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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
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
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
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
Weight loss success despoiled by criticism. Yes, by criticism.
Criticism has its way with success. This is true of weight-loss success as well. Before you know it, you can blow it. Goal weight is then up for grabs. Nothing’s sure once criticism gets to you.
Two sources of criticism we all have to deal with is the criticism of [...]Read more
Women Gaining Weight Back: Conscious vs. Unconscious
Keeping yourself aware of your own actions and their consequences is an important deterrent to regaining weight you’ve lost. But what happens when your actions begin outside of conscious awareness, and what can you do if you don’t know they’re there?
Whether we realize it or not, we are primed to think and behave by [...]Read more
What Are Your Priorities ?
If I asked you to go and get a sheet of A4, write down all the things going on in your life and put them in order of importance, it would take you a while! We now live in a world that never sleeps, we are all busier than ever, we all try and [...]Read more
Lost the Weight, All Fixed, Think Again
When you get to the keeping-the-weight-off phase, don’t think you’ve arrived. If you do, that’s wrongheaded. Keeping weight off is not a fixed ability—either you have it or you don’t. Everyone has to work at it, just like anything else in life. You still have to be careful and modify and learn.
Take walking on a slippery [...]Read more
Weight Loss Support Can Make All the Difference
Maybe you have thoughts and feelings about how much your eating bothers you.
Who else have you told?
It can really help to talk about it with someone, someone you trust to listen with an open mind and heart. Some women talk to a close
friend, some to a sister, some to a therapist or counselor.
What happens when you [...]Read more
To Thyself Be True
‘To Thyself Be True’
I say this a lot; the reason being that whether you are at work or in your private life, unless you are being true to yourself then you are living a lie. If you can’t even be honest with yourself about where you are in your life, what goals [...]Read more

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