Articles tagged with Support group
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Do Restaurants That List Calories in Food Help People Eat Less Calories?
Do you think your ability to control your weight comes from the outside in? If you think so, then you probably applauded the idea of restaurants that list calories in food. Well, you may need to think again. A study of restaurant receipts showed that people bought food with slightly more calories than they did before [...]
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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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Weight Loss Diets Get Sick Too
If your diet gets sick, very, very sick, if it’s failing, fading fast, maybe even dying, what do you do? Treat it like any other patient. First of all, find out: Where is it hurting? When did it start to be sick? What might be the cause—is there more than one? Is this an ongoing, chronic illness, [...]
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One of the Most Important Weight Issues
“How in the world can I lose this weight once and for all?” —a common question, you’ve probably asked it yourself. If someone asked you back: What is the deepest answer, the truest answer, the most real answer, the most enduring answer, the bravest answer, the most honest answer, the most personal answer, the most thoughtful answer, [...]
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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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Why Diets Fail
Out of every 10 Americans, 6 are obese or overweight and most can’t lose weight. They try diets and they try other things, maybe even exercise, but just can’t seem to lose the weight. So, what is the answer to dieting and losing weight? Can diets work or do diets fail every time? 4 Reasons Why [...]
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Preventative / Goal Orientated Motivation
The Oxford English dictionary has motivation down as 'the reason or reasons behind one’s actions or behaviour.' and the reasons when it comes to dieting and trimming down are absolutely key. Motivation comes in two flavours, but from experience, only one of those two flavours of motivation really works long term. The first type is preventative [...]
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What's Your Weight Loss Relapse Quotient? Is It Through the Roof?
by Maria's Last Diet Definition of relapse - return to a disease state after a period of remission. Sound familiar? Well, it should if you've yo-yoed from weight loss to weight regain to weight loss, etc. All it takes sometimes is a setback, a lapse, a slip, a falling-off. Then, before you know it, relapse; and you're [...]
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Why Are You Gaining Weight Back?
by Maria's Last Diet Everything in the world has a tendency to go from being neat and orderly, to being messy and chaotic. It’s just the way the world works. So, you clean the kitchen to its sparkling best, but two hours later someone’s made a snack, or poured a drink, or someone cooks something, and then no more perfect [...]
