November 07, 2009
On The Weigh! #001 - November Slimming Tips from Healthy Weight Loss Made Easy
November 7 , 2009
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Hello
and welcome to the very first issue of On The Weigh!, my supporting and encouraging eZine for those of you who want to lose weight without being on a diet.
Inside this issue you’ll find:
Weight Loss News
According to research, we feel less pain while eating and drinking
Start preparing for the Holiday Season
How to avoid putting on too much weight over the Holidays
Challenge of the month
Dare to talk back to the negative voice in the back of your head
My Book Tip
Take a lighter look at weight loss
Food as a painkiller?
As food, historically, was hard to come by, it was important for survival not to be distracted by pain while eating and drinking. While this might have kept us going in a former time, it is now causing overeating and obesity as food nowadays is readily available. Food is apparently still making us feel less pain and who doesn’t want to avoid pain, both emotional and physical?
The study also shows that we are programmed to eat all the food that’s in front of us. Again, this is because of food in a former time being hard to obtain making it necessary to eat almost everything of what we could find. This vestige of our past makes it hard to leave food on our plates as well as fact that we may feel rude to do so in certain situations.
You can read the whole article by clicking here.
Nothing happens until something moves
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Start preparing for the Holiday Season
To avoid this cycle (it’s difficult not to be swept away by the holiday spirit), take some time this year to plan ahead. As you know beforehand that you will want to join in the holiday festivities, try to slowly and consciously cut down on calories and increase your exercise schedule as well starting from now.
If you are aware of your eating now you won't need to work so strenuously to lose weight after New Year. This is a good time for changing to a healthier lifestyle and trying to lose a bit of weight "in advance" so that you will have less to deal with in January. As well losing a bit of weight now may make you more aware of what and how much you eat at holiday dinner parties. So plan ahead and change habits now!
As a guideline, you might want to check out the recommendations of the Healthy Eating Pyramid or the Mediterannean Food Pyramid. Both give you excellent ideas on how to eat healthier, starting from now.
Challenge of the Month
And how do you do that?
One way is to become aware of the little voice in the back of your head that’s giving you all kinds of negative messages and setting up barriers to success. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. It’s everything from “Of course you can have another cookie, it won't matter” to more serious stuff like “So you think you can lose weight? What a joke! You don’t have the discipline.”
This month’s challenge is to recognize that voice and start talking back.
“No! I’m not having that cookie!”
Yes! I can lose weight, I have what it takes!”
Or just simply say: "Shut up!"
You are welcome to share your ways of talking back by contacting me.
November Book Tip
Loretta is a stress consultant and a former aerobics instructor and she has certainly seen some of the crazy sides of the weight loss industry. Here she shares her knowledge and experience in a way that’s hard to resist.
There is no reason to take weight loss too seriously, a little fun always helps. Personally I believe that if eating healthily and exercising was more fun we wouldn’t have any problem with it.
Who hasn't heard the advice that we should take the stairs instead of the escalator or the elevator?
Take a look at this video and let me know if you wouldn’t take the stairs more often if they looked like this? Fun is a great motivator!
“Lighten Up!" by Loretta LaRoche is available from Hay House
More book tips at my Book Store.
Most popular pages in October
The Satiety Index - No Need To Be Hungry When Losing Weight
Exercise Questionnaire - How much do you exercise in your everyday life?
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With you on the weigh,
Eva