You Mustn’t Gain Weight Back That You Already Lost

You Mustn’t Gain Weight Back That You Already Lost

Keeping it off is the big thing. If you can’t keep it off, it’s a terrible disappointment. When we make personal changes, they are not real—unless they last. Those are the changes that can help us have much better lives. You can learn how to keep the weight off. Here’s one way [...]Read more
Weight Loss Help, Weight Loss Support: Do You Need Any?

Weight Loss Help, Weight Loss Support: Do You Need Any?

Do you overeat on a regular basis when you really don’t want to? There are support groups to help you with that. Do you eat when you feel very lonely? There are friends to help you with that. Do you get confused about what kind of diet is healthiest for you? There are doctors to [...]Read more
Lost the Weight and Want to Keep It Off? Monitor yourself.

Lost the Weight and Want to Keep It Off? Monitor yourself.

by Maria’s Last Diet So what does self-monitoring do for you? It tells you how you are doing with keeping the weight off. It offers you the chance to see how and why you are keeping off the weight. It warns you when you need to be warned. Self-monitoring does all of this and [...]Read more
Reasons for Not Keeping the Weight Off

Reasons for Not Keeping the Weight Off

Sometimes weight gain comes unannounced, uninvited, unwelcome, an intruder into your life. And yet, upon closer observation, there are reasons. You just weren’t looking their way. The reasons, if not purely physical and metabolic (which they can be, but not often) have their origins in your psychology, your feelings, your coping skills, your life situations. [...]Read more
You Can’t Lose the Weight If You Don’t Stick to the Diet

You Can’t Lose the Weight If You Don’t Stick to the Diet

My mother used to say I could never stick to anything for very long. She didn’t understand that girls and boys need to learn about that, you’re not born with it. You try things out, drop them, try other things, learn, go forward and fall back, hold on and let go, and that’s [...]Read more
Post-Dieting: What’s Involved?

Post-Dieting: What’s Involved?

After a lengthy process of dieting, there is a period in which you hold on to your old dieting behaviors. This is all well and good. It’s only natural at first to hold on to what you know. But you can hold on too much, or too tightly, to the point where you [...]Read more
How Many Calories in a Cup of Tea

How Many Calories in a Cup of Tea

Most of us like tea and always enjoy a cup of good tea. Let’s find answers to the following question asked by one of our website visitors.. How many calories in a cup of tea? This is a tricky question to answer. I had to ask several people I know and read [...]Read more
Commitment: What’s It Take When It Comes To The Weight?

Commitment: What’s It Take When It Comes To The Weight?

Does keeping the weight off once you’ve lost it require more of a commitment from you? It does. Despite the fact that you lost the weight and you were certainly committed to doing that, you now have another commitment to make. Keeping the weight off is no easy matter, as the research shows. Most people who lose [...]Read more