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Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Kathryn Martyn Smith, Master NLP Practitioner, EFT counselor, Weight Loss Coach and owner of OneMoreBite-WeightLoss.com is the author of "Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight Loss," and "5 Steps to Blast Through Weight Loss Plateaus."
Kathryn was a curvy 16-year old when she met a boy who forever altered her life by uttering three little words. No, not, "I love you," but "You've gotten fat." She weighed all of 132 pounds at ... [More]
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- End Your Love Affair With Your Scale
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Face it, if you weigh yourself more than once a day, you are a serious scale addict, and if you let the number on the scale affect how you feel, you are probably a bit too involved with that appliance. Danger, danger! Step away from the scale!
- How to Make Your Baby Obese - Start Them on Fast Food As Soon As Possible
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Feeding infants and very small children fast food as "treats" is leading to obesity in youngsters. Especially soft drinks, with caffeine, should never be given to children especially under the age of two.
- How to Eat to Maintain Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I don't always get hungry at the same time each day, but when I do get hungry, I'll eat. This is how I maintain my 80 pound weight loss.
- Best Way to Screw Up Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you ever eat more than you want because you paid for it and want your money's worth? How about when you're already comfortably stuffed, but there are a couple more bites, and you're in an expensive restaurant? Are you more likely to go ahead and eat it? Come on, admit it. It's okay. We've all been there.
- Afraid of Bridges? Overcome Your Fear Fast With EFT
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Are you Afraid of Driving or Riding Across Bridges? I live near Portland, Oregon and with 15 major bridges dissecting the city I've worked with many clients once fearful of driving across bridges. Some were paralyzed with fear and simply avoided them but for those living on the east side and working on the west they had no choice but to confront a stressful trauma day after day. With EFT they were able to overcome their fear and so can you.
- If Credit-Freeze Protects Against Identity Theft, Why Do Eleven States Still Not Allow It?
[Legal:Identity-Theft] You're out of luck against identity theft if you live in Alabama, Alaska or nine other states that still do not protect you with this simple, inexpensive process. Some of these holdout states do have pending credit-freeze legislation - let's hope they do the right thing for their citizens. Find out what is a credit-freeze and why should you should have the right to choose whether to use it
- How to Lose a Quick 5 Pounds with EFT for Kitchen Nibbling
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Did you know that nibbling, tasting, and generally just eating without thinking you're eating can be sabotaging your diet? Every time you put something in your mouth you're adding calories. Pay attention and shave 100, 200 or more calories a day without even trying and speed up your weight loss.
- Diet & Weight Loss Book Review - The Shangri-La Diet, No Hunger Eating Anything Weight-Loss Plan
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] Drink this before you eat and watch the pounds disappear! Can this simple drink you make at home really reduce your hunger and help you lose weight? Read The Shangri-La Diet and find out.
- Ending Compulsive Eating: Quick & Easy Way
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Food is everywhere and just when you think you've got things under control, suddenly in walks in a cheesecake or try of doughnuts. How can you deal with all the unexpected treats and goodies and still lose weight? Here is a simple, effective technique you can learn in minutes and use from now on to end the See Food/Eat Food response.
- Help for Overweight Kids: Getting Them Moving
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Should you send your kids to "fat camp?" There's no need when you realize it's just a matter of getting up and getting moving. Here's lots of kid friendly ideas for getting them, and maybe yourself too, up off your chair.
- Weight Loss Takes Too Long: Use EFT for Frustration
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Learn EFT to deal with the inevitable frustrations that come with weight loss.
- Kids Get Fit: The Care & Feeding of Healthy Kids
[Kids-and-Teens] Everyone knows an infant needs regular feedings in order to grow and develop. The trouble begins when people start giving month-old babies tastes of ice cream, pieces of candy, cookies, or even meat, sometimes before they've even grown their first teeth. Toddlers are given soft drinks, often containing caffeine.
- For Faster Weight Loss Ask How, Not Why
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Ever get caught in the endless loop of asking why you do something, or don't do something? Frustrating, isn't it? Simply changing from asking "why" questions to asking "how" questions can turn it all around and get you on the fast track for losing weight.
- How to Overcome Dieting Obstacles - Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You've got a plan, and you're taking action on your plan, but what do you do when something comes up to interfere with your plan? By brainstorming what may come up, you'll be able to see in advance whether the steps you've chosen will work, because you'll immediately see the obstacles you've put in your own way.
- Beliefs About Food Affect Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What do you believe about your eating habits? Do you say you can't eat less, or you can't stop once you get started? Those are beliefs, meaning you think they are true, so they become true, but that doesn't mean you can't change those beliefs.
- Overcome Obstacles To Exercise Programs For Faster Weight Loss Results
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Your family says they support you in your new exercise program yet they complain every step of the way. You're too busy! I never see you any more. I need you to take me here, do this for me. Everyone is pulling you in different directions, yet you planned to exercise for half an hour today. What to do? Here's how to overcome those objections and get started on an exercise program that will get you results fast.
- Low Carb Foods: Dieting Boon or Rip-off
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you are following a low carb diet and you think eating "low carb" versions of things like pancakes and bread is smart, think again. You'll gain weight as soon as you add real carbs (water weight mostly), any carbs, and you will be paying high prices for unhealthy food in the bargain.
- How Kindness Toward Yourself Helps Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] This daily checking for physical evidence of weight loss success can make it easy to throw our hands up saying, "What's the point? This isn't working. I want a doughnut," and whoosh, right back to old habits we go. Your body will make subtle changes which you may not notice at all for several weeks, so while you're wanting proof right now, your body is doing everything it can to create better health and a better appearance too. Use gentle eyes when you look, and give yourself a boost toward lasting weight loss.
- Dieting 101 - Being Flexibile is Key
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] You've finally decided to get in shape and lose a few pounds. After a few days what happens? Usually unexpected invitations and opportunities to indulge until you hear yourself say, "Oh, forget it! I'll start my diet on Monday." Here's a look at that typical first week and how to find your way around those obstacles.
- Failed at Weight Loss: Here's Hope
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Eliminate the habit of grabbing a few bites on your way past the candy dish, and that alone can shave several pounds. I once lost 8 pounds simply by eliminating the candy dish I kept at my desk (not to mention the money I saved).
- 7 Keys for Reducing Calories While Eating Out
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You've seen advice on how to shave calories at restaurants but are you really interested in paying high restaurant prices for undressed salads and plain steamed vegetables? How can you solve the dilemma of too many calories when you eat out? Here are seven easy tips to enjoying the meals you love, without going over your calorie budget.
- Stop Trusting the Scale--It's Probably Wrong Anyway
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] I've heard people who said they were so happy. They'd lost 20 pounds and everything was wonderful until they returned from the doctor's where they discovered their scale at home was off by 10 pounds, in the wrong direction. Suddenly they didn't feel so good any more.
- Try Responsible Indulgence TM For Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One lapse does not make or break your diet. If you think weight loss is all pain and despair, think again. It doesn't have to be that way at all. Here's an easy way to reach your weight loss goals and enjoy the indulgences along the way.
- Sexy People Have This: Do You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] The true secret of sex appeal isn't money or power. It's something we all have, but we don't all use. It's self confidence. You can develop greater self confidence in just a few minutes a day starting right now.
- How to End the Food Cravings with EFT
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you set such absolute restrictions when the cravings for the forbidden food hit you like waves rushing ashore, you'll likely give in. It's too much work to try and avoid those waves. They keep hitting you and knocking you down until you're wailing, "I can't do it. I don't have the will power. I'll never lose this weight."
- Super Sizing: Money Shrinks While Waist Lines Grow
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Saying those three little words, "Super Size it," three times a week for a family of three can easily add up to nearly 400 dollars extra a year, and for what? Too much food, too much fat, too many calories and too little left over to buy little Billy a bike for Christmas. Just say no to super sizing.
- How to Get Started on Permanent Weight Loss Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The biggest problem with any attempt at change is where to begin? There are so many things to think about, so many distractions, so many reasons why it won't work. Have you noticed everyone seems to start their diet on Monday? Why not start on Wednesday afternoon or Friday morning? Stop thinking you should go on a restrictive diet for a short while then back to your usual eating habits, and realize it's only by modifying those regular habits that you'll achieve long-term weight loss success! Here's how to get started.
- Why Friends Sabotage Your Diet at Parties
[Home-and-Family:Parties] If you're trying to stick to your eating plan and avoid the goodies at a party, how do you react to the "food pushers"? Those friends who insist you must taste this or try some of that aren't trying to ruin you; they mean well even if they are misguided.
- Food Cravings: Use EFT to Learn Patience
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Baking a cake then waiting to eat it is not my favorite thing at all. I've always had a difficult time in making a cake a day ahead, in fact I tend to avoid receipes that say it needs to sit eight hours. (Whenever you catch yourself saying the word "always" that's a hint something to use EFT on is coming to mind and notice I said I always have a difficult time with this? That's when to use EFT).
If cravings get the better of you, here's an EFT exercise for learning to practice patience.
- Fast Weight Loss Takes Time
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Want to lose 10 pounds this weekend? Drop a dress size in a week? Those fast weight loss results take time, and if you want them to last, they take even longer. Yes, you can drop 10 pounds in three days on a fad diet, but as soon as you eat a decent meal that 10 pounds comes roaring back. Here's what usually happens to our "Lose 10 Pounds in 3 Days Dieter."
- Are Your Co-Workers Making You Fat? Avoiding Unexpected Treats
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What happens when you're just minding your business and suddenly someone walks by with a delicious looking cake, muffins, or some other goodie you weren't expecting. You weren't hungry a minute ago but now you are suddenly ravenous.
Try these three steps to gain control over unexpected food at the office, parties or anywhere else.
- Starting Exercise Program: New Lover Approach
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] How many times have you decided to start an exercise program? You've bought running shoes, workout clothes, joined the gym and signed up for classes. You've set aside some time, and off you go. A nice heart pounding workout or two and wham, you're right back to the couch, watching TV and thinking about starting an exercise program. What went wrong?
- 7 Tips To End Night Time Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You can't escape advertising. How many times have you been perfectly content when suddenly you see a TV ad and now you're starving again? Once the launch sequence for hunger has begun, it's not easy to stop it, or is it? You can alter this habit by using these seven simple tricks.
- Weight Loss Maintenance Tip - Staying Aware
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Everyone has small weight gains and losses but if those gains aren't noticed, and if the trend toward weight gain continues, then those extra pounds can become permanent. You'll know it because your clothes start to be too tight. If they get tight and stay tight, then you've got a decision to make. For me, when this happens, I notice the trend, and then work to reverse it if I'm getting a bit too comfortable at a higher weight (body fat) than what I really want.
- Get Back Weight Loss Motivation with NLP: Setting an Anchor
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you've even had a time when you felt great, and you'd like to recreate those feelings, setting and using the NLP process of anchoring is how to do it. Keep an open mind and read through this short article, then try it for yourself. You may be pleasantly surprised at how easy it can be to switch from feeling bad to feeling good in the blink on an eye. When you practice you can begin to create the feelings you need when you most need them.
- Overcoming Resistance to Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] If someone mentions exercise do you think, "I hate to exercise. There's no way I'm doing that. Exercise is hard, it's a drag, it takes too much time." These types of beliefs may be keeping you from discovering a fun way to speed up your weight loss efforts and have more fun in the process.
- Whatever Happened to the Basic Four Food Groups?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The food guides during the 1930's were heavily influenced by The Great Depression and at that time included 12 separate groups! In the 1970's research began making a case that the over consumption of certain foods such as fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, increased chances for heart disease and diabetes and thereby caused the USDA to attempt to further modify their guidelines. This was met with scorn, ridicule and very heavy resistance from the meat and dairy industries. They fought tooth-and-nail to keep the guidelines as they were, but to no avail. Eventually we ended up with the Food Pyramid.
- How to Design the Perfect Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A more reasonable approach of choosing foods you love, estimating how many calories would be reasonable for your body size and designed body weight, and then getting started is usually greeted with sneers and jeers. I've heard, "2,000 calories a day? I'll blow up like a balloon!" No you won't. You'll still lose weight, although slower than the other more drastic diets, but wouldn't you prefer to lose it permanently this time?
- Help Me, I'm Addicted to Sugar
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Whether you want to overcome your addiction to sugar or stop smoking, it all begins with first determining what you really want, then making sure it's a good fit. Try this six-step process and you'll easily discover the obstacles that used to stand in your way can now be handled in advance, ensuring you'll reach those goals.
- I've Been Dieting for Five Minutes - Am I Thin Yet?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Yesterday I decided to "get back in shape," and today I'm already checking in the mirror to see if there's a difference. Sound familiar? Everything else is instantly obtainable from microwave dinners to pay-on-demand TV, so why should weight loss take so long?
- Tracking the Elusive Calorie - Weight Loss Tips
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Resolve now that you will drop the habit of licking the spoon, or tasting as you cook. I can hear you wailing that you won't know if it tastes right. Okay so you need one little teensy taste, but not hundreds, get it? A tiny bit on the tip of a spoon or fork tines, is not the same as multiple big bites while cooking. Tasting is not eating. Licking the entire remaining contents of the bowl you used for making pudding is not the same as a taste either. That's a serving. It's better to just break the habit. Sure, it's a holdover from when you were a kid. It was a treat to lick the spoon, but you're not a kid anymore are you? Let your kids have their turn but give this habit up for yourself.
- Help to Reduce Belly Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you have excess weight only in specific parts of your body, you still must look at yourself as a whole. It's not possible to spot reduce; in other words, you can't dictate that you only want weight to come off one place or another. In most cases your so called "trouble spots" is where the fat will come off last, so be prepared to lose weight in your fingers (rings fall off) and your face (friends may ask if you're feeling all right) first. There is hope for losing that belly fat though.
- When Losing Weight Seems Hopeless
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's common for us to discount all the things we're doing for ourselves such as eating better, exercising a bit more, walking, enjoying other's company, and to put our attention only on the ice cream we ate last night. "I shouldn't have eaten that! Why am I so stupid!" We seem to love bashing ourselves over the head with our inadequacies. I'm not sure why we do this, but it is so common that we all could probably benefit from a quick clearing of that notion. Here's an easy fix for when you feel like it's hopeless.
- How Many Calories Can I Have And Still Lose Weight?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] To figure out how many calories you should have each day, start with the present. In other words, figure out how many calories it takes to maintain your present size and then reduce from there. You can go about this in many ways. Most people simply choose an arbitrary number like 1200 calories and that's what they eat, but in nearly every case that's not nearly enough calories to ensure adequate nutrition, not to mention the deprivation and ultimate failure. Here's a better way.
- Your Words Affect Your Weight Loss - Stop the Struggle
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Telling yourself you have to "struggle with this weight issue for the rest of my life," is as good as telling yourself there's no point in trying. "Why bother? I'll just gain it right back. It's no use. I might as well eat more cake. Poor me. Life is hard." You know the drill. Life's a beach and then you die. But it doesn't have to be this way. You can change from talking trash to talking yourself right into doing what you say you want to do. Here's how.
- School for Overweight Teens
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A residential school program for overweight teens comes with a hefty price tag (some in excess of $5,000 per month). These programs rely on the same formula for weight loss as is commonly recommended; strict eating guidelines and increased activities. If you can't afford this type program, design your own by finding activities you and your kids can all enjoy. Here are ideas from video games (yes, they can be quite strenuous) to getting out-of-doors and everything in between.
- Are Low Carb Diets Good for Everyone?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When I hear low carb to me it means, "low sugar," or "less processed foods." If we'd all make an effort to avoid chips, cookies, cakes, high corn syrup drinks, and candy, then we'd be reducing our overall carbs and eating more healthfully at the same time. There is also no need to avoid foods that are grown and served as close to their natural state as possible such as fresh fruits and vegetables, nor must you avoid brown rice or even pasta.
- EFT for Weight Loss - How to Stop Eating from Fear of Not Getting Your Share
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever finished a huge meal, Thanksgiving dinner for instance, and being so stuffed you couldn't possibly eat another bite, when suddenly someone showed up with another dessert? Did you suddenly find just a bit of space to eat a little more? That's eating out of fear; the fear of missing out, the fear of not being part of the group (everyone else is having some and you want your share too) and it has nothing to do with hunger.
- A Clean Diet For Permanent Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you want to lose some weight then following a healthy eating plan is a good start, but allowing someone else to dictate exactly what, when and how much you can eat is crazy making. Guidance is good but ultimately you must learn to make better choices in your eating which leads to your gaining the ability to maintain your new shape after the weight has been lost. The Clean Diet is the answer.
- 5-Step Weight Loss Program for Permanent Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Following the 5-Step Weight Loss Program can help get you started on the path to permanent weight loss.
- Dieting Obstacle When Life Gets in the Way
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It happens to all of us. You join the gym and immediately get the flu. Sign up for a adult education class and you're car breaks down on the first night. When you need to water the grass there's no rain in sight, but wash the car and what always happens? These examples aren't meant to give you a pessimistic outlook but instead to point out why persistence in the face of obstacles is what separates the haves from the have nots.
- Heading Off Winter Weight Gain Before it Gets Started
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's that time of year we all start thinking about putting on a healthy layer of fat, just like the hibernating bears. From a nip in the air to a massive snow and ice storm, there is a palpable difference in the air. We've generally accepted that it is nature's way of helping us provide a little extra winter fat, storing up for the winter, just in case. But how long since you last had a food shortage or had to wait out the winter for your next meal?
- When Dieting Should You Weigh Yourself Every Day?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Face it, if you weigh yourself more than once a day, you are a serious scale addict, and if you let the number on the scale affect how you feel and whether it's going to be a good day, you are probably a bit too involved with that appliance. Danger, danger! Step away from the scale!
- If You're Eating High Protein Be Informed About Mad Cow
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Finding Mad Cow in Oregon puts a new wrinkle in the high protein diet, or does it? Should we be worried about Mad Cow, and what's a person to do that wants to eat more meat, not less?
- Finding Time to Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Who's got time for exercise these days with kids and shopping, chores and jobs! It seems we get up, go to work, come home, eat, and go to bed, but you can find time, if you look into what really happens during your day. For instance, do you watch TV?
- Good Food/Bad Food What's Left to Eat?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Eliminating healthy, wholesome foods is not the best way to learn to eat better, but severely cutting back on the frequency of eating highly processed foods is.
- Lose Weight by Ending the Struggle with Yourself
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Telling yourself you have to "struggle with this weight issue for the rest of my life," is as good as telling yourself there's no point in trying. "Why bother? I'll just gain it right back. It's no use. I might as well eat more cake. Poor me. Life is hard." You know the drill. Life's a beach. It doesn't have to be like that.
- How to Buy Chocolate Then Forget to Eat It
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If you'd like to learn how to obtain quality chocolate, put it in a drawer and forget it's there, learn to use EFT and NLP techniques to conquer your emotional eating. That's what I've done, and it's such a freeing thing to be able to feel right with the world, be happy with myself, my shape, and not feel controlled by something like food.
- Putting it Off Until I'm Thinner
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] So many people tell me that they would give anything to be at a weight they once were, but when questioned they almost always say, "Now that I think about it, I thought I was fat back then too," but guess what? They weren't. Those same people are sometimes shocked to see photos of themselves as a teenager or young adult; "Why I wasn't fat at all," they'll say.
- Eating Food Just to Be Rid of It
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It's Monday late afternoon, and you're picking things up around the house and starting to notice all the little bits and pieces of leftovers from the past weekend. Cookies here small bits of candy there. Today I noticed three large shortbread cookies, several bags of the candy rocks, and leftovers from the latest summer picnic, which in this case is about five pounds of fruit salad - not bad in itself, but I can only eat so much fruit salad. What to do with all this food just when I wanted to start eating better!?!
- Managing Cravings with EFT
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Cravings usually follow familiar patterns and therefore qualify as habits. It's normal to crave the same basic foods at certain specific times - we all do this. It's only when you begin to feel as if the craving is in control, instead of the other way around that it gets to be a problem. Here are a few simple ways to manage your cravings using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
- Action Plan to Take the Weight Off This Year
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Trying to radically change your approach to food or exercise is rarely successful. More people that are successful at losing weight and keeping it off do so by making changes and incorporating them into their lifestyle. Start now. Choose one habit (such as eating out every day) or regular food you eat, and decide to cut back on how often, or the quantity. Set a plan, and do it.
- Want Power Before Will Power
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The problem isn't that you don't have enough will power to achieve what you want. You have will power, but it's not will power you need, it's want power.
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