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It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce, which counts in reaching goals… Over the last two decades I have been asked hundreds of times, “What makes people successful in reaching their weight loss goals”? The answer has many factors to consider, but one, which stands out is how they deal with mistakes…
As a young boy, I was fascinated by the exploits of super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Holmes, a fictional detective who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century, was created in the imagination of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As a London detective, Holmes was famous for solving mysterious ...
It's that time of the month I receive my writing assignment for my next article. As I open the e-mail from the editor it reads, "This is your mission if you choose to accept it, report the five key factors to effective weight loss." Okay Chief! A dream assignment, one every writer hopes for, ...
In the Western World there is a thirty-foot pathway which is overlooked and at times ignored. The condition of this passageway plays and important role in an individuals quality of life and longevity. It is the gateway that guards us from invaders, which may lead to disease and eventual death. ...
Yesterday I received a phone call from someone interested in my help... As the conversation started the female voice said, "I need to lose the size of a person"... What she was saying is a need to lose quite a bit of weight... But my response surprised both of us... I said, "You need to lose the woman, which caused the weight problem, then you will lose the weight... Then it hit me... As a nutritionist, I would need to place this woman in the "witness protection program"... She would need a new identity, to escape from the one which has caused her weight problem...
Over the last two decades when I first meet a potential new client, the most common question posed to me is, “can you help me to lose weight”? My response puts the ball back in their court… I can help you to solve your weight problem, if you are willing to complete four stages of behavior change… They are surprised to learn the first two stages will take place in our first thirty-minute session together…
Over the last two decades after interviewing over fourteen thousand clients and having done more than seventy thousand counseling sessions you could say I have strong opinions on weight management… My views are based on the evidence historically discovered about behavior patterns, which are common and reoccurring in individuals in need of weight loss…
Over a career which has spanned more than two decades… The biggest challenge I face as The Fat Loss Coach, is teaching those seeking my help, to finish what they start, when losing weight and keeping it off… I know this sounds odd, why would anyone resist the finish line of being at an ideal weight, enjoying good health? I believe they can’t see the finish at the start…
Weight Loss Done Right Does right feel wrong during weight loss? I know what you might be thinking. Did the Coach leave the car running in the garage too long today? Did he just say does right feel wrong during weight loss? Well I did say it, and here’s why. So many times when I teach a new client the proper weight loss techniques of eating right foods, right portions, at least four meals per day, a common response during the first week is, feels like its not working. When in fact most lose at least two to three pounds of fat in first few days.
I have a simple philosophy about life… God put my eyes in the front of my head, and He pointed my feet forward, because He intends for me to move forward… The windshield of our cars is large and the rear view mirror small… Why? We are meant to go forward, and keep from going back… There could be no getter example than managing our health and lifestyle…
Confusion Leads To Weight Loss If you have more than twenty pounds to lose this year, this secret alone will open the door to accomplishing it… If you eat fewer calories than your body requires continually, which happens on most diets, you will keep from reaching your long-range weight loss goal… Why coach? Your body’s hormonal and metabolic design will keep it from happening… It’s always best to work within your hormonal and metabolic design, than work against it…
When my editor first saw my headline for the article I was to write, he did a double take… His comment was, “are you encouraging your followers, bacteria is good when it comes to weight loss”… My next statement really had him perplexed, when I said, “you are more bacteria, than you are human’… What “he replied…” You heard me right, the numbers of bacteria both internal and exte al of our body’s, outnumber your human cells by ten to one… So we are more bacteria than we are human… He laughed and said, “the next time my wife is calling me some type of germ, I guess she’s not all wrong”…
There is a knock on my office door, its one of my associates and he says, “did you see the news”? What news is that I responded? The shame your way to lose weight approach… I thought he was kidding until he showed me the NBCNews.com eport on Daniel Callahan a bioethicist who is calling for renewed emphasis on social pressure against heavy people, some would call fat-shaming…
Apple A Day Weight Loss Growing up my old world Italian mom would say, “ A apple a day keeps the doctor away”… Your mom maybe was saying it too… Well my mom was right throughout my life there have been very few doctor visits, and I have eaten what seems like an orchard of apples… So what did our mom’s know about the health benefits of apples, especially when losing weight?
Weight Loss Game I was back stage in green room of Fox TV, waiting to be a guest on talk show... Waiting with me was former New England Patriot Tabucky Jones... Patriots are my favorite team and I remember watching him play... As we are talking about how much the game has changed, our conversation started the wheels turning in my head... I was getting my material for my next article...
Early man knew that his Creator made provisions for healing that dated back 5,000 years ago. The first recorded writings of Indian culture, called The Veda's, document man's knowledge of healing through nutrition. Bible scriptures from 3,500 years ago show man divinely inspired to write, "God ...
Gateway to Weight Loss Most would think a nutritionist would spend all their efforts teaching clients nutrition principles for what goes in their mouth… Well you would be right… Your mouth is the gateway to weight loss and much of my time initially is spent on how calories, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, photo-nutrients manage our hormone and metabolic responses…
Sound Bites for Weight Loss Each day we are presented some type of nutrition information, which gets are attention to improving some aspect of our health… As a nutritionist, I’m all for educating my clients about their biology, and the role nutrition plays managing it… The challenge is how to implement the information in a way to accomplish our goals…
Cowboy or Shepherd Approach To Succeed During one of my counseling sessions recently a tremendous revelation occurred when I asked a client this question… What is the difference between a cowboy and a shepherd? I received a blank stare, because they both seem to perform the same job… They both bring a herd from one location to another… So where is the epiphany here, they both seem to do the same task? It is how they go about their task, the shepherd leads their flock and the cowboy drives their herd…
After twenty years of seeing an average of twenty patients each day, I am still amazed how easy it is to lose your way on your weight loss journey… Even if the client has received monumental changes in fat loss, and improvement in health… A small percentage of them, slowly go back to old eating behaviors, and with it comes back the unwanted fat, along with related health conce s…
Connect to the Power to Lose Weight In the state of Connecticut in the last week of October 2011 there was a historical northeaste storm, which produced record snow... The storm caused tremendous damage, because it happened in the middle of the fall season, when the trees still had all their leaves... The weight of the snow on the leaves acted like a heavy umbrella, and destroyed the branches, which took down a major portion of the power lines... The power was still there, but the connection to the power was cut off for must of the states residents...
The Power of Rest. My clients are always amazed when they find out that most of their muscle growth occurs while they are sleeping, and not during their workouts. Recuperation is a subject that receives too little attention and is often misunderstood. We are conditioned to think in order to succeed we must work hard and little value is placed on rest.
Its hours after completing my last seminar… Over my career I have spoken over two hundred times, in front of audiences both large and small, corporations, municipalities, college campuses and hospitals… It is common during my presentation to ask this question… What is the only aisle in the grocery store, where the food comes with any instructions? I remind you, I have asked this question over two hundred times to thousands of listeners, and still to this day, no one has answered correctly… How could the answer elude us for such a long time?
GOING ON DIET IS LIKE EATING KRYPTONITE Did the Fat Loss Coach finally gone over the edge, when he recently made this statement at a seminar? Remington said, “Going on a diet to lose weight is like eating Kryptonite… Now most of us know Kryptonite was the substance from Superman’s home planet Krypton, which is famous for being the ultimate physical weakness of Superman… When exposed to Kryptonite, it robbed the super hero of strength, energy and all of his super powers, and would eventually lead to his demise…