Suppose you pick up a new diet book that includes a week’s worth of menus. As you plan a grocery list for your program, you are horrified to see that Monday’s menu contains spinach, which you hate.
Would you throw the book across the room or yell about the stupid meal plan that contained spinach? Of course not. When Monday came, you would substitute a different vegetable and continue to follow the plan. [Read more…]
When you start any kind of diet or weight-loss program around the first of January, you tend to stay very strong for the first month.
The second one can be a little tougher, but you probably pulled yourself together and stayed with it.
But for some reason, the last week in February is when dieters begin to falter. [Read more…]
The kids have been asking this forever when you go on a road trip. But lately I’ve started asking it as well.
Is the heat ever going to stop? Have I exercised enough? And why does the scale creep down so slowly? [Read more…]
“Once I lose this weight, I’ll never gain it back!” Sound familiar?
Unfortunately, these are famous last words for many dieters. It takes more than determination and willpower to make that declaration stick. [Read more…]
Carol dreaded Mother’s Day!
Last year, as the holiday was approaching, she told me that she anticipated the same story as always. Her three grown kids would be extremely busy and wrapped up in their own lives.
If she was lucky, she might get a couple of cards, although they’d probably arrive a day late. What Carol really yearned for each year was that her kids would call and actually wish her a happy day. But… they rarely did. [Read more…]