weight loss motivation and tips

Could there be any truth to those claims that you can think yourself thinner? On the surface it doesn't seem likely, since it is hard to imagine how you could change your metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn fat) simply by changing your way of thinking.  But of course changing your metabolic rate isn't the only way to think yourself thinner. If you can convince yourself to adopt habits that reduce the amount of food you eat, or change the types of foods you eat to a more healthy selection, then you are going to lose weight. That's not rocket science. The trouble is that it can be hard to implement healthy habits, especially if you are saddled with bad ones that you have picked up over the duration of your lifetime. Carolyn Hansen recognized this problem quite some time ago when she was forced to try to figure out why it was that she was unable to achieve any long-lasting success with her own weight loss efforts. For a long period of time she followed the lates...

If you can't seem to find the motivation to workout these days you shouldn't feel bad about it. You should feel rotten about it.  That's because when you are not adding sufficient physical activity to your schedule you are sending a signal to your body that you're done using it and it is OK to begin the downward slide to frailty, loss of physical enjoyment, and disease.  If you are younger than 35 years of age, it's coming. If you are older, you already know what I am talking about. Aging sucks. Aging while fat sucks even more. So let's agree that there's a huge incentive for you to want to workout (to ward off the unpleasant side effects of aging as a couch potato). It's increased health, greater enjoyment of life, and lower likelihood of dying of an entirely preventable disease, like heart attack, high blood pressure, and cancer. All of these conditions have an incidence in the general population that tracks very well with the amount of weight th...

If you have ever watched a master hypnotist at work you will come away thinking that the mind is incredibly susceptible to suggestion. Once you see grown men dancing on the stage and singing "I'm a little teacup" you don't doubt that it may indeed be possible to lose weight by having a hypnotist implant subconscious suggestions that help you avoid eating food that is bad for you and make you try harder to meet your workout schedule. But hypnotherapy for weight loss purposes is deemed to be a little too much "on the fringe" for most people. People are about as likely to schedule an appointment with a hypnotherapist as they are to admit they have a drinking problem. In both cases, it feels easier to deny you have a problem than to take active steps to correct it. The good news is that it really isn't necessary to go to the trouble of trying hypnotherapy as a means to "reprogram" your mind for weight loss success. It is possible to do it you...