What can we learn from children about feeling good, having mountains of energy, and losing weight?

Learn how a select few have used their observations of children to regain their childish energy. They have used these paradigms to lose 16 pounds of fat and unneeded water weight in just 20 days!

From The Desk Of JF Grissom
Saturday, 3:45 PM (PST)
December 28th 2008

Seeking Increased Energy and Weight Loss

This page was written to help you understand how you can increase your energy levels with a combination of different tools, skills, products, habits, and ways of thinking. (Learn more about these different factors in Sasha’s story below.)

Sasha’s story demonstrates examples of what can be done to help you lose the weight you want. Her story is quite typical of today’s population in the United States but the end results are very atypical. She used to spend her days tired and she had gained a lot of weight over the years. In addition she spent time struggling with depression, and getting herself motivated to change for the better.

After the changes her story describes you will see how much different her life is now. She has more energy and has definite purpose and meaning attached to the way she feels and her weight loss.

Learning her story will help you see a really clear picture of what you can do to reproduce what she did to make changes in her lifestyle habits, way of thinking, and her actions. All of which contributed to losing her unwanted weight and spending her days excited and brimming with energy.

In addition it helps to illustrate some of the problems that have been created by our agricultural environment that adds your problem of weight gain and lost energy.

Thankfully you can get your energy levels back to the way you felt as a child, so take some time to learn how by reading on…

Sasha really wanted to lose weight, but being 35 pounds over weight really took the wind out of her sails. How could she possibly pull herself out of the slump that she had gotten into from being in an unhealthy lifestyle caused by stress, pressures to earn money, and generally being overworked?

Sasha has spent her life like most Americans. She worked long hours, had to pay close attention to her time, and often didn’t take the opportunity to make time to focus on her health. Sasha wanted to eat better and get into the gym to lose the extra weight she had put on over the years.

She knew she needed to lose some weight but couldn’t bring herself to find the time and she certainly did not feel like she had the energy to take on more than she already had on her plate. Being a busy mother and having a career too is demanding so her time is critically tight during the week.

Despite all the reason’s she had to continue on the same path she had been on for year she finally had enough. She was tired and overweight and decided it was time to make a change. Sunday was the beginning of that change.

Sundays are days that Sasha really looks forward too. She spends them with her daughter, Gracie, playing at the park and can’t believe how much energy the little fireball has. While watching Gracie jump, run, play, and socialize with other children Sasha’s mind often wondered what happens to us as we grow into adults. All the while she used to wonder about this while she struggled to keep up with Gracie’s frantic play pace.

To decipher this puzzle Sasha decided to observe her little Gracie more closely. Sasha has taken her observation of Gracie’s “Fusion Reactor Levels of Energy” seriously and has managed to figure out what was missing.

By observing Gracie, and paying close attention to her eating and exercise habits it wasn’t long before Sash started to realize the same peak energy levels that continue to make her feel like an invincible child bubbling with power and strength.

Before we continue Sasha’s story it might be good to know a little bit about the people who created this site.

What is childish energy all about and why is it important to you and Sasha?

Childish energy is the brainchild of three friends who faced the same problems that Sasha faced and managed to overcome them. The problem of not having energy to get into the gym is a difficult issue to face without the right tools.

There is the catch 22 of needing energy to make more energy, which makes it difficult for you to get up and moving, much less get into the gym. This site is about beating this catch 22 by observing and using the techniques that children use to beat it. Using the right tools you can build the momentum in your life that you need to make peak your energy levels and lose weight.

Some observations are obvious and some are pretty well hidden in the physiology of children. An example of something to be seen in children that is not so obvious is how their body is processing food. As adults our systems break down, and run less efficiently. Without specific supplements that make our bodies behave as they did when we were younger it is extremely difficult to get the initial momentum needed to start a lifestyle that makes you feel remarkable.

Through our experience working with others who want to increase their energy and lose weight we discovered many things but there is one key secret to having a strong sense of well being which makes it considerably easier to get up and get moving. It is easy to master, and takes very little time out of the day to do. Learn about this too in Sasha’s story.

The three friends who put this site together are Jay Grissom From San Diego, Erick Vertucci From Las Vegas, and Don Murphin From San Diego.

Information about Jay

Jay is a technical consultant doing engineering work for many organizations ranging from the medical field, to large governmental operations related to grid energy. He has a significant need to feel empowered and have more energy just to keep up with the demands that his job places on him, not mention the demands of his friends, family and loved ones who see him as a patriarch in the family.

Jay began searching for this information because he was exhausted and tired every moment of the day, which led to the need to lose 53 pounds (he has managed to lose 30 to date and is steadily reaching his goal of 53 pounds).

He used the information here and lost the 30 pounds and he is continuing to lose more weight to get to his target weight of 195 pounds. He weighed 248 pounds when he started using this information.

Information about Erick

Erick is a service industry professional working in Las Vegas. His work in the gourmet food industry has proven to be a double edged sword. To maintain a professional knowledge of ingredients, different cuisine, and new restaurants; he must endure/enjoy dining out regularly. Fortunately, he works on his feet all day racing around a busy restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel. He often wonders how heavy he would be if he didn’t have an active job.

Since exceeding the age of 30, he has noticed a few extra inches on his waist and a lack of motivated energy. Using the techniques outlined here by Sasha and Gracie’s story, he has been able to increase his energy levels and lose weight. He feels better than he has in years.

The information found here was the cure for his excess weight and his lack of energy outside of work. He is again hard at play in his free time, rather than using them to recuperate from a physically draining and stressful work week.

Information about Don

Don is a design engineer working in a fast paced job dealing with pressure from projects worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Don struggled with low energy and occasionally depression because of the lack of energy to focus on the things he dreams about.

Learning these techniques has brought his energy levels up, eliminated his depression and, believe it or not, it has brought his family closer together than they have every been.

The importance of this website becomes apparent when you see that it shares the combined findings and observations of three very busy people from three very different lifestyles of the following factors:

• We are sharing our observations for feeling better immediately by adjusting your state of mind. See examples of this in Sasha’s story below.
• Feel energized by using proper supplementation and eating. Examples of this include how and when to take in Caffeine, vitamins, and meals.
• Tighten your skin and decrease your water retention by using water correctly.
• We will share techniques for making your spirits soar by demonstrating how to set and achieve goals.
• Learn to be open to new people rather than shy or reserved. Unless a child is intimidated or is in the presence of a strong personality they tend to be open to new relationships. You can harness this understanding to create excitement in your newly formed relationships.

Learn more about Sasha’s day and some of the things she has done to create more energy and lose the weight she desired.

5:00 AM. Ugh… Sasha woke in the morning tired, as usual. Her head was groggy and going into the first day of her new lifestyle was off to a rocky start. For a moment she lay in bed thinking about all of her failures in the past… all the diets that she had tried and wondered if this lifestyle change was going to do the trick.

The thought crossed her mind to roll over and sleep some more but she reminded herself that she had been down that road… she knew the sleep would not make her feel any better throughout the day… In fact the extra rest always seemed to make her even more tired.

She told herself the only way she would not be so tired all the time was by increasing her endurance and self discipline… she sighed because she new it was sad… but true… and she was truly tired. She forced herself to sit upright, saturated with the wobbly creakiness that she had spent years waking up to.

Gracie on the other hand was full of life and bubbling with anticipation. She had already prepared mommies first 10 ounce glass of ice cold water and was standing at Sasha’s bedside with it ready to go. Bright eyed and eager to help she sat waiting for Sasha to start her day with the magical elixir that was supposed to help her mom have more energy so they could play, have fun, and laugh long into the day and night.

Be prepared to drink water first thing in the morning, last thing at night, at each meal (3 light meals), and at each snack time (3 light snacks). Doing this will automatically introduce 80 ounces of water into your system (eight 10 ounce glasses of water). Cold purified drinking water is preferred, not tap water.

Sasha didn’t see water as the magical elixir that Gracie saw it with. She had a really hard time believing that drinking a lot of water would really have any affect at all. But she had made a promise to herself that she would do what ever it took to lose the weight and get her energy levels up.

There certainly was enough evidence that water could help because she had read, in many places, that water was key to improving health and feeling alive. Water is your bodies main transport system for eliminating toxins.

Leading fitness experts and authors like Bill Phillips and many others recommend water. Anthony Robins recommends water and “water rich foods” as part of his personal development programs.

All of the authors and motivators she listened to or read about are in incredible shape so Sasha knows keeping properly hydrated is of key importance.

Sasha wasn’t too excited about water right at this moment. And, it would be a few weeks before she realized the true impact of this one powerful choice to change.

With gathered determination to get out of her warm bed she ruffled Gracie’s hair as she took the water and began drinking. She thought of her commitment to observe Gracie’s actions… then between swallows she asked in a lovingly playful way, “Why are you up so early, and so smiley?”. Gracie simply said, “I couldn’t sleep anymore because I’m happy you’re going to feel better.”

Getting up in the morning was hard for Sasha because she had nothing to look forward too… as a matter of fact when Sasha went to bed the night before she though of how miserable it would be to get up and get moving first thing in the morning.

But Gracie wasn’t thinking about that at all… Gracie went to bed excited that mommy was going to feel better. She was so excited that it was actually hard for her to fall asleep, and it woke her up early.

Prior to sleeping find things to be excited about so waking up in the morning will be motivating. Instead of dreading the day to come, your objective is to figure out what it takes to control how you feel about the next day’s activities prior to sleeping.

Upon arriving at the park Sasha experienced her first twinge of discomfort related to what she was doing. She was feeling too insecure to brazenly exercise in the park with other people observing. Most of them looked like triathletes, or even more intimidating, some looked like “Spartans” from the Movie 300. They evidently worked out here every morning.

Galloping up and down the parks many paths people striding and pumping confidently with their iPod powered motions made Sasha feel REALLY out of shape and almost like she was intruding on unwelcome ground.

Gracie on the other hand didn’t seem to notice any of this at all and was already chasing small animals in the park. Taking Gracie’s queue Sasha proceeded to get moving and breathing.

Sasha proceeded to race with Gracie back and forth in the park and began having fun with her daughter while getting her blood and breath flowing. She raced and laughed back and forth across the park. She timed her trotting with Gracie and after 20 minutes of chasing, racing, running from and running after Gracie her second epiphany hit her…

Ignore moments of discomfort related to your ego. Gracie wasn’t out of shape and had nothing to be ashamed of. Sasha realized that this is how you must think in order to move forward without shame or embarrassment over your current body. It is the future you will move toward. And Gracie being a child had nothing BUT the future to look toward. Sasha decided she would take that outlook too.

So at this point Sasha’s blood was flowing and she felt good but she was still tired and had that sleepy feeling still… it would take a few weeks to get a grip on this early morning stuff. Her breathing still felt shallow and her head was still cloudy from years of congestion and inactivity.

Getting up in the morning certainly wasn’t Sasha’s idea. The need to make the decision to get up in the morning, even though she wasn’t a morning person, was fueled by books and motivational speakers she heard stating that getting up and moving first thing was key to creating a fast metabolism.

After getting her blood going she was feeling confident enough to use the exercise track at the park. She did squats, sit-ups, and some stretching along with chasing Gracie around. She took a mental note of the number of each and what she did in order to record them later. She wanted to see her progress over a time so she kept these notes in simple work out journal. It tracked the following.

• The date
• The time she started
• The Exercise
• The number of times she did the exercise (repetitions)
• The number of sets she did of each exercise (sets)
• The time she ended

On her first day this was pretty easy to remember because she really didn’t have a lot of endurance. But later, as her endurance increased and she did more exercises she would need to bring her journal with her to track her progress.

After about 40 total minutes of exercise Sasha and Gracie came home and it was about 6:00 AM now.

Log your activities somewhere, a web-log (blog) is best. The more public you make your activity log the more likely you are to stick with it. If you post your workout and habits on your web-log everyday you are more likely to feel compelled to keep it up just to keep from the embarrassment of starting something and having others see you leave it incomplete.

Gracie and Sasha spent the next 45 minutes getting ready for the rest of the day. Sasha prepared breakfast. Normally she would have had a bowl of sugar (cereal) with milk but today her focus was on reducing her calorie intake and making sure to watch her blood sugar.

After years of eating cereal for breakfast, it was a hard thing to step away from. But she thought about it and when she ate a big bowl of cereal in the morning she generally became very hungry in just a few hours, and sometimes she felt so tired at work she just didn’t understand why. This was attributed to a spike and drop in blood sugar caused by a breakfast high in low quality carbohydrates.

She fed Gracie and then prepared a protein shake and vitamins for her first meal of the day. Specifically she had a shake high in protein with enough high quality low glycemic index carbohydrates to satisfy her but not make her feel so full she wanted to nap.

Make every attempt to reduce low quality carbohydrates from your meals. Carbohydrates are not bad but the wrong kind create fluctuations in your blood sugar levels which in turn activates mechanisms in your body to store sugar as fat. One side affect of this process is that you become remarkably tired.

She had always used coffee to get the morning rolling. She had done it for years so why stop now. She set her coffee maker to make coffee in the morning and had a cup prior to going out to the park with Gracie. She was still tired and was looking forward to another cup with breakfast.

Her plan was to introduce caffeine into her meals today. So Throughout the day she would continue to take in a single cup of coffee with her meals. She would use Stevia (a natural herb commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, or sugarleaf) instead of sugar to sweeten her coffee. If she ran out or couldn’t take Stevia with her she would use artificial sweeteners rather than sugar.

Her first cup of coffee with Stevia was NOT at all the same as drinking coffee with sugar but she understood that she didn’t need to introduce extra calories into her diet that weren’t necessary. The added calories from sugar would not help her to lose weight and reach her goals so she accepted that this change would help her long term goals. Thankfully it wasn’t very hard to quickly learn to enjoy Stevia in her coffee.

Caffeine is an important ingredient to increasing your metabolism in order to lose weight. Be sure to avoid using sugar in your coffee because sugar’s affect on your blood sugar negates the beneficial affect that caffeine has on your system. This is especially true if you are prone to gaining weight easily.

Sasha made it a point to add supplements to her breakfast, which included items that provided, amino acids, anti-oxidants, and toxin reducers, B class vitamins (for energy), and a multi vitamin with many different minerals.

Sasha thought about taking something to control her appetite but decided she would only use that if she needed it.

Her plan was to take these supplements with each meal. This would ensure she was getting what she needed to have her body function throughout the day. Sasha learned that her body required supplements with each meal because the average American meal doesn’t have the high quality nutrition that is needed to feel vibrant and alive.

Taking these three times a day, made sense because they were “supplements” to her normal meals that would add the things that are missing from the normal diet. At first she thought it was ridiculous that you should have to take vitamins 3 times a day (after all she had been watching advertisements all her life about “1 A Day” vitamins right?) but then she remember a simple fact… if you keep doing what you have always done you will keep getting what you have always gotten.

She sincerely wanted to change. She needed to lose weight, and feel strong and healthy again. In order to do that she had to do the opposite of what she had been doing for years. She spent her life depriving her body of vital nutrition by avoiding supplements with each meal. Her new outlook was to do the opposite, which was to overload her body with nutrition.

She read information that talked about how your body will use the supplements taken in the morning by the time lunchtime rolled around. It makes sense because your body uses breakfast and needs more nutrition by lunchtime. It seems reasonable that it would use the supplements you ate during breakfast by the time lunch came around also. This reasoning seemed pretty hard to argue with so she decided it was the best approach. It was different than what she had been doing so it just made a lot of sense.

Understanding how supplements affect your body is critical. The body can only absorb a limited amount of anything useful in one session… the rest it just eliminates. So when you take supplements in the morning your body will use what it can and eliminate the rest by lunchtime. This is why taking supplements 3 times a day is critical to feeling amazing all day long.

Of course she drank 10 ounces of water with her vitamins (making it 20 ounces for the day). Her first though when she took out the vitamins was that she must be crazy… but thinking all the years she did exactly the opposite of this made her realize that this is likely what was missing.

Again she remembered reading that supplements are critical because of our fast life styles and a problem that the agricultural system has with loss of nutrition in food due to early harvesting and over planting.

She took the vitamins and much to her surprise with large gulps of water it really wasn’t that bad.

After this her day was pretty standard. She took Gracie to school and went to work. She made it a point to set an alarm to remind her to stop and eat a quick protein rich snack with 10 ounces of water. At 9:30 AM she did just that and made her water count 30 ounces for the day.

It took only a few minutes and she just took the restroom break she normally didn’t use to eat the snack and drink the water. She did also use the restroom, which was not something she normally did at this time, but the coffee and water in her system was doing its work so she needed it.

Instead of eating snack type food for lunch she opted for a “Chef Salad” along with a protein shake and a second dose of vitamins that was the same as her breakfast meal with one addition. She had added a supplement with caffeine and other items like ginkgo in it to help her stay alert throughout the day. She did this because coffee at lunch wasn’t as appealing as it seemed in the morning when she was making her plans.

Be prepared to make changes to your plans when your mood changes or things are not available. Use sugar substitutes when you don’t have Stevia. Uses caffeine supplements when you don’t feel like coffee. These are examples of the kind of flexibility you want to have. Life tends to interrupt your healthy lifestyle and if you don’t control life by being flexible with your options it will control you.

She felt kind of silly pulling out a little plastic bag full of vitamins at lunch and one of her coworkers actually asked her if she was sick. But she said she was trying to pay attention to her health. Merideth, one of the girls she worked with, gave Sasha a playful hard time and said “What is the point you’re just going to be hungry and forget about it by next week”.

She recalled many times during her life when she felt just like her friend Merideth. Sasha realized that her friend Merideth was really voicing her OWN excuses for not taking care of herself. In that moment Sasha had another epiphany. She realized that giving up… was how she had gotten to be over weight.

To do the opposite of what she had done all of her life to gain weight, she would lose weight by never falling into the trap of giving up because of she thinks she couldn’t do it. No matter what others said could or couldn’t be done. This was Sasha’s life and she would be in control of it… no matter what happens. For a moment she could see herself leaner, stronger, and more driven to be successful in all her efforts not just losing weight.

In taking the time to think about what was being said she laughed it off and said, yeah you’re probably right Merideth… MAYBE next week I’ll forget about it, but today I’m going to take my vitamins and eat my salad… With that she also drank 20 ounces of water with her meal while everyone else drank 32 ounce cups of soda pop. This brought her 50 ounces of water for the day.

Not believing you can be lean and strong makes it easy to justify cheating on your workout or eating habits. Merideth gave an example of how often “well meaning” people can undermine your efforts with a casual statement that is really meant to “protect you from disappointment”. It is in these little moments that you will need to be strong. Sasha could have easily thought that Merideth was right and given up.

For Sasha the reduction of other calories in her diet made it a possible to have whatever she wanted in her salad. So she wasn’t worried about her dressing or anything else in the salad. She was looking to fill up on proteins, and water rich green foods (in this case different types of lettuce).

Children tend to be very tenacious once they decide they want something. Maintain a “childish stubbornness” about your healthy lifestyle by not giving up on idea that you can be lean, strong, and brimming with energy.

Around 2:45 PM Sasha was feeling an edge of hunger. It would be a few days of eating differently before her cravings would disappear, and it would be weeks before she was in complete control of her feelings about food. But she noticed that she wasn’t as sleepy as she normally would be around this time.

It was time to take a few minutes to fill up her water bottle, use the restroom and have a mid afternoon snack. Again her snack had a limited amount of carbohydrates to keep her blood sugar up, and it was high in protein to keep her blood sugar stable and give her sustained energy.

Sasha also remembered to take her caffeine supplement to be sure her energy levels, stayed high… she was beginning to feel good about what she was doing… she noticed that she wasn’t wanting to curl up to a pillow after lunch, and that was different because everyone else she could see was beginning to yawn because of the drop in blood sugar from their lunch.

Her workday completed and she picked up Gracie to go home for the evening. She prepared a light meal for dinner and watched her portion sizes when she measured out her meal and Gracie’s.

She had a light meal of vegetables and protein, and finished it all off with a light dessert. Another 10 ounces of water put her at 70 ounces for the day.

Sasha started her meal with water and her supplements for the meal. She reminded herself that these were going to hold her through the night.

Gracie and Sasha finished off their evening with some entertainment and finally off to bed. After cleaning up for bedtime Sasha and Gracie both had a glass of water settling into bed.

Sasha noticed something interesting, by this time usually she was the one feeling tired and eager to go to bed. But tonight Gracie was fast asleep before Sasha finished tucking her in.

She also noticed that she was a different kind of tired this evening… this wasn’t a pointless kind of tired that comes from the day to day “rat race”. For the first time in years Sasha was tired because of her accomplishments for the day rather than from being tired from working just to keep up with life.

She was keeping track and genuinely felt good about her accomplishments for the day.

• She managed to drink her water as she planned (she was not up to 80 ounces for the day).
• She worked out and spent time with Gracie (something she didn’t normally have a chance to do before work).
• She had 2 meals and 2 snacks that were in alignment with her future goals and by this point she was really beginning to feel good about her choice.
• She was experiencing reasonable energy levels while everyone else was tired and yawning.
• And, she had resisted the temptation that Merideth offered to fold her hand.
• She had accomplished her plan for the day, drink water, eat right, take her supplements, get some exercise and she felt great about all of it.

She felt like these were good accomplishments for the day and had she not changed her lifestyle she would have none of these things to be proud of. In addition she would have spent the day tired not really knowing why.

Before bed she decided to put into practice what she learned first thing from watching Gracie. She decided it would be exciting to get out of bed tomorrow.

Keep track of your accomplishments. Children are excited and celebrate the smallest things in life. Be sure to take a few moments to congratulate yourself when you accomplish little things that get you closer to your goal. Understand the small things are what build up to get you the result you want and keeping track of them will make your spirits soar.

Over the next 90 day’s Sasha lost the 35 pounds of extra weight she was aiming for. She set a goal and each day worked toward it. It was not easy all the time. But, after the first few weeks it became much easier than it was during her first day. She formed new eating habits, new exercise habits, and more importantly new habits of thinking…

Sasha and Gracie’s story illustrates a few of the challenges that you face with respect to losing weight. Sasha’s success is VERY real, and there is no reason you can’t experience the same thing. More good news is that we can help you face your weight loss challenges and win.

If you were to put yourself in Sasha’s shoes it would take only a few weeks to get into the proper habits you need to accomplish the goals you are aiming for.

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Sasha’s story is exemplary of many experiences related to losing weight. If you want to see some other people who have lost weight by following the examples that Sasha’s story outlines. Take a look at the weight loss before and after pics on this page.

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Children have the advantage of naturally trending up. They are in a growing state so their energy natural trends up. As adults we are no longer in a growth phase of our life. In order to continue to keep our energy levels trending up it takes a conscious effort.

When all those little things pile up they result in weight loss or weight gain. They key is controlling them while they are small decisions you can easily beat by catching yourself at the right moments in time.

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