Have your New Year’s promises to yourself gone awry, preventing easier weight loss? Wondering why?
This often happens because people overpromise on their goals. These big resolves are not realistic, so they’re bound to lead to disappointment and failure. Read more
People often sabotage themselves when they start to lose weight, and then the weight comes back. Does this describe you? If so, you probably feel frustrated and discouraged, and wonder if it’s even possible for you to lose weight and keep it off.
Rather than focus on the failure to lose weight and keep it off, let’s focus on the reasons why you self-sabotage Here are some of the common ones. Read more
Are relationships an important part of your life? If so, then you probably give much importance to family and friends, the comfort of being with loved ones, the energy you get from being with others, the sense of community you feel with people you care about, and the gap that is left when you feel isolated from others (i.e. Covid).
If this is true for you, it might also impact your ability/inability to lose weight.
The Downside of Relationship Needs
While love and connection have many positives for your life, the area of weight loss and healthy eating may not be one of them. When with family and friends, people often eat way differently than when home in one’s usual routine. It’s a signal for party time – eating all the fun foods you have in common which easily put on the pounds. It is also often a signal for more than usual drinking. Read more
More than once I have seen how weight loss leads to romance. When someone is ready to lose weight, then other goals start to be uncovered that were stifled along with the extra pounds. When the blocks to weight loss are released, so are the blocks to achieving other goals. It’s fun to witness this!
It clearly happened with one of my weight loss clients. She had been divorced for nine years and had never dated since her divorce. The sting of her marriage left her afraid to try a relationship again. Read more
Have you ever wondered if using hypnosis for weight loss is really effective? If you’re not sure but want to learn more, here are three ways hypnosis works to get rid of those uninvited and unwanted extra pounds.It’s sure worth a try if you’re frustrated and at your wits end and don’t know what to do next. If you’re really motivated to lose weight, it will be especially easy to succeed using this method. Read more
People who struggle with weight often eat emotions. If regulating our eating were simply a matter of will power and some basic knowledge about good nutrition, we’d all be there now! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work like that.
There are all sorts of emotional reasons why people eat, besides eating to stay alive and healthy. Step one in understanding your struggle with food is to see what emotions are driving you and which you are suppressing with food. Then there are techniques you can use with a practitioner/on your own that help in releasing these emotions and in substituting a healthier and more productive response.
Here are some of the main reason why people eat emotions. Read more
Along with tapping, food journaling, and other useful tools for weight loss, flower essences can really add a boost to the process. Read more
Do you experience eating with no hunger? If so, this is a sign that you’re following emotional cues rather than body cues for physical hunger. When you eat this way, you will never be satisfied because you were not in need of food to begin with. Read more
Many people think losing half a pound a week is nothing, but I think losing half a pound a week is enough. Read more
A common theme for weight loss folks is the ‘all or nothing eaters’ approach. Either you tell yourself you’re not going to eat a certain food at all, or you fail at this and eat a lot of that forbidden food. Read more