Best exercise to lose weight: What type and how much exercise you need to do is important to understand. There is a lot of misinformation around what type and how much exercise you need to do to achieve your lifestyle goals of losing weight (fat) and keeping if off. A new study says we need to walk way more than 10,000 steps a day to get enough exercise. A new goal is to walk 15,000 steps, but this may still be off the mark in terms of what type of exercise you should do to lose weight … [Read more...]
The psychology of weight loss
There is a psychology to weight loss, eating and food. It's called your weight/health story. If you have an emotional relationship with food and eating you need to change your story. Take the Emotional Eating Assessment to find out more. Research shows the first step you need to successfully change, lose weight AND keep it off, is to identify and change your (weight) story. Stories are how patterns and behaviors are wired into the brain. We all know how to lose weight, go on a diet… … [Read more...]
Best food to eat for weight loss
The best food to eat for weight loss is really simple... just eat real food Why eating real food is so important: The goal is to eat food as close to its most natural state as possible. Food that is processed including fast or packaged food has conditioned our taste buds and brain to seek overly salty sweet foods that result in having more food thoughts and more hunger. Eating real food is naturally appetite suppressing. The downside to eating real food is that it … [Read more...]
Does losing weight make you happier?
I think most people would think that losing weight makes you happier? The research shows it doesn’t in the long run. Losing weight, just like falling in love or getting a promotion creates a short term bump in happiness but after a while you return back to where you were. Could this be one reason why so many people regain their weight? One question I ask people I coach that is very enlightening is: what do you want by losing weight that you don’t already have? Or what are you hoping that losing … [Read more...]
Overeating, obesity, and the 7 biggest myths about happiness
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 lot of myths about happiness. So if you think that by losing weight or fulfilling any one “goal” you will be happy, think again. The real goal is to find a bigger meaning to what you want and focus on … [Read more...]