HEALTH
Health posts could cover fitness, health conditions, treatments or care, or weight loss.
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Motivational Tools To Help with Your Weight Loss Goals
Losing weight is hard work. We can all use a little extra help. This post discusses four different weight loss tools you may want to have on hand. These aren’t all electronic tools — some are low-tech tools that actually don’t cost any money. Either way, each of these tools can help keep you on track and — more importantly — keep you motivated to keep going. Motivation is key, particularly on those days when you’re craving high-calorie foods or don’t want to head outside to exercise. Use these tools to help you reach your weight loss goals. Food and Exercise Journal One of the simplest, yet most effective weight…
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5 Ways Diet and Exercise Link to Happiness
It’s no secret that diet and exercise can affect your wellbeing. However, do you know how they contribute to happiness? Here, you’ll discover 5 ways diet and exercise link to happiness. 1. Releasing More Feel-Good Chemicals It’s a well-known fact that exercise releases feel-good chemicals in the brain. That’s why, when you’ve had a good workout, you often feel much happier. However, did you know your diet can also help you to boost those feel-good chemicals? Chocolate, specifically the dark variety, is known to release feel good chemicals within the brain. Just remember, you’ll want to opt for the purest dark chocolate you can find. You’ll also want to limit…
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Keeping It Real – Here’s to Steady Weight Loss
Real talk. Let’s talk about real weight loss. What I’m talking about is losing weight in a way and at a rate that’s sustainable. Yes, you can go on one of those miracle liquid diets for 48 hours and lose a few pounds. But it isn’t something you’d want to (or should) be sticking with for the long run. Plus chances are that as soon as you go back to eating normally, you’ll get the weight right back. Let’s think about a case for slow and steady weight loss. You (and I) didn’t put those 30 extra pounds on overnight. Don’t expect to take them off in a matter of…
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4 Things Compromising Your Happiness and How to Combat Them
This month I am also going to post a bit about happiness. That’s the endpoint of achieving our goals right? But you can be happy while achieving your goals and even without fully accomplishing them. In a way, happiness is a type of goal too. Did you know you could be compromising your own happiness without even realizing it? If you constantly find yourself feeling unhappy and dissatisfied with your life, it’s worth looking within yourself. Here, you’ll discover 4 things which could be compromising your happiness right now. 1. Your Inner Critic We all have an inner critic and sometimes it can be pretty hard to ignore. It’s constantly…
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Excuses and Missteps: Things that Can Derail Your Diet Goals
Goals, goals, goals. I have posted a lot about goals during January. This will remain a topic of interest this year but I am going to branch out a bit. Each of us have planned some goals for the year — now we can get into more details about specific goals and how to make them come true — and all that that entails. So for a goal related to weight and diet — a diet goal — first let’s consider the biggest issue — mindset. Block Out That Little Voice! If you want to get down to a healthy weight, you have to stop making excuses. You know what…
