Throughout my years of coaching people to lose weight, I found people who have weight problems also have a tendency to excess in other areas of their lives as well. Take overspending for example. There are similar reasons why people overeat and overspend. Usually it has to do with an emotional state that leads to either poor decision making or impaired impulse control. These are both associated with the same part of the brain: the pre-frontal cortex which is called the executive function of the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
How hypnosis can help you break unwanted habits
Hypnosis is oftentimes misunderstood, but more and more people are coming to now understand how hypnosis works and how hypnosis can help to break unwanted habits. Joyce Frye, an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s Center for Integrative Medicine explains how hypnosis helps: “ a hypnotherapist can help guide a person therapeutically by making suggestions such as how great it would be to smoke-free and breathing easily.” Suggestions however are just suggestions. A hypnotist cannot get … [Read more...]
How to be healthier, happier and overcome stress naturally
Can you imagine being asked when was the last time you had some play time? How can playing help you to be happier and healthier? I remember when I had young children how natural it came to them to play. Play time was essential to their being nurtured and also how they learned. The difference between an adult and a child is that play comes naturally to a child. A child knows how to be in the imaginal world and how to use imagination and play as a way of life. So how can you begin to include … [Read more...]
More Diet Myths Debunked
Not seeing enough results is apparently a common reason why people give up on their weight loss plan and avoid achieving their weight loss and health goals. This is exactly the mindset you have to change if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Yes keeping the weight off is harder to do than losing weight. Recent research done by Patricia Bannan, who wrote Eat Right When Time is Tight, claims that “not seeing results soon enough is the number-one reason women give up on their weight loss … [Read more...]
Does being or feeling overweight sabotage your passion for sex and life?
Notice I said being or feeling, you may not actually be overweight, but you don’t feel like you are thin enough so you don’t feel sexy or like having sex. Research shows that your sex drive, sometimes called libido is related to your confidence levels. Libido is not just limited to sex it also relates to passion for life. Cindy Meston, Ph.D., and director of Sexual Psychophysiology at the University of Texas, determined that the more we compare ourselves to what the fashion world wants us to … [Read more...]