All Entries Tagged With: "Weight Loss"
Addicted to Processed Foods?
Are you one of the many overweight and obese people who have become addicted to processed foods? For how many years have you been saying to yourself, “just put down the fork“? An addiction is dependence on a substance or activity to the extent that normal, healthy functioning is impaired. In my Seattle hypnosis and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Paula Deen ~ A Sad Missed Opportunity
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy How sad that Paula Deen, the queen of fat food comfort eating missed an opportunity to start talking about healthy eating. Deen confirmed to Al Roker on January 17, 2012, that she has type-2 diabetes. Rumors that the 64-year-old Southern cook suffers from [...]
Mindfulness Key to Losing Weight
Slender For Life™ clients have heard me talking about mindfulness being a key to losing weight for years. Actually, the word that I have used is conscious. Conscious choice. Conscious eating. When you eat mindfully, consciously, you do make healthier choices, you eat slower and you eat less – and you lose weight. I recently [...]
Change Your Brain Change Your Life with Hypnosis
You can change your brain and change your life and hypnosis can help you do that. In this video Daniel Amen explains the that when your brain works right, you work right. When you have a healthy brain you are happier, healthier, wealthier, wiser, more creative, more innovative. When I first saw this video I [...]
Too Fat for the Ferry?!
We are getting too fat to ride the ferry. When do will we stop the madness? Americans are getting so fat that Coast Guard new rules require that our ferry system reduce the number of passengers by 250 people. At Slender For Life™ weight loss hypnosis I have real solutions to the preventable epidemic of [...]
Weight Loss ~ Taking Stock
Honestly taking stock of your current eating patterns can help you you with your weight loss goals. Last Sunday I wrote about What You’re Up Against when you try to lose weight. Are you willing to admit to your present unhealthy eating habits? Are you willing to change? Taking Stock Journaling is a free and [...]
Brain Injury From High-Fat Food
Did you know that high-fat food causes brain injury and this contributes to the difficulty in losing weight and why most people regain the weight? Most of my life I lived on high-fat food. I could diet and lose weight (as long as I followed the diet). But, as soon as the diet stopped, I [...]
New Years Resolutions 2012
Based on your past, how successful do you think you will be in keeping your New Years Resolutions in 2012? Rip Esselstyn’s Daily Beet has an excellent blog post about New Years Resolutions. He says, “Don’t start January 1st, start with your next meal. Get the January 1st deadline out of your head and start [...]
2 New Webinars
I am pleased to announce that Richard Nongard and I will be hosting 2 new webinars for mental health professionals. The first one, Bariatric Counseling: A Foundation for Long Term Weight Loss, will be Monday December 19, at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (noon CST). The second webinar is Emotional Blocks to Permanent Lifestyle Change [...]
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