A lot of people I’ve talked to through the years will cite some particular experience or influence in their lives that they credit for “why” they finally got their weight under control after years of struggle and failure. But here’s what actually happens: We bring permanent lifestyle changes into our lives when we accept what …
Tag: exercise
Do You Avoid Working Out Because of Exercise Anxiety?
For those of us who have dealt with serious obesity, the thought of trying to exercise can be intimidating. I avoided physical activity in general for a long, long time. I had a sense of anxiety about working out even before Biggest Loser started making people believe that you were a failure unless you pushed …
Getting Started with a Workout at Home
In response to Monday’s blog post about realistic expectations, I received an email asking about exercise for folks who feel very limited in physical ability and who would prefer to workout at home. These are common concerns among people with a lot of weight to lose, those of us who need to drop 100 lbs …
Is There Any One Best Exercise for Weight Loss?
I decided to mix up my exercise routine again so this weekend I pulled out a book I have about bodyweight exercises. It’s a great book and quite comprehensive but it does open with chapters that appear to extoll the superiority of bodyweight workouts over other forms of exercise. I’m all for tooting your own …
Your Own Habits & Routines are the Key to Weight Control
He’s not in the news much lately so you probably haven’t been aware that Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore has dropped a lot of weight. Apparently the only place this is getting talked about is on Moore’s Facebook page where he described how this came to be: I am now in Week 42 of my walks. …
How Do You Know When You’re Done with Weight Loss?
Artist Julia Kozerski recently published her photography project, “Half” which examines the result of losing half her body weight. Click here to view Julia’s work and be advised it’s NSFW. She took the photos while she was a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. I haven’t been able to find any confirmation …
Building Muscle: Nasty Tricks Your Body Plays on You
I was flipping channels when I came upon a show about “the world’s strongest toddler.” Whoa. A little boy has a condition that causes superior muscular development. He’s just 3 and already has bulging biceps and washboard abs. He demonstrates the physical abilities of children twice his age who are at the high end of …
The Rules and Not the Rules of Weight and Weight Loss
Calories in, calories out, right? Eat less and move more. Those are the two foundational rules of weight loss and weight management. There really can be no argument, they are true. But why do our bodies seem to defy them? I’ve had a fever for four days. Picked up some viral thing I guess, very …
How Fit Can You Be? How Much Weight Can You Lose?
Is it really just a matter of working hard? Wanting it badly enough? If it were, we’d all have fabulous bodies. Motivation, inspiration, setting your mind to it, programming your mind for success…when it comes to weight loss and fitness, none of it really gets the hard work done. Stuff like that can be a …