You are exposed to mental stress when you lose weight. But to punish your self when failing, can make you fatter.

Practice to master temptations. A new mental focus is crucial for you to succeed. Be well prepared for both frustration and disappointments.

Most people who have lost weight, has found that the process puts a wide emotions in swing. You feel happiness, joy and pride when you succeed and mood swings like frustration, impatience and stress when the problems arise.

It is extremely important to work with your mental health all the time in a long-term weight loss process.

Ups and Downs.

You can say that almost anyone who is in the process of losing weight; feel a lot of excitement by the first, rapid weight loss. But you will also experience that there comes a difficult time mentally, and it is an advantage to prepare for this from the start, when you are going to change your lifestyle.

During a weight loss your psyche of both the physiological, psychological and social factors are affected. A healthy diet and activity are important to achieve stable blood sugar which will contribute to more energy and more stable mood, among other things.

Mood Swing.

But the mood swings are also part of a natural, physiological stress response that we eat less than we consume. The body reacts automatically with physical and mental stress on the calorie deficit, no matter how heavy you are, and either you do it voluntarily or by deprivation.

In difficult times try to focus on everything that you actually can do. A successful, weight loss is not just about the numbers of pounds.

It is also important to accept that you do not always have the strength and the will to make the healthiest choices. Do not use the time and effort to despair when this happens; just get back on track as quickly as possible.

Unhealthy Temptations

Many people have hard feelings related to unhealthy temptations. Many make them tough, absolute requirements and goals, and judges themselves and punish if they take a piece of chocolate. To punish yourself with condemnation is not healthy. A good mental health is important to mobilize the necessary motivation for a permanent lifestyle change.

Few people will be able to do without all their unhealthy favourites the rest of there life’s, so it is important to master a proper intake of this food, treat yourself to what you like best of the unhealthy sometimes.

The danger with strict, firm claims to yourself is that you give up and drop everything when you are unable to meet them.

You must give up a lot when you leave your old habits. Food is related to physical well-being, and important feelings, such as relaxation, cuddle, comfort and reward.

Important Social Role.

Food and meals are also an important social role. To lose weight, you may need to deviate from the community in some contexts. By being aware of this, you better prepare for these challenges and develop good coping techniques. Remember that motivation is fresh. It must be refilled all the time!

Put things in perspective. Small baby step in the right direction is better than to give up everything. Do not start too hard, and give yourself time. It is better to aim to train twice a week and boast yourself if you can do three, but to have five times a week goal, and not be able to do more than three.

Exercise increases the secretion of endorphins, hormones that provides exhilaration and good mood.

Although you may not be able to control all the factors that lead to overweight, you can change your eating and physical activity habits. And by changing those habits, you may be able to improve your weight and your health.

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Coach Ransy

Q. Is calorie a bad word?

A. No, it’s not bad—just misunderstood! Most people who use the word calorie simply don’t know what it means. Also, in my experience, most people to go pale at the mere mention of the word. Based on those facts alone, I would eliminate calorie from the English vocabulary if I could.

Q. Why is calorie such a misunderstood word?

A. The American public has been told, time and time again, that people who consume more calories than their bodies burn will gain weight. As I explain in The Diet Solution: Start Eating and Start Living, this statement is only partially true. All calories are not created equal; calories consumed from healthy foods and unhealthy foods are quite different.

Q. What exactly is a calorie, then?

A. According to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition), a calorie is “a unit equivalent to the large calorie expressing heat-producing or energy-producing value in food when oxidized in the body.” In plain English, a calorie is a unit of energy released from the food you eat to power the body.

Q. How are calories “burned”?

A. The body needs energy from food—calories—to perform many functions, the most obvious of which are physical activity and exercise. However, the body also requires energy to function at the most basic level: to breathe, digest food, and maintain organs and systems.

Q. How many calories should I eat each day?

A. The short answer is “enough.” The calories you consume must provide enough energy for your body to perform all necessary functions and activities—and bring about optimum health. The long answer is that the number of calories needed varies from person to person and depends on weight, foods consumed, sleep, stress and activity levels, age, and a long list of other factors that affect metabolism. In The Diet Solution: Start Eating and Start Living, I provide a calorie equation to help you estimate, according to these factors, how many calories you should consume to lose weight or maintain weight. It also includes charts to help you choose the right sources of those calories to support your efforts.

Q. Is it possible to eat too few calories?

A. Believe it or not, yes! The most serious problem with low-calorie diets is that although they may bring about weight loss, they also can cause serious health problems. One common side effect of low-calorie diets is muscle breakdown, which can occur when the body doesn’t consume enough calories from protein. Especially vulnerable is the heart, a muscular organ. If a person does not consume an adequate amount of calories each day, the heart muscle begins to break down, possibly leading to serious cardiac conditions (e.g., cardiac atrophy).

Q. What are the consequences of following low-calorie diets off and on over time?

A. Low-calorie diets typically do not supply enough energy to keep organs and systems healthy. In effect, they can lead to malnourishment. For clients who have repeatedly followed such diets, I recommend high-calorie meal plans that will provide their organs with adequate fuel to repair themselves and regain healthy function. Most of my clients are surprised, at first, to see how much food they can consume on a healthy weight-loss diet—not to mention the high level of health that they can achieve.

Q. Hey, wait—didn’t you say that you don’t like the word calorie? Then why does the Diet Solution Program suggest calculating calorie requirements?

A. In the Diet Solution Program, calorie calculation is simply a means to an end. You use the ideal number of calories that results from the equation to determine the correct number of servings of each food type for each meal. That’s it—from that point on, you can forget about counting calories!

Q. If I don’t count calories, then how will I control my eating habits?

A. Use the Allowable Servings Guide in The Diet Solution: Start Eating and Start Living to plan meals. However, over time, you will learn how to meet your body’s nutritional needs without referring to the servings guide. Humans are born with the ability to “know” when the body has received enough nourishment and when it needs more. My professional experience indicates that, unfortunately, most yo-yo dieters and other people who have battled weight problems don’t know how to “listen” to the body’s cues in response to the foods and portions they consume. The good news is that this ability can be (re)learned.

Q. What do you mean by “listen” to my body?

A. The Diet Solution Program is a lifestyle shift that teaches you how to determine the best foods and portions for your metabolic type. Even after just days on the plan, you will learn to pay attention to how you feel after eating. For many people, this experience of “listening” to the body will be new. However, by letting your body be your guide, you will learn how to eat your way to optimum health.

Q. Can I really expect to maintain a healthy weight without counting calories or referring to servings guides or other charts?

A. Yes! It’s how I live my life now, and you, too, can learn to recognize when your body is adequately nourished. After many years of dieting, I reawakened my body’s innate ability to tell me when I’ve had enough food and when I need more by following the same plan I present in the Diet Solution Program. Every day is different; some days I require more food and others less, depending on my levels of exercise, stress, and even hormones. But I don’t need to count calories to know whether I’ve had enough; my body tells me, and I know how to listen. Whatever you do, don’t be lured into the trap of forever counting calories, because that approach is not sustainable—or healthy—in the long term.

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A really good friend of mine asked me for advice, how she could sort her mind, as she had been trying to lose weight for the last 10 years and nothing was working out for her. She had tried everything. Every night she said to her self that she would start to morrow and everyday started well but in the afternoon she fined herself going into old habits.

Ask yourself these 10 questions

1. What do I want to accomplish? Or change? Different?

2. What will that get you?

3. How would that make you feel?

4. How would your health be different, if you would accomplish your health goals?

5. Where are you now?

6. What have you tried before?

7. Find out what is blocking you or standing in the way for you to succeed?

8. What’s the one thing that would make the biggest difference in your life right now?

9. What one small step could you take right now today, that you know you will not fail to do?

10. What support do you need to accomplish your goals?

Tell friends and family about your plans it increases your accountability.

Keeping a daily journal of your life events and moods can help pinpoint problems that may affect your health.

By keeping trackers you can trace your progress toward goal achievement like your exercise activity and food intake.

Believe in yourself, you can do this.

Coach Ransy

With the costs of health care constantly on the rise, more and more people are not only turning to alternative medicine to cure their illnesses, but are looking at alternative forms of preventive medicine as well.

One of the most popular forms of alternative preventive medicine is also one of the trendiest exercise rituals in the US these days. Yoga has swept the nation and is now entrenched in the American psyche as the greatest medicine for anything that ails you.

Thousands of websites, classes and seminars are dedicated to the many different forms of yoga and yoga is now taught in most universities. Those who follow the teachings of yoga believe that its power is found in aligning a person’s mind with their body and once this alignment is achieved, the body will become an entirely healthier entity.

While modern medicine is still skeptical of yoga as a preventive tool, you’d be hard pressed to find a practitioner who would advise against yoga. Yoga strengthens the body through the mind and due to the ease of the workout and the low impact mechanics, few are scared that yoga could ever lead to any real kind of harm. In fact, a growing number of people are even forgoing the community setting of a yoga class and learning the ancient art in the privacy of their own home.

Due to the effectiveness of the physical attributes as well as the mental capacity for well being, people are clamoring for yoga anywhere that will fit into their schedules. For many people, classes are too restricting and too time consuming. Books educating people on how to perform yoga at home are becoming more and more popular. That will teach anyone how to create a yoga regime that will fit into the specific requirements that they are looking for.

Yoga has long been held in high regard throughout the world for its ability to heal the body, Americans might be slow in realizing this benefit, but they are quickly picking it up.

Coach Ransy

Obesity is worse than smoking, both for their own health and to the health service costs, according to a study.

Obesity costs more in both their own health and health care costs, than either smoking or excessive alcohol use does, according to a large U.S. study.

According to the report, obesity ads approximately 20 years of health risks. This means that a fat 30-year old end up in the same risk group as normal weight 50-year-olds, for diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

It is particular, the increase in diabetes that is causing the high health costs of overweight and obesity.

Obesity increases health service costs by 36 percent per person and cost of medicines by 77 percent, according to the study carried out among 10,000 adult Americans, according to news agency Reuters.

Smoking leads to an increase in health service costs by 21 percent per person and increases drug spending by 28 percent, while excessive alcohol use, on average, leading to even lower rates.

Smoking and alcohol use has been the focus of both research and health policy for years. Obesity, which may have far greater health consequences, has been the subject of far less interest.

According to researcher Roland Sturm, UCLA / RAND Managed Care Center for Psychiatric Disorders, in Santa Monica, California.

Obesity increases the risk of a high number of serious diseases and conditions, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, stress disorders and various cancers.

Some of these diseases require constant care, such as diabetes, which increases the risk of diseases and disorders such as kidney failure, blindness, heart disease and circulatory problems.

More and more hours in front of the television set, less physical activity and a car-obsessed culture is one of the main reasons for the increasing obesity and the increasing number of obesity-related diseases, according to Sturm.

Health authorities recommend cutting down on intake of sugar and fat and that doing physical activity, to reduce the risk of obesity and obesity-related diseases.

Coach Ransy