I met up with a friend for my morning coffee today and we got onto the topic of body image (go figure) and we ended up talking about what a healthy body looks like. This is when I realized that we all have a built in image in our heads of what we think a healthy body should look like. I'm sure right now you have a picture in your head of what you think a 'healthy … [Read more...] about What Does “Healthy” Look Like?
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Can you lose weight the wrong way?
When someone sets out to lose weight they have a number of resources they can turn to for information. But most of these resources make a critical error that can stall your weight loss before it ever gets started. And that error is assuming there is a right and wrong way to lose weight. Eating for weight loss is already tough enough, and being told there are right and … [Read more...] about Can you lose weight the wrong way?
What Will YOU Do About Your Body?
The diet and fitness industry is hardly at a loss for words. Browsing the interwebs (or is it the world wide net...) will bring up thousands of pages of information, tips, and endless 'must do' and 'never do' lists. Within 5 minutes of searching you could easily come up with dozens of 'rules' of fitness and ways to live a 'healthy' lifestyle. Almost all of them revolve … [Read more...] about What Will YOU Do About Your Body?
Do You Really Want To Stand Out?
I get a lot of questions about weight loss. Most of the questions don't make much sense because the people who are asking are making a fundamental error in their thinking and that is: They all think they're different from everyone else. They think weight loss in their specific case is much harder and that they are somehow an outlier thinking they are the one person who … [Read more...] about Do You Really Want To Stand Out?
Oxygen Instead of Food
Well this one takes the cake. I received an email about a man who claims that he has not eaten food or consumed water in 70 years. His claim is that he survives from some sort of supernatural life force and simply breathing is enough. Believe it or not some people actually believe it's possible to survive on nothing more than oxygen, it's called 'breatharianism' and it's … [Read more...] about Oxygen Instead of Food