CoachRoz
Food to Help You Lose
Oct 27, 2009
As I developed my new DVD, Weighing In on the Holidays: Tips for Avoiding the Typical 10-Pound Gain, I came across a terrific article I want to share with you from WebMD.
Denise Foley has compiled an almost magical list of foods that will curb your appetite this holiday season (and year-round!). Check out "15 Foods To Help You Lose" here: bit.ly/gKAqR.
You'll recognize everything on the list: eggs, beans, salad, green tea, pears, soup, lean beef, olive oil, grapefruit, cinnamon, vinegar, tofu, nuts, high-fiber cereal, and red-hot pepper!
In fact, if this list wasn't packaged in a good-looking article, written by a high powered dietitian, it would look pretty bland, huh. Well, it is! Curbing your appetite isn’t rocket science, but it is science.
A list like this is helpful, but it’s limited. It seems to provide you with a quick fix, but there's little how-to behind it. Helping people manage their behavior and motivation is sticky, and usually doesn’t come in a neat, quick tip package. So don't be deceived, and then disappointed.
Go ahead and curb your appetite this holiday season. But here's one further thought. When you find yourself still overeating and under-exercising, then consider that your long-term weight loss success may not come in a neat, quick pre-packaged plan. Your success is going to come from you. Are you ready to go for it?
(You can get my free video at http://bit.ly/noyoyo)
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Plane Truth about Travel and Weight Maintenance
Oct 16, 2009
Do you travel a lot? Are you a frequent business travel? Are you in airports, hotels and conference rooms around the country? As you go up and down, does your weight go up and down too? Do you find yourself frequently flying and frequently falling out of your good habits?
Here are the first steps to staying on track.
- Drink a lot more water than you usually do.
- Don’t eat airplane food. It’s full of unhealthy levels of sugar, fat, and salt, and loaded with unneeded calories. Instead, pack your own lunch or a snack at home. (Check with airport security and your carrier for specific rules for what you can carry on board.) Or, eat a big meal at home before heading to the airport, then find a piece of fruit after landing before going to have your next main meal.
- Supersize your awareness during the trip. Be more mindful of the candy jar on the conference table, the mints in the lobby, the eat-all-you-want buffets. Then reward yourself! Buy a souvenir, or schedule a round of golf or a facial when you get home.
- Go light when you return home. Take three days and cut back 300-500 calories, even if it means backing off from feeling full, or skipping the evening treat. It’s worth it!
American Idols that Inspire: You and Me
Oct 06, 2009
I've been thinking about Kelly Clarkson and Mandisa's responses to the challenges of weight maintenance. I really pray for both women to keep their healthy approaches. I know how it is!
Having been basically 45 pounds overweight most of my college years and my Wall Street career, I ballooned and gained another 50 pounds as I entered my 30s. I didn’t know how to be okday with a healthier, happier weight. I spent 15 years dieting. Yo-yo dieting!
Now I’m 142 pounds most days and regularly fluctuate between 140 and 148 pounds! This is still considered overweight because I’m 5’0”... But, like Mandisa says in her interview it’s not about getting to a certain, pre-determined weight or look, this journey has been about being set free from the hold/bondage that food had on my life. When food had this control, where I impulsed and compulsed to eat it, I ate it a lot and a lot and a lot.
I’m now at the healthier, happier weight for me. And I’ve been here for more than eight years. The secret is weight maintenance. How about you? I hope you can find a fresh perspective in Kelly Clarkson's message, and divine instruction in Mandisa’s model.
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American Idols that Inspire, Part 2: Mandisa
Oct 01, 2009
I last talked about Kelly Clarkson. Then I came across Mandisa. Now she's my next favorite American Idol inspiration!
Mandisa, a finalist in the fifth season of the show, is on a journey to losing 100 pounds, and it sounds as if she’s embracing weight management -- and the freedom that comes with it.
In a recent interview on the September 7, 2009, episode of "Life Today," with James and Betty Robison (tinyurl.com/lgkaq2), Mandisa said some pretty important things.
“I think so often we get caught up in what the end result is. You want to lose this amount of weight and this is what your goal weight is. I don't really have a goal weight. I just know that as I continue eating right and exercising, my body will get to what it is supposed to be," she told the Robisons. "I think so often, we hear about diets and we hear about the exercising and that is very important. But I don't think we talk enough about dealing with the issues that had you turning to food to begin with. So for me, I guess I feel very passionate."
How about you? Do you crave the freedom Mandisa is talking about? I'm passionate about it too, and would like to invite you to visit the Virtual Weight Loss Center at www.NoYoYoDieting.com for resources, like my new, free DVD, Weighing In on the Holidays: Tips for Avoiding the Typical 10-Pound Gain! You can do it!
American Idols that Inspire, Part 1: Kelly Clarkson
Sep 28, 2009
I loved reading the People Magazine article on singer Kelly Clarkson shooting back at critics of her weight. And now I love Kelly Clarkson even more.
She’s real. She’s active. She’s balanced. She’s eating what she likes... I didn’t hear a diet plan or program or pill in her regiment. If she continues to maintain her weight, what the heck is so wrong with her look? Check out KellyClarkson.com or Google her and recent photos -- even the SELF magazine cover they airbrushed to take 10 pounds off of her!
Check out the August 10, 2009, People.com recap of the September SELF magazine interview with Kelly. In it she takes on her critics. She says "When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't. I'm fine!'"
She says that sometimes she eats more, sometimes she plays more. And the playing involves golf and Crossfit workouts.
"It makes me feel like G.I. Jane," she says. "It's very empowering."
I love it that Kelly's motivation is for herself. She loves food -- both "healthy stuff and junk." She says her secret is to not go on a diet: "For me, it's the times when I'm not paying attention that I end up losing weight. But I'm never trying to lose weight -- or gain it. I'm just being!"
All right!
It's a Permanent Project
Sep 22, 2009
Too many women and men are frustrated and even defeated when I talk about weight loss management. Just what is deflating about maintaining a weight loss? What is behind the resistance to the ongoing attention that's necessary -- crucial -- to effectively keeping off the weight you've worked so hard to get off?
I’ve heard the answer from so many clients, and from guests (celebrities or not) on talk shows like "Dr. Phil" and "Oprah." I believe it's this: It is that you need to both do something different in your life, and in fact, you have to be someone different. The person you were designed to be.
In fact, earlier this year you may have noticed the January 2009 cover of O, The Oprah Magazine. On it was a "before" and "after" photo of Oprah. Emlazoned across the middle was this question: "How Did I Let This Happen Again?"
Inside, one of the most famous yo-yo dieters in the world answered that question. Oprah attributed the start of her 40-pound weight re-gain to health issues (hypothyroidism ), a overuse of medications, a life out of balance, and food addiction. "I don't have a weight problem—I have a self-care problem that manifests through weight..."
Does that sound familiar? I would love to tell you that weight-loss maintenance is easy breezy, but that’s not true. You already know that, don't you? It's a permanent project. As in forever.
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Aug 25, 2009
Easy to Obtain, Hard to Maintain!
Jul 15, 2009
He went on to illustrate. “It’s easy to obtain admission to college, but it’s hard to maintain your focus and graduate. It’s easy to obtain a job, but it’s harder to keep it and excel. It’s easy, in a manner of speaking, to obtain a wedding, but hard to maintain a marriage...”
He also applied the obtain-maintain principle to being a disciple of God. He said it’s easy to obtain a church in which “you walk down front and we let you in.” But it’s hard to maintain our relationships as believers because they require discipleship, fellowship, and service -- and all those things are difficult. So people fall in and out of church -- and in and out of relationship with God.
Boy! My pastor’s teaching was so relevant to the spiritual battle that rages within Christians over our unhealthy eating and fitness habit that lead to obesity.
My thoughts turned to my work with yo-yo dieters and with those fighting weight regain after weigh-loss surgery. After achieving a desired weight loss, seven out of ten dieters regain weight again. Why? Is it because they discovered they had to work hard at doing and being different?
Later that same week I was reminded of the second chapter of 2 Timothy, where the Apostle Paul is instructing young preachers how to be successful. He says to endure; don’t allow the affairs of life to get you off track; play the by the rules; and work hard.
That’s sound instruction for us dieters too! There is no other way to go beyond just obtaining weight loss to also maintaining it too!
Much love,
Coach Roz
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Easy to Obtain, Hard to Maintain
Apr 14, 2009
Easy to Obtain, Hard to Maintain...
A few Sundays ago I jumped on something my pastor said. "Some things are easy to obtain, but heard to maintain..."
He went on to illustrate. “It’s easy to obtain admission to college, but it’s hard to maintain your focus and graduate. It’s easy to obtain a job, but it’s harder to keep it and excel. It’s easy, in a manner of speaking, to obtain a wedding, but hard to maintain a marriage...”
He also applied the obtain-maintain principle to being a disciple of God. He said it’s easy to obtain a church in which “you walk down front and we let you in.” But it’s hard to maintain our relationships as believers because they require discipleship, fellowship, and service -- and all those things are difficult. So people fall in and out of church -- and in and out of relationship with God.
Boy! My pastor’s teaching was so relevant to the spiritual battle that rages within Christians over our unhealthy eating and fitness habit that lead to obesity.
My thoughts turned to my work with yo-yo dieters and with those fighting weight regain after weigh-loss surgery. After achieving a desired weight loss, seven out of ten dieters regain weight again. Why? Is it because they discovered they had to work hard at doing and being different?
Later that same week I was reminded of the second chapter of 2 Timothy, where the Apostle Paul is instructing young preachers how to be successful. He says to endure; don’t allow the affairs of life to get you off track; play the by the rules; and work hard.
That’s sound instruction for us dieters too! There is no other way to go beyond just obtaining weight loss to also maintaining it too!
Much love,
Coach Roz
Join: Beat Weight Regain with 'ROSE'
OH Member Group Leader
I believe it's a competition - us vs weight regain!
