Articles tagged with help
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Weight-Loss Support Can Turn It Around for You
Hi, I’m Sandra. I want to talk to you about how hard it’s been to stay at my current weight. I’ve lost weight countless times, but never been able to keep off the weight I’ve lost. I don’t know why. I can sustain my new weight for a time, and I’m good at dealing with [...]
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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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Have You Ever Hidden a Healthy Habit?
My house is a veritable treasure trove of hidden goodies. There are birthday presents stashed at the top of my closet, lingerie under the bed, dark chocolate peanut butter cups in the freezer . Obviously, my squirrel tendencies are because I live with 4 little people who have no concept of respecting other [...]
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For Weight Loss Maintenance, Your New Goal Is...
Your old goal was to lose weight. Your new goal is to keep the weight off forever. Of course, food is involved. But more to the point, mind states such as being realistically optimistic carry more weight. Optimism in the case of weight control has to do with maintaining an expectation you will reach your [...]
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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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A Weight-Loss Support Group Can Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
Although they are not for everyone, mutual support groups can be a big help. Here are some of the pluses: Others face similar problems. Members give as well as get. Members are empathetic and self-disclosing. Members share experiences, advice, encouragement. Members are good listeners. There is equality, with no leader, no hierarchy. There are [...]
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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 to understand how to [...]
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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 help you with that. Do [...]
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Can You Imagine It ?
When I spend a lot of time with people 1-2-1, I am always looking for why they do what they do. People don't randomly do things. There will always be a good reason (to them) that they have a particular behaviour or characteristic. Therefore, one technique I use is the "As If" technique. You can do [...]
