Articles tagged with motivation
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When It Comes to Your Motivation to Lose Weight: Do You Use a Carrot or Stick?
Will it be the carrot or the stick? Does this apply to you when you try to lose weight? The carrot: You might look to see what you have accomplished and use the resulting motivation to keep going. Examples: “So far I’ve lost 16 lbs. Great! I only have about 24 more to lose.” Or—“For the [...]
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Spring Cleaning: The Natural Way
Recharge your batteries this spring by detoxifying your environment. This is one of the simplest steps to good health. It is inexpensive and something you could do overnight. I am going to show you how to clean the natural way, with a few basic items: baking soda, lemons, olive oil, vinegar and water. Lemon juice is [...]
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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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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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The Struggle for Weight Loss in Women Who Buy into a Stereotype em
Stereotyping is a fact of human nature. We may define people by the groups they are in, by their gender, age, what they wear, their political persuasion, their native land, etc. There’s no end to stereotyping. It is shorthand for who the other person is and who we are. There are positive stereotypes, and of [...]
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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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Building Self Confidence
From the quiet, confident surgeon whose advice we depend on, to the charming motivational speaker, self confident people have attributes for which we strive. Self confidence plays an important role in our everyday lives. Sadly, many people lack the confidence needed to be successful in life. Every singe person has insecurities. This is just part of [...]
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What’s Your 2011 Health Plan?
I have contemplated how I’d like 2011 to look for me and came up with a few ideas: 2011 Vision For me, it all starts with a clear vision of what I’d like my year to look like. I meditate on it and experience all the upcoming goodness and emotions as it’s happening in my mind. [...]
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Weight Loss Tips for Women in the New Year: Use It To Lose It
It’s the New Year and when you make your resolution to lose weight, will it simply be wishful thinking? Remember, there is a psychological side to dieting and weight loss. It is the side that has the most power to bring about weight-loss success. Losing the weight is never just about food. Any woman with [...]
