The Facts Associated with Obesity
Understanding Obesity What's the difference between overweight and obese? Do you find it harder to lose weight now that you are older. Are you gaining weight for the first time in your life even though your diet and activity has not changed? Can weight gain have an emotional impact on your life? Stay informed with these obesity facts and tips.
How to Calculate Your Target Heart Rate
Do you want to get the most out of those 35 minutes on the treadmill, or any kind of cardio exercise? You maximize the benefits of cardiovascular activity when you exercise in the zone of your target heart rate(THR). The Karvonen Method of calculating THR is one of the most effective methods to determine target heart rate. Here's how to find your THR.
Self Esteem, Insecurity and Obesity
The importance of self esteem in achieving life goals, including weight-loss, is immeasurable. It is a factor in all our human endeavors. Understanding how our self esteem has been shaped and influenced in our lives can help us gain the essential awareness for change.
Affirmation Statements
Affirmation statements can be very helpful in “programming in” new attitudes, thoughts and feelings in order to be successful in what you want to achieve. Human nature does not need any coaching with negative thinking. These affirmations promote positive thinking and are more powerful in re-programming thoughts and feelings when you repeat them out loud, and not just “think” or whisper them. It is recommended that you select a few of these that touch you as most personal and relevant, and repeat them often,
Hit The Reset Button
With any new adventure in life, you may find yourself traveling down the wrong path, and possibly getting lost along the way. No worries! It may be time to hit the reset button, and get yourself traveling back down the path to success.
Why We Eat When We’re Not Hungry
Sometimes we reach for food to soothe our emotional cravings. When we're anxious, angry, fatigued, overwhelmed or otherwise under stress, a seemingly hard-wired desire to overeat can take over. If you eat when you're not hungry, for a variety of reasons -- is a very real, and under-recognized problem. It affects many more of us to varying degrees than you might have guessed. The solutions often must go far beyond merely identifying the problem, because many emotional eaters do realize what they are doing and they do it anyway.
Practice Mindful Eating – Questions to Ask Yourself Before Eating
Between meetings, appointments, work deadlines, errands, family obligations, and trips to the gym, our lives can be so busy that we fill our bellies with the quickest, easiest bites we can get our hands on. Mindful eating is slow, giving yourself time to really taste and feel the food. Take the time & really savor what you are eating. Pause before you take your first bite and ask yourself these four important questions.
Lose the Weight Loss Tunnel Vision
When you’re on the road to weight loss, you tend to suffer from tunnel vision. You tend to be focused almost exclusively on how you’ll feel when you’ve lost the weight, when you can go back to eating “like normal,” and just how much more spectacular your life will be. But…
Stop Putting Off Losing Weight
Why do we typically put off losing weight when we know will improve our lives? Understanding the reasons why weight loss is put off can help overcome all obstacles standing in the way.
A New Set of Eyes
By making the choice to be banded, we made a commitment to a healthier life. But the health of our body is greatly influenced by the mind. Therefore it is equally important to take care of the spirit
My Scale is a liar
Before you let your motivation fissile out from a unexpected gain. Know your numbers, do the math! if something doesn't seem right. Do some detective work by using your food journal. Remember weight loss is a math problem. It's up to you to solve it.
Build Success by Appreciating your Progress
Losing weight means your self-image is in flux, how your body is changing often reflects how you feel on the inside. No matter where you are on your journey, it’s actually not hard to make slight adjustments in your behavior and thinking to help you to feel skinnier, and therefore more successful and motivated. Feeling good helps keep you on track, so feeling good is incredibly important. The skinnier you feel, the less you’re interested in temptation.
