What Is Your Relationship With Food?
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Losing weight and body fat is less about changing the food you eat
than it is changing your relationship with food.
Our relationship with food holds emotions attached to it just like
our relationship with other things in our life: Love, hate,
pleasure, pain, good, and bad…
Food can be a celebration, addiction, obsession, nourishment,
energy and vitality…
We feed ourselves as mothers/fathers, husbands/wives, single
men/women, athletic/sedentary, our religion or nationality…
Are you AWARE of your relationship with food? Is it like your
relationship with your life?
For example, lets look at “Gina”, a working mom with two young kids
and a fairly high-pressure job as a senior manager.
Her position is further compromised with the state of the economy,
and her kids have school, dance, piano, sports, birthday parties,
etc. She lives connected to her Blackberry at all times.
She is always busy and in a big hurry, and guess what? She has no
planning or thought for any given meal, and often will go all day
before she realizes she hasn’t eaten.
She comes home exhausted, and when she finally does eat, she is so
hungry that she quickly packs down a huge meal, so she can pick up
one kid from soccer practice, get him fed, then help both kids
with their homework and get them to bed… but she isn’t really
satisfied because there was nothing really “good” in the house, and
she is binging on “bad” food all evening.
The next day, kids fed, dropped off at school, and she is eating
the breakfast she picked up through the Starbucks drive-thru while
driving to work.
Do you see where I am going here? To go just a little deeper, no
matter what your religious orientation is, I believe your
relationship with food is a spiritual one as well.
If you believe in a punishing world, chances are you will have
punishing beliefs about food as well. This describes the crowds you
see at the gym on any Monday or after a holiday… people who are
atoning for their over-indulgent eating.
If your belief is we’re all going to die sooner or later, then you
probably eat whatever you feel like because so what?
If you are more scientific than religious you might eat to live,
and not live to eat. You may even adhere to a diet that measures
and calculates calories and nutrients.
When you acknowledge whom you are as an eater and become AWARE and
go deeper into your thoughts and feelings that drive overeating,
then you can begin to explore and take responsibility for your
overweight.
When you practice a nourishing relationship with yourself and food
rather than one of punishment or deprivation, you create a
nourishing and fulfilled life.
Your inner mantra becomes I love eating healthy, perfect portions,
because it makes me feel and look great.
You discover your natural appetite, not a punishing one that uses
willpower to deny food. You feel confident and in control with food.
Taking responsibility for getting to your ideal body weight is a
hard place to get to, but it is the first step. Nobody can take
that first step for you, but you don’t have to do it alone either.
Having an accountability partner, who engages you in deeper level
thinking, and knows, which exercise and nutrition system is best
for you, increases your chances of success exponentially.
I believe in you.
Click here if you are looking for support:
http://bestbodymakeover.com/coaching
Live with Vitality,
Lauren
How Do You Define Aging?
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We sabotage our bodies by our beliefs about aging. I challenge that the accumulation of years is not the only factor that causes aging.
We associate wrinkles, sagging skin, forgetfulness, belly fat, steady weight gain, high blood pressure, diabetes, slow metabolism, etc. as symptoms of aging.
Our age is more determined by the exercise we get or don’t get, by the kinds of foods we eat or don’t eat, and how we emotionally handle stresses in our lives. [Read more]
30-Day Best Body Makeover
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In April, I co-hosted a teleseminar with Marc Lebert called the
“Top 10 Reasons Why People Struggle With Their Fitness and
Nutrition and What To Do About It”. Since then, we have been asked
is there a next step?
So… we put our thoughts together… and in the spirit of practicing
what we preach… our thoughts became ACTION!
If you are still sick an tired of being immobilized by one setback
after another or cannot figure out why you are not reaching your
goals of having an energetic, fit, lean, well defined body… then we
have a great opportunity for you. [Read more]
Top 5 Solutions to Make Sure You Are Not Unconsciously Overeating
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With the exception of a holiday feast, do you really stop eating because you are full?
It is not our nature to stop and analyze when we are full during a meal. In fact it takes 20 minutes for your brain to get the signal from your stomach when you are full… which may be long after you ate too much.
We want to think that we overeat because either the food is so good or we’re really hungry.
If that were always the case, why, even though it is hard to admit, do we eat every last morsel of something even when it doesn’t taste very good?
Here are 5 common reasons why it is easy to overeat and what to do about it: [Read more]
The Truth About Supplements: Your Questions Answered
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We are excited to announce the upcoming FREE tele-seminar with
Great Earth Vitamin Store’s Mark Preisman.
Mark has been with Great Earth Vitamin Stores for 30 years and has
been managing the location in Dallas, TX for almost 20 years. Mr.
Preisman has studied nutrition for 40 years and earned his degree
as a Certified Dietary Consultant from the International Institute
of Natural Health Sciences, Inc.
http://www.bestbodymakeover.com/MarkandLauren/
Because of the enormous wealth of information and misinformation in
the supplement industry, we decided to set up this tele-seminar to
finally give you information from a trusted professional on health
issues that are relevant to you.
We know it will be of tremendous value to hold this special
tele-seminar to answer all the questions you may have about
supplements as well as provide information you may not have even
known or considered.
Visit the registration page to learn all about what this
tele-seminar will deliver:
http://www.bestbodymakeover.com/MarkandLauren/
If you want to have your personal questions answered or are just
curious about this topic, join us for this tele-seminar
on May 6th, 7Pm Central /8 Pm Eastern (see http://www.time.gov/ for time
zones) – it’s absolutely FREE for you – and discover the truth
about supplements.
Oh, by the way – register for the call even if you can’t make it
live. We’ll be making the audio recording available to everyone who
registers. You will also have the opportunity here to ask a
question even before the call gets started.
http://www.bestbodymakeover.com/MarkandLauren/
You will have the choice of listening in live on your computer or
dialing in directly to the call.
Sincerely,
Mark and Lauren
PS: Stop being overwhelmed with trying to sort out all the
information on supplements. Join this FREE tele-seminar and learn
the truth about supplements, and clear up any doubts or suspicions
you may have had.
http://www.bestbodymakeover.com/MarkandLauren/
It’s not Failure, it’s Feedback
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you are still failing to reach your goals, do you find yourself
frustrated and at your wits ends wondering what you are supposed to
do?
First of all, take a deep breath… you have just produced a result,
it’s not failure, even if it’s not the result you were hoping for.
Your result is your feedback, good or bad.
If you were a tennis player and every time you hit the ball it goes
into the net… you have just produced a result. You have learned
that you have to change your swing to get that ball high enough to
clear the net.
Anytime you need to troubleshoot why you are not getting the result
you want you must have a way to track and evaluate what you have
been doing.
When it comes to reaching your ideal body weight, using a food log
is one of the most PROVEN and powerful tools you can use… yet
nobody wants to take the time to do it. [Read more]
Next Teleseminar on Supplements
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Whether your issue was finding time for self-care, struggling with age
or an injury, resisting temptations, reaching goals,
visualizing success, believing it’s possible…
Man… Marc Lebert and I covered a lot — with a heck of a lot of info!
To listen to the “Top 10 Reasons Why People Struggle With Their Fitness and Nutrition and What To Do About it” over and over again, you can still register and hear the replay:
http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=6571812
I’m going to leave the replay up all week to give everyone a chance to hear it in case you missed it.
I want to thank everyone who participated on the call, we had some great questions that enhanced the program even more.
Be sure to check out the coaching program on the replay page, or just click on it here:
http://www.bestbodymakeover.com/coaching/
Because the turnout was so good, I would like to keep adding value and give you more tele-seminars.
In fact… I’m excited to tell you about the next one coming up…
Sugar In Disguise
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I Just wanted to give you the “skinny” on sugar if you are trying to cut back on your sweets.
Sugar is highly addictive and clearly one of the leading causes of obesity, not to mention a litany of other major health problems.
Sugar in the form of sucrose, dextrose, and high fructose corn syrup are processed into so many of our breads, cereals, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, or nearly every processed food you pull out of a box, bag or can.
In the late 1800’s, the average sugar consumption was 5 lbs. per person per year. In the last 20 years, sugar consumption in the US has increased from 26 lbs to 135 lbs. of sugar per person per year.
You’ll know you are addicted to sugar when you crave it. It is responsible for the highs and lows you may be experiencing. Fortunately, once you stop, the addiction and cravings will disappear.
If you think you are outsmarting your addiction by replacing the sugar with artificial sweeteners, think again. Aspartame, saccharin, sorbitol and sucrolose to name a few, may actually be worse than using real sugar, so you might want to consider eliminating them as well. [Read more]
Easy Fat-Loss Tip: Eat Your Breakfast!
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The truth is that eating breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day,
especially if you are trying to lose weight. When you skip breakfast, you are
programming your body to store more fat. Your metabolism will be sluggish,
and you are more likely to have uncontrollable cravings later in the day causing
you to eat too many calories. If that’s not bad enough, it can affect your mood,
your stress level, and can cause your thinking to be unclear.
Eating several meals a day starting with breakfast will help you maintain higher
energy levels and control your appetite. If you eat lunch at noon and dinner around
7:00 PM, then skip breakfast the next day… you will have gone 17 hours without
any food. Your body will get a signal that it is starving and will begin to store fat.
This is your body’s response to starvation.
This proven way of eating healthy for fat loss and lean muscle gain is detailed in
my Free 7-part Best Body Makeover email mini-course. [Read more]
7 Tips For Thanksgiving Survival
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Thanksgiving. It’s the ultimate food fest holiday. The average
Thanksgiving meal contains about 3000 calories. It would literally
take you about 30 miles to walk that off. You also may have heard
that turkey contains a natural sedative called Tryptophan, and
that’s why you may feel sleepy after eating it… adding more havoc
inactivity plays on the fat-loss equation. Actually, the grogginess
you are experiencing is more often a result of having to digest all
that food you are over-consuming!
Thanksgiving is no doubt a difficult situation to handle when you
are trying not to gain weight, especially when your host liberally
uses every form of saturated fat ingredient available. Weight
gain does not have to be a given and with a little focus you can
survive this holiday. [Read more]
