Articles tagged with attitude
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Transform 2012 Doom & Gloom: Interview with Sandra Ingerman
Have you heard about the new documentary, Apocalypse 2012, examining the growing phenomenon of those who are convinced that life as we know it will end December 21, 2012? This week I had the pleasure of meeting with Sandra Ingerman to discuss her latest book, How to Thrive in Changing Times. Sandra is a Shamanic researcher and [...]
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Counting My Blessings
Yesterday I had one of those days where nothing seemed to go right, and I let the events of the day darken my outlook on life. The weather was damp and dreary, I was stood up for a very important appointment, and I snapped at my family, who understandably got upset with [...]
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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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Maintaining a Healthy Body Weight and Feeling Satisfied
When you’ve reached your goal weight, will you be satisfied? If so, feeling satisfied will help you maintain the new lighter you. What might get in the way of you feeling satisfied is important to know and anticipate if possible. You might have expected more dramatic results. Your loss of weight has unexpected consequences. People react [...]
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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 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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Reasons for Not Keeping the Weight Off
Sometimes weight gain comes unannounced, uninvited, unwelcome, an intruder into your life. And yet, upon closer observation, there are reasons. You just weren’t looking their way. The reasons, if not purely physical and metabolic (which they can be, but not often) have their origins in your psychology, your feelings, your coping skills, your life situations. The reasons are there, [...]
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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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Is the Weight Loss Challenge too Challenging?
Every person has moments of weakness and moments of strength, whether they’re short or tall, fat or thin, man or woman, rich or poor, shy or outgoing, unsure of themselves or self-confident. Our point? You have moments of weakness and moments of strength too, just like everyone else. So it’s not helpful to go into a weight-loss plan thinking [...]
