Monthly Archives: May 2012

Battling Excess Weight – One Bite at a Time

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As the old joke has it, the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Although the joke relies on a clearly absurd premise, there is a lot of truth to it: any big task is best handled one piece at a time. Whether you’re talking about sending a man to the moon, digging the Panama canal or your own battle to lose weight, the biggest jobs all rely on many small steps toward an ultimate goal. In fact, if we take the phrase “one bite at a time” literally, we have what is perhaps the most effective weight loss strategy there is. A lot of people struggle with weight loss, either hitting a plateau after a certain point or gaining back what they’ve lost. However, weight loss really can be approached one bite (or more to the point, one meal) at a time. Find out more here…

The Connection Between Obesity And Emotional Eating

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As the old saying goes, you are what you eat. For a lot of us, that’s an unsettling prospect. After all, we eat different foods at different times depending on our moods. You’ve probably asked (or been asked) the question “what are you in the mood for” in relation to food and the question is an apt one; our emotional states and our diets are deeply connected. There are two different ways to look at emotional eating: you may either choose to eat a particular food because you’re in the mood for it or you might choose to eat something, especially compulsively, because your moods trigger negative patterns of thinking where food becomes your coping mechanism when you’re experiencing emotional distress. Which of these two types of emotional eating describes you?

Do You Recognize These Types Challenged With Losing Weight?

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Why is it a lot of people fail in their efforts to lose weight? Why is it that so many fail to stick to their diet and then regain all of the weight they’d lost and some in a matter of a few weeks? Some diets aren’t that well planned, but most of them work as long as you stick to them, so the problem is the dieter rather than the diet. I’ve spent a lot of time over the years thinking about this and I’ve realized that there are 5 different types of people who have a hard time losing weight and keeping it off over the long term. Read this and find out if you’re one of these types…