Articles tagged with Lifestyle
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The Weight is Lost. Now How Do You Maintain Your Good Behaviour?
You have been moving along the continuum of weight loss, and here you are: You’ve lost the weight you set out to lose. But the continuum doesn’t end abruptly here; it goes on, and for good reason. Being finished with actively losing weight, finished with a diet per se, may give you the feeling [...]
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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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Exam Cheating with mental ‘Cosmetics’?
The Guardian and The Independent warned of two prescription drugs were set to divide the university scene in this country. Imagine never feeling hungry, buzzing on two hours sleep, and orgasming on the idea of a 9am lecture….the thought is tempting. Cognitive enhacement drugs first developed in the late 50s to treat ADHD but [...]
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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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Weight Loss Psychology - Use It and You'll Lose It
We often hear it said that it is important to honor your body, it is your temple, the place you live in. Your body is to be respected, cherished, taken care of, even worshipped. Is it not equally important to honor your mind, your psychology, your thoughts, your emotions? Isn’t that what really makes us human? Doesn’t it count [...]
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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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What Are Your Priorities ?
If I asked you to 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 keep plates, balls [...]
