Make Yourself Smarter

Give Yourself the Competitive Edge
Use food to make yourself smarter.

Tip 1. Eat Blueberries.

This is the one food that can actually increase brain cells, promoting nerve cell production in a small part of the hypothalamus.

Tip 2. While you're in the process of developing your resume and making connections, cut way down on sugar and starch eating.

This isn't a fun suggestion, but it can make an amazing difference. We don't realize the anesthetizing effect of the brain chemicals that respond to sugar and starch. These foods cause the release of endorphins--internal opiates--that cause a dulling of sensation, brain fuzziness, and amnesia.

When you stop eating obvious sugars like candy and desserts, and decrease simple carb intake, these chemicals decline and you become smarter, quicker, and much more able to respond well at that important interview.

You'll be amazed at how much clearer your mind is.

Tip 3. The first week you decrease sugar and starches, eat at least a half grapefruit in the afternoon or evening if you can tolerate it.

Grapefruit will cut down on withdrawal from anethetizing brain chemicals.

Tip 4. If you must have sugar, restrict it to one dessert a day right after a meal, but have a fruit first.

The fruit will help satisfy the brain's craving and having the dessert with the meal will prevent a large blood sugar fluctuation.

Tip 5. If you like it, drink at least one glass of soy milk each day as a between meal snack.

Giving your brain a quality protein snack keeps brain repair steady and will help you have consistent brain power.

Tip 6. You know you should drink water to keep your brain hydrated.

And although too much caffeine can work against you, one cup of tea or coffee before an interview will expand blood flow to the brain.

Tip 7. Be sure to have breakfast on any day you're working on your resume, networking, or interviewing.

Keep that blood sugar even so you won't have dull, stupid moments. A soy milk smoothie with fruit is a great breakfast drink on those days.

The Book: Your Appetite Switch

Your appetite switch controls your eating, so if you want to stop overeating, you must turn it off. Take 5 tests to check 5 brain chemicals that impact appetite. Turn off your switch in 6 weeks.

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The Online Program: Master Your Appetite

Use your ipad, iphone, or computer to listen to online audios. Test each brain chemical that forces you to eat and activate the brain chemicals that stop eating.

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You've been accidentally treating your brain in a way that made it eat more. You'll be shocked at how much more time and energy you'll have when your appetite switch turns off.

You'll have a personalized plan that will always work for you whenever you want to use it.

Your Appetite Switch is not a diet.
It's a fix-your-brain process.

When you fix your brain, you will have:

• More energy
• More resources
• More options
• More time
• Clearer thinking.

You will be:

• Healthier
• More at peace
• Able to handle things that used to get in your way
• Able to focus on what matters to you most
• Feel better inside

What people have said about Anne's Programs

1. My biggest discovery was I learned that I used sugar to soothe myself, whenever I have any "negative" feelings.
2. MY biggest satisfaction was that I learned skills to notice my anxiety and depression and how to end it.
3. I learned that no one knows my body better than myself, and my body is talking to me through feelings.
4. I established a group of support that is invaluable to my mental health--no one knows me more than my support group and I truly feel heard and belonged.
5. the free workshops that anne offers is so educational. It helps me make leaps in my road to recovery.

The benefits I received from the program:

1. I gave birth to a healthy baby boy (and I was able to control my gestational diabetes with diet only)
2. I am doing so well in identifying my feelings and notice when my urge to caretake pushes me to get a sugar high, and then I address these feelings productively."

Don't you just have to use will power?

• You use will power to keep yourself from racing ahead or skipping steps.
• You slow down and make just one change a week.
• You take each step in order.
• As you fix your brain, most of the time, you won't need to use will power to keep yourself from eating.

How long will it take for my appetite switch to turn off?

• If you start today, you will see a change in your appetite in three weeks.

How long does the program take?

• It's a six week program.

I eat to feel better and to soothe myself.

• Of course the program deals with that too.
• We eat for lots of different reasons, but all of the reasons involve brain chemicals.
• This is a complex problem, with many more pieces than what's involved with alcoholism or dieting.
• A lasting solution has to pay attention to each of the pieces that cause the problem. This is included in the program.

I've given up. I've tried lots of programs and none of them worked for any length of time.

• If you're talking about diet programs, you've demonstrated the problem with diets.
• Diets just focus on what you are eating.
• They are rarely an integrated plan that is aimed directly at the brain chemicals that cause overeating.
• You are in the majority--people who have given up.
• You may, like many others, blame yourself and see yourself as weak.

About Diets

Diets have caused a lot of harm, and the greatest harm is to your self esteem.

• Some diets will never work because they increase appetite chemicals.
• Many diets set a person up to fail, because they make too severe changes too fast.
• Most diets attend to just one aspect of the problem.
• Any diet will fail if it works against fixing your appetite switch.

Your Appetite Switch is not a diet. It's a fix your brain process.