Think about that for a moment. Close your eyes and really think it through. You’ve

said if only you didn’t crave sugar, then you could lose weight, but is that really true

for you? Ask yourself these questions:

Would you eat differently, and if so how?

Would you act differently, and if so how?

What else would change, and what would stay the same?

What would you lose?

What would you gain?

Until you know what you want, know you can achieve it, and know what else will

change (i.e. how your life may be different), you can’t discover any obstacles that

first must be considered. For instance, you may want to stop eating anything after

7 PM yet your husband doesn’t come home from work until 8 and he wants you to

join him for dinner. That’s an obstacle.

If you’ve got a habit of watching your favorite TV show with a bowl of ice cream,

then breaking that habit is another obstacle.

If you don’t work out ways to overcome your obstacles perhaps through discussion

and compromise with your husband, or habit breaking exercises for your ice cream

habit, there’s bound to be a problem. Just saying you’re not going to do something

any more rarely works. Instead determine what might stand in the way of achieving

your goals, find a way around them, and you’re much more likely to actually achieve

those goals once and for all.

The statement, “if this one thing were handled, then everything else would fall into

place” is an “If Then” statement and gets people into trouble. They want a fairy

godmother to make it all better. A strong belief that one single thing such as,

“eating sugar is my problem,” sets you up to fail, especially if you really like eating

sugary foods.

Getting a handle on your cravings is not an all-or-nothing proposition. You must

leave room for occasional deviations. It’s not the occasional side trip that causes

weight trouble, it’s the road we usually travel.

In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) a good starting point is the exercise called

Establishing a Well Formed Outcome. “Well formed” means it meets all criteria of a

well thought-out end result.

NLP: How to Create a Well Formed Outcome & Get What You Want

Here are the steps to creating a well formed outcome:

1) State what you want (not what you do not want). “I want to weigh 135 pounds.”

2) Determine whether you can achieve it (do you believe it is possible?).

3) What resources do you have and what do you need (time, money, gear, clothes,

equipment, coaching, whatever).

4) Check whether anyone else is involved and any potential obstacles that may come

up regarding others. Think of everyone involved in your day-to-day life.

5) Picture yourself “as if” you’ve obtained what you say you want and see if that

picture fits. Do you like what you see?

6) Put together a plan of action for the achievement of your outcome.

While it may seem like a lot of effort simply to decide what you really want, going

through these steps at the beginning helps you find potential obstacles which

previously stopped you from moving forward. For example, if you decide you want

to join a gym and start exercising every day but you’ve forgotten you don’t even

own a car and just lost your job, that exercise plan might not work out right now.

If you did join a gym, you’d end up not going and then you’d think you’d failed, yet

it was the plan that failed, not you. You didn’t think it through.

A better plan in this instance may be doing exercises at home, or within walking

distance (or simply walking for exercise). Later, when you do have transportation, you

can rethink the plan and perhaps join a gym then. There are always options.

It’s better to look at what you want from every angle, then put together a plan you

know can and will work. Then when you know what you want, you’ll also know you

can make it happen and begin by taking that first step toward making it a reality.

“Achieving a Well Formed Outcome” is one of the sessions in the Ending Emotional

Eating 8-Week Workshop. You can also find more information on this popular and

well known NLP process by searching for “NLP Well Formed Outcome” in your

favorite search engine.

“Fad” Weight Loss Diet:

Obesity is killing us but using fad or extreme weight loss schemes may be making

it worse!

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Obesity is a physical state that refers to excessive body fat. Chances are you have

experienced the frustrations of dieting at least once in your life, if you have

problems with your weight. Close to a hundred million Americans go on a weight

loss diet in any given year and up to ninety-five percent of them regain the weight

they lose within five years. Worse, a third will gain back more weight than they

lost, in danger of “yo-yoing” from one popular diet to another. The conventional

approach to weight problems, focusing on fad weight loss diets or weight loss drugs,

may leave you with just as much weight and the additional burden of ill health.

Today, an estimated sixty-five percent of all American adults are obese or overweight.

Our culture obsesses about staying thin even as we grow fatter, but this isn’t about

appearances. Obesity is known to be a precursor to many debilitating health

conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and

gallbladder disease. Obesity contributes to as many as 375,000 deaths every year.

In addition, the public health costs for obesity are staggering. According to

researchers at Harvard University, obesity is a factor in 19% of all cases of heart

disease with annual health costs estimated at 30 billion dollars; it’s also a factor in

57% of diabetes cases, with health costs of $9 billion per year.

Set Realistic Goals:

No doubt you have fallen for one or more of the weight loss diet schemes over the

years, promising quick and painless weight loss. Many of these quick weight loss

diet programs undermine your health, cause physical discomfort, flatulence, and

ultimately lead to disappointment when you start regaining weight, shortly after

losing it. Fad or quick weight loss diet programs generally overstress one type of food.

They contravene the fundamental principle of good nutrition – to remain healthy one

must consume a balanced diet, which includes a variety of foods. Safe, healthy, and

permanent weight reduction is what’s truly lost among the thousands of popular diet

schemes.

Some of the weight loss diet schemes reign supreme briefly, only to fade out. While

some wane from popularity due to being unproductive or unsafe, some simply lose the

public’s curiosity. Examples of such fad diets include the South Beach Diet, Atkins diet,

the Grapefruit diet, Cabbage Soup diet, the Rotation diet, Beverly Hills diet, Breatharian,

Ornish Plan – the list goes on and on. These fad diets advocate a specific technique

(such as eliminating a certain food, or eating only certain combinations of foods) in

conjunction with the basic idea that the body makes up the difference in energy by

breaking down and utilizing some part of itself, essentially converting matter into energy.

This self-cannibalism, or catabolism as it is referred, typically starts with breakdown of

stored body fat.

What is the benefit of eating tomatoes?

6 Health Benefits of Tomatoes

Raw tomatoes are rich in vitamin C, which brightens skin and fights inflammation while

cooking tomatoes releases more antioxidants such as lycopene, which may protect against

cancer. Tomatoes offer various benefits and contribute to heart, cognitive (brain),

and prostate health.

Are grits healthy for you?

As a whole grain, grits provide several antioxidants that help mitigate cellular damage

from free radicals, unstable atoms in the body. Two of the antioxidants found in grits,

lutein and zeaxanthin, are known to contribute to better vision and eye health, protecting

against age-related eye diseases.

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