Donate Your Weight

Many times dieters or people who struggle with weight and eating get trapped in an all-or-nothing pattern with food and exercise. Some of us get so frustrated with our spare-tire that we commit to drastic measures and try to conquer the bulge once and for all. The only problem is, shortly thereafter we tend to go right back to our old ways and sometimes we even rebel with a vengeance and end up worse off than if we hadn’t done anything at all. This show will talk about how little things done over a long period can make a big difference.

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Thanks for your support and I hope you'll continue to enjoy the Donate Your Weight Podcast all throughout 2008...and please, tell a friend

Focus on success and watch it grow.
Bye for now,
Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S.,CCH

Every thought you think about your body is a creation. When you imagine yourself and your body, you are actively in the process of scripting your health, your weight, your eating habits, your feelings and much much more. This show will give you some hints on how to use visualization in your favor and create the life you want, one thought at a time.

Every word you speak, think or write is creating your life. You are the author of your life and you are scripting your health, your weight, your eating habits, your feelings and much much more. This show will give you some hints on how to use words in your favor and script the life you want, one word at a time.

Satisfaction is the key to enjoying life and can also be an important part of solving your weight problem. This show talks about the love of homemade food and how although consumption might feel satisfying it could actually be costing you the joy of true happiness.

Sometimes what’s under your weight problem cannot be weighed on a scale or changed by your food intake. This podcast takes a look at some of the issues that can underlie weight and eating problems such as childhood abuse, low-self esteem, media advertising and influences and more. Learn how to change the inner influences that have created your weight problem so you can begin to create a weight solution.

October is Hunger Awareness Month and this show will teach you how to use self-reinforcement to heighten your hunger awareness and eventually drop extra weight from your body.

In commemoration of Hunger Awareness month, the Donate Your Weight Podcast has lined up over $5, 679.61 worth of prizes related to weight loss and improving your life. Prizes include CD’s, eBooks and phone coaching sessions with top experts.

For every $10 you donate to CARE through www.donateyourweight.org you will receive a raffle ticket and you can win one prize for every $10 you donate. Your contributions will be tax-deductible and they will help empower women and eradicate World hunger.

October is Hunger Awareness Month and this week we have a special interview with author and web entrepreneur Christopher Westra. Westra is the author of many books including I Create Reality, I Create Joy and the Harmony Earth Diet. This show will talk about how fasting can be a tool for heightening hunger awareness and even spiritual, emotional and mental awareness.

In commemoration of Hunger Awareness month, the Donate Your Weight Podcast has lined up an impressive list of gifts including CD’s, eBooks and phone coaching sessions with top experts. For every $10 you donate to CARE through www.donateyourweight.org you will receive a raffle ticket and you can win multiple prizes. Every prize is worth more than $10 and they will all help you to stop your struggles with weight and eating. Not only that, your contributions will be tax-deductible and they will help empower women and eradicate World hunger.

Join us this month as we raise $10,000 for starving children in Africa and become slimmer and happier at the same time. Go to www.donateyourweight.org and make a donation today.

To read Christopher Westra's fasting journal, go to http://lightisreal.com

October is Hunger Awareness Month and the Donate Your Weight podcast is raising awareness about physical, emotional and habit hunger while also raising $10,000 to help relieve world hunger. If you’re overweight or have a hard time breaking food habits, this show can help you.


Do you eat at the same time everyday? Can you go to the movies without eating popcorn? This show will help you become aware of various ways emotional and habit hunger can impact you.


The Donate Your Weight Podcast has lined up an impressive list of gifts including 5 sets of hypnosis CD’s from wendi.com, the most popular hypnosis website on the internet, as well as eBook downloads and phone sessions with top experts. The list is sure to grow. For every $10 you donate to CARE through www.donateyourweight.org you will receive a raffle ticket and you can win multiple prizes. Every prize is worth more than $10 and they will all help you to stop your struggles with weight and eating. Not only that, your contributions will be tax-deductible and they will help empower women and eradicate World hunger.


Join us this month as we raise $10,000 for starving children in Africa and become slimmer and happier at the same time. Go to www.donateyourweight.org to join in.


Donate Your Weight chose CARE in part after watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/v/r02diYhLJxw

If you want to make a difference in the lives of others, make your on-line donation at www.donateyourweight.org today.

October is Hunger Awareness Month and Donate Your Weight is dedicating an entire series of podcasts to understanding and changing emotional and habit hunger. If you are an overeater, this show can help you.

In addition to helping you heighten awareness of emotional and habit hunger, we are prompting you to take action and we’re prepared to reward you for doing so.

For every $10 you donate to CARE through www.donateyourweight.org you will receive a raffle ticket. Each raffle ticket could be a winner and every prize we offer is worth more than $10. Not only that, all prizes will help you to stop your struggles with weight and eating. Plus, your contributions will be tax-deductible and help empower women and eradicate World hunger.

Join us this month as we raise $10,000 for starving children in Africa and become slimmer and happier at the same time. Go to www.donateyourweight.org to join in.

Today’s show kicks off a month-long series on hunger. This is, after all Hunger Awareness Month and since the Donate Your Weight plan is all about tuning into your real hunger and only eating when you’re truly physically hungry this series of podcasts will help you to identify and change your automatic, habitual, unconscious eating patterns. Learn how to eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re satisfied and watch yourself become slimmer automatically.

In addition to awareness, we are prompting you to take action. This will be a month where you can not only learn to eat for true physical hunger but also a month were we can make a difference in World hunger at the same time. Join us as we raise $10,000 for starving children in Africa and become slimmer and happier at the same time. Go to www.donateyourweight.org
to join in.

Regardless of your shape or size, chances are you’ve experienced frustration finding the “perfect fit” when shopping for clothes. Individual designers can vary in measurements they use and the clothing size on a label can be of little help in deciding what is best for you and your shape. Nonetheless, we still sometimes fall prey to judging ourselves based on the number on that little tag. Oy vey.

In this show, learn about a new on-line store that will help you to take some of the guesswork out of finding a perfect fit and find some comfort in realizing you’re not alone when it comes to clothing size frustrations as Sheri shares her recent shopping experience and her confusion about what size she really wears.

Moving your body is the most fun, freeing and natural thing there is. Chances are, when you were a kid no one had to force you to go outside and play. For most of us running, skipping, jumping, bike riding and sports were all a natural and joyful part of childhood.

Something changed for us as we got older and mostly it was our perception. If you want more joy, vitality and vibrancy in your life you owe it to yourself to move more and to have fun doing it. Weight loss or exterior body changes are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to benefits you’ll experience and exercise doesn’t have to take place in a sweaty, steel gym with rows of machines.

Listen to this show for ideas about how to make moving your body fun again and find out about a new fitness technique called NIA that’s sweeping the nation.

Have you ever been told you’re too fat or felt discriminated against or looked over because of your weight? Join Sheri Zampelli as she talks about a recent article in Pink titled “You’re Too Fat”.

This show also explores how words and images can impact self-esteem, body image and overeating. To find out if you’re biased against fat people, take the test at: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

More and more women and men are deciding to choose Intuitive Eating and self-love over restrictive dieting and self-hate. If you’re sick of diets and struggling with your weight and body image, join us as Sheri Zampelli interviews Gillian Hood-Gabrielson, intuitive eating coach owner of http://www.healthieroutcomes.com and http://www.womenshealthandfitnesspodcastdirectory.com

You were born with the blueprint for success, health and even a slender body. How is it possible that your heart beats automatically, your lungs breathe automatically, you blink automatically, you know exactly when you need to use the restroom but you don’t know when to eat or how to stay healthy? The truth is, your body came with a built-in mechanism to navigate healthy eating and portion control but most of us stopped paying attention to this mechanism by the time we were 2 years old. Find out what the mechanism is and use it now to control your portions and slim down without the stress. Also, listen in as Sheri shares her reaction to the F.A.T. Chance Paris show starring Mo*nique.

If you’re sick of restrictive diets and want to learn to honor, respect and trust your own body, listen to this podcast. It will teach you one of the Four Steps to Portion Control Mastery which is conscious eating. Learn to get slim and stay slim without dieting. Your body is smart and so are you. Don’t be fooled by the 55 billion dollar diet industry and its 95% failure rate, learn to create your own methods for success based on your unique needs and goals.

Let’s face it, diets are a flop when it comes to long term success. This podcast will teach you one of the Four Steps to Portion Control Mastery so you can learn to get slim and stay slim without dieting. Get the information and resources you need to release extra weight and keep it off for life without punitive, restrictive and boring diets that don’t work.

Did you know that 95% of dieters gain all their weight back plus more within a year? This show talks about some of the recent research that warns against dieting. It also highlights a recent article in Time Magazine titled: Fat Chance. The Biggest Loser helps contestants quickly drop a lot of weight, but what happens when the show is over? You might be surprised at what happens behind the scenes.

Since diets are such a flop, this podcast will teach you one of the Four Steps to Portion Control Mastery. Get the information and resources you need to release extra weight and keep it off for life without punitive, restrictive and boring diets that don’t work.

Go to www.time.com to read the article about the Biggest Loser's or visit www.donateyourweight.com/bbs to read some of the other articles mentioned in this podcast.

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that states you cannot hold two opposing beliefs at the same time and you cannot have an outer reality that negates your inner reality. When your inner and outer realities contradict each other, you will create an outer reality that coincides with your inner reality for the sake of avoiding inner conflict and discomfort. This show helps you to uncover how the theory of cognitive dissonance coincides with concepts from the movie The Secret. Learn how cognitive dissonance might be contributing to your weight problem and how you can use The Secret to help you reach your weight and eating goals.

Today's show goes even deeper into exploring how the law of attraction or "The Secret" can apply to you and your weight loss efforts.

Are you getting the results you want? Are they permanent, lasting and enjoyable? If not, it might be because you are sending mixed messages. This show can help you learn how the law of attraction or The Secret applies to all areas of life, even weight and eating.

Although this show won't suggest you will get instant results or you can just "think yourself thin" this show will outline how your thoughts can change your reality and bring you more of what you want, including results in your weight loss and eating program. it will also outline one or more reasons why you have not had the results you desired in the past, even though you've been using The Secret diligently.

Recommended reading:

The Placebo Response

The Secret

Real Magic by Wayne Dyer

Are the clothes in your closet holding you back from feeling great about yourself? Podcast listener Isa Jones shares her story of how she was inspired to clean her closet and liberate her mind so she can experience a greater level of self-love and self-acceptance.

After 25+ years of having a closet filled with items she would wear "someday" when she had arrived at the perfect size and shape, she has decided to have a closet filled with clothes that fit her now and a mind filled with positive thoughts about who she is and who she is becoming.

You can purchase the Love Your Body, Love Yourself CD at www.donateyourweight.com or on Amazon.

This podcast is a little bit off the path for Donate Your Weight but if you're interested in hearing the story behind the Donate Your Weight podcast or if you're interested in starting your own podcast, you might want to listen to this show. Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH is interviewed by Kari of The Prime Spot about the logistics of podcasting. She shares some of her favorite podcasts and podcast resources and even plays some wild alternative and unsigned music from the UK and beyond! Regular programming will resume next episode.

This week, Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH interviews Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, author of Fed Up! The Breakthrough Ten-Step, No-Diet Fitness Plan. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt's book can help you free yourself from the diet trap. In this interview, Dr. Oliver-Pyatt explains why diet failures are not your fault and how diets can lead to disordered eating including compulsive overeating and anorexia. If you've read Fed Up! you'll love this interview and if you like the interview but don't have the book yet, you can Buy it on Amazon.

This podcast is about hunger. We all have it but we don't all respect it. There is physical hunger and there is emotional or habit hunger. If you have a weight problem, chances are you eat for emotional or habit hunger frequently. Listen to the show to learn about how you can begin to turn that around. Here is the hunger scale I mentioned during the show. I got it from Gillian at www.healthieroutcomes.com:

HUNGER SCALE:

10 - Stuffed to the point of feeling sick.
-> Eat to here 2 or more x's a week = weight gain.

9 - Very uncomfortably full, need to loosen your belt.
-> Eat to here 2 or more x's a week = weight gain.

8 - Full, feel pressure on your stomach
-> Eat to here 2 or more x's a week = maintain weight.

7 - Comfortable, no longer hungry.

6 - Satisfied.
STOP! Your brain will register at "7" in 20 minutes.
Your stomach should be growling in about 3 - 4 hours.

4/5 - Comfortable, neither hungry nor full.

3 - Beginning signals of hunger.

2 - Hungry, ready to eat.

1 - Very hungry, unable to concentrate.

0 - Starving, dizzy, irritable. Ravenous & empty.

Join us for part two of an interview with author Eli Davidson. Eli's witty and warm words can be found in her book, "Funky to Fabulous - Surefire Success Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy and Swamped Listen and learn as Ms. Davidson outlines the 4 parts of the T.L.C. Diet (The Low Criticism Diet).

Go watch a fun, animated movie on Eli's Website

Join us for a lively interview with author Eli Davidson as she talks about her book: Funky to Fabulous - Surefire Succes Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy and Swamped. Eli Davidson admits, her inner critic was so strong that she couldn't walk from one side of the street from another without thinking something negative about her body. She offers humorous, realisitic and freeing ways to overcome the negative and be your best, enjoy life and notice "your zippers start zipping more easily" as a result!

Buy Eli's book today: Funky to Fabulous - Surefire Succes Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy and Swamped.

The Secret is backed by psychological research and can be used to attain success and self-change in many areas of life, including weight loss. This show helps you to understand how 'The Secret' might be working against you and your weight loss efforts and what you can do to turn that around and make it work in your favor.

The Secret is backed by psychological research and can be used to attain success and self-change in many areas of life, including weight loss. This show helps you to understand how 'The Secret' might be working against you and your weight loss efforts and what you can do to turn that around and make it work in your favor.

The movie The Secret is gaining positive press all around the world. Oprah Winfrey has decidated two entire shows to talking about The Secret featuring Secret teachers such as James Ray, Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield and Lisa Nichols. Very little time was dedicated to how The Secret is related to weight loss.

This entire show is dedicated to how you can use The Secret to help you reach your weight loss goals.

If you haven't watched The Secret yet, go to www.thesecret.tv today and purchase your copy.

Sheri O. Zampelli M.S., CCH interviews author Jenni Schaefer regarding some of the negative self-talk and comparisons that lead to unhappiness and even eating disorders Ms. Schaefer shares the freeing techniques she uses to take the power out of this negativity so she can experience personal recovery and be of assistance to others.

Do you feel out of control with food? Have you failed a series of diets? Do you feel like YOU are a failure? If so, you'll want to listen to this show. Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH explains why many food and eating plans are destined to fail. She also shares her personal story regarding Overeater's Anonymous and why you can't focus on the problem and find a solution at the same time.

This week, Tyra Banks appears on the cover of People magazine in a red hot swimsuit with a caption that reads: "161: 'I still feel hot'". Tyra is a class act as she responds to tabloid photos and headlines that try to slander her because of a 30 pound weight gain. No apologies, no shame, Tyra admits she gained 30 pounds and talks candidly about her feelings. This podcast encourages you to honor your own standard of beauty and health and to let go of hurtful comments people have made to you about your weight.

Sheri O. Zampelli M.S., CCH encourages you to read the article at www.people.com then visit the blog and leave a positive comment about this article. This is a way to make your voice heard and to support a diversity of images in the mass media.

This show offers highlights and information about two books that will help you to re-connect with your true self and get off diets for good. Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH talks about the following books: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Spiritual Fitness by Laura Turner. Find out how the concepts in these books can help you lose weight and get off diets for good.

Today's show mentions two books that can help you tune into your true self and get off diets for good:

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
Spiritual Fitness by Laura Turner

Today's show reminds listeners of how the mind affects the body and why it's important to watch what you say about yourself.

This week, the FTC fined four promoters of weight control pills to the sum of $25 million dollars because they made false claims about their product benefits and results. Sheri O. Zampelli M.S., CCH talks about the recent article posted at www.consumeraffairs.com and also challenges listeners to think about some of the erroneous and false rules and excuses that prevent you from exercising or making other healthy changes.

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Learn how to get more energy from the foods you eat. Get off rigid diets and learn the concept of intuitive eating.

Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH interviews Christopher Westra regarding his eBook: the Harmony Earth Diet. To learn more about this program
Click Here!

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Robyn McGee, author of Hungry for More, interviews Sheri O. Zampelli regarding Donate Your Weight.

Find out the details of the upcoming Donate Your Weight program
Find out how the name: Donate Your Weight came into being
Find out how you can help starving children in Africa and lose weight at the same time.

So much more.

Hope you enjoy the show.

Visit Rob's Galaxy at : http://talkradiox.com/
or Robin's personal website at www.robynwrites.com
Robyn McGee is the Author of Hungry for More, you can buy it on Amazon.

Click the little green button, enjoy the show and tell a friend.

Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH interviews author Laura M. Turner regarding her book Spiritual Fitness. Listen in to find out how your mind effects your body and can impact your health and wellness.

Books and resources mentioned in the show:
Spiritual Fitness by Laura M. Turner
New Body News eZine (free)
Body Talk Podcast (free)
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
The Awakened Life by Wayne Dyer (CD to help you learn meditation)
Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsh

Faithful podcast listener, Melissa has lost 25 pounds in the past 6 months. Did she diet? NO. Did she take pills? NO. Did she get surgery? NO. Melissa is learning to love and respect her body and to tune out the harmful media images that lead to feelings of "not good enough." Listen to her story and find out how you can break free from diets and lose weight without the struggle.

Have you ever stopped to look at your fashion magazine. I mean to really LOOK? In this episode, Sheri O. Zampelli M.S., CCH describes what happened when she took a tally of the contents of one of her (previously) favorite fashion mags.

Here's the overview: 502 pages total, 472 pages were ads and 30 were "content." What are you actually buying when you pay for your fashion magazine? If you look at fashion magazines frequently and you also: feel disatisfied about your body, are in debt, are constantly dieting, or have an eating disorder, you might want to take a close look at your media consumption versus focusing all your attention on your food consumption or your spending habits.

Sheri O. Zampelli, M.S., CCH interviews successful hypnosis client, Marilyn McGraa. After 25+ years of yo-yo dieting, Marilyn has been able to reach her long-term weight loss goal and maintain it for over a year. She talks about the feelings of freedom and self-control she has experienced in the past year and explains the differences in her life today versus her past years of constant struggle.

Jenni Schaefer is the author of Life Without Ed - How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too. In this interview, she shares how she uses humor as a recovery strategy and how by "divorcing" Ed (her eating disorder) she was able to be free from burdens of negative self-talk and self-criticism.

Jenni Schaefer is a singer/songwriter and she has written a song called Life Without Ed. To listen, visit her website at www.lifewithouted.com

In this show, Sheri O. Zampelli interviews author Robyn McGee. McGee wrote her book, Hungry for More, after the tragic loss of her sister Cathy who died at age 49 after a gastric by-pass surgery gone wrong.

In the book and the interview, McGee talks about important issues that impact weight problems in our society such as body image, depression, childhood sexual abuse and also media pressures to be thin. McGee also shares gastric by-pass facts and figures.

Links:
Hungry for More
Robyn Writes
Your Best Body Yet

This show will help you understand a few of the reasons why many American's struggle with weight. It's not the food, it's not laziness, it's not lack of information, it's something else and you can do something about it.

If you're ready to quit diet insanity and you want to take back your power in all areas of your life, listen to the show and join us for a 6-week teleseminar starting October 16, 2006 each Monday from 5-6:30 p.m. PST. Click here for details

Today's show takes a look at the danger of weight loss supplements and challenges you to open your mind to look at the big picture. Don't believe the hype. Remember that Phen-Fen, a Dr. prescribed weight loss supplement is directly correlated with a number of deaths.

Sheri Zampelli quotes an article from OC Metro by Linda Melone which advises readers to be on the lookout for Clenbuterol which acts as ephedra (AKA Phen-Fen).

If you're sick of struggling only to end up fatter and more out of control, you might want to join Sheri Zampelli and others on a six-week teleseminar series October 16-November 20 2006 from 5-6 p.m. PST. This series will help you to take back your power and learn to attain permanent results. Focus on lifestyle change not quick, temporary fixes.

If you want to start the New Year the same size you are now, or slimmer. If you want to regain your control and power. If you're sick and tired of battling with your weight, join us for a 6-week teleseminar on October 16, 2006-November 20, 2006. Go to the calendar of events for more details:
http://www.donateyourweight.com/bbs/calendar.php?do=getinfo&day=2006-10-16&c=1

By the way, this week I was interviewed by Gus Caveda on A Better Day podcast. Gus Caveda has a positive podcast that focuses on health and fitness. To find out more, go to: http://abetterday.podomatic.com/

Other shoutouts on this show:
The Danger Zone Podcast
http://doctormo.podomatic.com/

This show will remind you of the Power of Pampering to help you become more focused and less frazzled. Also, learn how to be in control of food rather than allowing food to be in control of you. Finally, learn how you leaving food on your plate can actually help the starving children in Africa.

Did you know you can actually gain weight from not eating enough food? This show helps you learn about the best way to take care of your body for long-term results. Don't get stuck in some of the old ideas that create the same old results.

This show will teach you how to change habits and eat less.

Are you ready to stop strugging and reach your goals? Are you ready to acknowledge your power and use it to your advantage? Then you'll want to listen to this show.

This show gives you tips and tools you can use to overcome overeating. Learn how to use rebellion in your favor. Learn about books and resources that might help you.

We all have songs that make us want to move. Why not create your own workout playlist for exercise motivation?

Want to create a new, easy habit that will help you get slim without the struggle?

This show will teach you an easy strategy to help you eat less automatically. No gimmicks, just your body's natural ability to guide you. All you have to do is listen.

Ready to break a habit? Want to be the best you can be? Check out this article: Freedom from Habits - 7 Daily Steps to Transformation you can find in on my blog at: http://www.donateyourweight.blogspot.com/

The Donate Your Weight show isn't just about weight loss, it's about taking back power of your body and your life. In this show, Sheri Zampelli, talks about Robyn McGee's book: Hungry for More. The author's sister died at age 49 of complications related to the gastric bypass surgery. It seems that this is happening more often than we realize. This show also addresses some of the social and cultural pressures and stereotypes that can lead to obesity.

Order a copy of Hungry for More today