It is sometimes hard to stay motivated when trying to lose weight but the problem has a simple solution – feed off of the things that truly inspire you. Researchers have shed light on what does and does not motivate you to drop old behaviors and replace them with new. What Does Not Effectively Motivate [...]
Many people would like to lose weight and may even feel they NEED to lose weight but if you ask them if they believe it will happen they come back with a half-hearted, “I hope so.”Hoping and believing are too different things. Hope is more closely related to a wish than reality. If you hope [...]
Have you backed yourself into a corner when it comes to dieting? Has it become something you do only when you “have to” or because you are mad at yourself for overeating or getting too fat. It is a self-inflicted punishment for being so bad. When this is how dieting is approached the outcome is usually poor. [...]
Some people are on a diet 365 days a year, not because they enjoy dieting but because they are afraid that if they stop they will completely lose control and their weight will skyrocket. Yet this futile attempt to stay in control may very well be the reason their weight is out-of-control. Food has no [...]
This seems like a silly questions but it is actually very telling because it gives you a glimpse into how you see yourself. How you describe yourself or perceive your body image is a part of your Weight Mindset and it plays a role in predicting your weight loss success or failure. Your Weight Mindset [...]
Whether consciously or not we have all created a story about ourselves and the life we lead, it is our way of forming an identity in the world. A big chapter of My Book about Me used to be, “I love ice cream”. Everyone who knew me, even as a casual acquaintance know about [...]
Well it’s official, another week gone and the scale hasn’t budged — you’re stuck on the dreaded dieting plateau. It is true that the body sometimes takes it’s time to reward you for all your hard work but is your dieting plateau an entirely physical thing? Is it a normal and expected response by your body or could [...]
It has been reported that most New Year’s Resolutions are broken by January 22nd. But the only way your resolution will be a failure is if you give up on it. The road that lead to a goal is rarely a straight path. There are always bumps and curves along the way, truely successful people expect these bumps and when they happen, [...]
Jack Canfield is one of my favorite writers, I find something new and inspiring in almost every one of his newsletters. Here is an article he published in his latest Success Strategies Newsletter, I hope you gain as much insight from it as I did. **Jack Canfield, America’s Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator [...]
This article first appeared in Today’s Diet and Nutrition, Winter 2006. For individuals who don’t have time or money to enroll in a traditional weight-loss program and for those who live too far from weight centers, patient counseling by telephone appears to be a good alternative. Joe Donnelly, EdD, director of [...]