Beauty of a Gram

By P. Kern

The world is infected with false diet beliefs and distorted self-images. Today the media pushes strong beauty benchmarks and conformity, causing women to start dangerous or foolhardy diets without seeing any true long-term benefit in their body weights or shapes. Illness and further weight gain, through dieting, have become more frequent than ever as has low self-confidence and negative self-perception in young minds. This book is meant to help change misleading attitudes towards diets and false eating habits and will help readers better understand their bodies and minds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Aug 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504946742

P. Kern

P. Kern was born in Germany, became an ashtanga and yin yoga practitioner and teacher later in life with a passion to share the simplicity of a positive mind and emotional well-being. She has lived most of her life in England and Germany, where she first held a career in high-end retail and customer service, learning about different approaches to cultures, life, serving others, and finding their needs. Her vision is to help and inspire everyone to seek more conscious and content lives, to realise their dreams, and to make their dreams become realities.

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Contents

1. The body, mind, and spirit

2. Caring for your body

3. Understanding creative energy

4. Observing your body’s behaviour

5. Accepting the hammer that life throws at you

6. Recognising overeating and comfort eating

7. Illness

8. Accepting permanent illness

9. Recognising undernourishment

10. Observing your insecurities

11. Understanding your mind and your decisions

12. The power of early life lessons

13. Accepting the power of help

14. Upbringing and childhood lessons

15. Understanding your mind as a separate being

16. The ancient powers of body language

17. The power of reflection

18. The importance of your physical body

19. Differentiating between sensations and signals from your body

20. Having a balanced life

21. Understanding blockages

22. The power of thoughts

23. The power of positive thoughts

24. Understanding your spirit

25. Panic attacks

26. The psychology of crash dieting

27. Steps for starting a lifetime diet

28. Knowing who you are

29. Changing who you are

30. Realising you have learned to be the way you are today

31. Bad habits

32. Choosing to become the person you wish to be

33. Recognising overeating

34. Meditating and breathing.

35. Seeing that there are no people without problems

36. Comparing yourself to others.

37. Admiration

38. The power of the subconscious mind

39. Realising your thoughts are strong

40. Understanding what ‘being beautiful’ is

41. Emotions

42. Using your freedom of choice to change

43. Unlearning bad habits

44. Illusionary feelings of success and happiness

45. Realising that there are different solutions

46. The vicious cycle

47. The difference between crash diets and lifetime diets

48. Choosing change

49. Eating regularly and consciously.

50. Deciding on a type of sport

51. Managing work, food, sport, and sleep.

52. Tips for when you are hungry after your class

53. Trying to gain weight

54. Toning

55. Having a balanced body that feels healthy

56. Understanding the misperception of beauty

57. Having a sound body for a sound mind

58. Detoxing

59. The difference between detoxing and losing weight

60. Understanding anorexic behaviour

61. Understanding that you punish your body

62. Setbacks, acceptance, and restarting

63. How to remain stuck

64. How to get unstuck and move on

65. Playing again

66. Finding and using your powers

67. Understanding mistakes

68. Worrying about looks and weight

69. Worrying about your weight issues and dressing confidently

70. Being afraid of change

71. Accepting change

72. Understanding unmet needs

73. Choosing to change through self-help

74. The role of counselling

75. Understanding how to be confident

76. Forgiveness and freedom

77. Comfort eating

78. Practicing kindness, not self-pity

79. Why we love eating sweets

80. Resisting sweets

81. Getting back to the basics

82. Where food comes from

83. Appreciating comfort and convenience

84. Convenience, comfort, and laziness

85. Water

86. Alcohol

87. Alcohol, health, and beauty

88. Your home snack bar

89. Treats versus snacks

90. Muesli bars or fitness bars

91. The body’s fat-storing mechanism

92. Losing and gaining weight

93. Going back in time

94. Food factories verses farms

95. Cheap food versus bad food

96. Fresh food

97. The difference between organic food and supermarket food

98. Sunshine in the summer

99. Eating normally

100. Chocolate

101. Understanding cakes

102. Eating cane sugar

103. Finding balance

104. Getting into the habit

105. Self-confidence and self-esteem

106. Boosting your self-esteem

107. Confidence

108. Don’t complain but choose

109. Insecurity

110. Eating yourself slim

111. The yo-yo effect explained

112. Going for dinner

113. Enjoying eating

114. Skipping meals

115. Facts about crash diets or self-starvation

116. Different bodies

117. Being your own supermodel

118. Yoga

119. Pilates

120. Growing in width instead of height

121. Being hungrier when you are more active

122. The natural side effects of starting exercise

123. Learn to cook the basics

124. Eating what you want, always

125. Mirrors verses scales

126. Catching up with friends outdoors

127. Emotional outbursts and the open sky

128. Get real about your weight fluctuations

129. Fasting

130. You are what you eat

131. Accepting the way your body reshapes

132. Understanding weight gain

133. Understanding the two-fist measurement

134. Weight Watchers

135. Understanding your habitat and habits

136. Bad habits

137. Habits for living in your habitat

138. Choosing leisure time

139. Skipping lunch

140. Only the boss skips lunch

141. You don’t live forever

142. Dieting across generations

143. Dreading the words ‘lifetime diet’

144. Room for junk food

145. Working shifts and eating

146. Becoming aware of your posture

147. Exercise and posture

148. Practising standing

149. Practising walking

150. Moving by foot

151. Pain and exercise

152. Making it your mission to find stairs

153. Walking

154. Check your mobility

155. Food and how it came to our minds

156. Five kilos up and down

157. Business and social meals

158. No time to eat on time

159. Ideas for lunches

160. Animals and humans

161. Choose eating

162. Understanding the definition of beauty

163. The connection between aesthetics and culture

164. Attractiveness and confidence

165. Femininity

166. Culture

167. How to become positive about your appearance

168. Embracing yourself

169. Wanting to be someone else

170. Becoming the person you would like to be

171. Motherhood

172. Eating, eating, eating

173. Understanding focus

174. Understanding frustration

175. Understanding depression

176. Accepting the past

177. Accepting current circumstances

178. Simple reminders

About the Author

P.Kern became a yoga practitioner and teacher with a passion to share the simplicity of a positive life and emotional wellbeing. She lived most of her life in England and Germany where she followed her career in high-end retail and customer service, learning about different approaches to life, serving others and finding their needs. Her vision is to help everyone to jump on board of a more conscious and content life, to realise their dreams and to make their dreams come reality.

Introduction

What does ‘beauty of a gram’ mean? This book is meant to help change misleading attitudes towards diets and eating habits and will help you to understand your body and mind. The world is infected with false diet beliefs and distorted self-images. Often people purposefully start diets without receiving any true, long-term benefits to their body weights or shapes. Moreover, dieting can cause more frequent illness and further weight gain. More than ever, the media today influences distorted self-images through strict beauty benchmarks and ignorance of individuality. As a result, self-confidence for many is low, and negative self-talk infests young minds.

Diet or nightmare? Do you always want to be slim, like the media preaches? Have you found that every time you succeed with a diet, you gain all the weight back, and maybe more? If you have lost and gained weight for years and years and have not reached your best weight long term, then you may feel disappointed in yourself. Have you tried hard to keep your weight down after losing it but with no success? Then here is a solution.

Who is this book for? This book is for you if you answered yes to any of the previous questions and are stumped for solutions. If you have tried to find your ideal weight for most of your life, all crash or fad diets have failed you, your weight rises and falls like a yo-yo, you have health issues, are underweight, have trouble regulating your food intake or balancing your lifestyle, or you have never been able to figure out why you are in this situation, then this book is for you.

Ask yourself, How am I doing? Are you generally healthy, happy, and fun? Do you believe that you aren’t in constant battle against the pounds or having inner arguments about your looks? Then this book is maybe not the right one for you, and you may give it to a lovely friend who might need a little support. Conversely, do you love food and don’t know how to find a balance that will allow you to enjoy it whenever you want? If yes, keep reading, and you will see that this book can help to change your attitudes.

Food will always be the best and most important thing in your life. It gives you health, beauty, and satisfaction. But it can also do exactly the opposite to you; it can make you ill, ugly, and unhappy. However, food is your lifesaver, a happiness maker, and an everyday necessity. You will always be looking forward to it, and you will always need it. I will share the secret of how to eat and how to understand your body. I will show you the power of your mind, so that it works only in support of you.

Here is a mantra for our modern times: ‘The reason why I can eat all what I wish to is because I live in modern times. I eat as much as I need. I never feel guilty about what I have eaten. If I gain weight, then I am patient. My body knows to regulate it. I never starve myself. I paint a picture in my mind of what I would like my next meal to look like and what it will taste like. I already feel happy by the thought that I know I will eat exactly that at my next meal. I try to eat every new thing that comes my way, and I enjoy everything that I eat. Eating makes me happy, healthy, and content.’

By the end of this book, you will be able to think, feel, and say the same. You deserve to live without guilt, eating disorders, or illness. Therefore, never stop enjoying food, which is a natural part of living. Never stop trying new foods. Never stop eating. To be you, you have to eat. To be in a lovely, easy-going mood, you have to eat. To be fun and healthy, you have to eat. To be gorgeous, you have to eat. How? Just keep reading and eating, and by the end of this book, you will find a difference in the way you look at food, at yourself, and at your habits.

The truth about diets and their effect on your body. If you do not chew, your teeth will come loose and soon fall out, as you don’t need them. So then why are you going through the agony of days and weeks of drinking shakes, soups, and slimming drinks? Those liquid diets are not making you permanently slim. You probably tried it before and experienced the yo-yo effect. These diets do not satisfy your needs for nutrition, sense of taste, and digestion, which are a part of your life spark. Look at those liquids and compare them to a jacket potato with fish and crème or to a breaded chicken breast and salad with yoghurt sauce. Wouldn’t you rather go for those solid foods? The fact is, you need to taste good food to feel good. It’s a true reward for your busy life. Food is the essential happiness maker, and you are not only allowed to have it; you need it.

Foreword

In this book, I share the secret to achieving and keeping your perfect body weight. I also explain how to eat while remaining in balance with your body weight, even when you change age and metabolic efficiency. Achieving your desired results requires that you understand many factors related to dieting, eating, and weight loss.

• how you gain more weight despite dieting programmes and sport

• the effect of crash diets on your mind

• the fact that you don’t lose permanent weight by detoxing

• the yo-yo effect

• your perceptions of beauty as they appear in the media, such as images of supermodels

• the true ingredients for happiness

• the power of your thoughts

• your habitat and habits

• the power of your subconscious mind

• the power of your upbringing

• who you are beyond your facade

• how to find a new perspective

• outdated diets, fashionable in the 1980s, that preach that you should live on shakes to lose weight

• the connection between depression and your current life

• how to be kind to yourself and your body

• how to connect your mind to your body

• how to lose excessive weight by eating

• learning and practising the secret of people who always eat but are still good in shape and content

Enjoy, have an open mind, and choose to be ready.

With love,

P. Kern

Beauty of a Gram

The body, mind, and spirit. You are made of a body and a mind that connects immediately with your spirit. The three belong together. If all three areas are well attended and balanced, then you live a fulfilled life and never miss any chances or moments. It is said that ‘a sound body is a sound mind’, but it