You have certain emotions. We all do. People feel things all day long and while they dream. Sometimes, the feelings are great; sometimes, they are not. Part of life is learning how to deal with unpleasant emotions. However, I believe that most people have been poorly, if at all, taught how to handle their emotions.
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The biggest problem people seem to face when attempting weight loss is staying the course — in other words, sticking to the diet plan. If you have read my previous articles, you will know that I do not approve of diet plans, because they are next-to-impossible to stick to for important reasons. However, even those
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Suppose you do something well. You have been working hard; you did something special for someone; you just stopped smoking, or something. How will you reward yourself? Isn’t it funny how most people wanting to lose weight immediately pick on something food related? How many people decide to give up chocolate for Lent? Why chocolate?
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Food plays an important role several times every day in everyone’s life. However, most people think about food only when hungry; in our society, we tend to think about food three times a day at mealtimes, with three or four extra times thrown in for snacks. But a dieter tends to think about food all
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Mary’s hands shook in her pockets as she waited in the queue inside the petrol station. To anyone watching she was just a well dressed business woman waiting to pay for her fuel. She felt a surge of adrenalin as she got nearer to the tills. Would she do it? And if she did then
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The word exercise strikes a dread chord in many people’s hearts. Visions of being forced to run around a track at school, struggling through another 30 minutes on the treadmill, or jogging until your knees give up… Dan Buettner studied various long-lived cultures around the world. He discovered that these people did not “exercise.” Well,
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When you go on a strict diet, coupled with a new exercise plan, you will be forgiven for thinking you are doing great when you lose weight rapidly. However, I caution you against this. Why? When you exercise and diet at the same time, the idea is that you starve your body of energy while
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When you want to lose weight, you know that the methods you’ve tried haven’t worked. Therefore, you turn to outside help to decide what you must and mustn’t eat, when you must and mustn’t eat, and how much you must and mustn’t eat. It’s exhausting, I find, for a simple reason. You see, you need
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The most common cause of excess weight is overeating. Most people who aren’t overweight (and a number of people who are) will instantly judge overweight people and say, “Just eat less!” Unfortunately, that judgement and that comment completely ignore the cause behind overeating. Most overeaters can “just eat less” as easily as you can “just
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When you have been struggling lose weight for some time, it can be tempting to find some sort of “magic cure” such as a herb potion, diet pills or similar. I often see on weight loss forums on the Internet adverts for such things. For example, there is a specific herb advertised as “all natural,”
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If you are finding that you are gaining weight unexpectedly, you may be tempted to start a new diet. Well, that would be fine if a diet is the answer. But it’s best to be sure. What causes could there be for weight gain? Here, I list the possible causes, and discuss what to do
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The aim of these quick challenges is to encourage you to make small changes that could have a big impact on your health and happiness. Today’s challenge is to sit down and have a cuppa. Research* has shown that drinking green tea could help to reduce belly fat when drunk alongside exercise. Over just twelve
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If you were unable to manage your finances, and often found yourself in debt, would you ask your friend who is also in debt for advice? If you were struggling in your relationship, would you look to someone who had been twice divorced and was about to divorce again for ideas? I am a strong
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Weight Loss & Slimming Consultants in Oxfordshire Check Our Directory For this first article in the series Meet The Professionals, I caught up with Oxfordshire Weight Loss Coach Paddy Landau who is based in Kennington, just on the outskirts of Oxford. I was armed with 8 questions that hopefully would help me to understand just
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