Showing posts with label healthy diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy diet. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Suggested Motivations for Losing Weight

It is sometimes very hard to get motivated to do something that you know that you should, you really don't want to but you know you have to do. If this sounds familiar, know that you are not alone. Most of us are like that and we each respond differently. Some simply decide not to get motivated and that in itself is a decision. Sometimes making no decision is a decision.

Others among us will search diligently for a motivation and eventually find one. It could be wanting to wear a favourite dress to work one day only to find it no longer fits you or it no longer looks nice on you. This mirror scan of self can be disheartening enough to get one motivated. Others will simply hang the dress back up in the back of the wardrobe because they will wear it again "one day".

That one day could be years from now but the dress will hang in that cupboard until that 'one day' arrives. If you want to know something sad/funny? By the time that one day arrives and the size is right again, you will feel so proud of yourself and your achievement that you don't want to be associated with anything that reminds you of where you used to be!

Others will get motivated by a wake-up call from their Doctor not only advising them again to lose the extra weight but telling them if they don't lose the weight their health will go downhill for the rest of their lives. This is a pretty good alarm call for most but it still misses some people's senses.

If you find that you fall into this last category, and there is no shame or blame here if you do, then I suggest you ask your Doctor for a referral to a psychologist because I think they will likely be your best bet at this point. It's not absolutely your fault that you can't find the motivation to save your life it would seem to be a bigger underlying emotional or psychological reason behind your death wish and this needs fixing before you can progress to the next step.


Sunday, September 20, 2009

Healthy Weight Watch Diet is for Everyone

People's health, weight and diet are not a major consideration taken into the accounts by C.E.O.'s and shareholders in any of the multinational food conglomerates today.

With any visit to a supermarket you can quickly see why obesity is such a problem in the western world. Health is not a prime consideration for most shareholders in these giant multinational food chains so it is up to everyone to watch our weight and our diets.

A visit to your local supermarket can be a visit to a best friend or your worst enemy. Stepping onto some bathroom scales will soon tell you what they are. If you are an impulse buyer chances are that those scales are showing your visits to these multinational corporations are about to become your personal war zone. If you don't take control of the battle, you will lose the war and like any soldier will tell you, that's not very nice.

Here are a five tips n' tricks to help you fight the battle:

1) Always have something to eat before you go shopping. Even if it's only a glass of milk!

2) Never go to the shops without a list of what you need to buy

3) Always take a pen with you to cross things off the list as and when you put them into your trolley

4) Try to organize your list by the aisles so you are not wandering around looking and being overly tempted!

5) Once you have completed buying everything on the list, go to the checkout immediately and don't walk past the deli, hot chickens, fast food or sweet aisle.

That's enough will-power fortressing for now but by following these five tips to a healthy weight watch diet will help you in your diet battle.