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The Whats, Whys, and Hows of Weight Loss: A Step-By-Step Process to Ensure Weight Loss Success

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Everybody’s weight loss journey is different – some folks struggle with bad habits and go the yo-yo dieting route, others conquer their weight loss demons and manage to criticaltain weight loss permanently, while others lose weight only to get stuck at a plateau. Regardless of the path you take, you need to have one thing before you can reach your final weight loss destination (and your goal weight) – a clear idea of what your weight loss destination is. Once you know the “what” and your “why,” the “how” becomes much easier.

As a weight loss coach and certified EFT practitioner, I have a lot of clients that come to me knowing that they want to lose weight but don’t have a clear idea of what that means or why they want it.

In order to help clients get clear, I often ask the following questions:

1.What do you ultimately want? (I ask clients to get specific here. For example, lose 20 lbs. and get down to 12% body fat.)

2.What do you want to change about your body/health/fitness right now?

3.Why do you want to change it?

4.What’s holding you back?

5.What are you committed to?

6.What are you excited about in your life right now?

7.What are you happy about right now?

By working through these questions, the client gets a clear picture of his/her specific goals as pertaining to weight and an idea of the roadblocks in the way. To get the bigger passion behind a person’s desire to lose weight (no, squeezing into a certain size jean usually isn’t the driving passion behind someone’s desire to lose weight), I delve deeper into a person’s values and beliefs. Here are some of the questions I ask:

1.What about health/fitness is important to me?

2.My weight is _

3.My health is _

4.Thin people are _

5.Fit people are _

6.I am _

Once my client is clear on the why, I begin to work on the how. To get them on the right track to success, I follow this 4-step process:

1.First, I help them clearly identify what they want and the bigger passion behind it, which is what I explained above. For example, I had a client come to me saying that she desperately wanted to lose weight. After asking her what that meant, we discovered that she wanted to lose 35 pounds and get down to 15% body fat, with her bigger reason being that she wanted to have enough energy to play with her young children and to be healthy and feel comfortable in her body.

2.Determine the big things that need to be done in order to make it happen. For this very same client, we learned that she needed to eat smaller portions of health food and establish an exercise regime.

3.Break down the big things into bite-sized action steps. My client realized that she had to: deal with her cravings for sweets, cut her portion sizes in half, determine which exercises would suit her, stop her constant snacking, and schedule exercise time each day.

4.Take action. I gave this client homework to complete before our next session. She had to research different exercises that she could do at home, she had to get her doctor’s permission to start an exercise plan, and she had to do some research on nutrition and appropriate portion sizes.

Weight loss is much easier to achieve when there is clarity around why one wants to lose the weight. Couple the why with a sound action plan, and weight loss success becomes much easier to attain. There’s the hard road to weight loss, and there’s an easy road. Getting clear will lead you down the easy road.

About the Author

Diane Cesa, EFT-CC, is the founder and coach-in-residence at InsideOutWeightLoss.com. InsideOutWeightLoss.com, home to the famous Inside Out Weight Loss Program, was launched with one goal in mind – to end the obesity epidemic without fad diets, pills, extreme exercise programs, and other unhealthy weight loss methods. Instead, InsideOutWeightLoss.com helps people get to the root cause of their weight problem and eliminate it.

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Wouldn’t You Like To Know The Latest News on Arthritis

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Arthritis is a serious problem for millions of Americans, but
the latest news on arthritis offers some new hope to those who
suffer from this disease. Arthritis means joint inflammation and
there are about 100 different forms of arthritis.

Scientists are not sure even today how many of the types of
arthritis originate, besides the wear and tear on the joints
that comes with age.

Juvenile arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are two types of
rheumatoid arthritis that begin with the immune system attacking
itself. NSAIDs and DMARDs are the two categories of medications
that are used to treat most types of arthritis, but the latest
news in prescriptions is with the rheumatoid arthritis.

The medication is known as Humira, and it works by isolating the
diseased cells and blocking them from reproducing, therefore
pain is reduced.

Humira is self-injected with a disposable needle similar to
those used for diabetes, and is taken every 2 weeks.

There are many homeopathic remedies that can be found in the
latest news on arthritis.

No prescription is needed for these treatments and can be found
in your local health food or nutrition store.

The benefits include no possibility of overdosing, virtually no
side effects, and you are able to combine whichever treatments
work the nonpareil for your individual system.

In short, you have control over the disease and your recovery.

The latest news on arthritis is glucosamine, chondriton, MSM and
shark cartilage.

Research shows that they are beneficial in promoting the
cellular structure of the joint, specifically the tendons and
cartilage.

Allow 2-3 weeks for them to be absorbed into your system, and
then you can combine to get the desired results.

The latest news on arthritis shows that 10’s of 1000’s of
arthritis suffers are getting appeasement while supporting growth in
their joints.

In addition, studies show that by adding omega-3’s & 6’s and
antioxidants such as Vitamin C and E, the effects are increased
even further.

Natural treatments are being used massed and farther in relieving the
pain that arthritis sufferer’s share.

Multitudes of information on the latest news on arthritis can be
found by surfing the web for the latest research.

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Organic Cosmetics, Toiletries to be Defined

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The U.S. Agriculture Department is now applying its strict
organic food standards to personal care products as well. There
are hundreds of soaps, shampoos, skin creams, and cosmetics that
call themselves organic, but until now those labels have often
been confusing or misleading.

Few Will Qualify

However, few organic beauty products are likely to qualify for
the Agriculture Department’s seal, which mandates that at least
95 percent of the ingredients must be organic. Many products
that do not make the grade may still be labeled “made with
organic” ingredients, a designation that does not mean as much.

Forced By a Lawsuit

The extension of the organic regulations was forced by a lawsuit
brought by one of the oldest natural soap producers, Dr.
Bronner’s. Dr. Bronner’s has already put the organic seal on its
Sun Dog’s lotions and balms. The Nourish line of body care
products and Aubrey Organics have also been approved for the
organic seal, and Terressentials is in the process of having its
skin and hair products certified.

In 2004, $4 billion was spent on beauty products labeled natural
or organic.

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Dr. Mercola’s Comment:This sounds like good news, considering
consumers have until now mostly had to rely on manufacturers’
largely unproven and often bogus claims. It may finally be
possible to tell, at least to some degree, just how safe or
dangerous some cosmetics, soaps and other toiletries really are.

Considering all the chemicals found in common productsyou use
every day — and all the harm they can do to you and your
children — these changing federal regulations certainly make it
easier for you to make better and safer decisions. And there’s
nothing wrong at all with that.

Remember, in order to avoid environmental toxins as much as
possible:

  • Only use natural cleaning products in your
    home. Most health food stores will have these available or you
    can search online for them.
  • Switch over to natural brands of
    toiletries, including shampoo, toothpaste, antiperspirants and
    cosmetics. Remember that most antiperspirants are loaded with
    toxic aluminum.
  • Buy and eat, as much as possible, organic
    produce and free-range, organic foods.
  • Rather than eating
    fish, which is largely contaminated with PCBs and mercury,
    consume a high-quality purified fish or cod liver oil like
    Carlson’sthat is mercury and PCB free.
  • Avoid processed foods
    – remember that they’re processed with chemicals!
  • Remove
    anyamalgam (silver)fillings as they’re a major source of
    mercury. But be sure to have this done by a biological dentist
    as if yousee a conventional dentistthe replacement process could
    actually make you worse– it will liberate large amounts of
    mercury immediately into your brain.
  • Avoid using artificial
    air fresheners, dryer sheets, fabric softeners or other
    synthetic fragrances as they can pollute the air you are
    breathing.
  • Avoid artificial food additives of all kind,
    including artificial sweeteners and MSG.
  • Have your tap water
    tested and, if contaminants are found, install an appropriate
    water filter on all your faucets (even those in your shower or
    bath).
  • Seek to build your health up through the nutrition
    insights detailed in my Total Health Program, and then limit
    your use of drugs (prescription and over-the-counter) as much as
    possible. Drugs are chemicals too, and they will leave residues
    and accumulate in your body over time.

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This article is reprinted from Mercola.com, the world’s #1 most
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The Gayelord Hauser cook book: Good food, good health, good looks

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The Gayelord Hauser cook book: Good food, good health, good looks

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Food Combining 2-Day Detox: Beat Weight Gain & Protect Your Health the All Natural Way

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Food Combining 2-Day Detox: Beat Weight Gain & Protect Your Health the All Natural Way

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