Lu Nan - Traditional Chinese medicine: a natural guide to weight loss that lasts

How Do I Know If The Dragons Way Is for Me?

Eastern Perspective on a Serious Western Health Condition

Weight and Health: The TCM Perspective

TCM: Self-Healing Tools for Life

Foods That Heal: The Dragons Way Eating for Healing Plan

Wu Ming Meridian Therapy: Healing The Dragons Way with Ancient Qigong Movements That Rebalance Your Body

Taking Off Twelve Pounds and Eight Inches in Six Weeks the Dragons Way

Getting Started: How Healthy Are You?

The Preparation Week and Week 1: Getting Your Mind and Body Ready for the Special Journey Ahead

Week 2: Breaking Down the Internal Garbage and Building Up Your Qi

Week 3: Pushing Through the First Transition

Week 4: Making the Most of Your Healing Journey

Week 5: Going with the Flow

Week 6: You Too Can Be a Home Run King!

Living Your Life The Dragons Way

The Dragons Feast and Most Frequently Asked Questions

The Dragons Feast: Healing Recipes That You Can Start Using Today

The Dragons Way: Most Frequently Asked Questions

How Do I Know If The Dragons Way Is for Me?

H AVE you been on many diets? No matter how hard you try, do you always regain the weight you take off? Do you regain even more weight after a diet? Have you tried again and again to lose weight yet cant seem to achieve satisfying results? Are you puzzled about your extra weight, because you really dont feel that you overeat? Is it always those last few pounds that cause you to become unbelievably frustrated? Do you have certain health conditions (such as migraines, indigestion, etc.) that youve been told, or you suspect, are linked to your excess weight? Then The Dragons Way should become your way. This is the program that can offer you a healthy way to get off the weight loss merry-go-rounda way that you can use for the rest of your life.

We urge you to put aside all your preconceptions about diets and dieting before you read this book. The Dragons Way is unlike any other diet program you have been on or heard about. In fact, it isnt really a diet program as you have come to know it in the Western world. Yet, if you follow The Dragons Way, you will find that weight will come off. You will also discover something remarkable. Once you have helped your body rebalance itself and helped your five major organ systems (liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidney) to work in harmony again, you can pretty much eat whatever you want! (Well, no, you cant have chocolate cake for breakfast every other day and a sixteen-ounce steak for dinner every night of your life. But, you wont even want to.) The Dragons Way will help you learn how to think about food in a whole new way. A way that is healing and healthy for your body. In fact, most often you wont have to think about or obsess about food any more, which many former dieters tell us is a big relief. Your body will let you know what it needs naturally. And perhaps for the first time ever, youll be able to hear what your body wants and respond to its needs in a healthful manner.

How can this be? The Dragons Way is unique. Its about two things that you will not find in virtually any Western diet program or product: Its about Qi, or vital energy, your life force, and its about reawakening the ability to heal yourself. This program is based on the ancient principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), one of the oldest holistic medical systems in the world.

TCM is not New Age medicine. Nor is it a basket full of different techniques. It has been in continuous use for more than five thousand years, keeping millions upon millions of individuals healthy for thousands of years. Today TCM is thriving in China. It is practiced side by side and has equal status with Western medicine in Chinas top hospitals, teaching colleges and medical centers as a well-respected healing modality. It is time-tested medicine that is just now being understood and recognized throughout the world for the tremendous benefits it can bring.

Self-healing can mean many things to many people. In TCM, it means awakening or recalling the bodys own inborn healing ability, a talent which everyone has, and reconnecting the internal dots so that all your systems function at their best in three ways: first in and of themselves, second with each other, and third with the Universe itself, the very ancient web into which TCM believes all things are woven. The key to powering your organs systems is Qi. In the case of The Dragons Way, this amazing healing restoration is accomplished with Wu Ming Meridian Therapy, a special ancient self-healing Qigong practice that you will learn and practice daily. This can be done anywhere, anytime by just about anyone.

Most Western people who read this book will immediately read the list of recommended foods to see what kind of a diet The Dragons Way offers. I urge you not to do that. Otherwise you will completely miss the most powerful and the most effective part of this program, Wu Ming Meridian Therapy. This is the secret key to our program and Dr. Lus gift to you. It is the real answer to weight gain and weight retention. By learning the meridian stretches in the Qigong movements, you can take off or give up your excess weight and inches. Most importantly, you can heal the root cause of your weight problems. Youll feel better than you ever thought you could. Youll feel better because you are better! Dr. Lu deliberately avoids using the term lose weight. He says, What happens when you lose something? You try to get it back. In the case of extra weight, you dont want it back! You want it gone for good. Thoughts are very powerful and suggesting to yourself daily that you are giving up extra weight can help you substantially in this program.

Before you go any further, take a moment to answer the following questions. You may find some of these questions unusual for a diet book, but these are typical questions a practitioner of TCM would ask you. Why? The answers will speak volumes about the true state of your bodys health and will help you to understand which organs are out of balance and in need of healing. When these organs are rebalanced, or their normal healthy function is restored, weight begins to drop off naturally. By the time you complete The Dragons Way plan as it is outlined in this book, you will have the knowledge you need to understand how your body really works and how to address the fundamental factors that have caused your body to put on or retain excess weight. We think you will be very surprised at the answers. Much of this is information that you probably have never heard before. Youll also be able to read about the health benefits that almost all Dragons Way participants have been able to achieve. We believe you can achieve similar benefits too.

How many of the following statements apply to you today?

• I have tried several different diets and/or workout programs and have not achieved the results I expected.