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About 60% of of these exist because of recognition.
What are TOPS Rules?
This can influence your mood, focus, and overall well-being.
What is how you spend the first hours of the day?
The energy your body needs while resting.
What is the "basal metabolic rate" (BMR)?
The three-part communication system between the brain and the adrenal glands that controls cortisol.
What is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis?
Conscious eating or discriminating eating focusing on what is best for your needs and satisfying yourself physically and psychologically.
What is eating management?
How Esther Manz used the word recognition aside from the recognition of member's efforts.
What is seeking a higher profile for TOPS as a nonprofit weight-loss organization?
The "wake-up" hormone which peaks in the morning.
What is cortisol?
Your BMR does this as you lose weight.
What is increases?
It may develop when the body is exposed to high cortisol levels for too long.
What is Cushing's disease?
Your stomach is about as big as this.
What is your fist?
According to Esther, we did not join TOPS to do this.
What is win contests, prizes, or recognition?
Habits like hydrating, moving your body, and getting morning light helps keep this on track.
What is circadian rhythm?
The gremlin that seems to stymie continued weight loss.
What is "metabolic adaptation?"
The disparity between your need for energy relative to your change in body mass.
Darkening skin and salt cravings.
What are common symptoms of Addison's disease?
The reason why the first bite tastes the most delicious.
What is sensory adaptation or taste fatigue?
Our current president, Rick Danforth suggests we usse this to keeps TOPS viable.
What is our current technology?
email, internet, social media
Having a simple structure and bring this.
What is a surprising sense of calm?
It rates how quickly carbohydrate-rich foods are absorbed and affect blood sugar levels.
What the glycemic index (GI)?
While used to explain chronic tiredness or burnout, it is not a recognized medical condition.
What is adrenal fatigue?
This may happen when you stop making certain foods forbidden or bad.
What is finding that you fixate on them less?
Mrs. Manz recognized that involvement with the medical community and advances in the study and treatment of obesity was and still is vital to this.
What is TOPS' core mission?
Some mornings will be this, and that's okay.
What is messy, unpredictable, and downright chaotic?
The most successful long-term "losers" of a popular reality show did this following the show.
What is ratcheted up physical activity while maintaining a healthy diet.
The TOPS Medical Editor and Director of the TOPS Obesity and Metabolic Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Who is Dr. Vidya Kidambi?
Something you might enjoy by giving yourself permission to eat what tastes good and allowing it to satisfy.
What is a different relationship with all foods?