Morning Musings: June 21
I didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to notice that I had no willpower in the presence of certain foods. I am not proud of this fact, nor happy about it, but I am clear. I have to admit […]
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Morning Musings: June 20
Every diet that I went on that had an end date – whether that was a goal weight or an event or a time frame (especially the radical, really satisfying ones) – was a testament to the fact that I […]
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So, why does it help? I think it is because exercise causes you to get a hold of that side of yourself that would also call ahead to a restaurant to check the menu before you go, or that side […]
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I remember when Oprah had successfully lost a bunch of weight years ago working out with Bob Greene and with Rosie cooking for her. She was actively speaking about this on her show and had started a weigh loss club. […]
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More importantly, exercise also predicts other health behaviors. I started in this field working for an in-patient hospital weight loss program that also conducted Risk Factor Management programs in corporations. Exercise was, hands down, the biggest predictor other positive health […]
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There is an organization called The Weight Control Registry that has been tracking the behaviors of successful weight losers for a lot of years. The one thing that virtually everybody (male or female) who has kept weight off for over […]
read moreMorning Musings: June 15
Exercise is statistically speaking the greatest predictor of success at weight management. There are statistics like: people who do over 2000 exercise calories per week keep off upward of 78% of the weight they lose, and people who do less […]
read moreMorning Musings: June 14
Exercise gives me the exact oppoite feeling than the FIDS. I don’t know why, but I sometimes wake up in the morning with the FID’s – Fear of Impending Doom. I don’t even know what I think is not going […]
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Maybe exercising keeps paying back in the thousand ways it does because I have to keep investing myself. It’s not like smoking, where once you have quit, it is over (eventually anyway – took me about five years of being […]
read moreMorning Musings: June 12
Exercise selectively accesses belly fat for fuel. How cool is that? That particular fat is metabolically more active, spitting out nasty chemicals 24 hours a day. But it is also more easily accessible to be used for fuel. So […]
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