The first week of January has been dubbed Diet Resolution Week. Losing weight is one of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions, along with eating healthier and getting fit. In your plan for 2021, try including some of the following: 1. Determine your why. Before you begin, establish your why. Why do you want to […]
Practicing self-care starts with getting enough sleep, drinking enough water, eating healthy and exercising often, but it goes far beyond that. From a Choice Theory® perspective, self-care involves making sure all five of your basic needs are satisfied: Safety & Security, Significance, Connection, Joy, and Freedom. This blog looks at our need for Safety & […]
There are all kinds of information available about weight loss. If people have access to this information, then why is losing weight so difficult? For those of us who have added some extra weight, the answer is relatively simple: we need to eat healthier and exercise more. But why do we continually find ourselves in […]
As the world prepares to flip their calendars from 2016 to 2017, how will you prepare? Many people will celebrate by partying long into the night, watching the ball drop on Times Square in NYC, or having a quiet gathering with friends. Others will spend the day like any other day, doing whatever they do […]
Q: Why do I love food so much?
A: It isn’t that you love food as much as it’s that you’re not in touch with your soul (not sole) reason for wanting to eat differently. Food has one purpose . . . to provide food for your body. When you expect it to do more, calm you, soothe you, love you then you are having an unhealthy relationship with food.
There are 4 1/2 ways to change a habit. Learn what they are and apply one or more to the changes you are trying to make in 2012.
How many times have you attempted to lose weight only to gain it and more back again? Are you tired of being on a diet? Wonder what makes this program different? In this 12-week course, you will learn Choice Theory, the new psychology of personal freedom, as an explanation for why you do what you […]
Q: How does a person stay motivated to continue on a weight loss path after working the program for a few months? A: This is an excellent question. Commonsense tells us that working the program and losing the weight should be motivational enough. If you are actually seeing results and usually the results are significant […]
When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by Geneen Roth This is an excellent book for people who believe their eating issues may spring from trauma they experienced during their childhood. Ms. Roth discloses some of her own personal struggles from her childhood with an abusive mother and her subsequent trouble […]
I believe that anytime we make an attempt to change our current habitual behavior, we must scrutinize that behavior and all the benefit we get out of doing things the way we have been doing them. This means looking at our five basic needs and figuring out which one(s) is/are the one(s) currently being satisfied. […]
