All Entries Tagged With: "hypnosis for weight loss"
Not Everyone May Be Rooting For You
For some, its hard to believe that not everyone may be rooting for you. When your overweight family and friends see you losing weight, it can be a threat to them – and, just who do you think you are, anyway?! With 65% of the population overweight, you probably know someone who will want to [...]
Ew, Seriously? So Gross
Ew, Seriously? Dude that is so totally gross! No, I’m not promoting Geico, but I just love this commercial! Imagine with me for a moment that every time you reach for a food that makes you fat you hear these words in your head; “Ew, Seriously? So gross.” Here is the deal; with hypnosis for [...]
The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods
There are very real dangers of genetically modified foods (GMO). Many of these dangers are known, but the ones that concern me more are the ones that are unknown. Robyn O’Brien, author of The Unhealthy Truth, tells us that “When companies like Monsanto insert foreign genetic materiel into a host gene, we might know what [...]
Bouncing Back From The Wall
This weeks reading, Bouncing Back From The Wall, is from the second edition of my book, Becoming Slender For Life. One of the reasons that Slender For Life™ weight loss coaches support clients throughout their journey to their healthy weight is that change does not occur in a straight line. At one time or another, [...]
Weight Loss Team Work
Team work is a great way to support yourself with weight loss or most any other goal you have in life. Going it alone can be tough. But, when you enlist people who truly will support you it can be that added boost you need to achieve your health and fitness goals. I have had [...]
Your Diet and Negative Mood
Did you know that your diet may be the cause of your negative mood? If you are eating crap…..you feel like crap. Not only will a poor quality diet reflect in your emotions, it will impact how you feel physically. Eating junk food, fast food and processed food is like pouring gasoline on the fire [...]
Is That Food Craving All In Your Head?
Do you ever wonder if that food craving is all in your head? Research indicates that obese individuals often anticipate more reward, but don’t always get it. This is possible because anticipatory rewards and consumatory rewards activate different regions in the brain. A craving is a thought. You are the master of all your thoughts [...]
Do Overeaters Have A Weaker Reward Circuitry?
Research shows that overeaters and obese individuals may have a weaker reward circuitry. This means that it takes more to get a hit of happy. In other words, it may take a binge to “feel good.” Is this a cause of, or an effect of, consuming a poor quality diet? Or, is America’s hyper-palatable diet [...]
Sabotage ~ Not everyone may be rooting for you
When you lose weight do you ever feel sabotaged and that not everyone is rooting for you? Today in America, it is abnormal to be at a healthy weight. It is abnormal to eat fruits, vegetables and grains and to stop eating when your body tells you it has enough fuel. If you choose to [...]
Family Involvement To End Childhood Obesity
Ending childhood obesity requires family involvement. At Slender For Life™ I know that children’s weight loss just has to be a family affair. Children are much more successful with lasting weight loss when the whole family is eating healthy and is when the whole family is involved in physical activities. Success is even greater when [...]
Fed Up With Obesity?
Are you fed up with obesity? You should be. Americans are the fattest people on earth. At a time when our nation is in a financial crisis and is in desperate need for healthcare reform we are making ourselves sicker and poorer with the food that we eat. For most of us, obesity and its [...]
I Like Vegetables
Do you like vegetables or are you one of those who hates them? I am sometimes surprised at the conviction that some folks have in their hatred of vegetables. I’ll admit that growing up I wasn’t much of a vegetable eater. Those mushy things in the can just didn’t do much for me. When I [...]
Does Junk Food in Schools Matter?
I really do think that the presence of junk food in schools really does matter. If nothing else, it sends a message to our kids that as adults we don’t care enough about them to educated and protect them from the poisons of junk, fast and processed food. It is up to parents to educate [...]
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