Are you feeling stuck in your diet or weight-loss efforts? When motivation leaves, it’s easy to get stuck and lose hope of things ever being different.
Perhaps you keep promising you’ll change, but you never follow through. Maybe you set goals, but can’t seem to ever get started on them.
When you’re stuck, everything comes to a stand-still. You may even wish for a crisis of some kind, because you’re convinced it’s the only thing that will get you going. [Read more…]
Excerpt #4 from my new book, Friends with the Scale.
When the scale won’t move
“Friends with the Scale,” pg. 131 [Read more…]
In the last couple of posts, I’ve been telling you about a column written by Drs. Oz and Roizen and their recommendations for helping overweight kids.
I didn’t like some of their advice, so I’ve been adding my own twist to what they said. [Read more…]
In the last post, I told you about a column written by Drs. Oz and Roizen and their recommendations for helping overweight kids.
I didn’t like some of their advice, so I’m adding my own twist to what they said.
I’ve already told you my thoughts about their suggestion that you walk or exercise with your child for two hours a day. Here’s their second “great” idea. [Read more…]
In a recent newspaper column by Drs. Oz and Roizen, a reader said:
“I was a fat kid, so I’ve worked hard (sometimes) to stay at a healthy weight as an adult.
Now I have a 4-year-old and he’s becoming overweight too. I don’t want him to go through the same struggle I did. How can I help him?” [Read more…]
This past weekend, I was part of a musical theater production at Arvada Covenant Church in Colorado.
After a couple months of practice, then a full week of nightly rehearsals, we were ready to go on stage. The show included solos and small ensembles as well as songs by the entire group of 30 singers. [Read more…]
“You’ve got to be kidding!”
Carol stared at her doctor and the tiny piece of paper she’d just been handed.
“No, I’m not kidding,” responded the physician. [Read more…]
Today, you’ll start creating a resource list of things and ideas you can draw on instead of eating.
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Another way you can increase awareness of your food is to use the concept of savoring.
With this technique, you eat a very small amount at a time. [Read more…]
From now on, plan that you will eat for only two reasons:
1) to fuel your body
2) to appreciate flavors
Measure all of your food intake against these guidelines. [Read more…]