Never take orders from a cookie!
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If you are overweight and unhappy, the solution is not in another diet book or celebrity trainer. If you find yourself always back at the same place every few years (or maybe months), you need to figure out what is holding you back. Weight control starts in your mind. You are at exactly where you need to be. You cannot move pass GO unless you figure out why you are holding on to your weight.
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If we only ate when we are hungry and only enough food to ease our hunger, then chances are that we will not have a weight problem. If only it was that easy!
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I am turning 31 this weekend. Birthdays are always an exciting time for me. All the free lunches and free dinners because people want to treat you. Then there are the birthday cakes (yep, multiple ones). Lastly there is the grand finale feast that my mom spends all day shopping and preparing when I visit. And of course, there are all the restaurants my husband drags me to because of the lure of a free birthday meal.
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Welcome to Small Steps to Health where we do not take orders from a cookie! Some of us cannot lose weight because we do not exercise, eat too much unhealthy food, or just eat too much in general. I am not part of the above groups, but I am an active member of the emotional [...]
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Welcome to Small Steps to Health where we do not take orders from a cookie!
This post is a discussion of a parent’s role in raising a child with emotional eating problems.
It is pretty astonishing the amount of emotional baggage that we being to the dinner table. Each time we sit at the dinner table, we are eating with the shade of our childhood disappointment with food.
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Photo by: Ingrid.
When it comes to weight loss, all of us have an Achilles heel. These specific situation can derail our good intentions with a blink of the eyes. Once we can identify of weak spots, we can begin to solve them for permanent weight loss.
Often our lifestyle and habits change with time. The cornerstone of successful weight loss is successful problem solving.
This post will discuss the diet danger zone caused by bored eating and possible solutions for for successfully solving bored eating.
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Like children, sometimes what we hear and what we do when it comes to improving our health are two different things. What we hear: What we do: Eat less at night. Eat nothing at night. Eat smaller meals. Eat carrot sticks. Your caloric needs will eventually decrease with weight loss. Start counting calories and eat [...]
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This article on msnbc makes me a little angry. The man is writing in for advice because his wife is getting too fat for him and he thinks it is all her fault. But here is the kicker, he was not particularly physically attracted to her in the first place, but it seemed to bother [...]
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When we mess up, it is natural to feel guilt. But we have a choice: do we let our guilt over one meal or one day turn into a cycle of eating and TV watching or do we figure what we can do to keep this from happening again?
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