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How Many Meals a Day Do You Eat?

Eating Pizza Every Day Makes It Difficult to Lose Weight
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“Oh my! I really need to lose weight. I can’t believe that I look like this in the mirror! I think I will skip breakfast and just have a small salad for lunch. Hmmmm, I think I will have some soup for dinner and that’s all I will eat today. That should work out just fine. That will really help me lose this extra weight.” Now, just how many times have you said something like that to yourself? How many times have you decided to only eat one meal a day simply because you were wanting to lose weight?

Well, to be totally honest, that is absolutely the worst thing you can do to yourself. Yes, you just might lose some weight,

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Should I Keep A Weight Loss Journal?

Weight Loss Journal

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Let me ask, how many people keep a weight loss journal? No you say? In return you might ask, Why should I keep a weight loss journal? To be honest, it is almost imperative to keep track of your success, and the best way is through journaling.

Do you know how easy it is to “forget’ all the pain and suffering you have gone through to get to where you are now? What prompted you to start on your weight loss quest to begin with? Typically pain and suffering. That’s right. When you get to a point when you are no longer emotionally disturbed and distressed by your excess weight, then it’s critical that you keep your weight loss journal up-to-date. If not, it’s too easy to slide and revert back to your original bad habits… most of the time without you even realizing it!

Let’s face it, when you start to feel good about yourself, it is much easier to slide. You no longer feel

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Green Smoothie Guidelines… Why Do I Need Guidelines?

Green Smoothie

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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Green Smoothies! Green Smoothies are a fantastic, nutritious and alkalizing drink that are perfect to enjoy for breakfast. In fact, green smoothies are a wonderful drink to consume at any time throughout the day. The nutrition they give you are comparable to any good meal, and in some instances, even surpass the nutritional attributes of said meal.

I’m sure by now many people are very familiar with the term Green Smoothie. Perhaps though you may not know exactly what to put into these delicious drinks. For many advocates of the RAW movement, there are just countless varieties of recipes that are available to try.

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Is Food a Comfort Thing for You?

And The Winner Is...

“AGHHHH!!! I am so-o-o frustrated! I wish I would not have said what I said. Especially to the person I said it to. Now it will get all over the internet. G-R-O-A-N! Oh, what am I going to do. Hmmm, let’s see… some chips and dip will make me feel better. How about some chocolate. That ALWAYS makes me feel better! Mmmmm ~ Ahhhh, yes. Much better. Boy that chocolate really tastes extra good today. I wonder if anyone will notice that there is no more left.”

When was the last time YOU reached for some comfort food just to help make you “feel better”. In many ways, we all tend to do it, just some more than others. Comfort food can be classified as a

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Can Food Additives Make Me Fat?

Food Additives Danger

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Can food additives make me fat? The answer is absolutely! The obvious question is… what is a food additive? Is it something added to your food to enhance the taste, to make it look good and oh so enticing… to completely change the flavor with a chemical aftertaste, or even worse, no strange aftertaste at all? Just what is a food additive?

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I am Looking to Lose Weight – How Often Should I Weigh Myself?

Grrr at the Scale

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In my hypnosis practice I am frequently asked “How Often Should I Weigh Myself?” If you ask 10 people, you are liable to get 10 different answers. Let me ask, do you weigh yourself every day? More than once a day? My big question to you is WHY???

Are you aware that each time that you weigh yourself you will most likely NOT get the same answer. As you are trying to track your weight, wouldn’t that be a very confusing thing to deal with? What does that do to your confidence knowing that

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If I Eat Out Every Day Can I Still Lose Weight?

Healthy Food vs Fast Food

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Eating out every day can be a blessing in disguise – or it can be your worst nightmare. The choice is yours. Yes, you can easily eat out every day but common sense must prevail. First of all, where are you choosing to eat… is it in a cafeteria? Are you going out to eat nothing but fast food? Are you eating on the run and not actually sitting down to enjoy your food? Do you eat by yourself or do you have company? All these questions and more play a major role in how well you will gain, maintain or possibly even lose weight and still eat out every day.

With that in mind, let us address each topic for a better understanding.

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Do You Have a Weight Loss Trouble Tree?

Trouble Tree for Weight Loss

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Do you allow all the troubles of your day to conflict with your efforts to lose weight? All too easily you run into a snag – perhaps something was said or done at work, or something has happened at home, or anywhere for that matter – and it gets you upset, so upset that all your good intentions of staying on your weight loss regime simply takes a nose dive. Has that ever happened to you?

Too many times little things get in the way of what we are attempting to accomplish. Now, I’m not saying not to be concerned about those little things, mainly because if they aren’t addressed, they very quickly turn into big things and much harder to take care of. But it is what you do after taking care of business that counts. So what DO you do when these unexpected and bothersome events strike?

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Do You Consciously Eat Food?

Do You Eat in Front of the Television

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Do you remember what you ate last night? Are you guilty of eating and not even realizing that you have? How many times have you had a plate of food in front of you, looked down at the clean plate, and had no idea what you ate, or worse yet, didn’t even remember eating? Do you get up in the middle of the night to eat and have no recollection of ever doing that? Wow! Lots of questions to ponder, but so important to be aware of too. So, do you consciously eat food?

Eating is something to be totally savored and enjoyed. Taking the time to truly realize the food experience can be quite a unique treat – especially for some people. In today’s fast-paced world, it has now become the norm to “eat on the run” instead of sitting down at the table to consume that food. The car is littered with fast food wrappers and who knows what else.

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How Important is pH to Weight Loss?

pH Thermometer

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When was the last time you felt this way… At lunch you had a few hot dogs complete with the trimmings. Perhaps you even had chili added as a topping. As you gobbled up those aromatic hot dogs, they tasted ever so good to you. However, when you returned to work, an hour later your stomach is grumbling and actually causing you to burp up your lunch… which by the way is not tasting nearly as good as it did when it went down the first time. So immediately you reach into your desk drawer and look for an antacid remedy. That ought to take care of your problem. But after chewing down the first tablet, and then the second, you still have no relief – so you say to yourself, if a little bit is good, then a few more should be even better, right? Then of course, you pop a couple more of the antacids hoping and praying for some much-needed relief. Eventually they do just that, but let’s take a look at what has happened to your natural digestive system along the way…

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