Articles tagged with willpower
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This Spring, Make Some Serious Weight Loss Changes
How serious are you about improving your health and ultimately making a lasting lifestyle change? I would like you to think carefully about your answer and to write down what your ultimate goal is for yourself. Break that ultimate goal into smaller goals. A timeline should be included in this process. It is clear that we all want [...]
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Change Your Eating Behaviour Through Awareness and Acceptance
Learning to change your eating habits usually requires increasing your awareness and acceptance of bodily sensations, and adverse mood states. Being in touch with what mood sensations you experience will enable you to choose how you act, rather than simply reacting in the same old eating ways. Now that sounds like a wise approach, but it’s [...]
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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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A Weight Loss Guide to Failure: Predicting the Unpredictable Makes it True
Losing excess weight is a very hard endeavour. Once you start, you want to have every good chance of success. But as you well know, when you try to lose excess weight, there is the distinct possibility that you won’t be able to do it. It is very common to look for ways to minimise your [...]
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Too Much Control Over Eating Can Cause Out-of-Control Eating
Wouldn’t you tell someone that feeling in control and being in control is so important when it comes to long-term weight loss? But having to exercise too much control, as everyone knows, can backfire on you. It can have the opposite effect and you then lose control or have periods of poor control. Is it true then [...]
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When it Comes to How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off, Believing is Everything
It is well known that one sought after benefit of eating is to keep you feeling good. This is not just feeling physically good. Eating also makes you feel good emotionally. Just think of all the emotional positives when it comes to eating. There’s excitement, satisfaction, pleasure. There’s feeling filled up and not empty, emotionally [...]
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Control your Christmas Cravings
Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast approaching, and what are our dieters afraid of? Losing control? According to a particular view of self-control called the "limited resource model", you have a limited amount of self-control. If you have used a lot of self-control -- otherwise known as willpower -- in a situation, then you may not have [...]
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To Diet Or Not To Diet ?
I was talking with someone on Facebook last night about whether to diet or not. Now, normally when you need something then you just go and do it, so if you needed to fix a broken window then you would just put a new piece of glass in and job done. But being overweight is different, because [...]
