Heavy Thoughts? How Distorted Thinking Affects Weight Loss

There’s a difference common to individuals who fail to lose weight and keep it off long term. It’s called all-or-nothing thinking. Do you recognize any (or all) of the following?

· Hunger is bad; being full (often overly full) is good.

· I’m good if I follow my diet and bad if I make one mistake

· My eating week was good or bad even if I just struggle one day or several minutes a day

· If I’m losing weight, I’m fully in control; if I’m not, I’m totally out of control.

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Announcing A Contest for Insane Motivational Weight Loss

Sometimes, we all need a kick in the butt to get things done. In my 15-plus years working with individuals on body shaping and weight loss, I have heard amazing things that individuals do when gaining weight.  But also have I seen amazing results when strategies were implemented and followed.

The past week was one of those weeks where clients had to be forced into taking measurements. Alright, yes, I know, I am terrible because I require taking measurements every 4 weeks.

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Learning to become more active can be a challenge. And staying active over your entire lifetime can be an even bigger challenge. It’s not just that it could get boring doing the same thing over and over again, but also it is a challenge to find and do new things.

Here are the issues: You’ve done the gym workouts. Working out at home is fantastic, but you are by yourself.   Swimming is great, but it

Breakfast (post-holidays) for weight loss

Once again, Thanksgiving was a feast. Each year, over a hundred thousand Americans overeat during the holiday time. The next day, food is the last thing that many think about. But then there are the leftovers. How about a little pie for breakfast? It is too good to go to waste. And the feast continues.

Weight loss is on many on our minds during this time. But the call to the dinner table wins out over the call to the gym. There we have a dilemma: Too stuffed to workout. Leftovers linger for days. And relaxation and catching up with friends and family is priority number one.

What to do? Start small. Make an effort

Foods that are fattening

The 80’s really did us in with the low- carb and low-fat diet fads. Are you still still among the individuals who believe that certain foods make you fat? Even great foods such as olive oil and avocado? Both of those have monounsaturated fats that have shown to lower LDL and prevent cardio- vascular diseases.

There is a widespread fear, even today, that certain foods will automatically turn into fat. One of these food groups is

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Seasonal foods for weight loss

The best weight loss programs educate you about various factor that affect what you see on the scale. Seasonal foods should be one of them.

That’s why you will receive from time to time ideas about what you can do with seasonal foods to keep your diet interesting. But the emphasis here is on “what is in season.” Fall is here and the hard-shell squash season has just  begun.

Today, I highlight butternut squash. Butternut squashes are high in the carotenoids lutein and zanxanthin, which are an important ingredient for preventing degenerative macular disease. And, they are high in vitamin A ad E as well.  One cup of butternut squash has only 82 calories.

But what to do with this knobby gourd?

Below, find three ideas to use the squash and make it taste full without a hours of preparation time:

Butternut Squash Chicken Ginger Curry Stew

1 small butternut squash
1/2 chicken breast
1 tsp of curry powder
1 tsp of ground ginger (fresh if possible)
1 pinch of sea salt
2 tsp extra virgin olive oil

Wash the squash. Cut in half and clean out the seeds. Chop into large equal size pieces. Do the same thing with the chicken. Pour 2 tsp of oil into a glass dish. Add the squash and chicken. Sprinkle with the curry, ginger and sea salt and mix well. Place dish in the oven for 40 min at 400 degrees F.. Don’t forget to stir from time to time. Enjoy.
 

Butternut Squash Soup

1 large butternut squash
1 quart  chicken or vegetable stock
1 medium size onion
1 tsp sea salt
Nutmeg

Chop the onion into small quarters and sauté till golden in olive oil. Clean, peel and remove seeds from the squash before cutting into smaller chunks. Add the squash to the onions and cover with stock. Cook for about 20 minutes till the squash is soft. Puree  in batches with a blender. Pour back into pot and gently re-heat. Add nutmeg to your liking and if you like, 1 cup heavy cream. Serve with some toasted pumpkin seeds on top.

Spinach Squash Salad

1 small butternut squash
1 cup dried cranberries
½ cup chopped walnuts
4 cups washed spinach
2 tsp olive oil
1 pinch of sea salt

Clean the squash and cut into medium sized pieces and place in a baking dish. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake the squash till soft, about  40 minutes. Add the dried cranberries, stirring in during  the last five minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. In a  large bowl, mix the spinach with the cranberry butternut squash. Sprinkle in walnuts and season with olive oil and sea salt, tossing well.. This is a  great way to eat leftover butternut squash as well.

If you have any other ideas about what to do with butternut squash, leave a comment below for others to try out.

Stay focused.

Stefan

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