I often hear, “I need to get in control of my eating,” from new clients who have struggled with their weight for years. Usually, after a couple of weeks of working together, the client discovers that overeating is actually just a symptom of, “I need to get in control of my life.” Food and health seem to follow the pattern of all other areas of our lives, or better said, food and health seem to follow how we respond to all other areas of our lives.
With the complexity of life what can we do to respond better? What can we do to encourage a healthy lifestyle?
1. Eliminate Negative Mind Chatter: Often referred to as “Mindful Living.” Notice what you are saying to yourself day in and day out. If your thoughts are negative you will look for something to soothe and comfort. Food can be a quick pick me up with a really quick plummet.
2. Maintain Relationships: Keep your relationships healthy and strong. We need real connections that stimulate us emotionally and intellectually.
3. Success: We all need to feel successful. Make goals to ensure you are always progressing. Having a bad day? Make those goals real small and then build on each success.
4. Journal: I hate to even say this because we often envision the boring journal assignment from school. You can journal on a napkin while at lunch. The point is the connection between the tangible process of writing and verbalizing your words engages you emotionally in a new way and problems and feelings become clear.
5. Manage Stress: “Manage” is the key word. If you don’t have a process for managing stress eating can easily become your default. Choose how you will manage stress, find the one thing that helps you consistently and make it your stress manager.
Make your healthy lifestyle about life not food. The shift will give you great results!
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Big Change, Small Efforts!
How do we really create the life of wellness we so desperately want? Robert Collier, founder of the once popular Collier’s Weekly, coined the phrase “Success is the sum of many small efforts.” We often create this huge dream of what our lives should look like, and we become overwhelmed and discouraged when we wake up from that dream to find that nothing has changed. Big change comes with small efforts! It actually is a nice thought: We don’t have to do anything big or grand, we just have to do something small today. How wonderful!
My son is a motorcross racer and wants to improve his performance committing to working out daily to achieve his goals. As many of us do, he gets discouraged waiting for the BIG CHANGE in his body to arrive. While waking him up this morning I simply said, “You want to be your best at racing, don’t you?”
Of course, he responded with a sleepy, “Yes.”
To which I reminded him, “All you have to do is get up and do 30 minutes of cardio before school. That is all you have to think about for the next 30 minutes, and you will reach your goal. You don’t have to think about tomorrow or the next day; just think about the next thirty minutes.”
It sounds simple but it is true: If we just make our small efforts over and over again they soon add up to our big accomplishments. Be specific; choose that goal, and break down those small efforts.
If you want help in reaching your big goals and need help in keeping those small efforts going every day, call Totell 801.231.0001. We want you to be successful!
My son is a motorcross racer and wants to improve his performance committing to working out daily to achieve his goals. As many of us do, he gets discouraged waiting for the BIG CHANGE in his body to arrive. While waking him up this morning I simply said, “You want to be your best at racing, don’t you?”
Of course, he responded with a sleepy, “Yes.”
To which I reminded him, “All you have to do is get up and do 30 minutes of cardio before school. That is all you have to think about for the next 30 minutes, and you will reach your goal. You don’t have to think about tomorrow or the next day; just think about the next thirty minutes.”
It sounds simple but it is true: If we just make our small efforts over and over again they soon add up to our big accomplishments. Be specific; choose that goal, and break down those small efforts.
If you want help in reaching your big goals and need help in keeping those small efforts going every day, call Totell 801.231.0001. We want you to be successful!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Eat foods in Season and be healthy
Last night I was introduced to a new vitamin drink which I thought tasted great and had some very promising results. Now, I don’t know if this is a coincidence or related but I slept wonderfully last night! I didn’t wake up once and felt so refreshed when I got up this morning. I immediately thought upon realizing how well I slept, “the drink works! That’s it, this is all I am going to drink for the rest of my life.” It was a silly thought but more than once, in my quest for great nutrition and health, I have heard of something that is nutritionally beneficial and thought I am going to eat that, pop that and overdose on that to make sure I am getting the most out of the promises that are made.
The truth is all foods, that are natural, are good for us. All of them have wonderful benefits and promises but we don’t have to become obsessed with one berry, fruit, vegetable or oil in order to live at optimal health. In fact, if we learn to eat a variety in small amounts we will actually receive all of the benefits from all of them.
Well, how do we do that when there are thousands upon thousands of choices? Eat what is naturally in season and just eat small, normal amounts. If you look at health as something that cycles yearly, just like the seasons, you begin to understand that there are natural foods that should be eaten throughout the year at the natural harvest time which will give your body a more natural and healthy rhythm. Eat berries when they are naturally ripe, eat apples in the fall, oranges are always best around Christmas and artichokes are always a treat in the spring and no more hard flavorless tomatoes any time of year. Nutritionally it makes sense and biochemically it makes sense. You can get every micronutrient you need when you see the benefit of eating with the seasons.
The truth is all foods, that are natural, are good for us. All of them have wonderful benefits and promises but we don’t have to become obsessed with one berry, fruit, vegetable or oil in order to live at optimal health. In fact, if we learn to eat a variety in small amounts we will actually receive all of the benefits from all of them.
Well, how do we do that when there are thousands upon thousands of choices? Eat what is naturally in season and just eat small, normal amounts. If you look at health as something that cycles yearly, just like the seasons, you begin to understand that there are natural foods that should be eaten throughout the year at the natural harvest time which will give your body a more natural and healthy rhythm. Eat berries when they are naturally ripe, eat apples in the fall, oranges are always best around Christmas and artichokes are always a treat in the spring and no more hard flavorless tomatoes any time of year. Nutritionally it makes sense and biochemically it makes sense. You can get every micronutrient you need when you see the benefit of eating with the seasons.
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