Shemek Lori - How to Fight FATflammation! : A Revolutionary 3-Week Program to Shrink the Bodys Fat Cells for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss

To the memory of my beautiful mother, Sally Ann,
and all others who share her struggles with weight.

I grew up with a single mother who didnt think she had many choices in life, nor did she believe she deserved health or happiness. Consequently, my sweet mother created a life that was a testament to poor decision making. She was, understandably, always stressed; we had little or no money; her personal life was a mess; she gravitated toward questionable relationships; she smoked heavily; she sometimes drank to excess and always ate badly, putting a personal emphasis on sugar. She was very overweight and suffered from a myriad of small and large health-related issues. Most of my memories of my mother involve watching her suffer from one physical problem after another.

Even as a child, I was interested in health and knew intuitively that my mothers choices were doing her in. I was always shocked that my mother, a trained nurse, took such poor care of herself, and I remember pleading with her to stop eating cookies and start taking vitamins. I also remember struggling to create a healthier lifestyle for myself and my two younger brothers, whose care was often left to me.

My mother died at thirty-six, just a week after I turned seventeen. My personal aha! moment came at her memorial service when I vividly remember saying to myself: She didnt have to die. She could have made better decisions. She could have made different choices! Right then, I decided what I wanted to do with my life: I wanted to help people make healthier choices.

With this in mind, I finished high school, and focused on finding a way to get to college. After earning a Ph.D. in psychology, I got a job as a casework therapist for a nonprofit organization in Dallas dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. But as committed as I was to the emotional well-being of our clients, I never let go of my interest in diet and health. When I visited our client families, I couldnt help but notice how poorly some of them were eating. I began creating nutritional plans for families that would include giving up sugar and soda and introducing fruit and vegetables, and when some of these mothers began following my advice, we could all see the improvements in their lives in very dramatic ways. My work allowed me to see firsthand the extent to which physical health seriously impacts emotional health and vice versa. In my off-hours, I also started creating nutritional plans for friends. It was becoming more and more apparent to me that I needed to find a way to fulfill my lifelong interest in diet and nutrition, so I left my job. My goal was to marry my background in psychology with my strong commitment to good health and nutrition. With that I mind, I earned my certification in nutritional counseling, and because I wanted to know more techniques and ways of helping people, I also became a certified life coach.

My personal dream is to help as many people as possible achieve more satisfying lives. I want to help people with weight issues create positive change and alter the way they view themselves in relation to the world. I want them to realize that they have greater control and always have the option of making different choices. My mission and passion is to help men and women who need to lose weight get to a weight where they not only feel healthy, but also have an improved sense of self-worth.

This is why I designed the FATflammation-Free Diet. Ive had clients who have lost 20 pounds, and Ive had clients who have lost 200 pounds. I know it can be done.

The FATflammation-Free Diet Program will change the way your fat cells operate. Your body will naturally and effortlessly be trained to stop your fat cells from overexpanding. As soon as you begin to reduce the inflammation within the cells, you will immediately reboot your body chemistry: your fat cells will become healthy again and shrink, and, as they do, unwanted pounds will melt away.

Its important for you to understand that its more about what you eat, not how much you eat, that causes weight gain and FATflammation. Research shows there are specific foods that target inflamed, overstuffed fat cells. The FATflammation-Free Diet Program is going to teach you which foods you need to avoid and which foods are going to help you get thin.

So lets get started.

For years we have been told that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Weve been told that a hundred calories of mixed green vegetables is exactly the same as one hundred calories of chocolate syrup. Anyone who has ever been on a diet has probably known intuitively that this is not the case. But thats what science was telling us. Now, though, science has finally acknowledged that there is a difference between the way the body metabolizes green vegetables and chocolate syrup. Like other sugars and refined carbohydrates, chocolate syrup makes blood sugar and insulin spike. This, in turn, causes fatter fat cells. When you put two teaspoons of sugar into your coffee or tea, you immediately set the process of FATflammation in motion. The nutrient-rich mixed green vegetables, on the other hand, will balance your blood sugar, help restore balance to the body, and reduce inflammation within your cells, thus fueling up your fat burn.

The old-fashioned way of dieting by cutting calories also doesnt work, because if you cut too many calories and eat too little food, your body senses it is lacking fuel and slows down your metabolism to conserve energy. Then, if you increase your calories and go back to your normal way of eating, your metabolism has become sluggish and thus you store fat.

Heres the first thing I want to tell anyone who is trying to lose weight: Forget everything youve ever been told. Forget about counting calories, counting points, weighing your food, fad diets, no-fat diets, or spending countless hours at the gym. There is a better way, a more reliable, and satisfying way to lose the fat and maintain your desired weight.

By now, we all know that the Standard American Diet (SAD), which typically includes fast food, isnt good for our health or our weight. But even men and women who have never set foot into a McDonalds or a Burger King have issues with their weight. Thats because we have been misinformed about what we should and shouldnt eat to stay healthy and fit. Heres a secret: many of the foods we have been told are healthy are actually unhealthy and encourage inflammation. Some examples of this include fat-free foods, soy milk, yogurt with fruit, protein bars, and many of the most popular vegetable and seed oils that are used just about everywherefrom cooking oil to salad dressings like canola, corn, safflower, and soy.

I certainly understand how I got fat, Carrie told me when I first met her. I wasnt careful about what I put in my mouth. What I dont understand is why I cant lose it. Sometimes it seems as though my fat has a life of its own.

I understood why Carrie, a forty-four-year-old veterinary tech, was feeling so frustrated. She had already been dieting off and on for more than a year and nothing she was doing was helping her win the weight war. For years, she said, I ate everything in sight without thinking about what it was doing to my body. But now even though Im being supercareful, the weight doesnt go away.