I hate the expression “If I can do it, you can do it.” It really makes me mad! It’s ridiculous and completely baseless. Come on, there’s nothing about me that proves anything about you and vice versa. Taken one way, it’s self-deprecating. It appears to be sending the message, “If an idiot like me can …
Tag: lifestyle change
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 …
Finding Your Tokens of Lifestyle Changes
My hair is the perfect length right now. I always cut it a little short-ish when I get a trim and then let it get a little long-ish before I cut it again. So for awhile in between, it will be my favorite perfect length. It’s been many years now that my hair is long. …
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 …
Living the Long Process of Lifestyle Change
It’s Super Bowl weekend. Oh, the memories. But not for any game. It used to be when I’d stock up on Pepsi. It’s the best weekend to buy 24 packs. One year I bought so many I had to store them in my car trunk. That was a long time ago. Like a lifetime ago. …
New Year’s Resolutions for Taking Control of Your Weight
It’s the first week of 2014 and New Year’s resolutions are in full swing! I saw a news report that going on a diet is not the top resolution that it used to be. Probably many people have realized how many years they started out with every intention and met with failure. Instead of resolutions, …
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 …
Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals by Not Setting Them
Do you live your life constantly “on” or “off” a diet? Are you always setting weight loss goals and then attempting to apply some kind of structure to your life to achieve them? Being able to let go of the dieting paradigm may be the biggest breakthrough some people make. I became a commodities broker …