By Golden Young

5 Golden Rules For Managing Emotional Eating:

1. Acknowledgement
2. Acceptance
3. Appreciation
4. Allow
5. Action

I bet you never thought about emotional eating as something useful or valuable. My guess is that it is something that you have tried to rid yourself of most of your life. Maybe it’s even something you fight with on a daily or perhaps even on an hourly basis. I further suggest that you have seen emotional eating as a major impediment to your weight loss success. Something that you’re sure is the cause of your weight problem. Am I right on any of these points? (more…)

By Dave Townley

To obtain results in our chosen diet, an important issue is what has been the major factor in our initial weight gain. When we look at the facts, quite often the main cause is the bad habits that we have formed over time.

How do these bad habits come into force in our daily routine? (more…)

If you have ever dieted or attempted to lose weight without dieting, you know that it’s a complex process that involves much more than the food you eat. Improving your eating and exercise habits really involves a fair amount of intuition, doesn’t it? That’s because not every plan is right for every person. If you just blindly follow what everyone else is doing, there is no guarantee that your results will be as good as theirs.

Intuition comes into play right from the moment you decide to start a weight loss plan. You know that it’s time for a change, and you probably also have an idea about the type of plan that would be right for you. If not, you begin the search, and before long you stumble across something that seems to resonate with you.

Even after you have started the plan, you may decide to modify it here and there, based on an intuitive “knowing” that not all aspects of the plan are right for you.

Here’s where the problem arises: you may not be tuned into your intuition enough to recognize it when it’s trying to tell you something. If that happens, you can flounder about for a long time, trying dozens of different plans, and seeing success with none of them.

If this has happened to you, or is still happening, you can begin heightening your intuition with these steps: (more…)

You’ve heard it before, patience is a virtue – but did you know that it can also help make your weight loss faster and easier?

Here’s how: (more…)

When it comes to weight loss, habits can make or break us. By nature, humans are creatures of habit. Habits help us to conserve energy by not having to think so intently about every little thing we do – if it’s a habit, we hardly have to focus on it at all. That makes our daily lives move along much more smoothly, since much of what we do are everyday tasks.

But when it comes to weight loss and other lifestyle improvements, habits can cause big problems for us. Like when we try to cut back on junk food but still find ourselves reaching for it a dozen times a day. Or when we try to force ourselves to stick to a new fitness plan and keep “forgetting” to lace up our running shoes and get to the gym.

The reason why forming new habits is usually hard is because we are trying to jar our brains out of a “rut”. We are thinking in a new way, and trying to act in a new way, and we feel out of sorts because of it.

As difficult as it may be, you can break unhealthy habits and form new ones more easily if you keep these three things in mind: (more…)

One of the biggest causes of overweight is emotional overeating – that is, eating for emotional reasons rather than physical hunger. If this has been an issue for you in the past, or still is, take a look at the coping strategies below: (more…)

We all have an “inner critic,” a little voice in our heads that nag, belittle, and pick on us for the stupidest little things. Weight issues are no different, and you have probably heard your inner critic from time to time saying things like this: “Ugh, you are so disgusting. How did you get to be so fat? You should be ashamed of yourself. Why don’t you go on a diet? Nah, you probably wouldn’t succeed anyway, you never succeed at anything, do you?”

Ouch, it’s painful just reading that, isn’t it? (more…)