Articles tagged with Dieting
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When It Comes to Your Motivation to Lose Weight: Do You Use a Carrot or Stick?
Will it be the carrot or the stick? Does this apply to you when you try to lose weight? The carrot: You might look to see what you have accomplished and use the resulting motivation to keep going. Examples: “So far I’ve lost 16 lbs. Great! I only have about 24 more to lose.” Or—“For the [...]
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Treat Meals: Don’t Deprive Yourself
Many call it a “Cheat Day”. I prefer to call it a “Treat Day”. No matter what you choose to call it, I believe it’s a good idea to relax from your “diet” at least once a week. Being too strict with your diet will inevitably cause you to give into the cravings and to [...]
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Christmas is Over and I Need Help Losing Weight, Starting a Diet, Doing What It Takes
Christmas is over, there is snow everywhere, I am stuck inside with the wind howling out there, Christmas cakes and cookies covered and put away— but still dancing around like sugarplums in my mind. I promised myself that after Christmas I’d start a diet regimen, but now I feel it is impossible until the New [...]
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One of the Best Diet Tips is Not to Put Yourself in Double Jeopardy
If you’re on a diet, and you go off, it can be a double crisis. First of all, you may feel regret, disappointment, anger at yourself or the diet, and the sense of being a failure. It doesn’t feel so good. So what’s double about this crisis? Just this: What do you do now? Do [...]
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Women Gaining Weight After They’ve Lost It
You step on the scale, and it reads the fantastic, hard-won, best possible, magic number; you think: I’m so there. Six weeks later, you get on the scale, and as if by evil curse, the number has gone up, maybe by 8-10 pounds, maybe more. You think, how could I let this happen? It happens [...]
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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 don’t emancipate yourself from [...]
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It's Easy Dieting, But Do You Know How to Eat When You're Not Dieting?
Here’s a problem many women run into when they lose weight. It’s a common problem, so if you find yourself there, or if you’ve been there in the past, don’t feel bad. You are anything but alone. This is what happens. So many women go on a diet, restricting their food intake. But then, when they reach goal weight, [...]
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Oprah Stole My Moment: Intuitive Eating Works For Both of Us
This pretty much sums up my life - except the boogers are generally from someone else's nose. Oprah beat me to it. As if it isn't bad enough that the woman rules all media outlets, now she has stolen my own epiphany right out from under me! It was my very own "A-Ha" moment! [...]
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Why Diets Fail
Out of every 10 Americans, 6 are obese or overweight and most can’t lose weight. They try diets and they try other things, maybe even exercise, but just can’t seem to lose the weight. So, what is the answer to dieting and losing weight? Can diets work or do diets fail every time? 4 Reasons Why [...]
