Tips to Solve Weight-Related Problems

Trying to get rid of the extra pounds that just won’t seem to go away? Finding yourself feeling ragged, sluggish or simply not at your best? Before following another fad diet or workout routine, know that your body weight is not only shaped by diet and exercise.
According to the Cohen’s Lifestyle Centre, gaining or losing weight is affected by multiple factors, including nutrition, genetics, psychology, behavior, and environment. While food choices and physical activity significantly affect your weight gain, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is most likely successful by following a healthy lifestyle throughout your lifetime.
This was what housewife Edgina Ty discovered when she began gaining weight due to having polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and endometriosis, and the side-effects of the medication for these illnesses.
Here are some lifestyle tips for weight-related problems, which Ms. Ty has followed:
Be a mindful eater. Manage your food appetite and cut down excessive food cravings. Eat at least three times a day at the same schedule to keep your metabolism balanced. Avoid skipping meals because you may end up starving and overeating later. Also, take into consideration the amount and the nutrient content of the foods that you are eating. A well-balanced diet of fruits, vegetables and lean proteins can give you energy, keep your blood sugar stable and keep you feeling full longer. “Treat food as a medicine that will help your body heal, make the commitment to a better eating lifestyle,” says Ty.
Drink plenty of water. Always drink lots of water to rehydrate, regulate your body’s temperature and cleanse your body of toxic wastes. Water also keeps your metabolism burning and acts as an appetite suppressant, which can reduce your food intake. Drinking plenty of water also leads to frequent urination, which helps you lose extra pounds of water weight.
Get enough sleep. When you’re short on sleep, you may feel too tired to prepare healthy meals, exercise and perform other physical activities that can make you sweat and burn fats. Your body also makes less insulin, a hormone that converts sugar and other food into energy, and produces more grelin, a hormone which signals your brain to eat more food. The hormone cortisol also spikes up, causing you to feel more stressed and craving for comfort foods.
Get yourself moving. Regular exercise and active lifestyle are effective ways to keep your body fit and strong. Physical activity helps you feel energized throughout the day, prevents and reduces high blood pressure and improves your libido. It also helps lower your stress hormone level, which in turn relieves tension and reduces anxiety. However, do not break your body with intensive workouts, especially if your metabolism is not working well. Brisk walking done five times a week can be sufficient.


Consult with your doctor. Weight changes and obesity can sometimes be the result of an underlying sickness, which may range from hormonal imbalance to a possible malfunction in the digestive system. Hormone-caused obesity can be difficult to treat. Ty shares, “Keeping a healthy weight through diet and exercise was effective then. But when I started my medications for PCOS and endometriosis, I started gaining weight. I got depressed and turned to overeating for a year so I ballooned to 156lbs.”
Meanwhile, weight loss greatly improves obesity-related conditions like hypertension, diabetes, arthritis and infertility among others. It is best to assess your overall health and fitness by consulting a medical professional. Your doctor can treat illnesses that indirectly affect your weight and can also recommend healthy ways to manage your body weight and overall health.
Follow a safe and successful weight-loss program. If you need a professional intervention for your weight problems, go for a program that is medically proven to be safe and effective. One such intervention is the Cohen’s Lifestyle Program, a rapid weight loss and wellness program based on the international medical research by Dr. Rami Cohen. It is also the program that Ms. Ty follows.
The Cohen’s Lifestyle Program is a highly personalized program which recommends eating plans to clients based on the unique bio-chemical profile of their blood. The doctors will recommend food that will correct the imbalance of hormones that causes weight gain and kick-start the body’s natural ability to burn fat rapidly and safely.
The program has taught Ms. Ty discipline in eating, drinking, sleeping better and becoming more active. In her own words, “What I appreciate about Cohen’s Lifestyle Program is that it teaches you the simplicity of food preparation and the discipline of eating properly at the right time. And you see the results right away. It’s like seeing the evidence of the phrase, ‘You are what you eat.’ Working out is also more effective now because it balances my diet.” 

After 5 months in the program, she is currently 122.9 pounds (55.9 kilos) down from her starting point of 155.5 pounds (70.7 kilos). With its principle of using food as medicine, she has also become less dependent on specialized medication for her condition, adding, “Some of my physical pains are gone. It has regulated, if not totally eradicated my PCOS.”
To know more about Cohen’s Lifestyle Program, visit www.CohenLifestyle.com.ph, or visit http://www.facebook.com/CohenLifestylePhil on Facebook and http://instagram.com/cohenlifestyleph on Instagram.

Trim Down Those Fats! - Garcina Cambogia

How many percent of your friends have you been seeing in your Facebook wall? And how many of them do you think needs some slicing down? Not to be rude or anything but I believe we all need to be in this perspective of getting more healthy by being slimmer, at least nowadays there are more gyms near your place compared to what it use to be 10 to 20 years ago. This is just me, and I admit that I'm no expert but from what I understand, we all need exercise whatever your size may be, and I also believe that it is easier to do that if there are lesser weight that we need to carry along the way. I may have one of the alternatives that can help, a product of nature that is called Garcina Cambogia.

Garcinia cambogia, a tropical fruit also known as the Malabar tamarind, is a popular weight-loss supplement. People say it blocks your body's ability to make fat and it puts the brakes on your appetite. It could help keep blood sugar and cholesterol levels in check, too. Contains hydroxycitric acid (HCA), which has been clinically shown to suppress appetite, inhibit fat production, increase fat burning and increase weight loss without stimulating the central nervous system. One of the companies that I found out that distributes the kind of suppliment extracted from this fruit is Supreme Business Solution Worldwide which is a Filipino owned company and also helps out Filipinos on getting healthy.

Supreme Business Solution Worldwide is registered with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and with business address at 403 Cattleya Building, 235 Salcedo St., Legaspi Village, Makati City. They also have satellite offices in Baguio, La Union, Singapore and The United States of America. They offer and carry different kinds of products that promotes Beauty, Health and Wellness

If you like to know more about their company you can check https://www.facebook.com/supremeworldwide

All Went Well Last National Wellness Day

Your health is important wherever you go. And now that many people are spending most of their day sitting at a desk or inside an office,implementing health programs inside the workplace has become a vital piece of the healthy lifestyle puzzle.

As workplace wellness programs are becoming more widespread throughout the country. PMAP holds a nationwide event called National Wellness Day. And Healthway Medical value employees health and well-being. "Over the years, Healthway Medical has been an active partner of PMAP. We are proud that our effort to communicate the message of wellness in the workplace is coming into fruition." says Joven Alcala, Marketing Manager. "We are fortunate that PMAP saw the value of Working with Wellness which was formally introduced two years ago in their annual convention. Now, our partnership with PMAP takes a healthier turn through the National Wellness Day. We strongly support this initiative and expect more companies to join us in this path to wellness as we celebrate this special day," he added.

The welfare of the employee has a direct impact on the success of the company. "Ever since we started our partnership with PMAP. Heathway has constantly worked with them in advocating wellness through various initiatives that includes lectures on executive health posture and ergonomics, stress management, weight management and dental and aesthetic care," adds Carmie De Leon, Chairman for Fellowship and Wellness Committee.

Sneak peak of Zumba Session

After the Zumba is the promise of each participants for Wellness.

Healthway Medical is located in Greenbelt 5, SM North EDSA The Block, Festival Mall, Market! Market!, Ayala Town Center, Robinsons Place in Manila and Shangri-La Plaza Mall. For more information, call thieir customer care hotline at (02) 751-4929 or visit www.healthway.com.ph

National Wellness Day on June 20

Did you know that 9 of the 10 leading causes of death in the Philippines are health related? And did you also know that just by eating better, making small lifestyle changes and doing moderate activity on most days of the week, we can reduce the risk of many diseases and increase our quality of life?

The People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) is advocating health and wellness in the workplace as one of the most important issues that companies need to address today. With this, PMAP will hold a nationwide event called National Wellness Day that  is envisioned to be participated by various companies in the country, both PMAP and non-PMAP members, on June 20, 2014.

PMAP Trustee for Fellowship and Wellness Mitch G. Guce said that through the years, the organization have organized employee activities like sports fests, family day events and the likes for its member companies. “This time, we want to come up with an activity that will help promote awareness among employers and employees about the importance of being physically, emotionally and spiritually healthy.“  

PMAP also presented a suggested program format that companies can use as a guide for a half-day event that they can organize in their respective workplaces. It includes company-sponsored healthy lunch and snack; learning sessions on work-life balance, holistic and spirituality; and the 7-Minute PMAP Wellness Moment, a quick wellness activity that involves stretching and meditation to be done simultaneously across the nation by employees at exactly 3:00 pm on June 20.

The wellness moment involves the following activities: (a) 2-minute stretching/ self-massage, (b) 2-minute of silence (to pray or meditate), (c) minute dance/ jog in place/ jump or hop and (d) 1-minute clapping/ laughing or handshakes with colleagues.

Companies who will join in the event are encouraged to document their participation through videos and/ or photos and send a copy to the PMAP Secretariat to be included in the list of companies who will be recognized with a workplace wellness certificate during a PMAP event.

“We encourage all our members to participate in this worthy activity likewise to discuss to your employees our advocacy on how to stay fit and become more productive members of our society,” Guce added.

Aside for this initiative, PMAP is also organizing the National Wellness Summit happening at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on August 28, 2014 which will showcase the best corporate best practices on wellness in the workplace, health and fitness activities, company booths and others exciting surprises.     

For queries regarding the event, interested parties can contact Ms. Agnes Junio of PMAP through tel. no. 726-1532 loc. 306 or email agnes.junio@pmap.org,ph. Details are also posted on www.pmap.org.ph. 

The People Management Association of the Philippine (PMAP) recently promoted over cable TV channel GNN the nationwide event called National Wellness Day to be participated by various companies in the country happening on June 20, 2014. During the recent episode of The Workplace with Marybeth Nave (3rd from right), the group presented a 7-Minute PMAP Wellness Moment, a quick wellness activity that involves stretching and meditation to be done simultaneously across the nation by employees at exactly 3:00 pm on June 20. In the photo (from left) PMAP Communications Specialist Richard H. Mamuyac; Trustee for PR and Publicity Committee Jesse Francis N. Rebustillo, Trustee for Fellowship and Wellness Michelle G. Guce; Chair for Fellowship and Wellness Committee Carmie De Leon and Healthway Medical Marketing Manager Joven A. Alcala.