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    Make Love with Food and Lose Weight
    Make Love with Food and Lose Weight
    Make Love with Food and Lose Weight
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    Make Love with Food and Lose Weight

    By Alfonso De Rose

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    Releasing weight is easier than you think! Tap into the Power from Within. If you are seeking a slim, healthy body, you must read this book. Regardless of how many diets you have been on in the past, you will gain a new understanding of the true way to release weight according to nature. Learn to achieve your weight-loss goals by thinking and acting differently - and by loving and trusting food. Are you struggling with your weight? Are you an emotional eater? Do you want to improve your health? Are you afraid to eat the foods you love? Are you ready to release your excess weight? Begin applying these proven strategies for successful, healthy and permanent weight-loss - and with a completely new mind-set.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfonso De Rose
    Release dateAug 29, 2013
    ISBN9781301071715
    Make Love with Food and Lose Weight
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    Alfonso De Rose

    At the age of seven, Alfonso De Rose was introduced to self-help, self-growth, and spirituality as a result of his mother s mental illnesses, which included depression, anxiety, and addiction, often leading to extended stays in mental institutions. Determined to find a cure and a solution for her mental state, Alfonso began reading books by Freud and Jung while other children were listening to bedtime stories read by their mothers. In his late teens, longing to be strong for his mother, Alfonso began developing his physical body through weightlifting. By age 19, he became the Italian Champion of the International Federation of Body Building. At age 21, while serving as a physical trainer in the Italian Air Force, he discovered that his passion and life s purpose was to help others achieve their personal goals, whatever they may be. Alfonso began working on political campaigns with his father who at the time served as an Italian congressman. Knowing this career was not part of his life s purpose, Alfonso decided to move to the United States to follow his dreams. Shortly after arriving in the U.S. with no money or definitive plan, Alfonso began to experience his own bouts of depression and anxiety resulting in tremendous weight gain. This challenging time in his life was the catalyst for his quest for spiritual development. He began traveling the globe to study with world-renowned teachers and was able to overcome his struggles through perseverance in practicing a variety of spiritual disciplines. He mastered the art of yoga and meditation, and acquired deep knowledge in the philosophies of all world religions. Each year for the past 20 years, Alfonso has spent several weeks and months in personal solitude exploring the science of the inner world finding tremendous insight and wisdom. Known as an insightful, spiritual master teacher, Alfonso is an ordained minister who has a remarkable and innovative approach to helping men and women overcome challenges and transform their lives through the art of love. Alfonso s radical and unique teachings can be experienced through his many international workshops developed and designed to achieve total renewal and metamorphosis in all areas of your life. He believes that we are all precious masterpieces of God, and that fact can only be realized once we learn how to trust more, love deeply, and get the mind out of the way.

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      Make Love with Food and Lose Weight - Alfonso De Rose

      Make Love with Food and Lose Weight

      It’s Your Birthright To Be Thin!

      A Proven Way to Lose Weight

      with the Power from Within

      ALFONSO DE ROSE

      Copyright © 2013 Alfonso De Rose. All Rights Reserved.

      Published by Verona Publishing at Smashwords.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author or publisher (except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages and/or show brief video clips in a review).

      LEGAL INFORMATION AND DISCLAIMER:

      The purchaser of this publication assumes full responsibility for the use of these materials and information. They are intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subject, and are sold with the understanding that the author and publisher are not engaged in rendering health, medical, psychological, or other personal services in this book. The information in this book is not a substitute for professional medical advice, including dietary regimens recommended by your physician. The publisher and author assume no liability on behalf of any reader of this material.

      For information on other programs with Alfonso De Rose, or to book an event, call 323-308-8990 or 877-271-7695, or visit AlfonsoDeRose.com.

      Health Is Priceless

      This book is dedicated to my beloved father, Emilio Mario De Rose,

      who always told me, Fonzi, in life, health always comes first.

      Contents

      Foreword by Vicki Sara Blumberg, MD

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      1. Globesity

      2. The Fat Fear

      The Fat Rat Race

      The Cuties, the Couchies, the Gymies, and the Holies

      3. S.E.M.

      Diet: An Art of Living

      The Sailor and the Professor

      The Conscious and the Unconscious Mind

      I Know Why I’m Fat

      Why Do You Want To Lose Weight?

      The Ultimate Why

      4. You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

      Motivation

      Freedom from Emotional Eating

      5. The Divine Melody

      Language Is the Window to the Mind

      The Divine Melody

      Body Image

      6. Why Don’t I Look Like That?

      The Fantastic Vision — Part 1

      The Picture Collage

      The Fantastic Vision — Part 2

      Love Your Body

      7. Emotions

      The Pain vs. Pleasure Race

      The Shield

      You Either Suppress or Express

      Emotional Intelligence

      Circulating GAFS

      8. The Key of Forgiveness

      Understanding Emotions

      Polarities

      9. Service and Gratitude

      Service

      Gratitude

      Following Your Purpose

      Habits and Discipline

      A Conversation with Fat

      10. Hunger — The Guru Within

      Awareness

      The Guru’s Call

      Hungers of the Mind

      11. Experience the Magic

      12. The Timeless Dimension

      13. The Guru’s Wisdom

      Eating Robotically, Loving Robotically

      The Day of Awareness

      Cleansing the Body

      What Kind of Food?

      What is pH?

      The Purification of Water

      Sugar and Sweeteners

      14. Exercise

      Best Workout for Busy People

      The Importance of Breathing

      Conservation of Energy

      15. The Importance of Keeping a Journal

      16. Wonderfood Land

      Letting Nature Take Its Course

      The Seven Essential Truths of Wonderfood Land

      Welcome to Wonderfood Land!

      It’s Your Birthright To Be Thin!

      Before and After Photos

      Seminars

      Foreword

      Being asked to write the foreword to a book by Alfonso De Rose feels like I am a musician being asked by Paul McCartney to perform as the opening act for the Beatles! Really, Alfonso?! Are you sure you want me to write it? I asked him. Yet, I held dear that Alfonso had faith in me from the time we first met.

      This request reminds me of a time, years earlier, when my medical career was in its infancy. An eminent cardiologist, a colleague of mine, asked me to write a chapter in a book that he had been asked to write, but he was too busy with other projects. The book was to be a compendium of dissertations on obesity written by various specialists in their fields of research and clinical practice. My reaction to Dr. Jonathan Alexander was similar. I did not feel smart enough or worthy of the honor.

      Through my work with Alfonso, I understand that we are truly not who our thoughts tell us we are. We already grapple with the knowledge that we are surely not who other people believe us to be. Or are we? More on the nature of thoughts later. Painstakingly, I wrote the chapter entitled Obesity and the Heart, the book was published in 1992, and my self-esteem flourished — at least for a little while.

      Having been overweight since childhood and having suffered from obesity since I was a teenager, I was still struggling to control my overeating. Chronically dissatisfied with the way I looked growing up, my mother had spent years hiding the Entenmann’s cakes under her bed. (Didn’t she know that I knew exactly where they were?) No wonder I had a fear of food! At the age of sixteen, she took me to an old-fashioned diet doctor who gave me little white pills to take and a strict calorie-restricted diet to follow. I dieted down to my ideal weight. Sound familiar?

      I marvel at the fact that nearly forty years ago I could have stopped this unhealthy behavior right then and there had the medical profession been properly educated in how to treat this devastating problem. A risk factor for a myriad of long-term illnesses, including heart disease, hypertension, and certain cancers, just to name a few, obesity as a disease and its treatment are still not taught to doctors effectively. I’ve never met a physician who is convinced that there is a potential cure. It certainly can be a very complex disease. Disease — nothing more than a profound state of dis-ease, Alfonso reminds us. How very not at ease millions of us are, all over the world!

      In college, I joined a weight control group at the campus’ local counseling center. Our sole dedicated leader was a psychotherapist just beginning his internship. We figured that none of the seasoned therapists was up for the challenge of helping this recalcitrant group and that they all must have opted out, using their seniority to do so. Our leader was bright-eyed, bushy tailed, and fearless! (Believe me, he had to be fearless — we even scared away the one male participant who only attended the first week’s meeting!) Nonetheless, a 6 ' 7 ’’, 300 lb. man who looked more like he belonged on Cal Berkeley’s football team than staring into the frightened eyes of seven desperate women, he stuck by us through thick and thin, so to speak. Looking back, I think he learned as much from us as we did from him. We loved that big bear of a man, and he loved us.

      It was in that group that I learned I was essentially addicted to food, that I used food like a drug to suppress the pain of being . . . well . . . me. In spite of the overwhelming support from my fellow attendees and much practice of behavior modification techniques, it took me three years as a member of the group to give up the idea of strict dieting. Add on another five years after graduation, and I managed to lose a total of a hundred pounds. Sound like a lot? I still had more to go, and I always sweated (sometimes, literally) to keep off the pounds I had so toiled to lose.

      After medical school and then residency, I vowed that as a primary care physician I would never include restrictive dieting as part of any treatment plan for my patients who needed to lose weight. It has never ceased to amaze me just how tenaciously people cling to the idea of dieting even though it has never been shown to work long-term. Your own experience shows you that, no? Inevitably, you gain the weight back, are then racked with guilt — only to start all over again. So, you ask, where does Alfonso De Rose fit into my recovery? As it turns out, giving up dieting is only a small part of the story.

      Because I thought I had found the answer, I continued to berate myself whenever I gained weight back. It would take an act of genius to cure the syndrome of yo-yoing weight swings, I thought. Little did I know that this was exactly right! I vividly recall the day I met Alfonso De Rose for the first time. My friend Dianna had arranged for Alfonso to give a seminar in Dallas to a small group of friends and acquaintances after a friend of hers from Seattle raved about her experience. When Alfonso was scheduled to return from Los Angeles just a few short months later due to the seminar’s great popularity, Dianna insisted that I fly down to Texas and join her.

      Permanent weight loss? Amazing? Genius? Miracle? What kind of words were these coming out of the mouth of my dear friend, a fellow skeptic? Dianna said that Alfonso loved skeptics. They always ask the best questions! he says. After a sleepless night of talking — I call it Girls Night Up — I struggled to keep up with Dianna as she hurried down the center aisle of the media room at her condo complex, skipping toward a beaming Alfonso. Well, well, I thought, no wonder she is so smitten! Tall (very!), handsome (very!), and skinny (too!) — How could he possibly understand? I thought. Alfonso says that I looked at him askance and did not even smile until he shook my hand and said, You must be the doctor. (Did I mention the Italian accent?) This, of course, made me relax. Whew, I must have thought unconsciously, as long as he knows I am a doctor, he won’t have to get to know the real me.

      Let me skip ahead to a day, recently, when I was sitting in our local coffee shop, pen in hand, poised over a yellow legal pad. (Does anyone still use these?) I had begun to take notes for the Foreword, and, in my usual procrastinating fashion, I had the inclination to contemplate the weather. As Hurricane Earl was barreling up the eastern coast of the United States and was expected to make landfall in Connecticut later that day, the faces in the coffee shop appeared apprehensive. I overheard a group conversing about the town’s preparations, while another couple was talking about some very old trees in the woman’s yard. She was certain they could fall on the roof of her home. Looking out the window, however, I saw a perfect celadon blue sky, and the treetops were swaying imperceptibly. Isn’t it interesting, I was reminded, how most of us make a decision, a choice to feel a certain way about our own thoughts that is not based on the authenticity of those thoughts, but based in fear? We were so convinced that we were experiencing the calm before the terrible storm, but the hurricane indeed passed us by. And what if it had not? A storm can lead us from a state of being comfortable to a state of being uncomfortable. A constant state of calmness is nothing more than living a life of complacency. Alfonso De Rose wants us to embrace life’s storms, not shy away from them. Discomfort is a major call to action — it helps us to move! Only through movement do we change. If you did not want change in your own life, you would not have picked up this book (am I right?).

      Since this book is as much about embracing the pleasure of eating as it is about losing weight, I want to tell you how much I love artichokes. The artichoke is not the most attractive of vegetables, but I like to think of it as a metaphor for my work with Alfonso. The artichoke is plump, slow growing, and succulent. Each leaf discloses its own tiny meal, to be enjoyed unhurriedly, one by one. It takes a long time to eat an entire artichoke. As the artichoke slowly shrinks in size, rather than lamenting there being nothing left — lo and behold — what is left over is the best and most delectable part by far: the heart. I will never put the layers of fat back on just to protect my deeply sensitive and vulnerable heart.

      What about the real me I spoke of before? (You remember — the me I did not want Alfonso to know?) I have since learned that embracing my own authenticity has done more for my self-esteem, and hence my ability to lose weight permanently, than the credibility of my vocation ever could. For this revelation, and for many others, I will be eternally grateful to Alfonso De Rose.

      One final note. When I volunteered to write a testimonial for Alfonso after attending that first seminar in Dallas, I was nearly at a loss for words. However, here it is: To describe Alfonso De Rose as an ‘inspirational speaker’ is like calling Mozart a ‘songwriter’ or Michelangelo a ‘painter.’ At the very least, Alfonso utterly inspires you to identify and breathe your entire life as your true, authentic self. At the very most, well . . . those chapters have yet to be written.

      Alfonso, we have an expression in English that says, The world is your oyster! There is an expression in Italian — although the Italians have not heard it yet: La mia ostrica è anche la vostra ostrica! (And don’t forget his accent!) My oyster is your oyster! To his dear readers, I say, read — read with an open heart. The great storm of change, your change, may very well lie within these pages.

      Vicki Sara Blumberg, MD

      Ridgefield, Connecticut

      September 2010

      Acknowledgements

      My eternal gratitude to those who helped me and inspired me in the writing of this book. A special thanks to Gianni Destino and Roya Moharrami for the long hours and dedication. My immense appreciation to Dr. Vicki Sara Violetta Blumberg for her

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