A Diet For the Mind
One of the reasons it is hard to lose weight is that most people don’t understand what they have to do. That’s because it’s really confusing. The current thinking is that you have to exercise and reduce your calorie intake. Well my experience and now research is finally showing that is not correct. If you …
Best way to lose weight? Get savvy…not all calories are the sameRead More
If you want to learn how to lose weight, get familiar with some powerful tools you can use on your mind that will strengthen your willpower. The truth is many people are overweight because the food they have learned to love or eat due to convenience and habit is addicting. There is a new book …
Best way to lose weight…learn the tools that break habitsRead More
Many people overeat and can’t break free from their bad habits because the habits are serving a purpose. What we really want is to find more meaning and purpose in our lives which makes us feel happier. Research shows that we are not that good at figuring out what makes us happy. There are a …
Overeating, obesity, and the 7 biggest myths about happinessRead More
The Nirvana Diet™ is a diet for the mind created by Skyler Fontana. It provides the missing link to successful weight loss – how to master the inner game. This proven system works because it uses “diet therapy,” lifestyle coaching, guided meditation, hypnosis, and mindfulness training. We teach you …
Water intake and dehydration is one of the least understood areas for both managing one’s health and weight. Here is a case in point. Recently a client of mine complained of feeling anxious, tired, nauseous, and her face was broken out. Despite her being an esthetician, it amazed me that she did no know the …
Feeling anxious, tired and low energy? You could be dehydrated.Read More
How breathing can help you lose weight I remember reading in Be Here Now by Ram Dass a part where he talked about a woman who began to use the powerful yogic breathing techniques for weight loss. Not only did she lose weight, she overdid it and ended up with psychic powers as well. Putting …
Here’s what I have learned in the ten years of working with people who struggle with diet plans and are seeking healthy ways to lose weight. Although Kelly Brownell who wrote Food Fight is focusing on children who are certainly victims of the obesity epidemic, we are all prey to these insidious and dangerous phenomena …
Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight. Why are we reluctant to call eating disorders and other negative habits that relate to food eating addictions? According to Gabor Mate, MD, author of In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, a powerful book, the definition of an addiction is: a habit that …
Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight.Read More
I have been taking a fabulous tele-class with Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God. Neale explained very clearly the reason we are stressed, get stuck in ruts and repeat behaviors that do not serve us is because we see things as an imagined truth as opposed to the actual truth. It is has …
Drop the Story ! How to Reduce your Stress with a PauseRead More
Have you noticed that many of your issues with food don’t really have much to do with food at all? With all life’s demands, challenges, choices, and frustrations coming at us seemingly non-stop, it’s hard to stay focused and be successful, especially with our goals for healthy eating, exercise and self care. It seems like something we …
The Unbreakable Human Spirit I am pleased to announce that I will be contributing a chapter in book Unbreakable Human Spirit as a co-author along with Lisa Nichols and thirty other wonderful contributors. The date of publication is targeted for mid- November. Copies of the book will be available for purchase for $17.95 on Amazon …
The reason that most diets fail isn’t that you aren’t strong enough. Or that you aren’t disciplined enough. Or that you aren’t exercising enough. The reason that most diets fail is that so much of what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat has a lot to do with what you think. …
