Live a healthy life you love – a Dietitian's Contribution
Nov 3rd, 2009 by Giselle
“Reflecting on your actions” is a powerful way to examine your behaviour and draw valuable lessons from them. In this video, Jemima does a “post mortem” of her actions at her sister’s wedding reception and shares her pearls of wisdom with you. Check out this video to learn how doing the same could powerfully impact on the results you generate and provide you with the tipping point you need to catapult you toward your goals.
Oct 31st, 2009 by Giselle
This episode is about having a game plan in place for special occasions like wedding receptions and the up-coming Christmas celebrations. Do you panic and freeze when you think about attending an “all-you –can eat” wedding reception? Or do you clap your hands in jubilation and simply cannot wait to let down your hair and fill up? This article will help you sort through the confusion and empower you to do the right thing such that you do not feel deprived and still continue to navigate your weight loss journey successfully.
Oct 27th, 2009 by Giselle
This episode is about the art of compartmentalisation. That is about making the conscious effort to not let a sub-optimal situation in your life spill over and drag all other areas of your life down. Do you throw the baby out with the bath water? No you don’t, then why would let any crisis in your life stone-wall your weight management effort?
Oct 27th, 2009 by Giselle
Can you recall what you ate in the last 5 hours? If you are having trouble with this exercise, consider that your eating is out of control. Do you sporadically get into fast, mindless and uncontrolled feeding frenzies? Does this happen particularly when you are out of your usual weight management routine or when you are under stress? If your answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this article is for you.
This episode of Weight Loss in Real Time is about mindful eating and learning to restore consciousness to your eating patterns. The cornerstone of mindful eating requires you to tune into your body cues. That is to take time out, relax and listen to yourself. The more connected you are externally (especially via emails, mobile phones, faxes and particularly when you do not have any rest time to quiet your mind), the less connected you will be internally. Consider that your mindless, uncontrolled eating is a manifestation of your being out-of-touch with yourself. And this is the result of functioning at a low level of awareness.
Mindful eating is about restoring nature’s way, paying attention to the food you eat and the manner in which you eat them. Learning to relax, listening to your body, deliberately slowing down, chewing your food thoroughly and being fully present to the experience of nourishing yourself. Conscious eating involves the whole of your being; your thoughts, your emotions and engaging all your senses in the art of eating.
Practice mindful eating and you will find that eating according to physiological hunger will be as natural as breathing. At this point, you will finally have made peace with food. You will find yourself eating less and enjoying more. And I promise you, you will never struggle to maintain your ideal weight again.
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Oct 12th, 2009 by Giselle
Weight loss is not a do-it-yourself deal. Sometimes, when you are out of your usual environment, you get derailed. Your actions become inconsistent with your goals. This is when you need to program your environment for success. Find out more about how to create a supportive environment.
Have you ever considered giving licence to the people around you to police you in your weight management effort? What I am referring to is sharing your goals with everyone and letting them help you set boundaries and remind you of what you should be doing?
For instance, you could consider saying the following to your family and friends:
1. If you see me eating a packet of chips, please take it away without hesitation.
2. Please do not invite me to buffet dinners in fancy restaurants.
3. Please do not buy me big lunches or dinners.
4. Never say, “Just eat now and diet tomorrow.” Please respect that every decision counts.
5. Please do not offer me high-calorie drinks like milk shakes, alcohol or full fat hot beverages.
6. Please help me clear the table as soon as possible after each meal. I would appreciate it if you could rush me out of the kitchen and put away the dishes.
7. Remind me to floss my teeth thoroughly and brush my teeth immediately after each meal. If I conveniently forget, please march me to the bathroom.
8. Please remind me to slow down when I eat too quickly. My meal has to exceed 20 minutes, preferably half an hour.
9. Do not feel rejected or unloved if I turn down your food. I’d rather accept a non-food gift from you any day. Feel free to give me any of the following: for example jewellery, card, socks, scarf, tie, sexy underwear, flowers, a poem, a letter, kind words of affirmation, anything but food! Thanks.
Oct 12th, 2009 by Giselle
Have you ever started your weight management program with the best of intentions and after a week, decided to chuck in the towel because it is all too hard? In this video, Jemima considers bariatric surgery because she concedes that she cannot do it on her own. Find out more as she counts the cost of selling out.
Is selling out an option? Of course! But it may not be the best choice as there are unpleasant consequences. In the book, “How to stop worrying and start living (first published in 1948)”, Dale Carnegie advocated the following timeless advice for managing our problems:
Oct 6th, 2009 by Giselle
There is no doubt that diet has a large role to play in changing one’s serum cholesterol level. However, the efficacy of this has its limitations as the regulation of cholesterol synthesis is primarily centred in the liver and secondarily in the intestine. Read on to find out how you can control your blood cholesterol level in just 8 weeks.
Oct 4th, 2009 by Giselle
What do you tell yourself about everything that goes on in your life? Do you think you are a serial failure and that there is no point in starting a dietary and exercise regime? If you think so, guess what, it will be so. Whatever is true about you in your mind, you will live, each and every day. Without exceptions, your beliefs become your reality. Click here to find out more about Jemima’s internal dialogue.
Do you get fired up for 3 days, jump out of bed, enthusiastically commence your diet and exercise program and then start to tell yourself you are a lost cause and lose all your excitement? Do you see your efforts biting the dust over and over again? If you tell yourself you are a failure, your outcome will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
These messages powerfully create your emotional state. These emotional states dictate whether you have your life and eating under or out of control. What are you telling yourself about your appearance, weight, discipline, self-control, health and general self-worth? Take a pen and paper and write down the real-time running commentary in your head.
In this video, Jemima shares her internal dialogue with you.
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