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Articles by Cathy Wilson
Do you want to lose weight? Are you hoping for a way of life that includes losing weight, feeling good in your body, wearing a smaller size, and have strong sense of confidence? You can have it. To reach any goal, you need to be committed. To lose weight requires persistence and consistency. It requires saying no to food choices when you'd rather indulge. It requires a commitment to your diet and along with a promise to yourself.
Independence Day From Emotional Eating
As we celebrate our country's independence, celebrate your own. Independence Day is one day a year; your own personal Independence Day can be any day of the year and every day. From changing our lifestyle and our habits, we have changed our relationship with food. Rather than living as a slave and victim to food, we are now free and independent of the limitations of emotional eating. You are free! You are independent!
When you have a headache, you take an over-the-counter pain relief medication. If you have an uncomfortable emotion, do you take the relief self-medication of emotional eating? For many of us that have weight issues, emotional eating is the result from attempting to change the way we feel. When we feel an uncomfortable or undesirable emotion, we provide relief by emotional eating. Medication has its proper place just as food does too.
Weight Loss Success Without The Scale
Do you wake up and weigh yourself? That's fine but does it determine what mood you're in and set the pace for your day? Are you in a good mood or bad mood depending on the scale? Is the tone of your day based on the number reflected on the scale? Break the ties that bind you from being a slave to the scale. Celebrate your success and changes you're making in your life in ways other than the scale.
Impossible To Regain Weight After Weight Loss Surgery?
With weight loss surgery, are your worries about your weight are over? Do you need to think about weight issues? Weight loss surgery is not a cure for your weight woes. The surgery does not do all of the work for you. As we know, weight loss surgery is a tool. Weight regain can occur. It is a tool that WE choose to use. If you want to lose ' choose to use your surgery.
Avoid Weight Regain From Bariatric Surgery
When having weight loss surgery, you commit yourself to certain nutrition and dietary requirements. You become dedicated to a healthy lifestyle with habits that support your weight loss. Weight loss surgery is a tool to use but you must choose to use that tool. Unfortunately, weight regain or a stalled weight loss can occur. If you want to avoid the dreaded return of pounds, become aware of the pitfalls on your journey to weight loss success.
Quiet The Voice Of Emotional Eating
You received good news; you want to eat; you feel anxious or worried; you want to eat; you are feeling down for no particular reason that you can identify; you want to eat. What is this voice similar to a recording playing over and over in your head? Sometimes this voice is screaming and so overwhelming for the urge to give in. This is head hunger or emotional eating. What is emotional eating and how can you silence that voice?
Dumping Syndrome Of Gastric Bypass And Weight Loss
Are you thinking of having weight loss surgery and you've heard about dumping syndrome? What is dumping syndrome? What causes it? What's the advantage to dumping? Dumping can work well as a deterrent of eating unhealthy, sugary food choices. You can find out details about dumping syndrome as it relates to RNY Gastric Bypass, and how it can benefit non-RNY patients and non-weight loss surgery weight loss.
Weight loss goals are important. Your dreams of wearing a certain size or see a specific number on the scale are also important. Are these weight loss goals and dreams where you can see them? Do you have a visual reminder of what you want? Take it out of your head and create a weight loss vision board. To see it is to believe it. Whether you call it the law of attraction or a visual work in progress, a weight loss vision board works!
Seven Habits To Lose To Lose Weight
Due to many years of unhealthy habits and food choices, we find ourselves overweight or obese. Habits are hard to break but they can be broken. Replace the unhealthy habits that have made you heavy with healthy habits. To help you lose weight and reach your weight loss goals, notice if any of these seven habits apply to you. Change your habit, change your weight, change your life.
Small Changes To Your Weight Loss, Part 4
Little changes can add up to weight loss success. One day you don't eat a bag of cookies for dinner and then the next day expect to be satisfied eating nothing but vegetables. Extremes don't work win making changes in your diet. As you accomplish one small change, add another successfully, you'll find yourself moving forward and your scale down. Before you know it, your small changes equal to big success in your weight loss.
Small Changes To Your Weight Loss, Part 3
How long did it take you to gain weight? It didn't come on overnight, a week or a month. Just as you gained it over time, you'll lose it over time too. How unrealistic is it to expect that we'll lose weight in a short period of time? If you want different results, try something different. Make small changes to your diet and exercise. Small changes can result in big results. Small changes can equal big successes.
Lose Weight One Step At A Time, Part 2
Are you tired of failing at long-lasting weight loss? Maybe your expectations are unrealistic. Rather than one day you're eating unhealthy and sedentary and the next day expecting a 180 degree change, do it differently. You don't reach the top of the staircase by leaping - you take one step at a time. The same works for weight loss too. Building success one step at a time creates a blast of momentum that gets you to your weight loss goals.
Small Changes Equal Weight Loss
The most dramatic changes don't need to be made all at once when it comes to weight loss. Actually, making small changes create momentum. By building on small changes, that momentum carries over and propels you to successful weight loss. Eating a certain way one day and then changing your entire eating plan by following a diet doesn't work. However, making small changes and adding to them will get you to the finish line of your weight goal.
Do you have a household budget? Do you have a calorie and exercise budget? Just as you need a financial budget, you also need a calorie and exercise budget too. For successful weight loss and maintenance, you need to know your numbers. To make certain your personal finances balance, your personal caloric and exercise budget need to as well. Create a calorie and exercise budget and the forecast for your health will be a balanced budget.
Okay, I admit it, I don't like to exercise. I didn't get to weigh 147 pounds more than I do now by enjoying exercising. However, what I do love is my life right now. My life includes maintenance of a 147 pound weight loss that is possible by regular exercise. Of course, there are other components of my weight maintenance program but one of them is exercise. The investment of a mere 30-45 minutes per day allows me to be happier and healthy.
Sugar is not our friend to lose weight. Sugar and simple carbohydrate foods are empty calories and provide no nutrition. Have you ever noticed when you eat sugar and simple carbs that you want more and more. The cycle doesn't end. If you want to have weight loss success, make friends with foods that don't have large amounts of sugar. Complex carbs have long-lasting fullness for your body. Sugar is a big zero. Make your calories count.
Are you hungry? How hungry? Can you tell how hungry you are? By using the Rate Your Hunger Chart, you'll be able to distinguish between true physical hunger and head hunger. You'll be able to tune into your own body to nourish it to physical satiety. You'll be able to identify for yourself when you should begin eating and when you should stop. Weight loss and maintenance will naturally occur. Tune in rather than tune out to your hunger.
How do you handle a slip on your weight loss plan? Do you consider that you've "blown it" or a mere speed bump and move forward on the same day with your next meal? For those of us that diet, sometimes we consider that day a loss and eat off our diet plan until the next day or even the following Monday. These slip ups will happen just as life happens. Merely consider them speed bumps and move ahead on your diet, full speed ahead.
One Size Fits All Diet - Are They Successful For You?
You are different, unique and special. Why do we continue to pay organized diet plans or try diets that are created for everyone and expect them to work? You have your own likes, dislikes, schedule commitments as to when you eat, preferences and needs. Your diet should fit you and not the other way around. No wonder diets don't work. You need a plan created for you and by you. Weight loss coaching can help you do just that.
Understanding and deciphering the language of food labels can be tricky. Do you know exactly what "Light" really means? You can have the best diet yet be tripped up by making assumptions about food labels. Know exactly what you're getting (and not getting) in the food that you eat. Knowledge is power and empower yourself with the ability to decipher the language of food labels.
Step Up To Habits For Weight Loss
Bad habits serve a purpose. Bad habits have a payoff for you. If you want to replace a bad habit such as compulsive overeating, you need to have a new, positive habit. Bad habits limit you in your life. We can't reach our weight loss goals and maintain the weight loss by way of bad habits. Follow the steps to replace a bad habit with a positive habit that will work for you. Allow your habits to propel you to your weight loss goals.
Do you remember as a child how you loved to play? You didn't have to be reminded or told to play. You played because you had fun and loved it. Guess what - exercise can be the same way for you. Exercise doesn't have to be a chore or a dreaded part of your day. It can be fun and, believe it or not, something you "get to" do and look forward to. You can reap the benefits of exercise as play and lose weight and find life at the same time!
Do You Have Portion Distortion?
Do you know what a healthy, normal sized portion looks like? Do you assume that the food served on a restaurant platter is an appropriate portion? For many of us eating at a restaurant, we equate quantity with value. The real value is in enjoying not having to cook but to focus on the company of those joining you at the restaurant. Beat the portion distortion and enjoy your restaurant experience healthfully and maintain your weight loss.
When you emotionally overeat, who are you feeding? What emotion are you feeding? Emotional overeating is not a response to physical hunger. It is feeding a scared little child, an uncomfortable strong emotion, or silencing a voice inside of us giving us a message in our lives that we may not want to acknowledge. The key to weight loss and maintenance is to ask yourself who or what are you feeding and listen for the answer that lies in you.
Make your goals substantive rather than a mere wish list. Your goals can be reached and accomplished. You can feel the exhilaration of achieving your goals. Be S.M.A.R.T. with your goals and create your goals with confidence in your plan and in yourself to rech them.
Motivation And Five Steps To Lasting Change
Wanting to make changes in your life is a great goal. You need to have a plan that consists of motivation and steps that keep your motivation high. Past successes in your life can be key in helping you make lasting changes now. There's no external hocus pocus magic to making lasting changes The magic exists in you. If you succeeded previously in your life, you can do it again. Success with a plan of motivation and five steps will be yours.
Can You Make Change Without Resolutions?
Resolutions we make for January 1st are not realistic in reaching long-term success. Resolutions can be considered a catalyst for making change but January 1st isn't the only day to start the process for change. New beginnings can be any day of the year. Consider the process as being available to you all year, any day, every day.
Holiday Focus On Family And Friends, Rather Than Food
In losing weight and creating a healthy lifestyle, the focus of your life and holidays changes. Without the center of food, the holidays take on a different meaning and become more fulfilling. Change your life and eating habits with the first step in enjoying the holidays in a different way. Fill your holidays with family and friends, not a food fest until January 1st.