Getting Motivated in 2010

Happy New Year.


Getting motivated to lose weight and put emotional eating in its place is the first step to success. Life can be full of, "I'll start my diet tomorrows." But of course with New Year's day gone, it's time to get in gear, right?

But are you motivated enough to finally do something about it?

And yes, you can be an expert on emotional eating and still stay stuck in gluttony. Oftentimes anxiety stands in the way of getting things started. Sometimes it has to be like an alcoholic waking up to realize that his/her life is passing by and unless change is effected, this is how life will end.

For some emotional eaters they reach a point of being extremely overweight--some a hundred or more pounds before they become motivated. There's got to be more to life than eating and self hating for all the pounds of fat and missing out on who knows what. It's a point of getting fed up with their relationships and careers suffering.

Once they get that motivation, they usually latch onto one thing as the route to success and their success depends on the ability to stay on that focused path--like a horse with blinders. Many get into exercise, some get into a particular diet, some get into a program like Weight Watchers, some get into doing the shakes.

But if you're an emotional eater, wouldn't it make sense to learn as much about it as possible while you're getting into your path to lose weight? How does embracing and experiencing emotions keep you from gluttony?

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This book will get you a head start on conquering emotional eating to lose weight. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

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Attitude

Found this quote, "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of Attitude
on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It
is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what
other people think or say or do. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a
company, an organization, a home. The remarkable thing is
we have a choice every day regarding the Attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change the past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our Attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our Attitudes."
- Charles Swindoll

How are you doing with your attitude? Do you need an attitudinal adjustment?
Losing weight and controlling emotional eating is a challenge. But how do you create a great attitude when you just don't truly feel that way. Isn't it a lie?
Having a great attitude begins with acknowledging how you really feel. If you truly feel depressed and disappointed with your situation, that's where you start. You start by acknowledging your true feelings and then recognize that your feelings are a conclusion that your intelligence has arrived at given what conclusions you've come to about your surroundings.
To go beyond what you are feeling, you first stop resisting what you are feeling, let it be OK, and then point your intelligence in the direction you want--you create your new attitude to lose weight and handle your emotional eating.

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This book will get you a head start on conquering emotional eating to lose weight. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's of unlimited value.

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The Real Holiday Stressor

In my last post I identified uncertainty as the real holiday stressor that leads to emotional eating which of course makes losing weight difficult. So what does one do with uncertainty? This is where you will find the weight loss experts totally with their mouths hanging open and a quizzical look on their faces.

Unlike boredom where they have tons of advice, uncertainty is an unknown. I've never heard a weight loss expert talk of it or even write about it. It's easier for them to think of it as worrying so their advice would be something like:

1. Don't worry so much, everything will work out.
2. You just have to trust your self.
3. When you notice yourself worrying, rub a worry stone.

Think about it. These and a hundred different other options boil down to one thing and that is "do something about uncertainty." Escape it, run away from it, convert it to something else.

It all makes perfect sense, right?

Maybe I can put a slightly different twist on uncertainty. Uncertainty is the result of:
1. fear of plans falling through
2, poor or inadequate planning

And if we can not let it be that our plans might fall through or that we have poor planning, we will feel uncertain.

As opposed to denying it, trying to escape it, or convert it to something else (any one of which we might eventually do) let's first acknowledge it and how we feel about it.

"I'm feeling uncertain and I dislike it or hate it."

Now if you can not let it be that you are uncertain, you'll do something about it and what you've been programed since childhood to do about uncertainty is eat. That's right, eat. Not to rub a worry stone, trust yourself and so on--no you'll grab a comfort food.

This is all because we resist uncertainty. When you allow you to feel uncertain, it disappears and you no longer have to use comfort foods to dilute it.

Ok, so let's just experience and feel uncertain. But it's not that easy. We've also been programed since childhood to avoid uncertainty at all costs by worrying. Programs such as:
1. If you're not worried about something, then it doesn't mean anything to you.
2. It's not worth doing unless you worry about it.

You can make up your own lists of beliefs you have about uncertainty. It's these beliefs and attitudes that you have about uncertainty that make it difficult for you to feel and experience uncertainty.

The good news is that as soon as you allow you to experience uncertainty, it disappears, but as long as you resist it, you will have to do something about it such as binge eating.

Let's take it to another level! Now if you can not let it be that you are uncertain and you munch, what are you eating?

Symbolically you are eating the event that's associated with your plans.

Sure the end result with feeling and experiencing an emotion might be that you end up trusting yourself or something else but it won't be to escape uncertainty, it'll be as a result of having faith that you'll handle anything that comes your way.

Now if the end result is the same, you might ask why deal with uncertainty? It's because to be successful with uncertainty, it's important to acknowledge that you are diluting the emotion by eating the planned event. You then have an opportunity to move beyond "I have an eating problem" to "I have a problem trusting my abilities to handle future problems that might occur."

You are now directed to the stressor itself and can stop blaming your over weight condition on food. Plus when you actually experience uncertainty, it's gone and so is the need to dilute it.

Want to get ahead dealing with your stressors? Read the Scale Conspiracy e-book. Click here for more information about the e-book. It picks where where all other programs leave off.

This book will get you a head start on conquering emotional eating to lose weight. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's of unlimited value.

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The Real Holiday Stressor

In my last post I looked at eating boredom. But with the holiday season rapidly approaching, boredom (although an issue for many who are alone) is not an issue for the majority emotional eaters who are planning holiday gatherings, busy buying gifts, and so on.

The predominate emotion to deal with emotional eating during the holiday stress is uncertainty. Sure there is the hurridiness, the pressure to get something done, and the anticipation, but aside from all that is uncertainty. Uncertainty that all your plans will work out well and everyone including you will be happy as a result of all that you are doing. Uncertainty that you'll get the right gifts. Uncertainty that you'll project a great image at the company Christmas party. Uncertainty that you'll even find the gifts you're looking for. Uncertainty as to how you'll pay for them or what you can afford. Uncertainty as to whether you remembered everything you had on your "to do" list.

Unlike hurridness, frustration, anticipation, and the pressure (or anxiety) to get something done that are fleeting feelings, uncertainty is an emotion that lasts 24 hours a day seven days a week until the plans are all finished and the holiday season over.

A close running emotion is anticipation which I'm sure you can see can be closely tied into uncertainty. Anyway losing weight or experiencing weight loss is but impossible unless these raw emotions are dealt with.

In fact you don't have to separate them, you can pretty well lump them together. But the bigger question is, "OK, how can we isolate them and extra food consumption out of the equation?" which will be the subject of the next post.



Want to get ahead dealing with your stressors? Read the Scale Conspiracy e-book. Click here for more information about the e-book. It picks where where all other programs leave off.

This book will get you a head start on what you can do with this blog. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's of unlimited value.

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Eating Boredom

Emotional eating applies to many different emotions. One of the easiest to understand is boredom. And boredom is one of the biggest reasons why most people can't lose weight. It makes losing weight a real problem.

So what does one do with boredom? This is where you will find the weight loss experts replete with tons of advice such as:
1. call a friend
2. go exercise
3. have celery or some very low calorie vegetable to chew on
Think about it. These and a hundred different other options boil down to one thing and that is "do something about boredom." Escape it, run away from it, convert it to something else.

It all makes perfect sense, right?

Maybe I can put a slightly different twist on boredom. Boredom is the result of:
1. plans falling through
2, poor or inadequate planning

And if we can not let it be that our plans have fallen through or that we have poor planning, we will feel bored.

As opposed to denying it, trying to escape it, or convert it to something else (any one of which we might eventually do) let's first acknowledge it and how we feel about it.

"I'm bored and I dislike it or hate it."

Now if you can not let it be that you are bored, you'll do something about it and what you've been programed since childhood to do about boredom is eat. That's right, eat. Not go exercising, or calling a friend or grabbing celery--no you'll grab a comfort food.

This is all because we resist boredom. When you allow you to feel bored, it disappears and you no longer have to use comfort foods to dilute it.

Ok, so let's just experience and feel bored. But it's not that easy. We've also been programed since childhood to avoid boredom at all costs. Programs such as:
1. You shouldn't feel bored with all the things you have to do.
2. Boredom is no fun.
You can make up your own lists of beliefs you have about boredom. It's these beliefs and attitudes that you have about boredom that make it difficult for you to feel and experience boredom.

The good news is that as soon as you allow you to experience boredom, it disappears, but as long as you resist it, you will have to do something about it such as munch.

Let's take it to another level! Now if you can not let it be that you are bored and you munch, what are you eating?

Symbolically you are eating the clock (time that's been planned).

Sure the end result with feeling and experiencing an emotion might be that you end up calling a friend, going to exercise or something else but it won't be to escape boredom, it'll be as a result of planning.

Now if the end result is the same, you might ask why deal with boredom? It's because to be successful with boredom, it's important to acknowledge that you are diluting the emotion by eating the clock. You then have an opportunity to move beyond "I have an eating problem" to "I have a problem when plans fall through or planning activities."

You are now directed to the stressor itself and can stop blaming your over weight condition on food. Plus when you actually experience boredom, it's gone and so is the need to dilute it.

Want to get ahead dealing with your stressors? Read the Scale Conspiracy e-book. Click here for more information about the e-book. It picks where where all other programs leave off.

This book will get you a head start on what you can do with this blog. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's of unlimited value.

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Thanksgiving and Turkey Soup

Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

And now the left-overs. At our house it's been turkey soup and turkey salad. Fortnately we found a small turkey this year so the left-overs are minimal.

I must say I went bizerk on pecan pie and made the mistake of buying a big one at Costco. That along with the carrot cake I made led to some emotional eating. Of course I made the carrot cake with a combination for millet and dark rye flour and used honey instead of sugar.

Fortunately the carrot cake was a big hit with the family and I ended up eating very little of it. I minimized the impact of emotional eating with the pecan pie by reducing it to mainly pecans and threw away the gouie part along with most of the pie crust.

So effectively I offset my emotional eating by sticking to two moderate meals each day plus a helping of pie and or cake.

Then yesterday, after my son and I dealt with all the fallen leaves, I went jogging to balance out my week. The cork track I ususally jog on was not accessible so I went to a nearby park instead.

Much to my chagrin I made it only a mile before my legs began to complain.

Lately, one knee has been somewhat swollen--nothing like it has swollen months ago. It's condition is greatly improved since I now use a combination of enzymes and vitamin C to deal with the swelling. The best enzymes are Vitalzyme--just google the name to find suppliers. I generally take two to three capsules mornings and night to eliminate swelling and should it start to swell, I increase to 4 or 5 capsules morning and evening and within a few days everything is normal. So the discomfort I noticed jogging could have been from the slightly swollen knee or maybe it was from the extra sugar in the pecan pie that is usually absent from my diet.

Foods that Appear Healthy but Aren't

Losing weight and controlling emotional eating is enough of a challenge, choosing healthy foods should be easy, but there are some deceiving foods and drinks.

You would think that vitamin water would be a "no brainer" as a healthy choice, right? Not really. Read the label and you'll find that they contain sugar and the listing is usually per serving and each bottle may contain two or three servings.

Why not simply take a great multivitamin such as the Complete Nutritional System available in all health food stores--it's the best you can take. They recommend three tablets per day and even if you took just one per day you'll be doing better than if you take any other vitamin or drink the vitamin water.

If you're looking to boost your water which is a great idea (one that I use daily) I recommend boosting it with minerals by using a product called Xooma. Xooma is added to your daily supply of drinking water and provides you with all the minerals you need for the day. The advantage is that the minerals are completely bioavailable in ionic form.

More jogging to Lose Weight

Wow, it's been almost a week since my last post and a lot has happened since my last post. I'll start with the latest. I went jogging again. If you read my last post you'd think I'm a glutton for punishment as opposed to a glutton for food. Yes the first time I went jogging last week (well it was the first time in about a year of so) it was totally exhausting, but I made it a mile. And while I still don't think exercise is necessary to lose weight or control emotional eating, it is very important for many other reasons. But you have to find the exercise that's right for you. For instance walking doesn't do it for me, but jogging on a cork track (easy on my joints) does work.

Today, the first quarter mile was much better than last week and I went on to go a mile and a half--a half mile further than last week. And what's most interesting is that all the minor pains I felt last week were gone. I probably could have made it two miles but I decided that an extra half mile was sufficient--no need to be a fanatic. I feel that if I can jog a mile and a half to two miles a week, I'll stay in great physical shape.

Now was it the jogging I did last week that improved my legs and joints or was it the glutathione I started taking about ten days ago? Glutathione as I understand it is produced naturally in our cells but it's production can diminish with age. Ironically it's the substance that keeps us young and without it we age faster. Can it help you conquer emotional eating? Maybe if much of what you eat is your physical condition. For instance, my mother is 84 yrs old and I've been identifying with her pains. I shouldn't be feeling these pains for another twenty of so years--certainly a good reason to emotionally eat. But rather than be stuck in "I have an eating problem" I am open to doing new things and old things to improve my physical condition and forget about emotional eating.

So was it the jogging or the glutathione that has made a big change in how I feel physically? I think both have made a significant contribution and I'm unwilling to stop either one to find out.

More about this exciting week in my next post. If you're looking for a source for glutathione email Elizabeth at ewilson@wisdirect.com and she'll get you a free sample supply for a few days to see for yourself. Mention my name, Richard Kuhns.

Want to get ahead dealing with your stressors? Read the Scale Conspiracy e-book. Click here for more information about the e-book. It picks where where all other programs leave off.

This book will get you a head start on what you can do with this blog. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's of unlimited value.

Online store for motivational thoughts:  Self Help, Self Hypnosis, Stress Management Training, Subliminal tapes for self improvement

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Jogging to Lose Weight and End Emotional Eating

Yesterday I went jogging. It was the first time in about a year. I had been jogging regularly for many years on a weekly basis and then I stepped off a stool and tore a ligament in my ankle.

The ankle specialist told me that I needed an operation but since I was over 60 he didn't recommend it and simply thought I should get used to the idea of no more jogging.

After all the swelling and pain in the ankle subsided about eight months ago, I'd on occasion try a short run on the ankle and it didn't feel good at all. I thought that maybe the doctor was right--no more jogging.

But lately I noticed my ankle feeling better and my knee on the other leg feeling somewhat painful. I've come to a conclusion (right or wrong) that I need to jog to keep my knees in good shape so yesterday was my maiden day.

I was amazed as to how "out of shape" I had become and I believe my blood pressure is probably telling me a similar story. It' s always been around 120 over 70 tops. Lately in just the last year the diastolic (the lower number) has crept up to 80.

I like to jog at my local high school track--it's cork--and the first quarter mile was really difficult. My knees and ankles had minor pains but I was really huffing and puffing.

I remembered the first time I ever jogged over fifteen years ago when I only was able to make it a half mile and thought that if I even made it a quarter mile it would be ok.

Fortunately the minor pains in my ankle and knees didn't escalate and I found a rhythm and finished a mile--certainly no speed record. Before my ankle injury I usually jogged two miles each week. It's amazing how I took that for granted all those years.

Will I go jogging next week? Don't know yet. Today my ankle is complaining some. I have to see how it recovers, but I feel I will be jogging again in the next few weeks.

It's amazing how good I feel after I jog--totally energized and completely disinterested in food.

But do you need to exercise to lose weight or deal with emotional eating? Not really. But for may other reasons, it's beneficial to exercise.

Little by Little to Lose Weight

Inch by inch life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. Author unknown

How true is this rhyme? Certainly it's easier and more productive to deal with emotional eating and lose a few pounds a week than it is to crash diet and try to lose ten pounds per week. Basically, expectations can destroy success.

But I find it more effective to focus on getting rid of the weight--make it a project.
It's to acknowledge what you have been really eating, and go to a level of "I have stopped eating (whatever it was). For me this is to eat two moderate meals per day and nothing after dinner. I can drop about a half pound or so a day with this approach. Of course, using self hypnosis helps me get to that point a lot faster.

Then I can go back to normal eating--desert after dinner. Why can I do that? You could too! If you're over weight up to 50 pounds and your body weight has been constant for a period of time, then you can lose all the weight and go back to eating just as you are right now.

Want to get ahead dealing with your stressors? Read the Scale Conspiracy e-book. Click here for more information about the e-book. It picks where where all other programs leave off.

This book will get you a head start on what you can do with this blog. I can promise you that it's the best book you will find on the subject or your money back. Instead of having a dozen questions when you've finished it, you'll have dozens of answers and be on the way to dropping lots of pounds. It's a cure for emotional binge eating and it teaches you how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them?

You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's of unlimited value.

Online store for motivational thoughts:  Self Help, Self Hypnosis, Stress Management Training, Subliminal tapes for self improvement

, Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia using Wakened Hypnosis. New technique resulted in documented 80% success rate