What determines your eating pace? Do you eat fast or slow? How do you feel after you’ve eaten fast? Whether you know the answers or not all these are great questions to explore. Eating fast is linked to overeating and could be the one thing that holds you back from reaching your health goals. If…
Unconscious Eating Risk Self Assessment
Are you putting yourself at risk for sabotaging your health goals? Use this tool to evaluate how vulnerable you might be. Knowledge is power! Self-Assessment: You can assess your current and future risk levels. First, select the time frame for your assessment. Are you assessing your risk level for? This moment 2. Later today 3….
Watch out for Fall Food Fumbles!
Have you started to fumble on your health goals? I’m not much of a football fan but I do know that a fumble could mean the difference between winning and losing the game. Take inventory now…What’s putting you at risk? • Following a quick fix diet or unrealistically low calorie goal this past summer. •…
Food Journals for Success!
Did you know that writing down what you eat is arguably one of the most effective tools for reaching your health goals? A large Kaiser Permanente study (1700 participants) published in Aug 2008 found that those participants who kept food journals daily lost twice as much weight as those who did not keep any record…
Just Say No to Deprivation
So many times I hear women, frustrated with their current body weight, make statements such as: “I have to stop eating”. Or, I see them pass up an item on a buffet table with a pained look on their faces. Believe it or not, you have to eat to manage weight and lead a healthy…
Ditch the Diets and Tune into Yourself!
Why Diets Don’t Work Most people who want to lose weight have been on at least five to ten diets, if not more, in their lifetime. They are dieting professionals. The thought of “this time it will work, this time it will be different” is in their mind every time they start a new diet….