Entries Tagged as 'Building Awareness'

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

The Simple Truth About Maintaining Your Weight Loss

I have been getting questions about how to maintain weight loss lately so I wanted to write a bit about the simple truth of weight loss maintenance.
First of all if you have lost the weight and are ready for maintenance congratulations on reaching your weight loss goal, you have accomplished something that many people desire [...]

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Can Negative Thoughts be Keeping You Fat?

By the time we are 8 years old we have heard “No, you can’t” fifty thousand times. Contrast that with the fact that by the same age we have only heard “Yes, you can” eight thousand times and it becomes easy to see why we feel inclined toward negative thought.
To your brain a thought is [...]

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

3 Easy Steps to Make Hunger Work For You While on a Diet

“I can’t lose this weight because I am always too hungry.” Have you ever said this to yourself?
 Hunger is a signal the body gives you to remind you to add some fuel to the furnace. It is in place so you don’t forget to eat and get too low on energy. Hunger is a good [...]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Eat Your Vegetables! Heres Why…

Eat your Vegetables! We hear this advice from every direction but why should you? Whether you hate vegetables or you could eat them all day long you will benefit from reading this article by Jude Buglewicz from Million Dollar Body.com.
6 Reasons to Eat Your Vegetables
By Jude Buglewicz
If you’re like most Americans, you’re probably eating only three servings [...]

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The Many Names for Sugar

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”  — Sir Walter Scott
     Do food companies do this on purpose?  I have found a list of alternate names for sugar over at FitSugar.com that is roughly a mile long.  Part of the list appears below, those ending in -itol are usually classified as [...]

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Are You In Love with the Taste or the Memory of Your Favorite Food?

I recently had a conversation with someone who made an interesting discovery about his favorite food, pizza.  He realized that pizza was tied to a lot of his happy memories.  His first bit of freedom was hopping on his bike as a kid and riding by himself down to the pizza shop for a snack.  [...]

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

What Makes Us Eat The Way We Eat?

     Brian Wansink has a fascinating job, he spends his days studying food psychology  and consumer behavior (i.e. what makes us eat the way and the amount we eat).  I love this topic and recommend you take a look at his book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.  Through his research he has uncovered some very [...]

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Is Your Life Working?

This is an article written by Jack Canfield.  Jack has a way of hitting you hard with the truth yet making you feel good about it.  I particularly enjoyed this article, Is Your Life Working? because it let’s you know what you need to do if you are not currently getting the results you want.  [...]

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Lose Weight or Die

How’s that for a scary headline? But what if this was literally true in your life?  What if you were told by your doctor that if you didn’t lose weight, adopt healthy eating habits and start exercising you will likely die soon of a heart attack.  Would you change?
The research says you wouldn’t.  Alan Deutschman [...]

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Advice From a Couple of Losers

Kae Whang and Bryan “B” Washington, both contestants on The Biggest Loser Season 4  where recently interviewed by Bill Breslin of the Houston Chronicle.  I thought they made a lot of interesting comments that might help you on your weight loss journey.  I have summarized the points below but you can read the whole article [...]