This may be the season to be jolly but it is also the season for cravings. One rationalization that I’ve used in the past is “It only comes around once a year.” Does that sound familiar? Just because it is the holidays doesn’t mean we have to indulge cravings to compromise the progress we’ve made [...]
Archive | November, 2007
Keep What You’ve Lost
by Cathy on 11. Nov, 2007 in Weight Loss and Maintenance
Whether you have lost five pounds or are at your goal weight, the challenge during the holidays can be to maintain what you’ve lost. Of course, we would all like to greet the New Year with having lost more weight. For some of us, a success would be to maintain what we have already lost. [...]
Prepare Your Car, Home, and Skin for Winter
by Cathy on 10. Nov, 2007 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
As the weather gets colder and winter is approaching, we prepare our cars for the cold temperatures by adding antifreeze. We winterize our outdoor irrigation systems, close external home vents, bring in outdoor furniture, bbq, and flower pots. Our vehicles and homes are ready – what else is left? How about the protective layer of our [...]
Balance Yourself: Live Your Life, Feel Your Heart
by Cathy on 09. Nov, 2007 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
Live your life with integrity. You may talk a good talk but are you walking the walk? Do you live your life as you would if your loved ones were watching you. Living with integrity means you really are who you appear to be. How you live your life is reflected in your promises, what [...]
Balance Yourself: High Quality Nutrition-Feed Your Body (Not Your Head!)
by Cathy on 09. Nov, 2007 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
Visualize your body as a beautiful sports car with a high performance engine. What would you put into this beautiful sports car? Would you put in sub-standard fuel? No! Give your high performance, healthy body the fuel that it needs with high quality nutrition. Feed your body and not your head hunger. Protein, healthy fats and [...]
Balance Yourself: Hydrate With Water
by Cathy on 09. Nov, 2007 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
Water is the beverage of life. Water is the perfect liquid to nourish your body and mind. Water helps transport vital nutrients, regulates body temperature, assists in digestion, keeps joints fluid and healthy, cleans out your body, enhances your metabolism, assists in regulating appetite, keeps skin healthy, clear, and young. Water is the one thing [...]
Balance Yourself: Exercise
by Cathy on 09. Nov, 2007 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
A well-rounded fitness routine includes strength training, aerobic activity, flexibility, stretching, yoga, or Pilates and making the most of opportunities to move your body (stairs rather than elevator, parking further away). Critical to your success in living a balanced life is to make exercise a priority in your life and be consistent. Being fit helps [...]
Be Present In The Here and Now
by Cathy on 09. Nov, 2007 in Motivation and Inspiration
Have you ever noticed how often you live in the past or project into the future? So many of our thoughts are reliving or regretting things in the past or looking ahead into the future worrying about things that might or might not occur. How often do you really live in the here and now? [...]
Self-Nurture Checklist
by Cathy on 09. Nov, 2007 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
Rather than nurture yourself through emotional eating, here’s a list of suggestions. Create your own list as a work in progress; add and revise as you discover strategies that work for you. Go window shopping Buy yourself a rose or other favorite flower Garden (get your hands dirty!) Buy yourself something special that you can [...]
Where Are You On The List?
by Cathy on 08. Nov, 2007 in Believe In Yourself!
Our lives are full of lists. To Do Lists, various Checklists, and Grocery Lists, etc. An important list we all have that is rarely written down, yet does exist and one we live our lives from, is our Priority List. What is your Priority List? Who is on your list and what important priorities are taking up [...]
