When we eat at home, we have more control over what we eat (I mean, we buy it ourselves after all), how it is prepared and the quantities that we eat. So many of my clients struggle with eating away from home. It is hard! There’s no way around it. We don’t have the control [...]
Archive | September, 2008
The Weight Loss Formula – Understand Your Own
by Cathy on 15. Sep, 2008 in Weight Loss and Maintenance
As weight loss surgery patients or career dieters, we know the formula for losing weight: Eat fewer calories + burn more calories (exercise and activity) = Weight Loss! Exercise is one way we try to burn more calories. We go to the gym, pick up some free weights and think we’ll see the numbers on [...]
Habits Through Short and Long Term Goals
by Cathy on 12. Sep, 2008 in Make 1 Change, Weight Loss and Maintenance
In 2001, I lost 147 pounds from RNY weight loss surgery. I tried Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, staple in my ear, you name it and I did it. While these diet programs can be successful, with a 147 excess pounds, losing at 1-2 pounds a week was too big of a feat to consider. My [...]
It All Counts
by Cathy on 11. Sep, 2008 in Weight Loss and Maintenance
When I’ve gone to the large warehouse discount stores, I’m always amazed at the long lines of people waiting to get a free sample of brownies, cookies or some other new food item. Some of these lines have people waiting 20 minutes for a mere bite of a brownie??!! Every bite counts! Clearly, the idea [...]
Cost of Obesity versus Weight Loss Surgery
by Cathy on 10. Sep, 2008 in Weight Loss and Maintenance
I read this article and wanted to share it with you along with my own personal experience and opinion at the end of it. The investment in yourself, your health, and your behavioral health is always the best investment you can make. Please check out my comments at the end……. OBESITY SURGERY IS COST EFFECTIVE? [...]
Weight Loss Surgery Olympian Champion
by Cathy on 09. Sep, 2008 in Motivation and Inspiration
As the Olympics have ended, I miss watching them and the features on the athletes. It was so inspirational to hear the stories of the athletes. Every day people doing extraordinary things. The commitment, dedication and challenges overcome they live every day is phenomenal. I lookforward to the next Olympics and seeing in action the inner [...]
How’s Your Day?
by Cathy on 08. Sep, 2008 in Self-Comforting & Self-Nurturing
Sometimes do you wake up and feel “off” or in a funk? Do you label the entire day thinking that it is going to be one of THOSE days? Last week, I did. Then, I caught myself. Whether I have a great day or one of THOSE days is up to me. The type of [...]
If You Fall Off…..Get Right Back On!
by Cathy on 05. Sep, 2008 in Weight Loss and Maintenance
Have you made less than healthy food choices lately? Have you regained some of your lost weight? Do you feel as though you’ve fallen off your horse, gotten off track or broken down on the highway of weight loss success? If so, what are you doing about it? You’re probably thinking about it and talking [...]
Where Do You Spend Time at the Grocery Store?
by Cathy on 04. Sep, 2008 in Nutrition
When you grocery shop, were do you spend most of your time? Do you spend your time going up and down the inner aisles or hang out around the outer parameter? When shopping, spend most of your time and budget in the produce and meats section and avoid the inner area. The bulk of the [...]
What Do Your Repeatedly Do?
by Cathy on 03. Sep, 2008 in Weight Loss and Maintenance
I have a decorative stone in my home that has the saying “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle Are you still using food to solve emotional issues? Is that what you repeatedly do? Healthy behaviors create healthy habits so you do not use food as [...]
