Tag: weight loss
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The Book “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, and Weight Loss
My daughter Melissa has introduced me to the Keto diet philosophy, so I am listening to the book she recommended, “Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It” by Gary Taubes on Audible. Taubes presents exhaustive research and sites study after study to back up his claims. I find this to be very helpful…
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Fear and Weight Loss
When I was a newbie at Tracker School (see trackerschool.com) I wanted to go to the Scout class, which had the prerequisites of the week long Standard class, the week long Advanced Standard class, and the week long Advanced Tracking and Awareness class. The scout class is also a week long class where during the…
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The "Explorer" and Weight Loss
I have successfully used many different diets, but I never want to use the same one twice because
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The “Explorer” and Weight Loss
I have successfully used many different diets, but I never want to use the same one twice because it’s boring to repeat something I’ve already explored. Instead I will try something new. I am beginning to think that is why there are so many fad diets; people want to try something new rather than the…
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Sleep, Your Schedule, and Weight Loss
Fatigue is one of the biggest triggers to eating food that is not on my diet. When I am tired I eat to try to bring my energy level up. This usually does not work and I end up taking a nap after I’ve eaten. Why not just take the nap and skip the calories? …
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Competition and Weight Loss
Yesterday, I told my daughter I lost more weight when we were competing. We had a chart online we could update and we would earn “stars” (points) when we accomplished certain things during each day. For example, exercising for 30 minutes got a star, each of us eating within our personal calorie goal got a…
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The Sacred Questions and Weight Loss
The Sacred Questions are questions we ask when focusing. The Sacred Questions can be anything we want to know about. The Sacred Questions are asked to bring greater awareness to anything we might encounter. When I asked myself the Sacred Question, “Why do I want to lose weight?” and I got a faint hearted or…
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Motivation, Self Sabotage and Weight Loss
Motivation. We may think we know why we are motivated to lose weight and look our best, but could our idea of why we are motivated really be holding us back? Sometimes we think we intend to lose weight but in reality we intend to stay the way we are, only that intention is hidden.…
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Late Night Creativity and Weight Loss
Late night creativity and weight loss go very well together, YES, YES, YES! Making things is one of my favorite activities! I totally bliss out while I’m creating something new, especially if my creation has color and texture involved. I had been wanting to make a scarf like this for probably a month or more.…
Michele Ballantyne 