Weight loss is about delayed gratification. We need to appreciate that the work we’re doing today to make our lives better will reap great rewards but that it’s going to take time, which is important to remember so that we don’t get discouraged and give up our efforts when the going gets tough. READ REST OF POST…

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There was a story in the paper last week about fishermen in Los Angeles being warned against eating a number of species of fish they caught off L.A. shores that have been determined to be toxic. The response of the fishermen was basically, “We’re going to eat them anyway.”

This is fascinating to me. The fish are clearly unsafe to eat and yet these fishermen presumably don’t care. Their attitude reminds me of another story that came out a few weeks ago about Americans not being afraid to live near nuclear reactors.

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One of the reasons why people who have the desire to lose weight are unable to stick to a diet program is because they also have a psychological resistance to losing weight.  That resistance can be expressed in terms of three fears related to change in general and one fear related specifically to losing weight. … READ MORE…

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Rip Esselstyn, a Texas Firefighter, has developed a “28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds.” It’s motto, “Eat More, Lose More, is particularly appealing to me, being someone who is excessively dedicated to food consumption.

What is profound about this book is that it will teach you how to eat right, how to eliminate all the foods and substances getting in the way of optimal physical and emotional health, while at the same time providing you with no sense of sacrifice, the end of guilt and shame, immeasurable epicurean pleasure in terms of food and drink, renewed energy and vigor, happiness, and a tremendous sense of self-empowerment.

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If you think God works in mysterious ways, take a look in the mirror. Can you honestly say that the things you do make a whole lot of sense? You may be the exception to the rule but, the fact is, a great many people profess love for their loved ones and yet treat them in very unloving, invalidating and emotionally abusive ways. Read rest of blog

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“Doing a geographic” is an expression that I believe originated in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous to describe what many alcoholics and addicts do when their lives have become unmanageable.

Rather than address the core problem which is their alcohol or drug addiction, they blame the people around them who don’t understand them, they blame unfortunate circumstances that befall them, they blame their parents, they blame bad luck, they blame God. They blame everyone and everything except themselves.

They define the problem outside of themselves and therefore they never find the solution. They think that, “If I move to another city and start over with a new job and new friends and a fresh start, my life will work and everything will get better.”

It never does. It’s a con. The alcoholic or addict will never get better and their lives will never work for them the way they’d like until they address the real problem rather than see it outside of themselves.

This is true for everyone, not just alcoholics and addicts. Most of us are blind to the source of our problems and blame other people and other things for the difficulties in our lives rather than recognizing the ways in which we are sabotaging ourselves and forever depriving ourselves of happiness and prosperity.

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