Do not, I repeat, do not attempt this stunt at home! Guaranteed to blast 2 to 4 pounds of fat right off your belly & butt in just 3 short days! Here are my five easy steps for success on this belly fat blast:

1. Get your butt (and belly fat) to Arizona: plane, train, automobile... bus if you must. Walking and biking are fine options, as well, and will seriously ramp up the belly fat blast!

2. Hike 8 miles down into the Supai Native American Reservation. Once there, you will be hiking many more miles, every day, to see and do what you want to see and do. 35-40 miles in 3 days... see how this belly fat blast just happens!?

3. Live on the food (and a lizard or two, see info below) you carry in your back pack... down those 8 HOT, dusty miles into the Grand Canyon.

Food Carried:

Amazing nutrition in a fruit, nut, and Superfood power bar. I avoid packaged food but this one is great in a pinch. www.herbdoc.com Nope, no kick backs for me. Darn!

Several varieties of organic beef jerky available at the Potsdam Food Coop.

Bison bars from the health food store in Flagstaff, Arizona. These bars were a great pick!

Organic cheese sticks (Someone knew I would need cheese. Again, see below.) It is amazing how they survive, despite the heat. They were a little floppy on day two but we did not die from food poisoning!

Organic carrots, apples, and nuts pack well. Thanks again to the Flagstaff, AZ store!

Dessert in the canyon was 2 of these very tiny, raw food cookies:

4. Share your meager food supplies with the Supai Native American Reservation dog you fall in love with.

Pedra is the blonde doggie I fell in love with. Her sweet 'lil kisses on my face were a welcome bit of love. Her black and tan friend was collar-less, tag-less, and therefore name-less. She won my love as well.

Pedra's tag said: "Pedra. Love me, feed me, leave me free." On the flip side the tag stated: "Prefers paleo diet with cheese and a side of lizard." So, I did what any dog loving woman would do... shared my beef jerky, bison pemmican, and mozzarella cheese stick (I was so glad I bought those Organic Valley Mozz cheese stix! Pedra loved them.). Funny, she did not want a bite of my Superfood bar or a share of my almond and pecan stash.

I tried to capture a lizard for Pedra and her friend but damn those canyon lizards move fast! I left her to handle that part of her diet on her own. No, I did not eat any lizards. Couldn't catch 'em!

Yes, I asked Pedra to come home with me but she said: "No thank you Paula. I run free down here in the canyon." Guess being a Northern NY "house pet" was not on Pedra's agenda for this life time!

5. Bring your 12 and almost 15 year old sons with you. I figured their growing, teen bodies needed the calories more than my 49 year old - no longer growing body needed the calories. Just in case we did not carry enough in... I ate lightly and left the food for the boys. Amazing how a mom will go without to ensure the comfort and survival of her offspring!

Success of this program is based upon:

minimal food
maximum movement
sharing minimal food with awesome dogs
bring hungry teen boys and leave the bulk of food for their consumption and survival
grain free diet (keep in mind that live stock is fattened up for slaughter by grain feeding...)
butter free diet (OK, one morning my boys had oatmeal at the Supai Reservation Cafe. I confess, I ate a pat of Land O'Lakes butter. Had it been my NY State pasture raised butter, I would have eaten a 1/4 cup!)

I am home now... real butter is back in my diet!

This success story is based on a quote by a rather enlightened MD (I forget his name!):

"We have moved from a culture where movement was mandatory and calories were hard to come by to a culture where calories are mandatory and movement is hard to come by."

Got any belly fat blast stories for me? Perhaps long hikes in the ADK mountains with little food? A trek up the Appalachian Trail and running low on food before the next drop? Maybe the Pacific Crest Trail caught you low on food? Drop me a comment and share your "do not stay at home" fat blast stunts!

Blessings, Paula

Constipation is an acute or chronic condition in which bowel movements occur less often than usual or consist of hard, dry stools that are painful or difficult to pass.

Generally speaking, humans should have at least one bowel movement daily, in the AM shortly after arising. Some humans have bowel movements within a short time frame from each meal.

For others, things do not work so smoothly. Having bowel movements every 2 to 3 days is not normal. What is happening is the solid waste material is compacting and backing up just above the level of the anus, in the rectal and descending colon. See picture above.

Solid food waste moves from your small intestine, into the ascending colon where you see the appendix. Solid waste then moves up the ascending, across the transverse (part of colon going straight across the lower abdomen), and down the descending colon. When solid waste moves into the rectum, it stimulates nerves that tell us it is time to head to the bathroom. Solid waste then leaves the body through the anal opening.

When this does not work so smoothly, meaning things get backed up, and constipation is the result.

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