We want to lose weight. We want to be thinner and wear nicely fitting clothes. We want to look our best and feel our best. We want the best health possible. Question is: Are we willing to work for it?
Jan 16th, 2020
We want to lose weight. We want to be thinner and wear nicely fitting clothes. We want to look our best and feel our best. We want the best health possible. Question is: Are we willing to work for it?
Most people give lip-service to goal setting. Properly set goals are powerful and life changing. Everyone has a goal or goals. We keep them in our heads. Problem is that most goals are just pipe dreams.
Our senses are bombarded by thousands of inputs every minute. We have gotten pretty good at ignoring most of them. We have sounds, images, noise, conversations, and issues confronting us at all times.
In order to achieve a great goal, we must have a clear vision of what we want the result to be. Without this clarity, it is impossible to know what it is we are trying to achieve.
Being able to do something long after the emotional moment we said we would do it is commitment.
We live in a society of settlers. We settle for mediocrity. We settle for comfort. We settle for "good enough". We settle for someone else to take care of it or us.
Everyone is getting excited for the upcoming Holidays. Thanksgiving and Christmas and a host of other religious and family events are just around the corner. We get so focused on these favorite times of the year that we don't think about our future.
I meet with patients everyday that come to us to lose body fat, reduce weight, and live a healthier life. I have spent most of my adult life working to resist excess body fat accumulation. I've been fat and I've been thin and everywhere in between.
Ok, you are working on your weight and body fat reduction plan or you are approaching your goal weight. I call this your optimal weight.
The last two months of the year are when most people gain between 7-12 pounds. Will that be you? You've been working on getting leaner this year.
I speak often with my patients about "Fat Genes". I make it sound simple, but in fact it is very complicated and we are only at the beginning of understanding how our genetic makeup contributes to our body size, weight, and health.
My patients tell me every day that they just want to have more energy, look better, be able to wear more stylish clothes, get into a smaller size jean, feel better, breathe easier, lower their abnormal medical markers, feel like they did years ago, be more
Many of my patients hit the gym hard 4-6 days a week and complain that they can't lose a pound. Animal and human studies have shown that our ability to lose weight with exercise is a complex genetic and biochemical process.
Many years ago I learned of a philosophy that spoke of Constant Improvement of ourselves. The concept is sound and would seem to lead us all to become the best persons we could possibly become.
If your struggling with weight loss, it could be a medical issue. You may have a metabolic or hormonal imbalance that makes your body resist fat burning. It could be a psychological barrier regarding food that has you stuck.
We all love to eat out at restaurants. Just try to get into a restaurant on a Friday or Saturday night. There's usually a waiting line ( Weighting Line ).
We all love vacations. It's a time to relax, get things done, travel, see new places, and spend time together. What it shouldn't be is a weight gain nightmare.
The best diet in the world for weight loss is the diet you can stay on. Since overweight syndrome and obesity are genetic disorders, it is reasonable that our appetite signaling mechanisms are also genetically programmed.
Weight loss is a job that requires dedication. It requires focus. It needs a routine.
Being overweight takes the wind out of our sails. We tire out more quickly, have less energy, feel full and bloated a lot, and have difficulty doing the things we did years ago.
Weight loss is a job that requires dedication. It requires focus. It needs a routine. Following people who are working on weight reduction demonstrates this fact.
We know that the body weight issues confronted by America are due to a complex aggregation of factors.
Stress much? Sure, we all live stress filled lives. In fact, without a bit of stress we'd get less done, be less motivated, and our lives would be somewhat dull.
The magic to long term weight control is consistency. Being consistent with a daily, sound, lower volume diet, and exercise on a regular basis is crucial to staying lean. Sometimes we have to create routines and programs for ourselves to be able to cr
How we see the world and how we show up in the world make the difference between success and failure in our endeavors. But be clear, a person is not a failure. Failure is an event and how we approach any event in life determines whether it succeeds or fa
We overestimate what we can accomplish in one month, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in a year. With weight loss, we all want to lose every excess pound of fat we have in the first month (if not the first week). That's not realistic and we l
The American diet is poor. We all know that. Most people do make attempts to eat more healthy foods. What we eat is extremely important to our health. It's only one of the components of eating well.
Many people believe they don't have enough willpower to lose weight. They are wrong. First of all, losing weight is not about willpower. Secondly, most everyone already has the willpower needed to lose all the excess body fat. The problem isn't lack of
Most people think that to lose weight you must have willpower. That’s somewhat true, but I’m going to tell you why you already have the right amount of willpower to get the job done.
