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Articles tagged "healthy diets":
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Nutrition, Dieting And The "New" Middle Age
This "new" middle age I'm in doesn't change the fact that I still need to look at my diet like I'm still the "old" middle age. Calcium, for instance, is very important. It's very important for women my age to pay attention to our bone health, and calcium intake plays a major role in that. Whether its via diet or supplements, we must make careful adequate choices so we can age gracefully into whatever will be the "new" old age.
Don't Change Comfort Foods Into Diet Foods
Comfort foods remind you of safe times, warm feelings and good memories. You eat them when you are vulnerable and need those feelings. Don't change your comfort food recipes to ones lower in calories and/or fat, because they then become diet foods and take on an entirely new meaning.
Your New Year's Resolution? Stop Dieting
Instead of starting off the New Year with a new diet, try a non-diet. Instead of depriving yourself of foods you love, learn to trust yourself to make the right choices for you. It's scary AND liberating. Once you let go of your preconceptions of what you "should" eat, you will be able to learn to listen to your true hunger signals, and you will learn to feed yourself safely and appropriately. Let's make this next diet the Non diet.
It is difficult to lose weight during the holidays, we all know that. So make sure you have a realistic attitude during this festive time. Don't plan to lose weight, try to maintain your weight. Don't set food goals, set activity goals. Be realistic with yourself and your attitude and you won't be disappointed. Have a wonderful season.
Even though clothing ads make us think it's a "one size fits all" clothing market, it's not. Unfortunately, when the clothes don't fit, we think it's our bodies, not the dress, or shirt. We need to understand that we have unique shapes, and look for those clothes that we like, and look good on us. Stop trying to look like everyone else-look like yourself!
Dancing Her Way Through The Holidays
Many people worry about gaining weight during the holiday season. One my of clients has decided she is going to "dance through the holidays." While she may not be losing weight at this time, she is doing something new that she loves, and as a side benefit-it burns a lot of calories. She has found her strategy for getting through the holidays. How about you?
As the holidays rush upon us, I am hearing from clients their fears about what to do at parties. They fear eating too much, losing control, getting too fat. They are afraid of becoming a manic eating machine-one that starts to eat, and cannot stop. When you are at peace with food, you feel safe around meals, snacks, desserts. You trust yourself to make the choices that are right for you. Trust yourself, and have a wonderful holiday season.
How is it possible that your whole life can be changed by a simple number? How can you let your sense of accomplishment, your sense of self be dictated by a number found on a bathroom scale? Let's hope for a time when scales don't have that kind of power-when we have enough confidence in our bodies and our food choices to decide for ourselves how we feel-not some number on a machine.
Finding accurate nutrition advice can be difficult. Making sure your information comes from a Registered Dietitian and/or someone with an advanced degree in Nutrition Science improves your chances of trusting the information you find, and increases your chances of separating fact from fiction.
Weighing The Scales Of Justice
Don't be fooled by the numbers on your scale. There is a difference between weight loss and fat loss. Diets promising quick weight loss don't help change behaviors that led to becoming overweight. Learn to make slow, realistic changes so you can lose weight permanently. And don't listen to those ads-what they tell you. The fact they can tell such lies is-well, a crime.
When you feel good about yourself, you treat yourself better. Too many times I turned to food. I felt undeserving of attention, of reward. Being overweight made me unable to trust myself to give myself with anything besides food. I was saying "You can't take care of yourself." The reality is I do the best I can. Some days are harder than others, but I do my best. We all do. So go ahead- buy that dress, or pants, or shirt. Now.
We know about the need to save energy for our planet. Let's talk about saving energy-for ourselves.We think too much about how we are "supposed to look, to eat" - and when we deviate we've sinned. It is easier to criticize what we haven't done than applaud what we have managed to accomplish. What a waste of energy!Oh what you would learn about yourself and your friends"”if you simply weren't wasting energy.
Finding Peace With Food Through Yoga
Losing weight isn't always about eliminating foods, it's also about adding new behaviors. When my colleague included yoga in her life, she seemed to easily lose weight and feel peaceful, in control. When both were stopped, weight returned, control left. Start with the yoga, be at peace with your body, and you'll find that being at peace with food falls more easily into your life.
What Else You Lose When You're Obsessed With Losing Weight
Sometimes a memory is so vivid that you feel liked it just happened yesterday, For example, I remember one of my oldest friends, Joan, who I hadn't seen in several years, called me on the phone, inviting me to get together. I didn't, I felt too fat. Does this sound familiar? Becoming at peace with food, you will not being afraid to be around your friends. Life is too short. Go swimming with Joan.
IMAGINE you could eat whatever you want whenever you want. Yes, you probably would gain weight tat first, because you are eating all the treats you have forbidden yourself. Now, if you can eat ice cream whenever you want, do you really think you need to eat it all the time? It is hard to trust yourself without the structure of a diet. But please try it, and you'll find that you can control your urges and enjoy food without guilt.
The Good, The Bad, And The Truth -- About Food
It’s disconcerting that so many people mentally classify food as good or bad What about thinking of food choices as simply “healthier” or “not as healthy”? Let’s put an end to this crazy mentality! If we allow ourselves to relax, we will ultimately create a balance and most of our choices will be ones that fall into the healthy column.
Did You Shoot Someone? Is Cheating On Your Diet Really That “bad”?
Why is it that people place such harsh judgment on themselves for their eating behaviors? Let's stop this craziness, and put our relationship with food into perspective.