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I have been staying up late getting ready to launch my “Skinny For Summer: How To Blast Belly Fat And Get A Flat Stomach” online coaching program. It’s opening in just 2 days! I put up a new video at the Skinny For Summer news site: http://www.skinnyforsummer.com/newspage

All the positive feedback is really fueling me forward. Such an amazing time!

Hi Andrea,

I’ve been watching your videos and find they make total sense. I just had a question regarding the yoga and thryoid. I had my thyroid removed Jan 29/08 and Feb 4/08 diagnosed with cancer. Obviously, I don’t have a thyroid so stimulating it will be hard =D. What would you suggest? I don’t mind still doing it but will it help in other areas?

Thanks!!
Cat

p.s. thanks for making this in plain english. You are amazing and inspirational.

Hi Cat,

I can’t say enough about the benefits of yoga.  Yoga cleanses your entire “internal universe” - your glands, your lymph nodes, your blood vessels, your organs, your muscles, your joints… and also brings calm and peace to your mind.  It’s an amazing practice that has been around for over 5,000 years.  There’s a reason why it has lasted so long - it works!

So yes, yoga postures will help heal your entire being - your body, mind, soul and spirit.  As for your thyroid, because you don’t have a thyroid, it will not increase thyroxin (because there is no longer a gland to stimulate it)… but it is even more important to open this part of your body because of the trauma of the surgery it has been through.  By opening the body, you bring in “space” to allow the breath to heal you.

Even though your gland is gone from your physical body, the energetic body is still there.  The throat region is a very important area of your body.  This is where a major energy channel (or chakra) is located.  This chakra is connected to your “voice” and every part of your individual self expression.

Give love and kindness to your throat center.  It has been through a lot.  Practice yoga and meditation, really try to make it a part of your life.  You will be amazed at the bliss and love you feel when your body is open and your mind is relaxed.

I love that you are still smiling even after all you’ve been through.  I can see your spirit shining through you.  You are on an amazing path.  I am sending you love and light to surround you on your path towards true, peaceful and radiant health.

Your Friend,
Love and Light,
Andrea

http://twitter.com/AndreaAlbright

Be sure to leave me a comment letting me know what you think!

Your Friend,
Love and Light,

Andrea

Have you ever lost a bunch of weight on a
diet and felt really good about yourself…

But then when you gained all the weight
back, did you blame yourself?

Did you convince yourself that it must be
YOU…

You were the reason why the diet didn’t work.

And did you feel “broken” because you can’t
lose weight no matter what you try?

I know how this feels.

That’s what I thought for a long time.

And that thinking kept me stuck.  For many
years I was afraid to try to lose weight, because
I was afraid that I would fail at it… again.

But I’m here to tell you that it’s NOT you.

You are not broken.

It is the fad diets that are broken.

They scam you into thinking you are losing
weight… but really they are making it worse.

Now you may be thinking, “But I’ve seen
people lose weight on a fad diet?”

Or maybe you’ve even lost weight on one
yourself.

But did the weight STAY OFF?

No?

Then it didn’t work.

>> Fad Diets Are Designed To Give You Temporary Results That Don’t Last <<

There is a reason why you lose weight
for a while when you are following a fad diet,
but it stops working…

And then you gain back all the weight you
lost and MORE.

But before we get into that, I want to tell
you a quick story.  I think it will help you
better understand what I’m talking about…

This past weekend, I was at a party and I
started talking to this guy that I hadn’t
seen in a few months.

I asked him, “How’s life going for you?”

And he replied, “Great! I’m losing weight!”

I said, “Oh yea?”

(And of course he had my full attention because
this is my life’s passion)…

And then he said, “Yea! I’ve lost 25 pounds in
a month on the Atkins Diet.”

“Really?”  I said.  “And how’s that going for
you?”…

He looked at me a little strangely like, “What
do you mean HOW’S it going for me?… I just told
you I’m losing weight FAST.  How could that be
anything other than great?”

But when I started talking to him more about
his feelings, his energy levels, and his day-to-day
experience on the diet…

He was miserable.

>>  Fad Diets Make You Feel “Deprived” And Like You’re “Missing Out” <<

Sure he was excited about losing weight fast,
but he definitely wasn’t radiant with happiness.

You could tell that he was really torturing
himself through it.

That is always a BIG red flag…

I’ve seen time and again that if you don’t
ENJOY the process of losing weight then you will NOT
succeed long term.

In other words, if you don’t have amazing energy,
a blissful state of mind, and feel LOVE and
appreciation for your body and your SELF while
you’re “dieting”…

Then it’s never going to keep you motivated to stick
with it for very long.

There is a process to losing weight that IS enjoyable
because it gives you amazing energy and radiant health,
It’s Here:  The Weight Loss System That You Enjoy

But when you’re miserable…

Then you’re going to be counting down the days
until you reach your “goal weight” or your 30 day
“commitment” is done.

It had only been 1 month, but already he was
dreaming about the day when it would all be over
so he could go back to living his “regular” life
once the weight was gone.

But what if he never reaches his “goal weight”?

That’s what happens when you follow these fad
diets…

You dream about the day when you will be where
you want to be, weighing the amount you want to
weigh… but you never get there.

It’s like they are holding a carrot out in
front of a donkey on a stick and the donkey keeps
walking forward thinking that he will one day be
able to eat that carrot.

That’s how the fad diets keep you on them for
so long because they promise you a “goal” that
you will never get to.

And do you want to hear the craziest part of
this whole thing?

This wasn’t his first time on the Atkins Diet.

>> When Following Fad Diets Becomes An Addiction <<

He had followed it less than 2 years ago and
“lost a bunch of weight”… but then he gained
it ALL back and MORE.

Now this really is the most dangerous part.

I understand when people do this or think
this way because I used to think this way too.

And that’s exactly the way the fad diets WANT
you to think…

That THEY work and YOU’RE the one that’s broken.

I wanted to grab him by the collar and say,
“If you’re on the diet AGAIN, then it didn’t work!”

But if you were to ask him, he would say, “Yea,
Atkins works great.”  And he would recommend it
to anyone who wants to lose weight.

I know that it can be confusing because it
looks like these fad diets are working…

You may lose SOME weight for a month or two…

But the weight doesn’t STAY OFF.

These fad diets, don’t KEEP you thin.

Here’s why…

>>  Extreme Diets Tell Your Body To Store Fat >>

When you drastically change what you’re eating
overnight, say by cutting out all carbs like on the
Atkins diet including fruit… your  body recognizes that
something EXTREME has just happened.

And your body is prepared to deal with these
extreme situations.

In the past, it used to mean that the food
had just run out because there was a famine or a
drought.

And your body has evolved to deal with a
shortage of food.

Meaning, that even if food runs out, your body
can do AMAZING things to keep you alive.

And the first thing your body does is it gets
rid of your muscle.

Why?

Because muscle takes too much energy, and too
many calories to keep alive.  Muscle is
hungry and eats through calories even while your
just sitting there and sleeping.

The body recognizes “something just happened
to the food supply.  I’m going to get rid of this
expensive muscle tissue in order to conserve the
food energy and use it to keep me alive.”

So here’s a question for you -

When you’re “dieting” do you want to lose muscle?

Or do you want to lose fat?…

Right!  You want to lose fat.

But on these fad diets that are trying to
“trick” your body into fast weight loss, your
body HOLDS ONTO THE FAT and gets rid of the
muscle.

Why does this happen?

Because fat is what is going to keep you alive
when all the food runs out for good.

That’s what fat cells do.  They are “storage
cells”.  Little batteries of stored energy that
can be used in stressful times to keep you alive.

And when you’re on these extreme diets like the
Atkins, you are telling your body, “Times are very
stressful.”

Why else would you have changed your diet so
drastically overnight?

The food must be running out.

And the more stress your body feels, the more
fat your body makes.

Sounds great, doesn’t it?

So here you are telling your body to get rid
of muscle and store more fat… and you know
what this does?

Turns your body into a jiggly, wobbly mess of
nothing but bones, organs and fat.

Sure, you may be “smaller” than you were before
because eventually after all the muscle is gone,
you do start to burn fat… but that’s only if
your body has no choice.

Following the Atkins diet approach, your body
will only burn fat if it feels REALLY stressed and
like it has no choice because ALL the muscle is
already gone.

And this is usually the point where people
quit.

>>  Starving And Depriving Yourself Is A Miserable Way To Live <<

Turns out putting your body through this
extreme amount of stress is VERY painful…

Which is why my friend was so miserable.

And it is only a matter of time before
everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE) gives up and
goes off the diet.

It’s just too hard!

You’re living in a state of total deprivation.

And not eating a balanced diet will make you
feel horrible.

Eventually, he’s going to quit.

And when he does, that’s when things go REALLY
bad…

>> Fad Diets Slow Down Your Metabolism <<

Now that he has eliminated all his muscle he
now has a slower metabolism.

And that means that when he DOES go back to
eating the way he used to - which he will because
he never learned how to break the habits and
he still has negative addictions to bread,
sugar and pasta.

BTW…If you want to learn how to break your
addictions to bread, pasta and sugar, then you
should check this out here:

Break Your Addiction To Carbs Forever

So he will go back to eating all those foods
that he loves, and he will gain back all the
weight AND MORE because he has “trained” his
body to store fat.

Remember, I told you that the body stores
fat in order to keep itself alive when food is
in shortage…

Well, he has already told his body that this
“food shortage” happens - at least TWICE now that
I know of when he followed the Atkins diet and who
knows how many OTHER fad diets he’s been on.

So as soon as the body registers that enough
calories are coming in…

Straight to the fat cells!

Lovely huh?

>>   When You Fail At Dieting You Feel Like A Failure <<

And do you think all of this is going to be
good for his self-esteem?

Of course not.

He’s probably going to convince himself that
he “can’t lose weight” because he’s “tried
everything”.

And that will only make him feel worse about
himself as a person.

Which will make him run to food in order to
escape and feel good for a moment…

Which will only make him get fatter and fatter.

Until maybe some day in the future he will be
tired of being fat again, and he will try another
fad diet (or maybe even Atkins again!) because
he THINKS that he was once “successful” at losing
the weight.

So back to the purpose of this letter…

That’s how the fad diets scam you.

They give you short term illusions and fool you
into thinking that you are losing the right kind of
weight…

But you’re NOT.

Here’s what IS happening:

- You get rid of all your muscle

- You train your body to store fat

- You slow down your metabolism

- You convince yourself that losing weight is “miserable”

- You get a lower self-esteem because you fail

- You give up on yourself and turn to more to destructive habits like eating

- You get fatter

So why is he putting himself through all of
this misery for short-term fat loss that COMES
BACK?

I guess because he feels like he has no other
options.

But you do.

You’re reading these newsletters and you know
that I’m not here giving you another “fad diet”
that tricks you into thinking you’re losing weight.

I’m here to give you a complete system for
healthy weight loss.

This is the approach I finally discovered
after I tried and FAILED at dozens of fad diets…

And the same approach that has helped thousands
of other women just like you to become educated
about nutrition, and their bodies, and the science
of burning fat and building muscle.

Yes.  It can be done when you follow the right
approach.

And instead of losing weight for a month or two
or three at the most, then gaining it all back
and MORE…

I’m teaching you how to lose the weight for a
lifetime.  And in fact, you will continue to get
thinner and healthier every year of your life.

This is more than a diet, this is a complete
education system that walks you step-by-step
through everything you need for healthy weight loss.

It’s all in a 6 CD audio course that you can
listen to anytime in your car or at home.

I give you my best advice about healthy weight
loss in this audio course.

Such as:

- 5 ways to trigger “fat burning” all day long

- How to incorporate a new healthy eating system in
your life for good so you never gain weight again

- How to enjoy the process so you keep yourself motivated

Try it out for 60 days.  If you don’t feel and
see amazing results (and I know you will), then I
don’t want you to pay for it.

That’s my promise to you.

Go here to check out the audio course that
gives you a complete education solution to healthy
weight loss:

Step-By-Step Solution To Healthy Weight Loss

And if you haven’t downloaded my introductory
eBook, then that’s here:

Introduction To Healthy Weight Loss

When you understand the science of how your
body burns fat, and when you get in touch with
your deepest desires to be healthy - this will
keep you on the right path to losing weight and
gaining health for a lifetime.

You deserve this.

You deserve to have a healthy body, a peaceful
mind and a radiant spirit… even WHILE you’re
losing weight.

And you’ll find that the joy you get from
living a healthy life, and making healthy choices,
yes - you will lose weight and that feels great…

But there’s also something deeper going on
inside of you.

You are giving yourself LOVE each and every
day with every healthy choice you make.

And this becomes your new addiction.

But this one is a positive addiction that will
fill yourself up on the inside and then pour out
of you onto every thing and every ONE in your life.

You are growing and expanding this infinite
LOVE inside of you.

You are leaning toward the light like a flower
leans toward the sun…

Fill yourself up.  And watch how it grows and
expands inside of you.

I’m sending you love and light to surround you
on your journey into health.

Thank you for being all that you are and for
believing in all that you can be.

Talk to you soon…

Your Friend,
Love and Light,

Andrea

Dear Andrea,
First off I would like say that your newsletters are SO helpful. However, recently, I’ve fallen off the wagon! Please help me get back on! Any tips you have are helpful!!!
Also, in one of your earlier newsletters, you said that the brain is a big calorie burner. I fell REALLY stupid asking this question, but if ou do maore academically challenging things, will tht burn more calories? I REALLY want to know this!!!!
Again, thank you for all the help.
Jordan U. OH

Hi Jordan,

Just remember, this is a process.  You are going to fall down, just pick yourself back up.  It’s like a child learning how to walk - they fall down all the time and eventually walking is second nature to them.  It’s the same for following a healthy path.  Just keep pulling yourself back to it.  And forgive yourself when you fall down.

Yes, thinking and brain activity does burn through a lot of calories.  Which is why you need to nourish your brain with healthy foods all day long.  Are you eating 6 times a day?  This is the biggest key to speeding up your metabolism and losing weight.

Be patient with yourself.  You are learning these tools that will set you up and give you a lifetime of health.

Your Friend,
Love and Light,
Andréa

I’ve been emailing back and forth with a reader who is fighting cancer and can’t get out to exercise.  I gave her a breathing exercise to replenish and detox while she is in this delicate healing state…

Dear Jeanelle,

I was thinking about you in my yoga class today… wishing you all the love and light that you deserve.

You are a caring and compassionate healer.  You’ve always given to others that love, and so you are already connected to that “frequency”.  The universe wants you to have the same.  It’s only a matter of opening up and letting your whole SELF receive it.  You deserve it.  And it’s waiting there for you.  Let me show you what I mean…

Will you try this breathing experiment?

Turn off the tv.  Turn off the computer.  Find the stillness and silence inside of you.  And be still with your breath.

With every inhale you are breathing in peaceful and healing energy, and with every exhale you are releasing everything that is no longer serving you.  Inhale - bringing in nourishment.  Exhale - detoxing and releasing.

Say that to yourself over and over again, “Inhale - Nourishment. Exhale - Releasing.”

Do this for 10 slow, deep breath cycles.

Then open your eyes and see how you feel.

Just notice the subtle changes inside of you.  Do you feel calm?  Relaxed?  And energized at the same time?

This is how powerful the breath can be.  And it’s there for you ALL THE TIME.

Let me know how that works out for you.  If you like it, maybe we can add some gentle movements to open the body and let the breath travel deeper…

Your Friend,
Love and Light,
Andréa

*** Her Response **

Bless you, Andrea…this message came at a time that I so needed someone to understand how much I need easy to understand breathing.  I had another trip to the ER last night.  I’ve had diarrhea since having a colonoscopy on 2-26.  Yesterday was a very bad day.  I lost my lunch, along with 11 instances of diarrhea.  By evening my BP climbed alarmingly with every 30 minutes.  Our ER is hopeless, but I did get an IV to hydrate my body.  I had one good day, with no pain…on Saturday night and Sunday a.m.. I made a BIG mistake…ate an apple Sat night and another one on Sunday.  All the bad symptoms came to hit me by Sunday afternoon.  I just want to get back to healthy eating, but I will have to eat what I can keep down for now.

I’m printing out your directions.  Thank you for remembering me and caring.  I am so blessed.  It’s amazing that through the Internet, I’ve “met” you.  You “get” it about what I need more than most people in my life.  I’m not fitting into the mold right now for what my family expects of me.  I’m the caregiver and they don’t know what to do when I’m down and out.

Thank you again for your caring heart.  Now I’m about to do the breathing and try to get feeling better from the continued gastric distress.  You amaze me, and I keep you in my prayers.

I will send a report in a few days.

Thanks again for being my friend!  You know the real meaning of that word!

Blessings as you spread your light!  Jeanelle

My boyfriend’s mom just forwarded me this email from a diet pill company who’s headline reads, “Oprah Excited About Green Tea!”  She forwarded this to me because she knows that I love Oprah and green tea, so she was thinking I would be happy to receive this email, and I was… until I opened it.

When I saw what the ad was about here’s what I wrote back…

Hi Penny,

This ad is a scam.  They are quoting Oprah saying she endorses drinking green tea, NOT their “green tea” product.  This is how diet pill and diet program scams can say anything and get away with it.  It’s hard to recognize it, but after doing this as long as we have, we can see when an ad is using false promises and only trying to confuse the market into buying their product.

If you look closely, you’ll see that Oprah and Dr. Perricone mentioned how if you stop drinking coffee and start drinking green tea, that you can lose 10 pounds.  Well, this product called Green Tea Pro then takes their statements and uses it as advertising and an endorsement to their product - but it’s NOT, she was talking about NATURAL green tea, not their chemical-filled, unnatural pill.

There are some really tricky ads out there and companies with no conscience.  This is why everyone is so confused about weight loss.

Thanks for sending this over!  I think it will make a really great newsletter topic

Love,
little a

Here’s an email I got from a reader:

Andrea

I have read both of your e-books through and have watched all of your videos and I am inspired to share your advice with others!  My Mom is now interested in reading your e-book, and I gave her your website! ;-)  She has also struggled with her weight for many years and I would love to see her finally release the pounds and feel better.  We all love her just the way she is, but she has to do this for herself - as do I.

I am also a fan on Facebook now.  The before and after pics are incredible….it shows how dedicated you are and how far you’ve come.

Thanks so much for keeping me up to date on the new videos!

*HUGS*

Tara S.

And here’s my response:

That’s great Tara!

I can speak from experience that helping your family get healthy is one of the best feelings in the world.  For my entire life, my mom always talked about how she was an “intellectual” and didn’t like her body.  She never exercised and all her body comments were always negative.  Finally, I decided she needed some help in her body-esteem so i got her some private yoga lessons in her house.  That changed everything!   She was able to feel comfortable because she wasn’t in a class and the one-on-one instruction taught her to feel her body and connect with it in a way she never could before.  Now she goes to yoga once a week in a class and she LOVES it.

It’s really cool to see her expanding her perspective on health and she’s almost 60 years old… so whoever says that it’s too late in life to start Don’t Believe them!

I am so excited for you and your mom!

Love and Light,
Andréa

I just got off the phone with my sister Megan. She is 2 months into her New Year’s Resolution to finally getting her body and her life on track. I am overwhelmed by her progress. She is doing so great.

She sent me the most wonderful testimonial for my weight loss program…

“After many years of struggling with diet, exercise and stress, I feel like you’ve given me the solution. I have been following your recommendations for almost 2 months now and I FEEL GREAT!!! I have more energy than ever, and as an extra bonus, I’ve lost almost 10 inches of fat around my body! I know this will continue to work, because I don’t have cravings for unhealthy foods anymore and I don’t feel deprived like I used to when I would “diet”. This is something I can, and will, do forever - Thank you so much!” - Megan, Dallas TX

Now that would be an amazing email to get from anyone, but because it came from my own sister it means the absolute world to me. See, my sister is one of my greatest inspirations for telling the world about the secrets I’ve discovered for permanent and healthy weight loss. I’ve often thought, “If I can’t help my own family get healthy, at least I can try to help others.” She is my best friend and because we are so close, it has been hard for her to talk to me about her health and weight loss for a long time… but now all of that has changed.

Now we talk all the time about healthy diet habits, exercise, yoga and why the medical community is doing such a bad job of solving the obesity epidemic. Megan has a lot of opinions about this because she is a doctor. She told me today that doctors are frustrated that their patients aren’t following their advice to “Eat less and exercise more”… but she realizes that there’s something missing from that equation. And that’s why it never worked for her either.

Today Megan told me that she ate a small piece of cake for her birthday but after being off sugar and chemicals for the past few months, it actually made her sick. I almost cried. That to me is a clear sign that her body is healing itself and “rejecting” the poison that she once ate every day. Once your body is “clean” and free from the addiction signs, then it becomes a lot easier to make healthy choices. I have always wanted my sister to be healthy and to feel the bliss of living a healthy life… now she is experiencing it for herself. There is laughter in her voice when she tells me, “I feel so great! I want to do this forever.”

And after all the years of worrying and wondering if my sister would ever find the inspiration to get healthy, I believe that she is on the path for a lifetime of health. This is the best gift I could ever ask for. Now my sister and are are pulling for the same team and we want to help others find their way out of the misery of yo-yo dieting and discover the bliss of making healthy choices for a lifetime.