Articles tagged with diet plan
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The Top Pitfalls When Trying to Lose Weight
Year after year, weight loss ranks high on our New Year’s Resolution lists and yet by March, so many of us have given up. This Lent presents another opportunity to start a fresh regime, and you can be a part of the exclusive group of people who will succeed by learning why so many others fail. Here are some of the reasons: Poor [...]
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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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How to Lose Weight Begins with Taking Yourself Off Auto Pilot
Behaviours that we’re so used to doing, we do without much thinking. The kind of thinking that is characteristic of us, we do without much reflection. The beliefs we hold near and dear, we hold without further examination. The emotions that have made us comfortable for so many years, we hold onto automatically. Those emotions [...]
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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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Find Your Fire to Achieve Goals
Maybe you want to lose weight; to regain your health and feel younger. Maybe you have a dream to travel the world! Whatever your goals, this post will inspire you to activate your burning desire and never give up! One of the healthiest people I know is a good friend of mine. She was there at [...]
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A Positive State Of Mind, The First Step to a Healthier You
In my opinion a positive state of mind is the first and most important step in your journey for a more fit and firmer you. You have to clear your mind of all the negative images you have of aging. Your body conforms itself to the mental image you hold of yourself. Imagine yourself becoming [...]
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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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If You Want to Lose the Weight, Can You Have Too Much Optimistic Thinking?
Can you have too much optimism? The answer is a resounding YES. Are you overly optimistic because you think this will help you do better? Are you over-the-top optimistic because you want your optimism to come true as in a self-fulfilling prophecy? Maybe you’re so optimistic because you’re taken with the great weight loss [...]
