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New Year Resolutions
What are Your New Year Resolutions? What are your New Year Resolutions? Are they the same ones that you’ve made in past years? Is one of them to lose weight? What if you could actually realize that one resolution that would allow you to change your health, your mental state and clarity and your future wellbeing in general? You can do this once and for all! You don’t have to diet. In fact, I want you to commit to never diet again. You don’t need to weigh in every week. You don’t need to buy food that is delivered to your door. One popular program advertises, “If you’re not up…
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Sugar… is it really sweet?
Sugar…is it really sweet? I’m having a great time working on my new TV show! It’s a challenge writing, producing and editing, but a great learning experience, and I have the control! [canvakala-video src=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kYe0vGXCgI” width=”400″ height=”300″] In this latest edition of Thin Strong Healthy, I dig deep into sugar…why we love it, why it doesn’t love us back and much, much more. Did you know sugar is as addictive as cocaine, if not more so? It lights up the pleasure centers in our brains and makes us feel good. The down side is the damage it does when we eat it for years and years. Many of us, even those…
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Five Easy Tips to Enjoy Holiday Gatherings…without blowing your diet!
Five Easy Tips to Enjoy Holiday Gatherings without Blowing Your Diet! Most of us are invited to social gatherings during the holidays. If you try to eat right and not overdo, these events can be tempting and can really derail any good work you’ve done during the previous months. We all hear people talking in January about how they need to lose the weight they gained over the holidays. Here are 5 easy tips to enjoy holiday gatherings and to keep you from having to sing that tune next month! Don’t arrive hungry – Be sure to eat food ahead of time that provides you protein and healthy fat. This…
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Artificial Sweeteners and Weight Gain…could they be sabotaging your diet??
Artificial Sweeteners and Weight Gain I was told a long time ago by a holistic chiropractor that artificial sweeteners could bring on a bout of depression with just a couple of servings. This resonated with me as I suffered from depression for decades. I wouldn’t go near the stuff. But what about artificial sweeteners and weight gain? I thought it would be interesting to share a post written by one of my favorites, the integrative medicine guru, Dr. Mark Hyman. In this post, he said: “When you trick your body and feed it non-nutritive or non-caloric sweeteners, like aspartame, acesulfame, saccharin, sucralose, or even natural sweeteners like stevia, it gets…
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Diet Identity Crisis…Is your identity tied up with dieting?
The Diet Identity Crisis Did you know you can tie your identity up in dieting and not even realize that’s what you’ve done? You can create a diet identity crisis. Every time you announce to your friends and family you’re starting a new diet, you identify yourself a little more with dieting. Your life revolves around the diet announcement. The seeking of approval that you’re going to lose weight, strive for that perfect number. What you don’t realize is that when you continue to make diet announcements every time you start a new diet, you’re quite possibly setting the stage for failure. When others know you’re dieting, you can experience…
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Are you always on a diet?? How to Stop Diets from Running Your Life
Societal Pressure Is Running Your Life, or How to Stop Diets from Running Your Life! When everyone around you is doing the same thing, it can be hard to stand apart from the crowd. It’s more normal to be on a diet these days than it isn’t. You want to be accepted; that’s normal. The dilemma is how to stop diets from running your life! Being the person who isn’t on a diet these day actually threatens that acceptance, so most people will change to fit in. Society has a picture of what the perfect weight is, and we all have gotten the message what that perfect weight is, haven’t…
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Chronic Dieting…has constant dieting become a part of your life?
Has Dieting Become Part of Who You Are? Are you Addicted to Chronic Dieting? Are you addicted to chronic dieting? Has dieting become part of who you are? Everywhere you turn, you see advice on how to lose weight. You see tried and true diets touted from the front covers of magazines. Fad diets are heralded as the next new weight loss miracle. You see these things because we live in a diet culture. If you put twenty people together in a room, the majority of them will have been on a diet or are currently on a diet. Dieting has become the new normal. As a result, it has…
