Can Talking to Yourself Help You Lose Weight?

June 2, 2010 Read the full article →

As humans, we go about our lives with a constant dialogue in our heads.  Most of the time, we’re unaware that we talk to ourselves continually about what is going on around us.  We evaluate, judge, make comments, and even rejoice, at times – all in the privacy of our brain.  No one else is [...]

A Mother’s Gift to Your Young Daughter

June 2, 2010 Read the full article →

In the late 1960’s and 70’s Twiggy became the first prominent teenage model.  She weighed 90 pounds and was the idol of 14 and 15 year-old girls at the time.  Her body had no curves, no appreciable fat, and a twig-like appearance. I was an adolescent during that era myself and remember well the huge [...]

Turn to the Experts — Thin People Who Have Never Dieted — For Weight-loss Ideas

April 19, 2010 Read the full article →

It seems there’s nothing like dropping a few pounds to turn somebody into an instant dieting expert. Everywhere you go, you can hear people talking about their latest dieting exploits and advising others on what they should do to lose weight. “You should try the X Diet. My sister went on it and lost a [...]

Let Fun Motivate You to Exercise, Eat Right

April 5, 2010 Read the full article →

It’s human nature to want to have fun. Fun is pleasurable and pleasure is motivating. • When we have fun at something, we want to do it again. And we don’t even need any other incentives like money or awards. Just plain fun is enough on its own. • Adults like to see children enjoying [...]

How to Lose Weight for Life

March 21, 2010 Read the full article →

I was recently asked to write a series of articles for a publication with wide readership.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that the editor was interested in my writing because she recognized that too much unrealistic information about dieting is directed at people every day.  She wanted sensible discussion that was effective and realistic.  [...]

Be a Smart Consumer of Diets

March 17, 2010 Read the full article →

The latest obesity statistics tell us that more than 64 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. It’s also still true that 90 percent of dieting attempts fail. Yet the United States produces more diets and diet products than any other country, an industry that makes billions of dollars each year. Add it all up [...]

How to Control Hunger

February 12, 2010 Read the full article →

Hunger is a normal body signal.  The body uses hunger to signal when it needs fuel.  It’s possible, however, to mess up this natural and adaptive function and many people do it by stringent, yo-yo dieting and subscribing to dieting myths. If a person has never dieted they don’t give a second thought to hunger.  [...]

The Truth About Diet Pills

January 25, 2010 Read the full article →

Recently, on the Dr. Oz Show, diet pills were discussed.  Dr. Oz had several guests on the show who had used different types of diet pills and found the experience to be a disappointing one and, in some cases, a potentially dangerous one. Appetite suppressants are a popular diet aid these days but it’s not [...]

New Year Resolutions to Lose Weight: That Time of the Year Again

January 3, 2010 Read the full article →

Is it time  to set a New Year resolution to lose the weight again? All the TV shows that give advice to people are having segments on starting your 2010 diet, how to lose those pounds from the holidays and so on. This could be the first year in a long time that you will [...]

New Years Resolutions and Weight Loss

December 27, 2009 Read the full article →

Does It work to Set Resolutions About Weight? People get tons of messages at the year’s end that making resolutions to lose weight is a worthwhile endeavor.  If the commercials, the talk show hosts, and the advertised new diets are believed,  making a resolution to lose weight during the new year will guarantee success. Making [...]

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