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Controlling Type II Diabetes Through Diet And Exercise
If you have been diagnosed with adult onset type II Diabetes, you may be able to control your condition through diet and exercise. Many people have genetic predispositions for adult onset diabetes, but the disease is usually brought on by poor...
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Moducare - Immune System Supplement
Don’t you envy those people who never seem to get ill and who sail through the cold and flu season without a sniffle. Brimming with energy and vigour no matter how busy they are. And wouldn’t you just love to be one of them? What’s the secret? Its...
The Psychology Of Diet Preparation
We decide to lose weight because of any number of reasons: we
don't like the way we look, our clothes don't fit, our health is
in danger, our significant other is wandering, our job is at
risk, or our kids are embarrassed. We tend to think...
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Fat Loss For Good
So you want to lose weight? In my practice, losing weight is a common question among patients. They want to know my opinion, what I would do if I were going to lose weight. Everyone has an opinion, and a lot of the time I think they want to hear if...
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Diet: Facing Lousy Choices
It's 11:30 AM. You've been up since 5 o'clock and the hunger
meter is on high. "What to eat?" you think to yourself.
You pore over the menu for the deli downstairs but nothing you
can allow yourself looks that good. Sure, you could go out for
fast food but there's a meeting coming up and you don't really
want to move your car and then have to find a new parking spot
when you return.
So you decide not to go out. That leaves eating in.
You look at your choices, wishing you'd had the foresight to
bring something from home. There's the vending machine in the
break room, filled with plastic-wrapped, rubber-textured
sandwiches, bagels, muffins and Danish. Ugh, you keep spinning
the carousels, hoping that by some miracle, there will be a
vegetable snack plate or something half-way decent. You narrow
down your choices to a cup of noodle soup or a chicken breast
sandwich.
Now you have another choice: eat something to take the edge off
or power through the minutes of temptation until you are sitting
in your meeting and eating is out of the question. After an hour
of dreary, repetitive discussions, your hunger may have calmed
down.
How you handle it each day, depends on your mood. Often, if we
can get through that one tempting half hour, we're set for the
afternoon and can easily wait for our well-planned light dinner.
On other days, you know in your heart that if you
don't eat
something, you won't be able to concentrate on your work because
all you can think about is food while you try to conceal the
embarrassment of a gurgling stomach.
On those days, take the chicken sandwich, remove the bun, and
microwave the miniscule piece of chicken provided. Then cut it
into tiny pieces and eat slowly with a plastic knife and fork.
If you can make the pea-sized pieces last for 15 or 20 minutes,
you'll feel like you've actually eaten an entire meal and be on
your way to a pleasant non-food-focused afternoon on a very
limited caloric intake.
If you truly want to control your weight, you can do it
anywhere. The key is never to eat until you've had a lengthy
internal dialog with yourself that forces you into a full
awareness of your food intake and then select the lesser of all
evils and consume it as slowly as you can manage.
Even trapped in the office with nothing more than a killer
vending machine, you can turn bleak choices into a self-esteem
building triumph.
About the author:
Virginia Bola is a licensed psychologist and admitted diet
fanatic specializing in the effects of attitudes and motivation
on individual goals. She recently published a
psychologically-based workbook, "Diet with an Attitude" which
develops mental skills for permanent weight control. Reach her
at http://www.DietWithAnAttitude.com/index2.html
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