Stop Dieting Forever

There’s something about a new year that fosters renewed hope. Are you ready to make 2011 the year you finally get serious about your weight? Are you ready to give up fad diets and find a better way to lose those pounds? One of the biggest pitfalls for people with a lot of weight to [...]

My husband and I were invited to an elegant weekend at a beautiful resort about two hours away. Everything was taken care of including the food and I didn’t know if, or how, my diet was going to survive. I don’t know if this would be considered five-star dining, but it was close enough for [...]

Most people would agree that losing weight is difficult. For some it might be how long it takes to see results or learning to eat differently. For many, though, the difficulty lies in “all-or-nothing” thinking. This attitude – if I can’t do it perfectly, it’s not worth doing – can affect your diet every day [...]

There are times in everyone’s life when staying on a diet is difficult, especially if you have a lot of weight to lose and the months drag on and on. Those are the times when you need to start keeping a food journal or get back into the habit of journaling. As time goes by, [...]

Back in the mid-1970s, I remember being on one of those 800-calorie-a-day diets where I had to go into the weight loss office Monday-Friday to get weighed, “counseled” and, once a week, a B-12 shot. You can lose weight this way but at what price? Your metabolism goes into starvation mode which slows down weight [...]

We all know water is good for us and we need to drink a lot of it – even more when we’re losing weight – but it seems like one of those things we do without asking any questions. When it comes to our health we need ask questions. So I did some research and came [...]

So, you’re ready to give losing weight another try. Good for you! This time, though, instead of choosing a diet like your last one, are you open to trying a more healthy weight loss program? This may be your first attempt at losing weight without starvation, relying on supplements or focusing on one food or [...]

Affirmations — those things you say or think about yourself — shape your life and directly impact your weight loss efforts. You may not believe in affirmations, or you may know very little about them, but they are still at work in your life. Every time you say something like, “I’m never going to lose [...]

If you hear one more person say, “It took you more than a month to gain all that weight, it’s going to take you more than a month to lose it” are you going to snap? Do you think people don’t realize how condescending that sounds or do you think they’re just being deliberately condescending? [...]

Both, actually. It’s harder to lose weight “naturally” if you struggle with delayed gratification. A crash diet will enable you to lose weight quickly but it’s not healthy and, in the long term, it’s counterproductive. Studies have shown that not only will you not be able to keep the weight off, you’ll actually gain back [...]