Asking for Help You’ve been really good and haven’t slipped once all day! You went out for lunch with a friend, and didn’t succumb to a pudding, although your friend had a gooey chocolate cake! You’ve even scraped the children’s leftovers into the bin without eating a morsel!
Patience A scare commodity in a dieter! For nearly all would-be yesterday they ate and drank everything and anything that they wanted to, putting to the back of their minds any thoughts of the result of their intake. Today they are dieting and want the results by tomorrow, if not sooner! At the very latest by the time they step on the scales at their next class. They are eating LESS and they want it to show, NOW!
Conquering Late Night Munchies Do you finish a nice dinner, settle into your evening routine and then find yourself raiding the fridge by 9.00pm? If you have a few extra inches around your middle, this night time munchies attack may be your problem. These tips may help you stop the calorie pile up at the end of the day.
The Family and Your Diet Wouldn’t dieting be easier if you could lock yourself away from the rest of the world and get on with your diet in peace? No friends trying to talk you into that cream cake, no temptation to finish off the kid’s teatime leftovers, no adverts on television showing you those lovely chocolate bars and no thinking of what you are going to eat tonight and what you’re going to prepare the family, but it needn’t be like that, you can prepare sensible meals for you and your family, without spending hours in the kitchen.
Dieting Dilemmas There are many dilemmas we face when dieting and we have two options. One is to continue to eat and use these dilemmas as an excuse and remain overweight. Or secondly, learn how to deal with these dilemmas and be successful in our weight loss campaign.
If Only Someone Had Told Me ! Ever heard yourself say that because someone neglected to share a basic piece of information with you, it has slowed your weight loss? We asked some slimmers what they wish they'd been told BEFORE they started a diet.
Dieting and Fatigue Have you ever wished you had more energy? Have you ever woken up in the morning feeling more tired than when you went to bed? Do you envy people for their non-stop energy? Are you sometimes so exhausted in the evening that you don't want to do anything? It was said by Dr Marion Hilliard one of the World's leading authorities on gynaecological disorders that fatigue was the greatest enemy a woman ever faces.
Bingeing... A little bit of what you fancy If you binge regularly try to identify what causes the problem and do something about it. One slimmer loved crusty bread and would munch her way through the whole loaf!
Impulse Eating Do you remember your mother saying to you about an insect ‘but it must be scared of you, you’re a million times bigger than it!’ Maybe, this helped you take control of your fear and helped you to rise above the situation. Can you relate this to food?
Feeling Tired? Are you one of those women who regularly feel exhausted? Feeling exhausted all the time has become the biggest problem affecting women. They tend to feel drained and lethargic and every day is a struggle. Some people find that even after a good night's sleep they still wake up exhausted, others feel that during the day they could doze off any minute
Diet Traps Some days healthy eating is easy, whereas other days any attempt at eating well flies out of the window with a huge bar of chocolate and a plate of chips. The difference may simply depend on what situations you encounter. Many situations are flawed with ‘diet traps’.
The Consequences of picking Take a look at the following days dieting of one of our members. You will soon see the consequences of picking at food that is not on your eating plan.
Looking For Excuses So, you DIDN’T lose any weight this week? Let’s have a look at some facts and fictions...
Feeling Low? Ways To Boost Your Confidence You may be one of those people who has low self-esteem due to your ever increasing weight problem. Unfortunately, when we gain weight it can lead to an ever increasing spiral of “we don’t like ourselves, so we stop in and end up eating more and gaining more weight”
Do You Really Want To Lose Weight? Many people go through life "playing" at diets. One week it's the 1,000 calorie diet; the week after that sees the start of the vegetarian diet... followed by the low calorie diet and then the very low calorie diet. Eventually some may even try fasting. Unfortunately, at the end of all this dieting, the dieter finds that nothing has worked.
The See Saw Diet What do we mean by the see saw diet? You LOSE WEIGHT - but then it can all go on again - depressing isn't it. Why? Let's see.
Complacency Complacency when dieting can strike in different ways. Sometimes we do not recognise that the dangerous complacency has set in.