I really wish the self-denial involved in losing weight came easily. It just doesn’t. And the rosy testimonials we see in the media really don’t help in that regard. It’s not joyful. It is no fun at all to feel hungry. It’s not fun to pass up free food. Not being able to eat what [...]
Posts Tagged ‘God’
12 Jun
God-powered health care
More on the God front as promised. If you will, consider weight loss as one aspect of abundant health. Losing weight is not about what to do. It’s about losing it one time, in a way that you never find it again. For that you will need power you have not had before. Self control [...]
3 Jun
Motivation Friday: You can instantly transform your life
Life changes all the time. If you’re an adult, you already know this — the phone call comes, the letter arrives in the mail, the doctor sits you down for some bad news — and your life instantly changes. If you were at your doctor’s office and they told you you have to have dialysis [...]
29 May
Strength to achieve your goals
What’s your power source? If it’s just scrunching up your mental resolve, it’s not going to get you very far, otherwise you’d already have met that goal long ago. Power is consumed internally. It has to come from somewhere else. Power is derived externally … some of the best sources are: (1) God. (2) Actual [...]
17 May
How to get a flatter tummy
Long-time readers already see this one coming. You can’t get a flatter tummy from doing stomach exercises. You can get a more muscular tummy which perhaps enables you to suck it in with greater effect, but that’s not what you’re looking for for a long-term solution, we’re sure. Here’s the lowdown. It’s totally normal for [...]
23 Apr
Dialing In
Maybe you know this drill pretty well — you’ve got to attend a phone meeting, and on the calendar invite there’s a phone number to dial, followed by a passcode. If you key in the right passcode, you go to the right meeting. If you key in the wrong passcode, as I’ve done before, you [...]
20 Apr
Resolve
You may know how this goes already — you have one or ten or twenty false starts on your weight loss, and then suddenly you wake up one morning or walk from one room to the other and you realize you’ve changed, you’re going forward invariably, and this is it for you — your new [...]
19 Apr
Fitness Gadgetry
I have to confess, I am a geek. I have a geeky job, and when I’m not there I have a statistical consulting practice and a web development consulting practice. All of these involve stuff. Yet my weight loss and success keeping it off is not all that high tech. For part of my weight [...]
16 Apr
Food is not the enemy
Cross-posting a reply I made to an online forum recently, that also came up in coaching calls this week. Sometimes it may feel like food is such an enemy — every bite seems to set us farther from reaching our goals. It’s no true. Food is a great thing, a sustainer of healthy life. [...]
15 Apr
How to Eat Local
You’ve heard us say before, eating local is perhaps even kinder to yourself and your community than eating organic. If those organic beans were flown across the country, they’re going to be 2 days or so less fresh than those from your local farm co-op or CSA. That’s up to a 30% reduction in their [...]
