"Do I Love me?" or "I don't Care"

If you were scheduled for a colonoscopy or a fasting lab test tomorrow... would you be able to not eat after 8 PM?   Would it take "will power"?




No,  you'd do it because it needed to be done. 


So, why does it take will power to NOT eat after 8 pm at night?  Don't you know it "needs to be done" for your health.


You must know that you're NOT eating because your body is requiring nutrition after 8 pm... it's not hunger anyway... your just....


You're just MINDLESSLY eating and probably eating sweets, ice cream, snacks....

Yes,  you're being watched!

So.... Stop it!

Look in the mirror and ask yourself  "AM I WORTHY OF LOVE?"

"Do I love me?"    

If the answer's are yes and you still want a bowl of ice cream...

then.... say to yourself.  

I love me... I want to take care of myself....

 but I..... just don't care!

Eat it... feel guilty.... get fat and cry when you  try to squeeze on your jeans.

When you're ready to stop hurting yourself,  when your ready to care about your health.... get on board with me and lets

 BALANCE  our life  together

That's what I'm doing in my blogging almost every day.

Ciao!

I'm writing this because I'm headed to the kitchen and it's 8:38 pm!
Preach it Sister!

Are you hungry. Or is it your Appetite that needs a chocolate Brownie?

Continuation on yesterdays blog

Hunger vs appetite

Hunger is a physiological response that is triggered when your blood sugar falls below a certain level after a meal

Appetite is  said to be "The hunger of the mind"

Hunger can be satisfied by food but   appetites are seldom satisfied.

So here is ONE reason I believe that diets fail : the battle of ones appetite

Here is a simple way to look at this

When you sit at a restaurant perusing a menu, 

 do you seek out food to satisfy your hunger or your appetite ?

How much thought do you give when choosing a restaurant?

Hummmm?

Again, I say that "appetite is the hunger of your mind"

Until we are honest with ourselves about our relationship with food we will be at war with our very basic decision to lose weight

Weight problems can be very complex! and not as simple as saying -
Eat less, exercise more, and you'll lose weight

If you've been reading my blog this past year, you know I have a theme
balance your physical, psychological, and spiritual being

There are psychological,physical and spiritual areas to explore when dealing with excessive weight issues

I'm on it!

Well that's all for now since I'm sitting in a hotel trying to blog on my ipad ... In the dark

That's another topic

Ciao
To your health and wellness

The Seven Habits

Today at the book store I picked up a copy of
  Dr. Colbert's "I can do this Diet"

I have a few other books of his that I think are worthy reading. And since I respect this author's writings... I perused his book and felt it valuable enough to purchase.  

If you know me... you know 

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN DIETS.

Get Smart and ANSWER THE PHONE
and then LISTEN
NO DIETS!!!! 

Ok (allora)  So, I'll probably blog on this for the next week (or however long it takes to read.... AHH no way, I'm going to finish it in the next few days!!!!)

I love the introduction he used in this book:

"Come Fly with DreamFlight... because we get out there at least 5% of the time"

Would you choose to fly on an airlines that had this kind of motto?
Yet every day, dieters embark on a new diet with the same success rate.  Reports are between 2-5% success rate in keeping off the weight for good.  


He reports that the low rate of success is do to the fact that it's difficult for people to stick to the guidelines of a diet for months, years and even decades.


In the second chapter, Dr. Colbert is right in there with what I keep harping on

"Change the habits!"  

The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) at the Brown Medical School track and investigated why certain people succeed in controlling their weight long term while others do not.

Using Stephen Covey's ideas, Dr. Colbert provides 7 Habits using the underlying principles of successful models to imitate.
  

Habit #1: Modify your food intake

Habit #2: Increase your activity level

Habit #3: Eat breakfast every day

Habit #4: Monitor your weight regularly

Habit #5: Stay consistent with your eating

Habit #6: Control your portion size and your environment

Habit #7: Be accountable

This is a good kick start to 2011.   Developing these HABITS!  A habit is formed in 21 days.  I need to work on #6!  So when I'm at my Mom's and see the Cannoli's.... or sit to visit... I'm not "mindlessly" eating something... just to eat. 

Now, as I have said so many times in my blog, 

It is all about BALANCE to truly obtain true Health and Wellness.   

Balancing our physical, mental and spiritual being.  

Habits are  like "gears"  in our Health

Habits provide "motion" to our being, taking us in any given direction. 

  

Good Habits provide the motion for Health and Wellness

Bad Habits cause nothing but conflict, illness, strife and eventually.... death.

There are "habits" that are physical behaviors

There are Mental Habits we  perform without even thinking about it

There are spiritual Habits  we have or  that we lack!

So when we think of "changing our lifestyle" to alter our health and wellness, 

THINK HABITS.  It is OUR HABITS that need to change.

This new year is going to be amazing  I AM CONFESSING THIS!  I am holding on to promises in God's Word.  

I see it,  I feel it,  I speak it, I hear it (quiet voice in my head) and I know it in my heart.

I know it in my heart because 

I see it,  

I feel it,  

I speak it, 

I hear it, 

I SAY IT!

dog gone it!

Ok, that is enough for today.  

Ciao

Salute to your Health and Wellness in 2011!

PS :  the number 7 is the Perfect number!

plus a week is 7 days

Habits are formed in 3 weeks (3 x 7)  hummmmm

References: 

"I can do this Diet"

http://www.drcolbert.com/product_info.php?products_id=350

"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective  People".

https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits.php

Recipe for a "Delightful" Life

It's ALL THERE! IN HIS WORD

just waiting for you to "wake" up out of your sugar high

Stop chasing the wind and start Listening and Waiting 

upon your Creator who wants you to live in 

Health and Wellness 

He is the Answer  
Be a WiseMan and Seek HIM

Psalm 37

 ¹ Do not fret because of those who are evil 

   or be envious of those who do wrong; 

² for like the grass they will soon wither, 

   like green plants they will soon die away.

 ³ Trust in the LORD and do good; 

   dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. 

⁴ Take delight in the LORD, 

   and he will give you the desires of your heart.

 ⁵ Commit your way to the LORD; 

   trust in him and he will do this: 

⁶ He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, 

   your vindication like the noonday sun.

 ⁷ Be still before the LORD 

   and wait patiently for him; 

do not fret when people succeed in their ways, 

   when they carry out their wicked schemes.

 ⁸ Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; 

   do not fret—it leads only to evil. 

⁹ For those who are evil will be destroyed, 

   but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

 ¹⁰ A little while, and the wicked will be no more; 

   though you look for them, they will not be found. 

¹¹ But the meek will inherit the land 

   and enjoy peace and prosperity.

Merry Christmas!  Buon Natale!

Santa's Waist or Stop wasting your life on COOKIES

Ok,  Santa's waist line indicates he is at risk for the following health problems.

 http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/tools.htm

• type 2 diabetes (high blood sugar)
• high blood pressure
• heart disease and stroke
• some types of cancer
• sleep apnea (when breathing stops for short periods during sleep)
• osteoarthritis (wearing away of the joints)
• gallbladder disease
• liver disease
• irregular menstrual periods  (oops!  Not Santa... but Mrs. Claus)

Stop kidding yourself.   

Give yourself a gift this Christmas  

" the desire to be healthy"

If you really, truly believed that eating that piece of candy (See's Candy box that's being passed around at work) would harm your body, you hopefully wouldn't eat it.

But, oh no... we kid ourselves and say... it's only one piece.   

But, that's not really true.  It's  really "one more piece".

If you were at the proper weight, could do 25 push ups without losing your breath, had your cholesterol level within normal limits.... then you could have "just one".

But... if you are in the ranks of the 66% of adults who are overweight in this country then... 

YOU'VE HAD YOUR ONE PIECE!   

Start early this year.  Instead of waiting until January 1st, 2011...... Start now by saying "NO" to the one piece of Candy... a piece of pie....  "a" cookie.

Splurge and delight yourself in pleasing your body 

 do something  your body is "dying" to have.... 

a Healthy life! 

Ok, I too have no "will power" 

 but we all do have "GOD's POWER" to say NO.

Therefore, speak a scripture to gain strength....

MY VERSION: "greater is He that is in me, than He that is in that piece of Candy!"

1 John 4:4  

 ⁴ You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them,

 because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

It really does work.  Dig deep into your soul and ask the "trillion dollar question"

Why am I trying to satisfy myself with the emptiness of food... 

when I have Jesus to satisfy my very being! 

The gift this Christmas is the gift you give yourself

Health and Wellness

Ciao!  To your Health and Wellness 

            this Christmas Season