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Awesome No Calorie Noodles : Shirataki / Miracle Noodles
THIS ARTICLE COPIED FROM FITDAY.COM. I HAVE ONE BAG OF THESE ALMOST EVERY DAY AT LUNCH IN MY PHO NOODLE SOUP. VERY LOW CAL AND VERY FILLING. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! LITTLE CALORIE SAVINGS ADD UP TO A LOT OVER TIME! I BUY MINE FROM WHOLE FOODS AND/OR A LOCAL ASIAN STORE. CAN BE PURCHASES FOR JUST OVER A $1 WHEN ON SALE, BUT…
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Black Women Avoiding Exercise To Maintain Hairstyles: Study
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/black-women-hair-avoid-exercise_n_2321539.html I heard about this study on radio this morning. I wear a hat most of the day. Then I go to the gym with major hat hair. Sorry to hear about this study though. I hope this trend changes and the emphasis for all people is to get fit and…
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WARNING! POLAR HEART RATE MONITORS DEFECTIVE!
Here’s the scoop. I’ve been using the Polar FT7 since July. During that time I’ve had my weight set at 326 pounds, and have logged 132 hours on my FT7. My average calorie burn per minute was 6.5 calories per minute with an average heart rate of about 109. I thought that was abnormally low considering my weight and was…
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2 Great Tools to Help Control Emotional Eating
2 Great Tools to Help Control Emotional Eating FRIDAY, MAY 03, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD How you choose to view the journey of gaining control over emotional eating will play a large part in just how far you succeed. An outlook that views it as tedious and difficult will tire far more quickly than one that sees it as a…
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using food for helplessness & hopelessness
Emotional Eating: Rebalancing Your Relationship to Food FRIDAY, APRIL 05, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD Just like everything you know how to do in your life, you learned emotional eating—it was not something you were born with. Somewhere in your life, eating and the taste of food (distraction) provided an instant (temporary)…
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The Profile of an Emotional Eater
Here is another great article from Dr. Gould: FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD Everyone who eats for emotional reasons is unique but we can learn something from the things Emotional Eaters share in common. That's why we did a survey of 25,000 people who identified themselves as Emotional Eaters and asked them…
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The Three Most Common Reasons For Overeating
Here is a great article from Dr. Gould. FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD For overeaters, food is both the cure and the curse. The cure in that overeating helps temporarily quiet negative emotions; and the curse in that a considerable amount of negative emotions stem from being overweight in the first place. We…
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Why Sleep Is Key for Weight Loss
A friend sent me this article. thought it would be helpful to share: If you are following a weight loss program, you can use Fitday.com to track your calories, exercise, and weight loss. Frequent exercise and a healthy diet are key elements in most weight loss programs. However, making sure that you get enough sleep is…
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Emotional Eating: Which Wolf Are You Feeding?
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD An old Cherokee is teaching her grandchild about life. "A fight is going on inside me," she said to her granddaughter. "It's a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil: she is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority,…
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The Benefits of Being Fat
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD Who wouldn't want to lose weight? The answer to that question is not as simple as it may seem. We know the benefits of being thin, but there are benefits to being fat. The main one is that being overweight makes a lot of people feel safe. It is not a real sense of safety, but it…
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Put This In Your Pantry!
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A Second Chance......
Does anyone here have any 2nd chance stories? 10th chance stories? 100th? Please share and inspire! “There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.” -Rachel Griffiths “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”…
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Is eating food for stress relief a weakness?
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD Most food addicts, whether they are aware of this fact or not, use food as a drug because of the brief relief it provides them from strong, unpleasant emotions such as depression, anxiety, loneliness and trauma. The pain-relieving effects of food are therefore more important to…
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CNN's Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
Here is the news article on the new documentary airing yesterday and today on CNN. I was very impressed with the 2 hour documentary and it does lay out a clear plan for how we should go forward as American. Obama Care does NOT address the core issues and problems. Our healthcare system will remain broken until something…
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Using food to rebel?
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD A lot of emotional eating happens because there is a leftover child inside of you that is asserting its independence by eating whatever it wants. It is rebelling against rules. The man in one New Yorker cartoon says, "I became a vegetarian for health reasons, then for moral…
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Healing the Emotional Eating that Started in Childhood
Taken from Dr. Gould email. Author of Shrink Yourself: The End of Emotional Eating. I read the book. Didn't like it since it was trying to lead you into signing up for their paid program. But get emails from them every few weeks and find them quite interesting: A funny thing happened on the way to adulthood...we got hurt.…
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suffering
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Selling Hope
FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD There's a game emotional eaters like to play. It's a tough game. A game that can never be won. But a game that has a never ending line ready to play it. It goes something like this... You look in the mirror one day and don't like the extra pounds you see. Or, you hear about…
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Why Running Away from Your Problems Keeps You Fat
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2011 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD If you are a binge eater or a compulsive over eater you are a Runaway. That's because when you eat that way, you are actually running away from yourself. When kids run away from home, it's because they feel misunderstood or under appreciated or abused. Everyone has felt…
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Overeaters: How to Love Yourself
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD Overeaters, do you keep telling yourself that when you lose weight you'll finally love yourself? Do you think it's completely acceptable to reject your body in its current state? If you're plagued with thoughts about wishing you looked differently, read on. A female journalist,…
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What the Weight-Loss Industry is Really Selling
FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2013 | POSTED BY DR. GOULD There's a game emotional eaters like to play. It's a tough game. A game that can never be won. But a game that has a never ending line ready to play it. It goes something like this... You look in the mirror one day and don't like the extra pounds you see. Or, you hear about…
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dietbet.com... anyone try it? did you like it?
I am thinking to start a challenge that uses dietbet.com. wondering if anyone out there has used it?
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Bad Things Happen
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”- Walter Anderson
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Who will die in this episode of Walking Dead tonight?
Not sure anyone of significance will die tonight. The battle lines were drawn last week. Axel and one of their guys died last week. Seems that the prison group contemplating leaving the prison from reading the info about tonight's episode. but we know that will not happen. this story is just getting interesting with the…
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Eliminate the Word: Should
Taken from Dr. Gould email. Author of Shrink Yourself: The End of Emotional Eating. I read the book. Didn't like it since it was trying to lead you into signing up for their paid program. But get emails from them every few weeks and find them quite interesting: Do you hear a voice in your head that says things like, "you…
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Who will DIE tonight?
Walking Dead is kind of like Star Trek in this one way. You know in Star Trek if you only have a first name, the new person on the bridge, or on the away team... you have a pretty good chance of dying. Walking Dead is the same except.... they kill of major characters on occassion too. (Rick, Lori, T-Dog, etc). In this next…
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Who will die in this episode of Walking Dead tonight?
Walking Dead is kind of like Star Trek in this one way. You know in Star Trek if you only have a first name, the new person on the bridge, or on the away team... you have a pretty good chance of dying. Walking Dead is the same except.... they kill of major characters on occassion too. (Rick, Lori, T-Dog, etc). In this next…
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Now Signing Up For 3 Month “Mission Slimpossible” Challenge
I've went on a plateau and then maintenance for the past month after losing 40 pounds since June. Now going for it again starting yesterday. Skinnyo is really awesome and I've started a few other challenges with that tool. Cool graphs that you can see anytime how you are doing and also see how your teammates are doing. Try…
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FAT PEOPLE CAN BE AS HEALTHY AS THIN PEOPLE
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/12/31/evidence-that-fat-people-can-be-as-healthy-as-thin-people/ This article was very encouraging. It's all about the lifestyle change. Certainly it is important to lose the weight for a lot of reasons (like stress on knees, making more money, a better self-image). Also, the…
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Why 99% of Dieters Fail?
99% of dieters say that they break their diet because they are depressed, stressed or bored. Feelings, not lack of willpower, get in Getting in touch with these feelings and dealing effectively with them I believe is one of the keys to lifestyle change and keeping the weight off once we lose... or even losing it in the…
