Number 1 Most Important Weight Loss Strategy

ByBernice Borow

After years of battling weight issues personally and professionally there is one very important strategy that needs to be addressed. Long-term success will be achieved when and only when you understand and master this strategy.

In my practice when counseling weight issues I always come back to treating the mental and emotional aspect of weight. This includes weight loss, weight gain, weight maintenance and eating disorders. There is a reflex from your brain to your hand to your mouth.

The basics of balanced healthy nutrition are a science that can be taught. A Registered Dietitian has a four year Bachelor of Science degree, one year internship and then is qualified to sit for the national exam. The last step qualifies you to be state licensed to practice. For the lay person, knowing your own metabolism is the beginning. Next would be the ability to identify food groups and individual portions. There are other aspects as we go along but the very first issue is always "Who are you"? What have you tried before? How successful were you in achieving that goal? I can assume that you were unsuccessful in the long term and that is why you are reading this article. What do you want to do now? Are you ready to do the work required for long-term success? The answers to these questions are very telling.

In my experience once trust is established the next issue is learning who is sitting in front of me. Light bulbs usually go off because we all have messages that we send to ourselves. Many people are unaware until we start to examine thoughts and what we think of as habits. The subconscious is awesome. Memories come back and after true introspection a different conclusion usually occurs. There are many personas living in the subconscious. The outside environment where they must navigate determines which persona takes over.

Why do you think you might overeat? Is there awareness that you are really hungry and your body is looking for fuel or is a social situation where everyone is eating and food is abundant and available determining your hunger?

Were you told to finish every morsel of food on your plate when you were growing up?

Did you experience unpleasant situations in your childhood?

Are your parents healthy in their lifestyle? What diseases are in your family tree? Can you relate health issues and lifestyles to these disease states?

When you interact with strangers are you worrying about their assessment of you instead of conversing with someone new and learning if you have anything in common with them?

These are some common experiences that my patients have recognized and with my help have developed strategies to change the messages they used to receive that were triggers for among other things, binging, mindless eating, or emotional comfort. We either change the messages, or change the meaning of the messages and triggers into positive action thought processes.

It is a wonderful powerful transformation that has enabled many people overcome obesity or eating disorders.

This is a new year and the best advice I can give is taking care of this first. Learning to take care of you starts with this work. It is not easy and everyone has a different calendar of events to sort through. Once you have delved into your subconscious and understand what messages you were receiving and what triggers they arose, then you can be free to create a healthy plan to reach whatever goal you choose. The best news is this strategy and others are for the rest of your life and you can be a force within your own circle to help others.

Bernice Borow RD, CDN, specialist in weight management helps her patients to achieve success as they improve their health and wellness. She is passionate and dedicated to helping you succeed. Learn more at http://berniceborow.com/

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Weight Loss Tips: Goals Are Important

ByJoe Varghese

People who are overweight are at risk for a variety of health problems. Therefore it makes sense that if you are carrying a few more pounds than you should be that you try to drop some weight. One of the key weight loss tips that you will get when you decide that you are going to shed some fat is that it is important that you set goals. As long as you keep these goals realistic they will help you to stay motivated.

Goals for losing weight are only helpful if they are realistic. You will see ads for fast weight loss diets that promise that you can lose fifty pounds in the next three months, believing that you will actually be able to do this is just setting yourself up for failure. It is all well and good to have ambitious goals but if they are not something that you can realistically achieve you are going to become discouraged when you don't achieve them. There are few things that will kill your motivation faster than that. It is much easier to stick with your diet if you are seeing real progress and that requires goals that you actually achieve.

In most cases you will find that it is a lot easier to achieve your weight loss goals if you focus on the steps that are required to lose weight rather than on the amount of weight that you lose. For example it is better to focus on making sure that you get half an hour's exercise everyday or reducing the number of calories that you each day instead of setting a goal of losing a certain number of pounds over the next week. Setting goals that lead to a healthier lifestyle will be far easier to attain then goals that are based on how much you weigh.

One good idea that you will find helpful is to set both short term and long term weight loss goals. The long term goal is something that you want to achieve eventually like losing fifty pounds. The problem is that if this is the only goal that you have it can be hard to see any progress which will make it hard to stay motivated. Try breaking it up into smaller goals like losing two pounds a week; this will make it much easier to stay motivated. As long as you stay motivated you will likely stick to your weight loss plan.

These are just a few of the many weight loss tips that you can use to help you shed the pounds. If you want to take the weight off quickly then it is important that you learn how to use fast weight loss diets in the proper way so that you can get the maximum benefit out of them

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How Important Is the Why of Weight Control?

ByDavid Donahoo

Why do you want to control your weight? There are many reasons for doing so:

• Be more fit and healthy

• Live longer

• More confidence

• Look good and feel good

• Able to better look after grandchildren

• Fly in more comfort

These are just a selection of reason and I am sure you have many more. But I want you to think about the MAIN reason of WHY you want to control your weight?

You do things because they give you something. You are reading this article because it helps you to think about why you want to control your weight so you will do it. You do everything for a reason. Sometimes the reason is a silly little bit of fun, and other times it could be to save your life, and anything in between. The reasons can be positive or negative. It could be to get what you want or to try and get away from what you do not want.

In all these cases there are reason WHY you will do something. However, there are also reasons on WHY you will not do something. This usually shows up when you think about doing a task, having fun, etc that does not occur. The reason it does not occur is because there is a reason for NOT doing it. In other words, there is two sides to everything. There are reasons for losing weight and there are reasons for gaining weight. The action that wins is the one with the strongest WHYs.

You say you want to be more fit and healthy. But it is not occurring. Why? You may say that you do not know why. This may be the case consciously, but it is not the case at the subconscious mind level. It knows exactly the reasons why you are not getting more fit and healthy. But like a 7 year old defiant child, it is not telling you why. Your subconscious mind can be like this but eventually it will tell you one way or the other. Either it will be done in its time or yours.

If you want to take action on controlling your weight, then you need to know the real reasons why you want to lose the weight and discover the reasons the subconscious mind is holding onto, that you gave it in the first case, on why it is not help you. Once you have done this, you can do a type of weighing exercise.

You check which side contains the more weight. Is it to lose weight or is it to keep doing what you have been doing. If it is to lose weight then you will be on your way to make changes and become the slimmer and fitter person you want to be. But if it is the other way, then it does not matter how much you use your will power, the subconscious mind will not budge, and you may lose weight, but then you will just go and put in on again.

Once you have worked out enough strong reason for losing weight that exceed the reasons for holding on to it, and then you will begin to achieve what you want.

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