If you've been following the Diet Challenge assignments, you have so far created a timeline associated with your weight losses/gains and diet milestones, a food associations and memories diary, and a family health tree.
The final assignment is to make 2 lists. One list should include all the foods you love and feel you can't... Read more
When it comes to serious or ongoing weight issues, it's important to know the facts. Clearly there is no end to the books and programs and experts that offer differing perspectives on weight loss. In order to be factual and scientific, it's important to take note of some solid information that is available. The National... Read more
Hopefully you've taken some time to work on the first assignment from this 4 part series. The idea is to take an in-depth look at just how often you start a new diet, why your weight goes up and down moderately or drastically, how you interact with food and why losing weight permanently is so difficult and unattainable.
So let's... Read more
You know that when enough experts point out the fact that the word "diet" has the core word "die" in it - that maybe, just maybe, you are going about weight loss in the wrong way. Of course, some people are able to embark on a unique diet that offers them long term and sustainable weight loss, but according to current statistics, that group... Read more
OK, no groaning. I know you think that simply agreeing to incorporate fruits and vegetables in your diet is just too boring ...and too easy....and it cannot possibly have a big impact on weight loss. Well let's take each of those comments, one at a time.
Let's first look at why fruits and vegetables are so important. Clearly produce is... Read more