Articles tagged with stress
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Overcoming Emotional Eating
Emotional eating occurs when we use food as a way to deal with our feelings, instead of satisfying our hunger. The danger of this is that often, you don’t even realise that it is happening. People tend to eat for all kinds of reasons that usually have nothing to do with physical hunger. One of the [...]
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How to Cope with Stress That Prevents Successful Weight Loss
Everyone knows that when you’re feeling stressed, your level of functioning suffers. For women who try to lose weight, having such stress in their lives interferes, makes losing excess weight harder and too frequently, impossible to do. What causes stress? Let’s take the well-accepted viewpoint that stress is something external that impinges on us and affects [...]
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Confessions of a Fallen Health Nut
Have you ever fallen off the wagon with any of your goals? If you’re human, you have probably answered yes. I am human, too, and in today’s post I bare my soul as a fallen health nut. Hopefully you can relate to me as I share some of my current health struggles and revelations. It [...]
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The Benefits of Stretching
As most of us are starting January diets and exercise regimes, I thought I would remind you of one of the key ingredients of a successful workout and lifestyle: stretching. Many of us associate it with school gymnastics or marathons, but stretching is an essential part of exercising, even walking. This is not just [...]
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Does Thinking Your Way Out of An Overeating Episode Really Work?
Clara told us she was really struggling to lose weight. We asked her if she had an idea of what was going wrong. She said that every night after dinner she would get this feeling that she just needed to have “a little something”. The trouble is, she always ended up having more than a little. So [...]
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Staying afloat: My bag of tricks for staying buoyant
This time of year can be a mixed bag of emotions for many people. The holidays apply pressure to be jolly, to bake, to shop. To wrap and invite. To consume. The cloudy skies and early setting of the sun can keep us inside and away from the things that feed our souls (like [...]
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9 Ways to De-Stress Your Holiday Season
It’s the most stressful time of the year. Do you remember when that line had “wonderful” in it? Here are a few ways to get that feeling back. Let’s face it, the holidays are stressful. But we’ll get through them. We always do. This year, let’s do it in style. First, it [...]
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What is Chi?
You’ve probably heard of “Chi” in reference to the Chinese symbol yin and yang, their art of decorating, Feng Shui, or their martial art, Tai Chi. But have you ever wondered what this mysterious essence is or how it relates to health? Chi, Ch’i or Qi means life energy; a subtle flow of electromagnetic energy which [...]
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How to Sleep Deeply At Night
Sleeplessness is becoming an epidemic in this world of increasing stressors and work stress. It’s important to look into the various causes of insomnia before getting to the actual cures for the condition. Insomnia isn’t something that occurs overnight. It builds, over time, as a bad habit. Insomnia can be caused by having a traumatic event [...]
