Tag: weight-loss
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How to use your personal motivational style to stay on track
I spent most of my life trying to lose weight. I knew all the research and tried all the diets, but after a few weeks or months I would always fall off track. Why couldn’t I stick with it when I was SO motivated at the beginning? When I finally cracked the code for myself…
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Navigating to a Meaningful Future
For the past few days I have been comforting myself with memories of my son as a baby. I just dropped him off at college. All my friends are posting pictures on Facebook, but he wouldn’t let me take them as he rushed me out the door in his excitement. To all the new empty…
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Outsmart Your Environment Like a Goddess (and eat less without dieting)
Have you ever ordered a meal at a restaurant and thought, “Wow, this could feed two people!” You’re not imagining it. Over the last few decades, our portion sizes have quietly ballooned. This trend of oversized meals didn’t happen by accident or because Americans deliberately asked for bigger portions, it’s rooted in restaurant economics. The…
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Is Your Exercise Helping or Hurting You? How to Exercise Smarter (Not Harder)
I spent a lot of my life avoiding exercise. I usually had a gym membership, but I often had an excuse for why I couldn’t get there. I knew it was good for me, but adding even more to my busy day felt like too much most of the time. It turns out, my body…
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Protein First: The Secret to Feeling Satisfied, Strong, and In Control of Food
Protein is one of the main building blocks of the body. It is composed of amino acids, which are used by the body for structure (like muscle), storage, transport, enzymes, hormones, immune antibodies, neurotransmitters, and more. These factors are what makes things happen in the body at both cellular and larger levels. Dietary protein helps…
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How to tell your ancient primal body to release weight
Your body was designed thousands of years ago for an ancient world. It is highly evolved with complex survival systems, but speaks and understands only a basic language. These systems break into three main categories: You must speak to your body in this basic language if you want it to align with your goals. To…
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Why I don’t like food tracking
When it comes to weight loss, two of the most common strategies are calorie counting and limiting food choices. Both methods can be effective, but they approach the goal of reducing calorie intake in very different ways: The choice between calorie counting and limiting food choices depends on your personality, lifestyle, and preferences. If you…
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Pros and Cons of Ozempic: Allowing a “Pause” and How to Maintain Muscle
Medications like Ozempic act to mimic the effects of GLP-1 in the body, a hormone naturally produced in the gut that plays a key role in regulating blood sugar and appetite. These medications have been remarkably effective at weight loss, however they do have some downsides. I attended a recent panel discussion where doctors were…
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Unlock Your Body’s Natural Fat-Burning Power
We find the taste of sweet and starchiness highly desirable. Back in ancestral times, these carbohydrate-heavy foods provided the energy we needed for survival. Calories were scarce so our bodies were wired to crave them. Harvest-time right before the lean days of winter was rich in carbohydrate-laden grains and fruit. As such, the taste of…
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