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. [Read more…]
Last Saturday, it was a dark, cold day here in Iowa. I had planned to exercise by walking on the treadmill in my basement, but as the day wore on, I kept avoiding doing it. It was winter, I was tired and I simply didn’t feel like it. [Read more…]
Many years ago, authors Colvin and Olson interviewed thousands of people who had successfully lost weight and kept it off.
After attempting dozens of diet plans and programs that never brought lasting results, most of the people they interviewed reached the same conclusion. In describing how they achieved success, they all used some variation of the phrase, “I had to figure out what worked for me, and then I had to do it.” [Read more…]
How do I “get over it?”
As she drove home from work, Lynn was thinking that life was good. In the past few months, she’d moved into a new townhouse, received a promotion, and started dating a wonderful man. But just as she turned onto her street, the radio began playing an old Michael Bolton song that pushed open her memory bank.
Discover How Emotional Eating May Be the Real Culprit in Your Battle to Lose Weight
I was a guest recently on a wonderful podcast hosted by Dr. James Polakof. Listen here
How to stop stress eatingWhen people list reasons for emotional eating, stress is usually at the top!
In this lesson, you will explore how to view stress as a piece of your day, not a way of life. By focusing on areas where you can exert some control, you can prevent stress from contributing to your eating struggles. [Read more…]
Help — I’ve lost my motivation and
can’t seem to get it back?
Motivation is so mysterious and elusive. You don’t usually know how you got it started. And when it leaves. you have no idea where it went or how to get it back. [Read more…]
What will I do?After a break to let you know about the new book “Acts of Compassion,” I’m returning to the lessons from Life is Hard, Food is Easy. Today I will review highlights from two chapters. Here is one of my favorite sections from Chapter 11, What will I do? [Read more…]
A country singer named Justin Moore has a fun song called “That’s Why We Drink.” I think the lyrics explain why many of us have struggled with our weight this summer.
Just change the name of the song to “That’s Why We Eat” and you’ll have the answer. [Read more…]
When one of my nephews was around three years old, he would start to wail and cry whenever he was put into his car seat. One day, his mother demonstrated how his teddy bear was able to calm itself by putting its paws together and thinking quiet thoughts.
They practiced this a couple times, and my nephew loved how this worked. After that, whenever she put my nephew into his car seat, she would say, “Now, just like your teddy bear, put your little hands together and calm yourself.” [Read more…]