Aloha friend! Welcome to my new series, “10 Easy Ways to Sky-Rocket Your Weight-Loss with Body Regulation”!Each week, I’ll be posting an in-depth article pertaining to how to regulate the body and achieve weight-loss and fitness as a byproduct. If you’d like these weekly posts to be automatically delivered to your inbox, subscribe to my substack at www.answerstolooseskin.com (and if you’re reading this, then you’re on my substack! Hi! I’m new here and would appreciate a follow!) How did this series come about? Well, it took me a while to understand the concept of “body regulation”. For years, I was obsessed with the prevention of loose-skin. I inherently knew that the casual dismissals of “oh! It’s all genetic!” were baseless. Our body is wiser than that, and epigenetic research shows that our environment is vital. I released a 6-month program called Secrets to Loose Skin following my weight-loss journey of 150 pounds. In this program, we go into the DEPTHS of fascia, lymph, musculature, abdominal pressure, and more. If you’re interested in check this program out, it is live on my website (www.yvettebam.com). There was an undertone between everything I was doing, a foundation that I didn’t even know I was addressing… but what was the common connection between all of these modalities?! A connecting force was present, yet I couldn’t put a finger on it. I began to study people with different conditions. As a body worker, I became acquainted with tissue. Fascia began to speak to me underneath my fingertips, telling me the unconscious stories that individuals were holding… There's something about the body that we, fundamentally as a society, have lost sight on. But what is it?Everywhere I looked, I saw individual’s using heavy dieting measures and exercise routines to alter their shape. But was this the only way?How was it possible that unless you were extreme in your approach 24/7, the body would turn fat? How was it possible that you could only have one cookie per month, or the body would revolt? How was it possible that a diet of green salads was the only way to go if we wanted to remain fit and trim? It didn’t make sense to me. Surely, we aren’t meant to be perpetually monitoring our body, day-in and day-out? Yet everyone seemed to be convinced that the calories-in and calories-out mentality was the only way to find success, and 5am morning jogging routines were a necessity that screamed “Motivated Babe”. After I lost 150 pounds, I noticed something weird: the amount of food and calories I ate did not change by much. How was THAT possible? Slowly, over 7+ years of learning everything I can about the body, I began to understand the underlying foundation that I had been touching on throughout my work (without consciously knowing what it was). That foundation is regulation, which sounds simple but can actually be quite a complex process in the modern world. We have grown very detached from the regulatory force of the body. Regulation is working WITH the body and its processes instead of attempting to control the body, restrict it, or move from the classical space of “I am not enough.”. Regulation is about re-forming a relationship to your body that is oriented in truth, and the truth is that your body is your deepest friend - not an enemy to force into a new shape. Regulation also requires understanding multiple body processes - especially if you’re coming from an obese sector, where your hormones need loving attention. Regulation is a key underlying-yet-VITAL component to health, vibrancy, fitness, and shape. Hormones are the body’s chemical messengers, and until we REGULATE our vessel, and subsequently regulate the informational flow throughout our body, we will struggle with an up-hill battle with fitness. Secrets of Loose-Skin is a 6 month REGULATORY program, in which we work with the body’s state (obesity) and re-wire it, slowly, with respect toward the body at the forefront. I take you through the program using my own body as an example. The ultimate theory behind loose skin is that it is a byproduct of DYSREGULATION. Many people approach the body in an incorrect way when it comes to weightless, believing in the top-down hierarchy of Calories Are King. Now, you deserve to know that working WITH the body and its systems will always be your winning ticket, which is why I am making this FREE Series of “10 Easy Ways to Sky-Rocket Your Weight-Loss with Regulation That Has Nothing to Do With Food or The Amount of Calories You Eat.” Subscribe to get future posts sent directly to your inbox. All future posts are FREE for two weeks only, and then moved to an archive for my paid subscribers.. Welcome to Part One, and remember… Your body is NOT working against you. Your body is NOT something to control. Your body is your best friend, your loving vessel in this reality, and it is time for everyone to learn the interconnection of regulatory practices so that we may BEGIN TO ENJOY OUR BODY’S AGAIN (instead of being in perpetual cycles of “omgggggg I ate too much caaaaake”).. Enjoy the next few weeks of REGULATION tips and tricks! Subscribe to this substack to get them emailed directly to you! Paid substack members get video bonuses every week. Part 1: Reprogram Your Breath Most people are terrible breathers. It sounds silly, I know. We’ve been breathing since the first second of our life! Common sense tells us that we’d at least be “good” at breathing. Turns out, we’re not. We live in a chronically dysregulated society, and this imprints itself into our breathing patterns. My take on body regulation is a process of returning back to the original blueprint of our body, of functional patterns. But what does functional breathing look like? And what caused our breathing to go into a disarray in the first place? The core of the breathing problem in society is stress. Well… not exactly. Stress itself isn’t a bad thing. Stress is a hormone, known as cortisol, and it’s necessary. The core of the breathing problem in society is ACTUALLY that we haven’t been taught to regulate stress effectively. Everyone has stress, it’s a part of life. There is never going to be a moment in your life where everything is in balance, everything is perfect, and you can FINALLY begin the thing you’ve been wanting to do for the past few years! Move on from that daydream. Part of living functionally is being able to manage stress well, and a large part of that is a simple perspective shift. The stress hormone, cortisol, can serve as a motivational hormone when it’s in balance. In fact, without cortisol we wouldn’t be able to wake up in the morning! if we all were tasked with living docilely as monks in the mountains then unregulated stress wouldn’t be as big of a deal… but how do we, as normal people in the day-to-day mayhem of present society, regulate stress? Turns out, breathing is a large part of it. You have 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your body, and ensuring oxygen efficiency is where regulation starts. Efficiency being the key word, but more on that later, because… wink wink.. it’s not actually about breathing MORE. There’s a lot of misinformation about breathing. A classical one is “Buddha Breathing,” with the abdominal walls flaring out. I cringe every time I see this, because clearly there is zero understanding of abdominal pressure and pelvic floor pressure with standard Buddha Breathing work. So, how can we approach functional breathing? Let’s begin with a mini-exercise. What do you think of when you think of relaxed breathing? Don’t scroll ahead!!! Let’s do a correlation test for a moment. Think about three words for…. * relaxed breathing& 3 words for… * stressed breathing Got it? Seriously, just take a moment. It will help begin the reprogramming aspect of your consciousness here. La-la-la-la-laaaaa. Got it, for real this time? I trust you…. Okay. Here’s mine: Relaxed breathing: slower, deeper, mouth is closed, quieter, air travels through the nose only, uses the diaphragm to descend down the abdominal cavity, shoulders are down, connection to our core Stressed breathing: constricted, stays in the upper chest cavity, faster, noisier, quicker, air travels through the mouth, more agitated in upper body, shoulders might be moving, limited body connection Now, with this in mind… I have some rapid fire questions! Why are we telling people to breathe MORE, when “more” equates to “faster” and “faster” equates to stressed breathing? How do you breathe MORE without breathing FASTER? You can’t. So, what are we saying when we tell people to breathe MORE? What does it mean to be oxygen deficient, in a society where most people are actually breathing quite rapidly? Furthermore, if we do the opposite and slow down, or breathe less, then how does this fit into the regulation equation? How does breathing LESS serve the body? Doesn’t the body need MORE oxygen, not less? Even if the in-breaths are deeper, what does it matter if the perfect calming breath is thought to be one-minute in duration? How can the body function optimally by breathing… less? We’ll answer all of these questions, and more, in a way that makes SO MUCH SENSE! Nose Goes… Rapid, fast breathing is correlated to stress with good reason. Our body goes into a sympathetic nervous system state, which redirects blood flow from the internal organs and into the extremities. The body does this with purpose. A sympathetic nervous system activate is also known as “fight, or flight” and it prepares us to either run away from the threat, or fight the threat. Blood flows into our limbs, digestion is put on hold because it’s less important than staying alive, and adrenaline shoots into our system. Stress breathing is also oriented in the chest cavity. The diaphragm, a muscle located under our rib cage, does not fully engage. We use rapid
