How to follow through / persist with your Goals? - Tony Robbins [part 1]

Simple Tips to Avoid "Comfort Eating" As a Relief From Stress

Turning to food as a way of alleviating your stress, may temporarily create a feeling of lowering your stress levels, known as "comfort eating" but will put you on the road to ruin, creating more stress though poor health and low self esteem. It should definitely not be used as a long term solution.

Comfort eating often leads to eating, not just too much from a calories point of view, but eating all the wrong kinds of food to remain healthy. Most of us turn to the sort of foods that give us a temporary sense of feeling good, such as foods which are high in calorific value, foods that are sweet or ones full of bad fats.

The women amongst us tend to be more susceptible to "comfort eating" leading to a vicious circle of feeling good then feeling guilty for consuming what they have then turning again to food as a way of feeling "better" again.

Here are some quick tips to assist you in getting away from the downward spiral of emotional eating:

Listen To Your Body

Try to understand when your body is truly hungry and you are not just eating because you are feeling down.

Understand Why You Do It

Try keeping a diary of what you have just eaten and how you were feeling at the time. Also make a note of what you ate and how this made you feel afterwards. This will help you to recognize the signs of emotional eating and enable you to question your choice BEFORE you go there next time.

Taking Your Mind Off The Craving

Instead of just grabbing a quick bag of crisps or bar of chocolate try going out for a quick walk or talk to a member of your family about how you are feeling at that particular time. You can also try concentrating on something such as listening to your favourite music or reading. This will help to re-focus your mind away from that urge to "grab and eat".

Find Permanent Alternatives

You want to be looking at reducing your levels of stress via more healthy avenues such as taking on regular forms of exercise. This will release certain chemicals which will do the same job but in a much healthier way. Also, laughter is a great stress reliever as it to assists in the release of "good" chemicals from within the body which help combat stress and let off steam.

Be Aware When Eating

Rather than just eating, make the conscious effort to listen to your own body throughout the eating process. Make eating an enjoyable experience whilst eating healthily. Don't just do it habitually but be aware of all the sensations as you go about your daily meals. How do all of it taste, how does it make
you feel.

Clear Out Your Cupboards

Remove temptation by replacing unhealthy "snacky" type foods for a healthier option which will keep you fuller for longer. Most of us live our lives on habits. Once you make a conscious effort to change these old negative habits you will replace them with positive healthy ones which will then be reprogrammed
to your subconscious and you will soon be taking the healthy option without thinking about it.

Hopefully, these measures will go some way towards replacing your comfort eating habits with better stress busting alternatives.

Weight Loss Effectively: Tips to Lose Weight This Christmas

Christmas Day is often noted as period for weight gain, but for you it doesn't have to be. You too can maintain your Christmas weight loss and keep losing weight well into the New Year.

Researchers claim that everyone gains on average one to two pounds during the holiday season - 1 to 2 pounds that are almost impossible to lose, am i right? however by simply incorporating the following tips into your Christmas diet you too can prevent this Christmas weight gain and keep your body healthy, happy and fighting fit.

1. Opt for Turkey - compared to other red meats, turkey is high in protein and low in fat saving you countless calories.

2. Roast all your vegetables - avoid saturating your roast potatoes and vegetables in fat. Instead boil them for 10 minutes to soften them up before lightly drizzling them in low-fat vegetable oil and putting them in the oven.

3. Make your own treats - forget investing in a 2 kilograms tin of Roses that is packed with 10,000 calories and instead make your sweets from scratch. Christmas cakes, Yule logs, trifle... by making the slightest amendments to your ingredients list, you too can produce low-fat and low-calorie versions of each of these puddings.

With your trifle for example, simply swap normal jam and jelly for their sugar-free counterparts and use fruit canned in juice instead of syrup.

4. Make alcohol free punch - drinking just half a bottle of wine can increase your calorie intake by 250 calories, so take the step to swap alcohol for some fruity punch that your entire family can enjoy. Alternatively invest in some non-alcoholic wines.

5. Make your Christmas active - forget sitting in front of the television watching annual re-runs and instead go out for a walk or a bike ride with your family. This will help stop you from snacking on all those naughty chocolates, and will prevent that post-afternoon slump.

Alternatively if it is too cold to go outside, switch off the television and play some games. Charades, Twister... pick something fun, active and enjoyable for the whole family.

6. Swap salted peanuts for unsalted - one of the easiest steps you can take for controlling your Christmas weight loss, is making simple alterations such as swapping salted peanuts for their unsalted counterparts. Salted peanuts are saturated in fats which are bad for your heart, and this is the same for many other Christmas foods.

Simply sit down and make a list of all the foods you'd normally purchased for Christmas. If you discover that they have got a low-fat version, swap them for these lower calorie versions and exclude foods you cannot replace.

7. Buy no biscuits or chocolates - easier said than done, but the reality is you wouldn't normally used it, let alone eat all these chocolates and biscuits. So set yourself a rule: buy one tin or none at all. More often than not someone will buy you a box of chocolates as a present, so let them buy it for you and resist the temptation to buy them yourself.

Remember: One 2 kilograms tin of Roses contains 10,000 calories.

Maintaining your Christmas weight loss doesn't have to be achieved at the sacrifice of your own enjoyment. You too can have a Christmas to remember, simply by making the above modifications to your Christmas diet.

So make the change, and begin planning for your Christmas now. Back

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