Many people get discouraged about their weight because they are operating by old, false paradigms: they think they have to starve or over exercise to achieve their ideal size.

At Total Fitness, we can give countless testimonials about why these old ways of thinking are psychologically and metabolically false and destructive. For example, I know of clients who have gained 25 pounds by eating only one meal a day. Other clients were exercising two or three hours daily and couldn't lose an ounce. These types of clients needed major re-education about what it really takes to be thin.

The trouble with diets:

1. Since the inception of our radio show on, the No. 1 internet radio station in the world, we have been able to serve a wider audience.
2. Helen practices in New York City. Along with Nina Lynn of Los Angeles, who joined our team in the fall of 2005, Helen expands our ability to reach clients in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and even around the world who visit our offices and work with us by telephone.

Here's what you can do to lose weight without dieting:

1. Identify your food sensitivities. This is one of the many services we offer our nutrition clients. Often, new clients eat foods they think are "healthy" but do not agree with their bodies at all.
2. Identify your metabolic type. Find out which foods are the best for your system.
3. Correct your individual metabolic imbalances. The top metabolic errors to correct: insulin resistance, adrenal burnout and digestive disorders. If you have multiple food sensitivities, healing your GI tract and reducing inflammation can give your metabolism a brilliant boost. The more exhausted you are, the harder time your body will have metabolizing anything - not only proteins but also carbohydrates and fats.
4. Deal with any emotions that have caused you to overeat in the past. Because emotions can interfere with literally any physiological process, we at Total Fitness do a tremendous amount of emotional work with our clients.
5. Replenish any depleted systems in the body, especially your brain chemistry. As long as your brain is starving, you will struggle with food cravings. This is an especially important step for clients who have struggled with addictions to food, drugs and alcohol and all those who have a history of anxiety and depression.
6. Eliminate fake foods. All you have to understand is one simple fact - you hold toxins in your fat cells. Then you will become totally convinced that you are worth the expense of buying organic foods. Dr. Russell Blaylock, author and brain surgeon, said on our Total Fitness radio program that laboratory studies prove that rats fed processed foods do not lose weight even when they are doing hours of exercise every day. Are you exercising like crazy and can't achieve your ideal body size? Why suffer the same fate as a fat rat - you can be smarter than that.
7. Drink enough water and make sure you can assimilate your water. When we test our clients, most are not assimilating the water they drink - even when they are drinking enough. You may need Celtic sea salt, minerals in your water or even homeopathics to help you absorb what you do drink - otherwise you can't make enough bile to digest your fats properly.
8. Get enough sleep. If you don't get enough quality rest, your insulin may not work properly. Use this simple formula - 10 minus the number of hours you slept last night. The remainder is the number of hours we at Total Fitness recommend you spend meditating, napping, taking a hot bath or other quieting activities.
9. Never, ever overeat. Become an intuitive eater. Some days are more active and you may need more food, other days you may need less. If you never, ever overeat, you can finally train yourself to get off the boring yo-yo of losing, gaining and/or being bad-being good on your diet. Choose to free yourself from this vicious cycle.
10. Follow the 90-10 rule. Do not try to be totally perfect. About 90 percent of the time, follow your Total Fitness eating plan. The other 10 percent of the time, allow yourself to enjoy healthy treats. This is why we have included recipes for raw food desserts and homemade ice cream in our past newsletters and radio show. Give up the "all or nothing" mentality. Develop a healthy relationship with food and never have to diet again.