We all know that exercise is one of the single best things you can do to lose weight, stay at a healthy weight, boost your mood, reduce stress and even sleep better. Exercise is also the best preventive medicine to ward off the life- style induced diseases that are now treated with prescription drugs…high blood pressure, high cholesterol, metabolic syndrome and adult onset diabetes. This list goes on and on as to how beneficial exercise is to be healthy happy. Why do so many people resist … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
6 Tips that take off the weight and keep it off
It’s really important that we strike word diet from our vocabulary unless we use it the right way. Your diet means your manner of living, how you live, not a short term fix to lose weight. It is really a disservice to look at losing weight as going on a diet. Once you are on this diet you never go off. That is why you really have to avoid quick weight loss strategies and the diet mentality. Here are some behaviors you can change that will really help take and keep off the weight. In creating … [Read more...]
On being an alpha female and eating cake everyday
I found the conversation between Demi Moore and Amanda de Cadenet in Bazaar to be very enlightening. Both of these women seem very knowledgeable in terms of how to live a more enlightened life. Demi Moore speaks about having a “nobody cares, an it doesn’t matter attitude towards life and about the importance of acceptance. She describes freedom as: “letting go of the outcome, truly being in the moment, not reflecting on the past and not projecting into the future.” Demi Moore seems to be on … [Read more...]
Why we over consume…from over eating to over spending
Throughout my years of coaching people to lose weight, I found people who have weight problems also have a tendency to excess in other areas of their lives as well. Take overspending for example. There are similar reasons why people overeat and overspend. Usually it has to do with an emotional state that leads to either poor decision making or impaired impulse control. These are both associated with the same part of the brain: the pre-frontal cortex which is called the executive function of the … [Read more...]