We hope that you will enjoy our June 4 2014 Menu.

It is full of all kinds of super healthy ingredients to nourish your body and soul, as you will soon find out when reading the article below.

But visualization helps in achieving this goal also.

Picture yourself the way you want to look and feel.

Visualize this image of yourself as already existing, and let reality follow.

It will.

But of course you will have to take action also, in addition to purely visualizing.

Right up there with exercise and visualization is diet.

The food that we ingest can either add to the belly fat dilemma, or help to diminish it.

I have taught for many years that fat does not only appear on the outside of our body where we can see it, but also lines the insides of our arteries, and creates deposits internally in addition, in and around our vital organs.

A very thin person can, and often does have harmful fat deposits internally that are not visible, but are totally related to poor diet and lifestyle habits.

These internal fat deposits, especially the ones in and around the abdomen, are quite possibly the most dangerous.

The article that I read this week, courtesy of Advance For Nurses, completely supports my teachings.

The article actually correlates abdominal fat with increased stroke risk, cardiovascular risk, and diabetes. It states that "excessive fat deep inside the abdomen can overwhelm the normal function of the liver. The liver plays a key role in cholesterol control, cardiovascular risk control, and diabetes control. If any one of these three risk factors are uncontrolled, risk of stroke is increased".

Are you glancing down at your belly yet??

Belly fat is tied in with stress levels as well. 

And it is well documented that high stress levels increase the risk for ALL disease, and especially the ones mentioned above.

As we stress, stress hormones are released into our system, overflowing and overwhelming it.

These stress hormones impact all areas of our body, and the belly is particularly sensitive to them.

When the belly reacts, irritable bowel symptoms abound as the belly churns with poisonous stress hormones.

Thus the alive nature of the belly fat syndrome. Sometimes flatter. Sometimes more pronounced.

So as you visualize a nice flat calm belly, also visualize peace of mind.

Visualize NO stress.

Breathe.

Relax.

Create a stress free buffer between yourself and the rest of the world.

TRY, as hard as you can, to live your life as stress free as possible by identifying that which stresses you out and eliminating it from your life!!

As you can see, belly fat is a complicated, interwoven and inflammatory, triple edged sword.

Lack of physical exercise is a contributing factor.

Mental stress and angst are contributing factors.

And lets face it, eating unhealthy, processed, empty calorie - fat laden food is a contributing factor.

Your own roll of belly fat is not necessarily going to singularly and directly lead to debilitating illness, but if a healthy diet and lifestyle are not sensibly employed, and the sooner the better, the size of the girth has been officially correlated medically to increasing many risk factors within the human body, and it just may do so to your own body eventually. 

Is that a risk you are willing to take??

And what exactly can we do about this diet wise??

Well, it just so happens, that the foods that we use here at Wholly Macro are anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol and saturated fat free.

Certain specific foods that we use here regularly, (you will see them appearing on almost every one of our menu's), go a step further, and actually break up fat, cholesterol, and their corresponding toxins, from where they live, deep inside our bodies and our bellies, and flush them from our system.

For example: Shiitake mushrooms, fresh and dried daikon, burdock root, and many grains, (such as hato mugi), cut fat, help to lower cholesterol and triglycerides, reduce weight and cellulite build-up, detoxify the liver, and refresh, cleanse, and calm the entire body.

Whenever we refer to foods that are "good for the stomach, spleen, and pancreas", such as yellow onion, rutabaga, cabbage, and butternut squash, you can be sure that they are helping to calm, quell, and anti-inflame the churning of belly related stress hormones.

And various herbs, spices, and essential oils are healing and therapeutic as well.

For example: Rose essential oil is intoxicating! Its stimulating and uplifting properties create a sense of well being and self confidence.

It is also highly romantic, as you can well imagine if you are not too stressed out to do so!!

Using certain therapeutic herbs, spices, and essential oils on your body, in your bath water, or in your food, can infuse you with anti stress hormone relief!

The above mentioned foods, and way more, are culinarily inspirational, fun and creative to cook with, taste delicious, make appealing visual presentations, AND, to top it all off, they are powerfully healing as well.

It just doesn't get much better!!

Wholly Macro's vision for us all, is eating and living so well, that unhealthy "alive" fat cannot dwell within our bodies.

Stress hormones can no longer blow up our bellies, and highly laden fatty foods can no longer stealthily deposit covert, nor openly displayed fats within them.

Well-being abounds, and all of our bellies are flat!!!

Amen!

May health, happiness, and prosperity be your unavoidable natural state and your ongoing daily experience.

Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro