Week 12
Okay, you did it! Congratulations! Wasn’t it worth investing a little time in yourself?
Whatever routine you established, reward yourself by keeping it up in the new year.
Choose one day this week to go on a mega walk. Take water and a supply of tissues and walk for 2 hours straight.
Really enjoy your walk. If you are on a treadmill, walking for 2 hours is not going to be the same as walking outdoors. I suggest that you break it up into 2 or 3 sessions but all in the same day!
Your body is ready for the new year. Thanks for following my blog.
20 Sep 2010 at 00:02
uzoma
Weight Control
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Please watch the video link below as it confirms that we are truly susceptible to manipulation by what we see around us. Please have a conversation with yourself about being content with the way you are.
99% of all photographs in magazines are retouched! I hope that young women and men can see that the photographs are unrealistic and that even the top models do not look like that. The rise in eating disorders is not a coincidence. We are all susceptible to believe what we see. There should be warnings against photo shopped photos so that our young readers are more aware of what real bodies look like.
http://www.diet.com/videos/play/the-photoshop-effect
My teen aged daughter had been visiting a friend and returned home with a popular women’s magazine. The front page featured a famous celebrity in a bathing costume, looking in good shape. Several pages into the magazine, the exposée continued with more celebrities, including ones known for their ‘hot’ bodies.
The problem I had with it was the purpose behind the photographs. There, next to the beautiful slim bodies were close up shots of cellulite and saggy skin tone. My immediate thought was “So what? A good 80% of women have cellulite and stretch marks. Why should women publish a magazine that shows women looking natural and try to make shocking news out of history?”
However, my next thought was to let my readers understand something. These celebrities are under enormous pressure to stay slim, even underweight. They have extremely low self esteem and therefore try to be body perfect in order to remain somewhat confident in the eyes of their adoring fans. It is not surprising to see saggy skin tone on a celebrity in their prime because any extra weight gained is banished through the latest fad crash diet. Fast results on the scale but the skin doesn’t get time to adjust at that speed and is left looking a little lumpy and saggy.
I understand the headlines saying that seeing celebrities with cellulite makes the rest of us feel better about our own imperfections- but isn’t it the media who made us feel that we were imperfect by photo shopping and airbrushing the cover girls in the magazines? Dear readers, don’t let these mixed messages make you feel bad about yourself. It is all clever marketing. Do your best to love your body.
Would you rather look healthy than be healthy? A client of mine said that she wanted to look more healthy and as I thought about what she had said, it struck me that we often wish for the wrong things and then wonder why our lives take detours. It is so much easier to be fake than real. Sometimes we even fool ourselves into believing that our fake lives are actually true!
How many times have you announced the start of a weight loss plan, got every one’s attention on you, then , unable to maintain the plan effectively, you keep up the pretence by eating carefully around the people you have involved while in secret, you chaotically indulge in high fat , high sugar snacks- sometimes making excuses to leave the room or not attend functions so that you can over eat at your pleasure.
Have you made excuses to yourself as to why you cannot exercise today? And, when you see the figure on the scale shifting in the wrong direction, do you weigh yourself three more times as if you cannot fathom what happened ?
You deceive even yourself!
I say, stop trying so hard to ‘look’ the part and start behaving the way you want to be. If you want to be more healthy, do something that you can do towards that goal. Don’t look to please your audience, do it to impress yourself. Your health is not an ‘all or nothing’ case. Make it a ‘something or anything’ case. Don’t look for a miracle, be the miracle!
16 Aug 2010 at 06:00
uzoma
Weight Control
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It appears that many celebrities are now leading the way with a new eating regime purported to be ‘good for weight loss’. First of all, there are many, many people who are following a gluten free diet because they are actually allergic to gluten. If they eat even small quantities of it they will suffer with painful stomach cramps, diarrhoea, and malabsorption of important nutrients. These people are allergic to the protein found in wheat and suffer from coeliacs disease.
Gluten is not only found in pasta, bread, cakes, cookies and biscuits, it has been isolated and added to other products, often as a binding agent in certain brands of sauces, food coatings, crisps(potato chips) and even lipsticks! You can imagine that after eating a diet free of this allergen, all coeliacs tend to gain weight or maintain a healthy normal weight…Thus indicating that gluten is not an evil scale breaking, metabolism slowing ingredient. In fact, a lot of the gluten free products on the supermarket shelves contain more sugar in order to improve the taste.
I suppose what I am trying to say is, don’t fall prey to yet another gimmick when you already know that the healthiest formula for weight loss is to burn off more calories than you take in (regular exercise) and to choose foods that are nutrient dense (less processed, more organic) especially since you will be reducing your portion sizes. After all, you still need the same amount of fibre, vitamins and minerals even as you reduce in size.
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