In order to take on a fabulously thin life, It's important to be able to recognize your food triggers quickly, nip them,
and then move on with your day in a naturally thin fashion.
We have five main categories of food triggers and they fall in to:
1. People triggers – your mother-in-law, friend, eating buddy
You've just woken up and are about to get your day started. You step into your closet and put some clothes up to your body in preparation for wearing just the right outfit for the day.
When you look at yourself, how do you define your body?
One of my favorite fitness gurus is Scott Tousignant. A lot of people I encounter in the fitness and diet world are a bit meat-heady - with very strict guidelines as to what to eat and how to exercise. Well, if you know me at all - telling me what to eat and exactly how to exercise makes me run to the fridge and pile on 70 pounds, so that just doesn't work for me.
Has anyone else noticed that the gym was packed these past few weeks and this week it’s much quieter? It’s as though people are starting to give up.
Why?
They didn’t have a plan.
Martha Beck, a brilliant psychologist from Harvard has spent years looking at why people succeed in weight loss and why others don’t. One of the things that she’s a huge advocate of is preparing your mind for success. She calls this the pre-contemplation and contemplation phases.
According to a poll of nearly 6,300 people by the Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Americans spend an average of 56 hours a week sitting in a chair working on a computer at work.
