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How to Get Started with Healthy Eating
How to Get Started with Healthy Eating I thought it might be helpful to share some ideas for substitutions for your favorite processed foods to illustrate how to get started with healthy eating. I’m very respectful of how hard it is to change eating habits as the big food companies design their “food” to be addictive and hard to resist. We make clean eating promises to ourselves, and they might last a few days. Then the cravings for bread, sugar, pizza etc. just become too much. We fall off the wagon and get mad at ourselves; too often, we just give up. This pattern feeds into the yo-yo dieting, lose-gain-lose-gain…
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Growing up with Food
Growing up with Food To understand your current relationship with food, it’s helpful to think about how food fit in when you were growing up. Back in the 1950s and 60s when I was growing up, I realize it was a time of transition food-wise. I think it’s important for us all to remember our past and revisit growing up with food. Our family meals at home were of an English/northern European eating style. Our food was very traditional and, to be honest, not very interesting. My mom was a fantastic baker though, and desserts were always the high point of the meal! There was some kind of meat at…
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Why are We Overweight?
Why are We Overweight? Do you ever wonder why are we overweight as a nation… and so frighteningly overweight? Allow me to begin by saying, “It’s not your fault”. If you struggle with your weight, it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault you spend money on diet foods and diet programs that promise you the moon and may help you lose weight only to let you down while you watch yourself gain back what you lost. Most of the time, you gain back more weight than you lost before the diet. You eat less, you exercise more and you still gain weight. Women in their 40s and 50s think…
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Safe and Natural Ways to Curb Your Appetite
Safe and Natural Ways to Curb Your Appetite It kills me when I see people spending good money trying different gimmicks to curb your appetite and lose weight…like appetite suppressants… when there are so many safe and natural ways to curb your appetite. Did you know there are natural ways you can use to curb your appetite and help yourself be less hungry starting right now? I made this video for you to help you understand the many things you have available to help you get your weight goals on track. You can do this! And I am in it for the long haul to help you!! Helping You Achieve…
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Jump-Start Your Metabolism Using These 3 Spices!
Want to Jump-Start Your Metabolism Using Spices? Speeding up your metabolism will help take weight off, and it will also help keep it off. While it’s true some people are born with a faster metabolism than others, just because you might not be one of those faster metabolism people doesn’t mean you can’t convince your metabolism to work faster by making good food choices! As a matter of fact, just adding three spices to your meals can jump-start your metabolism and can help you work toward maintaining a healthy weight. The foods you use to fuel your body are really key to making it work right, so try including these…
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Green Tea – here’s a great tasting way to enjoy it!
Green Tea Green Tea tastes terrible! Or at least that’s what a client of mine told me the other day. So…I decided to write a post and share it with all of you about how I used to agree with her, but now I’ve learned to make a delicious rich hot cup of green tea that you just might love! I’ll tell you how I do it in a minute, but first, I want to extol the virtues of green tea. It’s amazingly good for you. Did you know that arthritis doctors say one serving of green tea can help ward of an attack of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? In fact,…
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The Truth about Gluten Free – are all gluten free products good for you?
What is the Truth about Gluten Free? If you’re wondering what is the truth about gluten free, I want to introduce you to Dr. Mark Hyman, one of my favorite health gurus. In fact, he is largely responsible for my freedom from the depression that haunted me for decades. In addition, I lost 20 pounds without dieting. A nice surprise! I received an article from Dr. Hyman that I absolutely have to share with you. In it, he says: “Sugar and flour are THE main reason we get sick and fat. They form the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most chronic diseases, sucking the life out of our people and…
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Hunger Hormones – Did you know you have them?
Your Hunger Hormones… Say “Hello” to Ghrelin & Leptin Did you even know you have hunger hormones? As far as weight control is concerned, they can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Whether they are friend or foe depends on a number of things. Let’s talk a bit about what these hunger hormones are and how they are supposed to function. Ghrelin is a hormone that increases your appetite. It’s released in the stomach, and its job is to tell your brain when you’re hungry… that is, when your body needs more fuel, so you are cued to eat. When you experience a growling stomach prior to meal…
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Weight Loss Plateau – understanding what happens is key to success!
Weight Loss Plateau Weight loss plateau…has it ever happened to you? Nearly everyone who has dieted has started out with great enthusiasm, wonderful commitment and intention…only to be derailed by the dreaded weight loss plateau. Why in the world do we plateau when we’re trying to lose weight? The answers are several and are actually pretty interesting. The first answer is that early on in your diet, you’re most likely not losing fat yet, you’re losing water weight! Especially if you’re on a diet that means you’re consuming lesser amounts of sodium than usual, you are probably losing water weight. Entwined with this water weight dilemma is the fact that…
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Portion Control – Hara hachi bu
Portion control It seems most of us would like to lose a few pounds or maybe more than a few. In the coaching of my clients, I find the easier part is to help them understand how to make better choices in the food they eat. Often, once the changes have been made and the weight loss is still not happening as it should, we need to revisit portion control. Let’s discuss that and the reasons why it may not be as easy as you would expect. How do you feel when you’re finished eating? Are you full, really full, or do you feel stuffed? Our “All You Can Eat”…
