Tag Archives: maintaining weight loss
You Took it Off, Now KEEP IT OFF! 5 Tips for Maintaining Your Goal
New Weight Loss Drug Approved Last Week (9/10/14)
If obesity is a disease, shouldn’t there be a drug to cure it? It seems logical, but it’s not practical, at least not yet. Obesity, unlike other diseases is far more complex and much less understood than a disease caused by a simple virus or bacteria. Therefore the cure will be different for different patients. One […]
We Don’t Need (no stinkin’) Restaurant Label Law (part 2)
Yesterday I shared my position on Section 4205 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Act), that was signed into law on March 23, 2010. I know that I took a controversial position. I think it’s important to further clarify why I wrote we don’t need a menu calorie labeling law. It’s important to state: I […]
Dieting Doesn’t Work and I Know Why!
Diets work, but dieting doesn’t! It’s simple to understand the difference between the two, and why diets work but dieting doesn’t. Diet is a noun. It means: the kinds of food that a person, animal, community or culture habitually eats. For example, “a vegetarian diet.” Diet is a verb (to diet, dieting) It means: restrict […]
You can overcome emotional eating
If I am frustrated, angry, bored, or happy, I am also hungry. It’s been this way for my whole life. I’ve learned how to eat in response to emotions without overeating. I’ve also learned how to work through some emotions. I feel them, they are less overwhelming than I thought they would be and eventually […]
New Diet! No Willpower Needed to Reach Your Personal Goal!
Losing weight takes willpower, doesn’t it? Not with this diet! No willpower is needed! Instead of willpower you use “want-power” to get to your goal! What’s the difference? Willpower is used to try to stop yourself from doing or getting what you want. Want-power is used to get exactly what you do want! Here’s an […]
How to Survive Your Diet
Me: Your diet survived the weekend? That’s great! Your diet survived the weekend and are you going to survive your diet? The answers I get often overlook the part about, “Are you going to survive your diet?” Seems like the dieters are too happy about how they avoided a temptation than to consider how their […]
Don’t Let Diets or a Scale Wreck Your Weight Loss Progress!
Don’t believe the haters, lost weight can stay gone
Rumor has it that weight once lost is found again. If not found every time, it’s regained at least 99% of the time. The discouraging statistic for maintaining a loss is so often repeated that some people who would like to lose weight, and who would benefit both health-wise and personally, won’t even […]