Weight Loss Coaching is about having someone who will stay with you each step of the way as you work on your wellness program. There has been a lot of research showing that individuals have more success when they have support and your weight loss coach will provide this support and more.
Each week you meet with your weight loss coach you will discuss the challenges and roadblocks that kept you from meeting your weekly goal and together you will create strategies to help you overcome these obstacles in the coming week. Your weight loss coach will celebrate each success with you knowing intimately the effort it took to achieve your goal.
Eating for Wellness
Losing Weight Is Not
About The Diet!
Let's face it we all know how to lose weight: Eat right and
exercise and there are many successful diets to choose from.If we all know what to do to lose
weight how come obesity is so prevalent?Why is weight loss a billion dollar industry in this country?
It's Not About The
Diet!Research shows it is
about our individual thought process.
Recent research shows that one of
the most effective treatments in treating binge eating is cognitive and
behavioral therapy.Meaning the problem lies in the
distorted way we view our self and our place in the world.It is about the automatic negative
self-talk we engage in without even realizing what we are doing.
Here are a few common distorted
ways of thinking:
All or nothing thinking You view everything as black or white."I'm a success" or "I am a
failure."Rather than "I succeeded
this morning, didn't do as well this afternoon but I am back on track."
CatastrophizingFortune telling.All your thoughts about the future are
negative.You eat one cookie and
then think to yourself, "I'll never lose weight" or "I'll never stick to a
diet."
Emotional reasoning You think something must be true because you "feel (actually believe)" it so
strongly.You ignore all evidence
to the contrary. "Yes, you have
been finding it challenging to stick with a diet routine" but the thought that "I will always fail" is not really true.Think about a time in the past when you lost weight.Even if you haven't lost weight in the
past why can't you lose weight now?Each day is a new day.
Labeling You
label yourself and others without even considering evidence that might lead you
to a different conclusion."I'm a
loser or " he's no good."You box
yourself in with this type of negative self-talk.
Allow yourself to be human.Life is a
journey with ups and downs.Every
day is new and is a day you've never lived before. You can make choices
today that lead you to having more joy in your life and lead you closer to your wellness goals.
Learn to fail or fail to
learn (Shahar).You can learn from the
times you fall down.The key is to
find the learning and quickly get back up.We all fall down.
Don't be fooled by media.The media continues to
throw images at you of how should look.The whole purpose of advertising is to sell you products that will
supposedly make you look the way they
tell you to look.More than 97%
of the population do not look like a supermodels.We are various shapes and sizes each of us is unique in our own way.
Don't get obsessed about losing
weight.Your body is the shell that
carries you through life's journey.Learn to take care of your shell.Treat it with loving kindness.You are not your shell.
Try and see if you can catch
yourself in distorted thinking.
