Posts Tagged ‘healthy habits’

Oprah Talks to Geneen Roth, Faces Body Image Issues

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

I was over at Claire Mysko’s blog reading about Oprah and Geneen Roth. It seems that Oprah has had a revelation about her body image and weight issues and she is aware that her overeating is tied to childhood abuse that she’s been trying to “push down” with food.

I enjoyed the article and I added the following comments over at her blog. I invite you to comment here about your experiences with weight and body image.

Here’s what I wrote on Claire Mysko’s blog:

Great article and interesting comments. I quit dieting many years ago and even still it took time to unravel all the body image issues.

What I’m noticing now is that since I spent so many years of my life dieting and buying food based on caloric and fat content , I am nearly inept when it comes to grocery shopping or meal planning.

Eating what I ‘wanted’ was originally things like Pizza, Mocha’s, bread, fast food etc. After a while, my body was not happy with those choices and though I loved the way fruits and vegetables felt in my body, I had to combat almost a lifetime of rebellion against vegetables and thinking of them as “diet” food and describing them as “gross” and “disgusting”.

Donate Your WeightI think I’m making progress. I just got back from Trader Joe’s and my basket was filled with things to satisfy my mind and my body. There were no snack items in my cart, no dessert items. Mainly it was things that taste good and that also feel good in my body.

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Donate Your Weight is the Stress-Free Program to Stop Dieting, Get Slim and Help Others While Doing It. Check it out today if you’re ready to resolve your weight and body image issues.

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Addiction: A Spiritual Perspective

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Drugs don’t make people powerless but powerless people become addicts. When you have no power you look to “things”/ways to get that power. If you can’t/don’t get it from yourself, you will try to get it elsewhere.

Whatever thing you “use” (drugs, food, shopping, sex, etc.) you will never get “enough.” You can use and use and use and you will never get power because “things” are not the power Source. In fact, you will lose power because you are giving it away to a false God. God/Infinite Intelligence is the Source.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want. If I want love but I look to food to fill me up, I cannot eat enough to get full. No amount of food will give me the love I want so I just eat and eat and eat but I never get full because food isn’t what I’m hungry for to begin with.

This is not about religion. Some people turn their power over to religion and religious leaders and get into the same troubles of any other powerless addict. This is about claiming YOUR power, the power you were born with. If you are compulsive with food, drugs, shopping or anything else you must stop looking outside yourself for the answer and stand in your power if you ever hope to be completely free.

From Sabotage to Success by Sheri Zampelli

For help overcoming self-sabotage, including addiction get the book From Sabotage to Success and stay tuned for the next From Sabotage to Success workshop series.

Donate Your WeightFor help overcoming weight and food obsessions, try Donate Your Weight. There is a 7-week workshop starting soon. Click here for details.

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Set New Habits and Get Slim without Stress

Monday, July 6th, 2009

strawberriesReady to get off the diet roller coaster for good? Need help creating new habits for weight maintenance? If so, it might be time to Donate Your Weight.

Donate Your Weight is a program designed specifically for people who are sick of struggling with weight and eating. It’s designed to help you create new habits and live free from yo-yo dieting and food obsession.

The philosophy behind Donate Your Weight is a cross between the behavior modification technique of rewarding desired behaviors and also something I’ll call the ‘Marathon Phenomenon’.

Millions of people have spent inordinate amounts of time training for marathons and raising money for those in need. They are often motivated by either getting in shape, raising funds, or both. The problem is, marathons are generally not healthy for the body long-term and certainly you don’t run marathons once a week or once a month. For most people. once it’s over, it’s over.

Donate Your WeightWith the Donate Your Weight program, you can train your mind and body daily, you can use the money from your reward jar to help those in need and most importantly, as you are doing the strategies and paying yourself real money, you are in the process of creating new habits that are the foundation for life-long weight maintenance.

The name Donate Your Weight has multiple meanings. The program is based on Seven Stress-Free Slimming Strategies that allow you to create a lifestyle of weight maintenance. To help people stay motivated and on track with the Strategies, the program includes a Success Check-list and instructions on how to use a reward bank to you pay yourself real money for successfully achieveing the Strategies. Then, you can use that real money to buy something fun and rewarding for yourself or you can donate it to a good cause.

The word Donate is also more positive and long term than the word ‘Lose’. Nobody likes to lose anything and when we do lose something, we usually try to find it. Being lost or being a loser is never a positive, empowering feeling and we almost never congratulate someone for losing (except when it comes to weight).

An important component of the Donate Your Weight program is to change your negative, limiting mindsets about your body and your ability to succeed. The word donate is associated with letting go of something in a positive way. When you donate something, you do so by choice and you never expect to get it back.

Future blogs will outline each of the Seven Stress-Free Slimming Strategies one by one. Subscribe to the blog if you’re ready to stop the struggle with weight and eating. Each Strategy is proven way to release weight without dieting. The Strategies are actions you can take each day without any negative side-effects.

To find out more about Donate Your Weight and to download the free report, visit www.donateyourweight.com

If you want hands-on support and guidance from program developer, Sheri Zampelli, you can attend the upcoming Stress-Free Slimming workshop series in Long Beach, CA July 27-September 7, 2009. Click here for details.

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Break the Diet Habit with Stress-Free Slimming

Friday, June 5th, 2009

According to a recent research study from UCLA, dlets are doomed to fail and are a poor way to create a healthy, sustainable lifestyle that includes weight maintenance. Not to mention, yo-yo dieting is a frustrating, joyless way to live. So, what to do?

In this blogtalkradio show interview with Kelly Hench, you’ll find out more about the Donate Your Weight program which is based on seven stress-free slimming strategies, all of which are habits you can establish and maintain for life.

Donate Your WeightThis show also includes tips on how to deal with emotional eating, the power of hypnosis for weight loss and how to enjoy eating your vegetables.

For more information about Donate Your Weight visit www.donateyourweight.com.

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