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Tip O' The Day: Are You Hungry or Just Swallowing Some Emotion With That Cake?

Good advice - emotional eating is a huge problem when trying to lose weight.  When we are sad, stressed, down, depressed, frustrated - many of us reach for food - the ultimate comforter.

http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/0509/put-the-brakes-on-emotional-eating.aspx?xid=aol_eh-spec_2_20120507_&aolcat=HLT&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl9%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D159785

 

Tip O' The Day: Weight A Minute

I have written before about stepping OFF the scale.  The need to stop obsessing about every ounce gained or lost, allowing the scale to dictate your mood.

Instead of picking some arbitrary number out of fat air, focus instead on how you feel, how your clothes are fitting, how you look in the mirror.  Your journey, like your body, is individual to YOU.

 

Attitude Is Half The Battle

Remember, the only thing standing between you and the YOU you want to be, is the YOU you are right now.

Tip O' The Day: No Excuses

"I'm having a bad day."  "My shoelace broke."  "My work schedule is different."  "I'm having my period. "  "I'm about to have my period."  "I'm tired."  "My favorite got voted off DWTS."  "There were Oreos in the pantry."  "My husband likes a full meal waiting for him when he gets home."  "I gained .25 ounces this week, eff it, I give up."  "I was at a banquet."  "I stubbed my toe, broke a nail, scuffed my shoe."  "We were out to dinner with friends."  "My cat is shedding."  "I deserve a couple beers a week."  "I was traveling."  "I have a hangnail."  "I couldn't sleep."  "It's half price Frappucino week at Starbucks."  "Grease is the word." 

Face it, for every ounce of weight you want to lose or have gained, there is an excuse.  Let's be honest - there's an infinite # of excuses.

Human beings are extremely adept at coming up with a million ways to rationalize NOT taking responsibility for our actions, and when it comes to weight loss?  Take that million and multiply it by infinity + 1.

If weight loss were Spinal Tap, we'd all be guilty of cranking up our excuses to 11 so as to drown out the truth:  That we simply buckled and there is no one to blame but ourselves.

Food is inanimate.  It cannot crawl out of the fridge, into the microwave, or out of the package, and sprint up your chest into your mouth.  It needs your hands, your complicity, your "Yes."

I know, I know, I KNOW - this is hard.  But it begins and ends with YOU.

Stop making excuses today.