Symptoms vs. Actual Causes

Look around. What do you see? The world is growing larger around the mid-section, heart attacks are occurring in younger and younger individuals, hospitals are growing into multi-million dollar facilities in a multi-billion dollar industry. Where are they getting all their money? Could it be, perhaps, that the medical industry is not designed to look for cures to health problems but only ways to keep people healthy enough that they can come back year after year?

Look at drug commercials. Aside from all the disclaimers about how you may die from this drug, the bottom of the screen will say something about how it treats symptoms. A symptom is something that happens as a result of a disease. If, for example, something called a "Poisonous fruit-bush" existed, we would say the fruit it bears is a symptom of the fact that the tree is alive and is being fed by the soil and sunlight. The existence of this bush is proven by the fact that it produces poisonous fruit. Rather than treating the symptom by trying to pluck the fruit off of it every spring before it ripens, a better way to make sure fruit never comes back is to cut the bush down. Yet, drugs are being sold to treat cancer, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, and other prominent symptoms so that the underlying cause can keep you coming back time and time again.

My name is Jeff, and I am a Wellness Consultant. While I am not a doctor and do not have a license to practice medicine, I can spot a symptom when I see one. Two of the biggest symptoms I see on a daily basis, and the two I want to help you to overcome, are food cravings and fatigue. I want to help people lose weight, get in shape, and become healthy and happy individuals. But to do that, I have to help you to eliminate the cause of your weight, not the symptoms.

Some of you have, no doubt, been to the doctor for your weight problems. What did he say? "Eat less, drink more fluids, and exercise." Yet, not too long after you begin taking his advice your body starts saying to you, "EAT MORE!" and "EXERCISE LESS!" Your desire to eat more and exercise less is NOT due to a lack of will-power or because you are lazy! Your body's cry for food is a SYMPTOM of a greater problem. It cries out for food because it knows the answer to its problem is going to come from food. The problem is, which foods contain what your body is looking for? In an effort to get what it needs, it causes you to crave food, and does not stop craving until your stomach is full, or until it has what it needs. If you continue to resist the cravings, your body will cry louder and louder until it wins and you binge.

JMYB Fitness wants to help you with a nutrition plan that will make your body cry out "EXERCISE MORE! I LOVE IT!!!" and "I'M DONE EATING NOW! I HAVE WHAT I NEED!"

When you want to work out, you will. When you want to rest, you will. When you want to eat, you will, and when you want to stop eating, you will. Will-power or self discipline is only powerful enough to help you in the short term. But if you want long term results that will be with you in 10, 20, and 30 years, you need to find out what is causing your body to say, "EAT" and "REST," and deal with that issue. If your body WANTS to do the healthy thing, you will increase your success rate from "near impossible to succeed" to "near impossible to fail."