You know how important it is to get proper nutrients in your diet. But there’s a huge temptation these days to use low carbohydrate diets as a way to help control weight. Needless to say, this is an alarming trend according to both nutritionists and sports doctors. The reason for the alarm is that low-carb [...]
On thing I’ve always been curious about is the class of behavior I call the “tomorrow syndrome.” I see it all the time in my practice as a hypnotherapist. People want to lose weight or quit smoking or make some other major change in their lives but they have to wait for the right day. [...]
Without oversimplifying too much, I view the question of maintaining one’s body weight as matter pretty much of arithmetic. Leaving aside the question of nutrition (a topic I’ll take up in a future post), if you eat more calories in a day than you burn in a day, you’ll gain weight. If you eat fewer [...]
With respect to your health, on a scale of 1 to 10 where are you? Really? Answer honestly. Are you doing things to yourself that you would really rather not do? I read an interview with actor Ewan MacGregor a few months ago. He had been something of a hell-raiser. He chain-smoked and drank alcohol [...]
