Could You Be Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?
There are many little ways that people undermine their weight loss, without even realizing it. Weight loss comes down to more than just eating your veggies. But if you really feel like you’re doing all the right things, and still not seeing results, it can be a frustrating process. Unfortunately, the reason behind your stalled weight loss could be anything from overestimating your calories burned at the gym to not getting enough sleep.
Healthy Eating When Dining Out
Don't Abandon Your Diet Americans love eating out -- and there's no reason why it can't be healthy eating. But watch for hidden fat and calories! New healthcare legislation will require that big restaurant chains put calorie info on the menu. But you can't always find out the amount of calories, fat, or salt in your food. So follow these ordering tips to make sure you stay within your healthy diet.
Diet Detective – Starting a Food Journal
Assess your Eating Habits Adopting healthy eating habits is without a doubt a determining factor for the achievement and maintenance of a healthy weight. It is common with our busy lives that people go on auto pilot when it comes to their eating habits. If you need to lose weight, chances are this may be an issue for you. This is where a little detective work is necessary to find out the truth behind your weight gain or lack of weight loss. Food diaries, journals and aps that track food intake are a great way to determining what habits are working and what habits need adjusting.
Make an Effective Change this Year and Keep it Going
Resolutions aren’t an all-or-nothing situation. However, because they are viewed as a once a year deal and get covered so often in the media around the holiday season, they can get built up in people’s heads leading to overly optimistic expectations. It’s important to be realistic about your resolutions and realize that you will come across hurdles along the way. Make a Plan You Can Stick With.
Body Images – Self Acceptance and Loving Yourself
Becoming comfortable with your body is not about crash dieting and spending hours at the gym to attain that elusive hard body. While I agree that incorporating good eating habits and regular exercise into our lives is important, having a good body image is ultimately about acceptance and loving yourself.
Recovering From a Holiday Hangover
We all overindulge from time to time and, during the holidays, it's easy to get derailed from our healthy habits. Getting back on track right away is one of the best ways to deal with the stress and anxiety that comes from overindulgence. Each healthy choice you make is a reminder of your commitment to being healthy and fit all year-round.
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.
