This Mother’s Day, Prove to Your Mom That You Love Her! Sure, you can take Mom out for brunch. You can buy her flowers or chocolate. A spa day is always great. But why not tell your mom how much you really love her? Help…
Love Yourself — Only Good Will Come of It!
At some point in your life you probably heard or maybe even said something like this, “She thinks she’s so good!” And you or your friends probably meant it as an insult. But why is that an insult? I would hope that, whoever she is,…
Breaking Bad… Habits
The word “habit” doesn’t really begin to cover how difficult it can be to change. That word makes it sound easy, like it’s just a matter of choosing not to do something negative in order to stop doing it. Which is sort of true. It…
Getting Fit When Life Gets in the Way
“I was doing so well on my diet, and then life got in the way, and I’ve gained back every pound.” “I was going to the gym regularly, and I could feel myself getting in better shape, and then life got in the way, and…
Time for You to Start Modeling
No, I don’t mean posing for photographs or walking the catwalk. I mean it’s time for you to start acting like those you admire — in other words, modeling your behavior after the people who are what you want to be. We tend to modify…
Keep Learning for Lifelong Success
Kids are pretty malleable. In just a couple of years they learn how to move, crawl, walk, run, feed themselves, speak … they even learn about the culture they live in, what’s expected of them and how to manipulate some situations to their benefit. They…
5 Ways to Increase Your Confidence and Achieve Success
It’s a vicious circle. You lack success in some area, and that affects your self-confidence. Your lowered self-confidence means you are less likely to achieve success, and thus it continues. This can be especially devastating when you are trying to lose weight. First, being overweight…
Keep It Going
People often have ideas about exercise similar to common ideas about diet: if you want to lose weight you exercise for a while and then when you lose weight you can stop. That’s fine if you want to spend your life yo-yoing up and down…
You Need Caring Too!
Women in particular have a very hard time putting themselves first. When they look at their days, they slot in time for work, for cooking, time to clean the house, time to drive the kids to soccer, basketball and dance, time to help with homework…
When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
When you are on a weight-loss program, you have to plan. As the old saying goes: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. When you are determined to lose weight you have to plan, that’s for sure. You know exactly what you’re eating…