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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
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
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
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
The Revelation Moment
Most dieters I work with are very good at analysing their own problems, they already know what most, if not all, their issues are and have a very clear view of the landscape and what they need to do. But the problem can be they don’t do it, so they [...]Read more
Celeb Makeup Natural Vs. Glam
When it comes to makeup I normally wear very little, but if it’s a special occasion I may throw on some eye shadow. Turns out, I’m in luck because 70% of guys actually find the natural, fresh-faced makeup look sexier than the glammed-up femme fatale. Fifty men were polled by DailyMakeover.com to find [...]Read more
The Beneficial Intent
I remember when I first understood beneficial intent. For me it was a eureka moment. Therefore I want to share the idea with you and hope I you will also have some benefit from it. If you think that everything you do, and I mean everything you do, has an initial benefit linked to it, then [...]Read more
Pattern and Colour: Step One
Following up on yesterday’s late post, I decided to jump in with both feet and offer an example or two for consideration.
Pattern matching is an easy thing. Or it should be. Even the jeans wearing crowd with their plaid shirt and bow tie combinations has been experimenting with the look and the underlying theory [...]Read more
The Art of Saying No
“No.” at 9 months old, Jelly Bean, said her very first word a few days ago! It was very clear (and very much a product of having three older brothers who like to scream the word incessantly) – said in the context of me taking away [...]Read more
Slim And Happy
What do we mean by slim? What do we mean by happy? We say these diet words and terms and use them as if they are the same thing. But do we really understand what the concept of happy is? Or what slim actually means and feels like ? What does slim have to [...]Read more

08. Sep, 2010 
