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Dot Calendar Tracking Plan

The Dot Calendar provides a great way to monitor your weight-loss program. Here’s how to use the Dot Calendar.

At the end of each day, ask yourself:

If I lived every day exactly the same as this one, would I be likely to lose, maintain or gain weight? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Long-term Success

Do NOT follow these holiday eating tips!

Life is such a challenge right now and it can make you feel down and discouraged.

So instead of offering serious but sound advice, I am sharing holiday tips that are just plain silly but fun.

Go ahead and laugh at them, but of course, don’t actually do them.

They are kind of like believing that Santa comes down a chimney with a bag of toys. Oh, sorry! Didn’t realize you still believed that. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Message from Linda

Holiday tips for the year of the virus!

Christmas cookies

Here are my 12 favorite holiday tips. I hope they will be helpful to you, even during this difficult and challenging season.

1. Walk before you eat
Even if it means bundling up in warm winter clothes, take a 20 or 30 min. walk before every holiday meal or event.

2. Don’t skip meals
On days when you have a big, special event, don’t try to “save up” calories by skipping any of your regular meals. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Motivation

How I SUDDENLY got thankful

A few years ago, I went through a very grouchy time. Like now, the news was full of disasters or gloomy stories about relationship break-ups and people being out of work.

In my own life, lots of things seemed to be going wrong. I was NOT feeling very thankful!
 
Then suddenly everything changed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Long-term Success, Message from Linda

Visit with an ice cream bar

One of the guidelines I try to follow consistently is to eat dessert only when it’s “special.” But in spite of my good intentions, I remember a time last year when I did NOT do this.

My husband and I were out of town, and I was feeling rather anxious about a bunch of things.
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Emotional Eating Tagged With: Whine Shop

ONE thing that instantly revives motivation

Lone sunflowerOver and over, you tell yourself you are going to work on losing weight.
 
You are determined to get back on your exercise program. You also plan to stock up on healthy foods instead of chips and cookies. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Message from Linda, Motivation

Losing weight when you don’t FEEL like it

I don’t think there has ever been a harder time to lose weight!

Dealing with the Covid virus has challenged all of us, mentally as well as emotionally.

I’ve heard from many of you that the virus has made it really hard to stay motivated for losing or even maintaining your weight. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Motivation

How Toby lost 200 pounds and stayed successful

graduate

My name is Toby and here is how my awful life got better.

Last week, an amazing thing happened.

As I walked across the stage at my graduation, my head stayed high as I shook the university president’s hand and accepted my bachelor’s degree. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Long-term Success, Motivation

How flowers stopped my emotional eating

This summer, my husband and I decided to turn an empty corner of our yard into a small garden.

So we dug up the sod, added some potting soil and then planted a bunch of colorful flowers, roses and green bushes. We watered the garden a lot, and it did amazingly well. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Message from Linda

How I control fears about health, cancer and the virus

Scared Teddy Bear

Feeling scared?

What a scary time we live in right now. Even if you are doing fine and staying healthy, fear and panic can almost overwhelm you at times.

Here’s a simple but magical phrase I’ve been using to help me manage fears, not only during this time, but for the past few years.

Life is good until it’s not. And right now it’s fine.

Let me explain how this works. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Message from Linda, Motivation

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