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TCM: A Natural Guide to Weight Loss That Lasts (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
written by Nan Lu
Studio : Collins Living
by Collins Living
Release Date : 2000-05-03
Publisher : Collins Living
Released : 2000-06-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780380809059
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 24 reviews)
List Price : $14.99
Our Price : $8.57
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The Dragon's WayTo Natural, Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss Here at last is the secret to taking off pounds and inches and keeping them off for life. Unlike popular "miracle" diet programs and products, The Dragon's Way addresses the root cause of your weight problems and offers a remarkable six-week program that shows you how to reach your optimum weight and stay there. The Dragon's Way is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theories that have been practiced for thousands of years. Today billions of people worldwide benefit from this medical system. The Dragon's Way is not about food restrictions, apetite suppression, or vigorous exercising. It's about treating the whole person instead of focusing on weight; about how to use ancient energy movements to awaken your healing ability; about showing you how to use food as a healing tool; and about helping you achieve the harmony and balance in your own body that can result in natural, healthy, permanent weight loss. Discover: How the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach differs from diet programsHow this TCM program makes you feel better physically and emotionallyHow stress causes weight problemsHow food cravings signal body needsWhy depriving your body of food leads to further weight gainHealing foods and recipes that help you eliminate excess water and body fatHerbal supplements and energy movements that encourage body harmony and help you avoid excess wieghtAdditional health benefits beyond wieght lossAnd Much More! |
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An easy system that provides real results in a few weeks |
This book is both a good introduction to the theory of Chinese medicine and a simple introduction to Chi Kung (Qi Gong) - Chinese energy exercises. The basic notion of the book is simple - odds are that you are overweight because your body's internal energy system is out of balance. Restore the balance and the weight will take care of itself.
The book presents a series of 10 very simple exercises to be done daily, which should take you about 20 minutes. The idea is that if you do these for six weeks you will notice a difference in your health and weight. After the introduction and overview, there are six chapters - one for each of the six weeks - and an overview of traditional Chinese medicine theory, diet, etc.
The book is very readable, everything is well explained, and, yes, the author does tell you over and over again that this system is a good one, and it works. [If you are not familiar with the topic, there are thousands of qigong systems in China].
I did almost none of the suggested diet changes, and I did all the exercises every day. I ignored the recipe section. I have a stressful work situation, and had been sleeping badly for months. I've tried to improve my sleep situation by meditation and exercise - cycling 40 to 60 miles per week. The cycling and gym time were supposed to help me lose weight, too.
Much to my surprise after three or four days of practicing the exercises in the book I started sleeping through the night, every night, instead of waking up to pee at 3 am and having trouble going back to sleep. I also felt rested when I woke up - instead of dragging myself to my 6:00 am conference calls I was awake and alert. I've also been very sensitive to cold for the past 10 years - I'm usually the coldest person in the room - but suddenly I didn't need extra layers to stay warm.
For me, by far the most interesting thing is that I'm just not as hungry as I used to be, and when I eat, I feel full. Feeling full such as even though its my habit to clean my plate, I feel like I ought to stop eating. Now I'm noticing my habits - a bowl of soup is quite enough, but I buy a sandwich, etc. too., which now I'm not eating.
So far I've lost about three pounds, which is far more impressive when I tell you I haven't been on my bicycle for about three weeks. I've also been traveling - business travel - and expense account eating normally goes straight to my waistline
I'm quite impressed with the book and the author. The author has very nice credentials. As with all such books, the photographs and descriptions of the practices could be better, and had I not had prior qigong and martial arts experience I probably would have spent the $30 for the DVD - available from the organization that publishes the book, not from Americancivilwar. The same author has a book and website on breast cancer health issues, and that website has little thumbnails videos of 10 exercises, several of which are the same as this book - they were helpful to me.
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Weight Loss At Last! |
I have just finished the program and thought for those that want statistics to inspire them to take a well informed risk, in 6 weeks I have "shed" 13lbs (6kgs) & 9inches (23cms) and am now feeling great. This was achieved by only doing the program to approx. 90% capacity and I didn't have to forego my daily coffee/red wine indulgence either - so of course I am now hooked!
My philosopy is to work smarter and not harder, so if that's what you want too, then forget searching for some Western scientifically based dieting/exercise, calorie/fat/food combining mumbo jumbo program, and instead open your mind to the ancient wisdom of the East, follow your intuition (as I did) and you too can ahieve an increase in the following: energy, confidence, sense of achievement, peace of mind and of course better health. And as a matter of course, a decrease in: STRESS, weight, excess fluids, toxins & dress/pants size!
Apart from the above bragging, which I feel quite justified about, I only hope that some Aussies from down under might relate to my review as there's plenty of us that need the inspiration to shed some weight and work towards better overall health! |
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I recommend it to anyone who wants to stay fit |
This is a wonderful book. I bought it after many doubts, but the reviews were just too good to miss it.
I started following the system recommended by the author, with some deviations as far as diet is concerned. Exercises do give the results Doctor Lu promised. However the book delivers much more than that.
This is a completely different concept of living, health and fitness.
I follow it 3 weeks so far - I am still fascinated about it. |
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Good, but not realy... |
Good, because this is the only book I have met in my life that actually have told me the reason I gain weight and the reason I can never lose weight no matter that I think I do eat healthy food or I exsersise or I walk, or I add a lot of herbs into my diets.
Bad because this books says that it is the Qi gong that will make you lose weight not the food. OK, but then why the author puts only 8 pages of exercise? The rest of the 328 pages is all about food and a lot of bla- bla - bla. You can't understand this 10 exercises - which 1 works for what?
Also there is too many passages of the book that repeat to make the book bigger probably.I have some serious doubts that the author of the book knows in debth or understands in debth the TCM.
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weight loss book |
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THE BOOK SOUNDED LIKE IT MIGHT BE A HEALTHY WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT BUT IT BECAME VERY UNREALISTIC IN DOING.YOU CAN'T LOSE BY ELIMINATING EVERYTHING HEALTHY.NOW I WISH I HADN'T BOUGHT THE BOOK NOT BEING ABLE TO CHECK IT OUT FIRST.THE SELLER WAS FAST IN SHIPPING. |
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