Weight loss program

Pleasant Hill Acupuncture

How to gain Weight!

• 1. Calorie : more taking less burning

• 2. weight : lifting up the weight

• 3. Water : need for weight gain

• 4. Protein supplement

• 5. Sleep : at least 8 hours

• 6. wear bigger size pants

How to lose weight!

• 1. Calorie : less taking more burning

• 2. weight : lifting down the weight

• 3. Water : expel for weight loss

• 4. avoid fatty meat protein

• 5. Sleep : at least 7 hours (7-9 hours)

• 6. ready to wear smaller size pants

Check your life style

• Morning Star

1. Waking up before 7 AM

2. Breakfast

3. Long –distance Commuting

• Night Star

• 1. Going bed after 12 AM

• 2. Dinner

• 3. enjoy night life

Got a good sleep?

TCM Clock

San Jiao (Triple burner time)

9:00 ~ 11:00 PM

Sleep Time

Help your good night sleep

• 1. Make a habit

• 2. warm shower or dry towel massage on your neck area

• 3. Light meal before 6:00 pm

• 4. Comfortable bedroom setting

• 5. Turn off TV and noise

• 6. Don’t forget the belly balloon breathing , meditation

An Mian (Peaceful sleep)

• An Mian Tang • Acupuncture point

Time to know your body type

Body areaTemperatureOverweight

Damp

HotUpper

Middle

Cold Lower

Check your Body composition

• Protein mass• Mineral mass• Mass of body fat • Total body water• Soft lean mass• Lean body mass• Weight• B.M.I.• Percent body fat• Age matched of body• Basal metabolic rate

etc.

Stress Test• * Heart Rate (Average,

Highest, Lowest, Ectopic Beat)

• * Overall Tone of Autonomic Nervous System

• * Balance of Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Tone

• * Physical Stress

• * Emotional Stress

• * Stress Dissolution Ability

• * Stress Score

Diagnosis

• Blood pressure

• Fasting blood test

• Vital sign

• Record body size

• Health history

• Family history

• Tongue and Pulse

• Abdominal palpation

• Ear diagnosis

• Facial diagnosis

• Color diagnosis

Factors of Weight gain

TCM Etiology

• 1. Fire - Qi deficiency ; not enough yang energy to burn oils (fat)

2. Fat (oil) – greasy fatty food diet, junk food

3. Water - dampness not being transported or transformed properly (hot or cold)

Plan

Excess

DeficientFat

Water

Tonify

Sedate Expel

Burn

TreatmentDiet

Counseling

Nutrition

Herbal Formula

Tea therapy

Stimulation

Acupuncture

Cupping

Moxibustion

Heat Therapy

Exercise

Breathing

Education

Detoxification

• Western nutrition fact

• Calorie

• BMR, BMI

• Nutrition in foods

1. Diet Counseling (Integrative)

• Eastern nutrition fact

• Tastes: Bitter, Sweet, Pungent, Salty, Sour,

• Color : Red, Yellow, White, Black, Green

• Seasons

Healthy Diet Recipe

Ex)Nutritional Herbal FormulaTea Therapy

• Vitamin A def.

• Acne• dry hair• fatigue• growth impairment• insomnia• hyperkeratosis (thickening

and roughness of skin)• immune impairment• night blindness

• Liver Blood def.

• Numbness in the extremities,

• tics, tremors, dizziness• blurred vision, floaters• insomnia, dry skin/hair• scanty or lack of

menstruation

Gou Qi Zi + Jue Ming Zi

Stimulation Therapy

• 1. Acupuncture

• Electro-acupuncture

• 2. Fire cupping

• 3. Gua Sha

• 4. Auricular acupuncture or tacks

• 5. Stone meridian pressure

Heat Therapy

• 1. Moxibustion

• 2. Hot moxa stone

• 3. High Radio Frequency

• 4. Heat lamp with needle

Breathing Method

• 1. Qi gong

• 2. Meditation

• 3. Exercise

• 4. Belly balloon breathing

Detoxification

• 1. Moxa Shower

• 2. Half bath, Sauna

• 3. Detox diet

• 4. Quit smoking, drinking, harmful substance

• 5. Help to find environmental toxic

Design your planQ

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• Stimulation

• Herbal Formula

• Diet Plan

• Exercise

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• Stimulation

• Herbal Formula

• Diet Plan

• Heat Therapy

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• Stimulation

• Herbal Formula

• Diet plan

• Heat Therapy

• Breathing

Calorie dense food• fatty meats

• Salami

• candy bars

• rice crackers

• Cookies

• potato chips

• anything which is fried

• cola

• beer

• ice-cream