Tag: weight loss

For years and years the nutrition world has shoved these phrases down your throat: Fat-free, Non-fat, Low-fat. Those words have dictated how you’ve tried to eat for a long, long time. Right? Well, truth-be-told there are plenty of reasons to eat fat—and lots of it.

Turns out, there is a healthy kind of fat. It’s the fat you find in avocados, olive oil, and fish.

It is probably hard to believe this at times—like when your tween is rolling her eyes at you—but your kids actually do think of you as a role model. Even when we think they are ignoring us, they are closely watching and seeing how we respond to all of life’s challenges.

With that in mind, it is possible to harness this role model power of parenting and show our kids that anything is possible. Here are a few ways we can show our kids that they too can achieve anything in life.

It’s impossible for even the most successful people to be motivated all the time. After all, we are only human. To stay motivated you need to be interested, on track and engaged.

Everyone needs a little push now and then, including myself. There are days I am super charged to eat healthy and get to the gym and work hard, and other days I feel like throwing in the towel and simply want to sleep all day. Most days I get up and put in the work because I know it yields results. When you see results from the work you put in, it’s much easier to stay motivated.

If you’ve lost weight and gained it back, you’re one of the 95 percent of people who struggle with weight maintenance. Losing weight, although a challenge, is easy compared to weight maintenance. It has been proven so often, this statistic has become fact.

What was your trigger for regaining the weight? Was there an injury so exercising became more of a challenge? Did life get so busy you began eating out more and planning less, or did stress allow emotions to take over?

If you’re like most people who are trying to lose weight, you have a very close, yet very uncomfortable relationship with your bathroom scale. Most of the time, no matter how hard you work, it seems like your scale delights in making you miserable (and sometimes, you’d swear that it’s lying to you on purpose). But no matter how frustrated and demoralized you get, you step onto the scale every day, hoping against hope that the needle will move just a bit further to the left.

Sound familiar?

After a long stretch of staying on a diet or exercising regularly, we sometimes just stop. For whatever reason, we aren't inspired or just can't get the momentum going again.

This is what's known as a "setback." We all go through them, and it's easy to let them pull us down for a while.

Sometimes a difficult loss, such as the death of a parent or injury will cause you to go through a setback. But other times, you can struggle because of simple things such as tripping over your kids' toys. Whether you are dealing with grief or a sprained ankle, a setback can make you lose your motivation and cause you to temporarily give up on your weight-loss program.

Is there anyone who doesn’t worry about their weight? Most of us dither about that nagging 5 pounds that comes and goes, but some people are prone to packing on the pounds, which jeopardizes their health. Once your BMI hits 30, you qualify as obese, a condition described as a "ticking time bomb" for chronic disease.

It’s easy to say people should get their weight under control, but that can be a challenge. An extensive body of research known as The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease shows that many people are programmed for obesity even before they are born.