Articles tagged with confidence
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The Top Five Love Books
Valentine’s Day is coming up; the day in the calendar marked out to celebrate love and affection. But whether you’re in a relationship or not, it’s important to celebrate our love for ourselves as well. Aren’t we deserving of a thorough self-examination to find out what we excel in, what our strengths are and how [...]
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Body Dissatisfaction Isn’t Just a Throwaway Line. It Has Consequences
Is it easier to try to lose weight if you are dissatisfied with your body? You’d think it should be, wouldn't you? Being motivated to start a diet, to exercise, to do something about your body should be at a boiling point if you’re dissatisfied with your body. Yet, not liking your body can be the “motivation” [...]
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Building Self Confidence
From the quiet, confident surgeon whose advice we depend on, to the charming motivational speaker, self confident people have attributes for which we strive. Self confidence plays an important role in our everyday lives. Sadly, many people lack the confidence needed to be successful in life. Every singe person has insecurities. This is just part of [...]
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Diet Tips for Women Who Don’t Want to Fall Off Their Diets
There you are, clipping right along on your diet. It’s three weeks in and you’re doing well. Weight has been dropping off you—3 lbs the first week, 3 more the second, and 1 ½ lbs the third week. But then this week you ate off your diet. You didn’t only eat off your diet; [...]
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"Truthiness" in Advertising
You already know that many starlets grace magazine covers half undressed but did you hear about Carey Mulligan wearing a towel around her bottom on the cover of Vogue this month? No it's not the latest terry-cloth fashion hot off the runway - as if! - poor Carey was actually the victim of an [...]
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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 others and our own critical [...]
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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 do with [...]
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How Much Do You Value Yourself ?
Last year, whilst talking to someone about their weight issues, I asked how much they valued themselves. Their answer will always stay with me, as they said 'I am worth about 10p'. So my first question to you is how much do you value yourself? Instead of answering what you think you should answer, such [...]
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Eating Too Much? How Come?
So much of what I do is related to what people think of me. I worry about it a lot. Sometimes I think it runs my life. I’ve been in therapy for a while now, and just recently I had a breakthrough thought: What do I think of myself? I don’t know all the ramifications of this [...]
