Articles tagged with Self-esteem
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Maintaining Your Weight Once You Have Lost Weight: One Woman’s Trials
Losing a lot of weight was no easy task. But I did it over some number of years. I did it. I really did it! Now, weight maintenance is no easy thing. It isn't hard all of the time. But I do have to watch it, because I eat too much on the weekends. I don’t [...]
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Resolving Self Esteem Issues Are Needed If You Want to Lose Some Weight
There’s self-esteem and there’s self-esteem. The self-esteem you’ve built into yourself and generally carry around with you, is one way to look at it. Another is that your self-esteem comes and goes as a result of the personal resources you have, for coping with various situations. And yet, another is that your pool of self-esteem [...]
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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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Getting Yourself to Want to Lose the Weight
So what exactly does it take to lose weight? Probably first off, you have to want to do it. “Wanting to” is not a homogeneous motivation. A lot goes into “wanting to”. It can take many experiences over time for you to arrive at “wanting to”. Some of these experiences will be bad and some [...]
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Weight Loss and Perfectionism
Isn’t it ironic that binging out of control has anything to do with having to be perfect? The bridge between perfectionism and imbalanced eating is constructed from unrealistic expectations of yourself and others, harsh self-criticism, and magnification of scrutiny by other people. If you use perfectionism as the major way you cope with everyday life, [...]
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Slim And Happy
What do we mean by slim? What do we mean by happy? We say these diet words and terms and use them as if they are the same thing. But do we really understand what the concept of happy is? Or what slim actually means and feels like ? What does slim have to do with [...]
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How Much Do You Value Yourself ?
Last year, whilst talking to someone about their weight issues, I asked how much they valued themselves. Their answer will always stay with me, as they said 'I am worth about 10p'. So my first question to you is how much do you value yourself? Instead of answering what you think you should answer, such [...]
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Be Careful! Weight-Loss Success Can Be Easy Prey.
Of course your goal is to maintain your weight loss. After all, you worked so hard to get there. But do you also have goals you’re not aware of that work against you? What could these goals be and why do they conflict with your primary goal? If you think about this, you might come [...]
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7 Essential Blogs to Help You with Weight Maintenance
This is a guest post from Mary Ward. Many people look at the weight loss, but neglect to think of just how hard maintaining it all can be. For many, that can be the biggest struggle and obstacle to overcome. Here we look at some blogs of real life accounts and journeys of those going through [...]
