Weight Loss Ross

In today’s hectic world it seems as if everyone you encounter is facing some sort of major upheaval in their life. Relationships are changing or ending, others are facing financial problems – even the good stuff like an expanded family or annual holidays can’t help but add to the stress. With so much change it’s easy to sometimes feel just like a ping pong ball being bounced around instead of in control of your own life.

Turmoil Has Its Good Points

Some issues such as home loss or death or injury of loved ones is nothing to make light of by any means. But life, in all its complexity, always seems to have something major going on – something we have to deal with and face, or ignore and hope it goes away. Problems rarely ever do just magically disappear. But the one advantage of turmoil is that when Life’s frenzy gets overwhelming it forces us to really look at what matters to us. Hard times strip everything superficial down to the bone and makes us take a cold hard look at our priorities. (more…)

By Davis Tommy Hudlon

When losing weight people usually choose the wrong kind of motivation. What happens later? They lose faith and stop doing it at all.

That’s quite right. Many people avoid this step altogether, because it seems like a trivial thing to be doing instead of actually exercising. While true to some extent, it’s actually quite unwise to skip it. What happens after many weeks of exercises pass by? People tend to give up after seeing minimal results or none at all. This is because they haven’t had a discussion with themselves about how much they’re actually planning to invest and how long they should be exercising. (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…)

By Kaye Bailey

We have heard it all our dieting life: “keep a food journal, it will keep you accountable for what you eat.” That advice always failed me, the best I could ever keep a food journal was through breakfast, I did not want to leave written evidence of my eating behavior.

But there is one time in my life I kept a journal, words and feelings scribed on the page. That journal chronicled the first year following my weight loss surgery. The weight loss surgery experience is profound. It is a physical and emotional Mt. Everest. I dare say there is no other change a morbidly obese person will ever undertake that is as emotionally significant as weight loss surgery. (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…)

Does it seem strange to think that you could close your eyes and imagine something and have it come true? Using visualization for weight loss is a little more complex than that – but the basic premise does have merit!

Here’s how it works: (more…)

When you first decide to lose weight and get in better shape, you can compare yourself to a person who decides to give up smoking – especially if you have been overweight for a number of years and have struggled with bad eating habits for just as long.

Like smoking, drinking, and drug abuse, overeating is a strong habit that will require a fair amount of determination to overcome. This is one of the main reasons why so many people hop from diet to diet, fad to fad – never quite sticking to one long enough to see results. They are seeking the “easy way,” not realizing that no plan is going to be easy because they have some deeply ingrained habits that need to be broken, and that is always a challenge no matter which weight loss plan they choose.

Does weight loss seem this difficult for you too? (more…)

Is it really possible to lose weight without dieting? For centuries people have followed one diet after another, and more often than not they do lose weight. But is that the only way to lose weight?

Believe it or not, it’s very possible to lose weight without dieting – or what most of us think of as dieting anyway. (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…)