Posted in goals, weight loss and diets, tagged A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle, Oprah on 1 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
My plans are in place, and I’ve been working them for about a week. A little before I started this plan, I was absorbing information from Oprah/Eckhart Tolle and Inside Out Weight Loss’ Renee Stephens. Those are the main guides I am currently using to increase my presence and build my current plan.
How am I [...]
Posted in goals on 30 April 2008 | No Comments »
For the month of May, I’m also going to write down my successes each day. This helps a lot towards keeping a positive attitude.
Posted in goals, portion control, positive self-talk on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
My current plan is based on what I’ve learned from the Eckhart Tolle and IOWL podcasts. So far, the plan has increased my feelings of peace, helped me to stay in the present moment, and helped me strengthen my eating habit of 3 fruits and 5 veggies a day.
Every week or so I find myself [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, goals, intuitive eating, weight loss and diets on 23 April 2008 | No Comments »
It doesn’t matter which intuitive eating process you choose, how many therapists you do or don’t have, which diet you want to follow.
What does matter are the choices you make in each moment - what you eat or don’t eat, what you say to yourself, what you listen to, how you create your own environment.
Everything [...]
Posted in goals, weight loss and diets on 23 April 2008 | No Comments »
After all the work inside my head, I stood on the scale today and saw a lower number than anytime in the last 10 years. Good.
Posted in goals, positive self-talk, tagged calvin hobbes on 22 April 2008 | No Comments »
Not only did I sleep through the night, but when I went to the doctor today, she was highly impressed with my progress. Here are some of my accomplishments:
Blood pressure in normal range
Great blood sugar
Well over 20 kilo lost by learning and practicing normal eating
I was able to tell her effectively about my recent progress (she [...]
Posted in binging, emotions, goals, hunger, intuitive eating, tagged go ahead and eat the whole damn thing, how to stop eating when you're not hungry, How to stop mindless eating on 6 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
See also my post on How to stop eating when you’re not hungry
Whenever you eat mindlessly or when you are not hungry, the root cause is simple: you are responding to your mind’s needs rather than your physical needs. This might be emotional eating, or habit eating, or whatever. The fact remains, it’s not what [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, goals, tagged Inside Out Weight Loss, Renee Stephens on 28 March 2008 | No Comments »
You might remember from my Easter post that I was listening to a couple of podcasts, and could tell some improvement was happening, but didn’t know which podcast was helping.
It seems to be the podcast from Renee Stephens, Inside Out Weight Loss. So far, I’m able to work with the ideas of getting my whole self [...]
Posted in affirmations, goals, jon stewart and stephen colbert, tagged Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, For Better or For Worse on 27 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
On my honor, I will try, to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people every day, especially those at home.
- the Brownie pledge of yesteryear
Forty years later I still remember that pledge, even though I probably never said it more than 50 times as a child. But I was loyal, [...]
Posted in affirmations, exercise, goals on 25 March 2008 | No Comments »
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
Something is letting go inside of me. I hope it’s not [...]
