Why I’m Flying my Family South for a Luxury Vacation in Mexico

I’m going on a luxury vacation in Mexico! If your family is anything like mine, as soon as the temperature drops, all you can think about is springtime when things will start warming up again.

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Accepting Yourself, Not Obesity

Accepting Yourself Not Obesity

If you are obese or overweight, like so many of us are, you should love yourself and consider yourself beautiful no matter what number the bathroom scale shows you. However, its important to begin to understand that a large part of self-love is taking care of your body so that it is healthy and you can live a long life. As soon as you start accepting yourself, not obesity, you will be ready to take steps to losing weight and living a healthier life.

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Lifting Yourself from a Weight Loss Funk

Lifting From Weight Loss Funk

No matter how committed you are to your weight loss program, everyone hits a low point at some time. Instead of letting it get you down, try boosting your motivation by recognizing your achievements, changing things up, and rewarding yourself. Using these techniques can help lift yourself out of a weight loss funk in no time and continue on your way to a healthier and thinner you.

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What is the National Weight Control Registry?

National Weight Control Registry

A couple of my favorite aspects of the National Weight Control Registry is that it has released a few research findings and does have some excellent success stories. I encourage everyone to at least read through the research findings, which emphasizes the importance of daily physical activity and making diet changes to successfully lose weight and keep it off.

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5 Stages of Weight Loss Grief

As you can see, the 5 Stages of Grief and the emotions many people experience when starting a new diet are very similar. Hopefully, however, if you are more aware and prepared for the Stages of Weight Loss Grief then you will have better success.

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Are Weight Loss Resolutions Doomed?

If a resolution is the best way for you to start a diet, then go for it and just be aware of some of the pitfalls that exist and what you can do to avoid them. I wish everyone good health and happiness in the year to come!

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Big Fat Excuses

Making “Big Fat Excuses” is something that all of us who have wanted to lose weight have made at some point. In fact, over the almost 20 years that I have been either overweight or obese I have probably made a hundred different excuses for why I couldn’t start a diet, or stick to a diet, or get more exercise, or stop eating junk food, and so on. What I hope everyone who reads this post will do today is take a moment to reflect on what excuses they may have been making that are preventing them from reaching their weight loss goals.

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Weight Loss and Clothing

Buying a couple new items of clothing when you reach one of your weight loss goals can be a rewarding experience. You may have spent your life celebrating your successes with food, but that is probably one reason why you are dieting in the first place. You can instead find other ways to celebrate reaching your weight loss goals and one of those ways may be to go out and get yourself a new outfit in your new size.

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Improving Weight Loss Motivation

People talk about willpower, but there really is no such thing – at least not in the way you think. You can not diet on willpower alone. You have to have some tricks up your sleeve for improving and maintaining your weight loss motivation.

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Sharing Your Weight Loss Goals

Family and good friends should be there to support you no matter what you are going through in life – and losing weight should not be an exception. By sharing your weight loss goals with family and friends you will find the peace and support you need to succeed at losing weight.

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