discover them, and you will move beyond the problem into your healthy, joyful potential.

Spring is the season of fresh starts, new beginnings, and cleaning out the clutter. Why not start NOW to clear the physical, emotional, and mental clutter that have been keeping you stagnant. There's no better time than NOW.

Happy Spring!

Deborah Barr

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Deborah Barr, 25-year Holistic Health Counselor/Coach, speaker, and author, works with clients who want to reverse health and weight issues; achieve emotional harmony, radiant health, passion, peaceful living, work-life balance, and a life they love. In 1985 she founded Whole Health Resources, the premier Holistic Health Center in Pittsburgh. WHR's mission is to promote the healing and development of body, mind and spirit, and to teach an understanding of the relationship between diet, attitudes, lifestyle and wellness. She offers free help through her 2 e-zines, Natural Weight Loss, and Whole Health Matters, and free articles at www.wholehealthresources.com.

Deborah is a sought after speaker and writer sharing her Holistic message to audiences of regional and national scope. You may reach her by calling 412-361-8600 or emailing her at deborah@wholehealthresources.com.

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