Lose Weight & Keep it off Today...

The ability to successfully and healthfully lose weight and keep it off forever is possible – even if you have tried and failed numerous times over your lifetime.  You possess the ability to lose weight and keep it off, and it lies deep WiTHIN You Now!™  It is time to STOP looking on the outside for somebody or something to do it for you, stop blaming everything and everyone except yourself… and Become successful.  If you want to achieve a healthy, attractive body weight and stay that way forever, you can and you will, by turning your attention inward, gaining control of your own thoughts, identifying and extinguishing outside control and influence, and finally allowing your true inner strength to emerge and work for you.  Achieving a healthy, attractive body weight forever involves the realization of hard truths, inward and outward tough love and a goal. 

Start today, Start Now, YOU have the inner strength, energy and power to succeed...Stay tuned for more..SHD

Don't Weight to empty your fat bucket!

I know its tempting....but don't do it!  Don't weight for January to "take it off"!  Today is the best day to begin a lifetime of weight management......STOP PUTTING IT OFF AND START TAKING IT OFF!

I overheard an overweight woman at a holiday party announce"  "It's coming off next year".  I couldn't help but think......."REALLY"?!?  What makes next year any different than today?  Do you mean to tell me that suddenly things will just start to click - you'll start managing your every meal and snack?  Suddenly your problems with binging, over-indulging, and your "to heck with it" attitude will disappear?  Suddenly the new year will bring some sort of magical thing that will allow you to exercise daily, face challenging food situations and win? Or maybe you're planning a stomach surgery and that is going to take care of everything?   I think not. 

Convince yourself that losing weight and keeping it off is your first and most important priority by following a healthy lifestyle today......next year brings no magic.  The magic is WiTHIN You Now!™

Thanks to HealthHabits@Twitter for this article. Click on this article for some holiday hints: http://www.healthhabits.ca/2010/12/23/3-tips-avoid-christmas-party-pig-out/

Addicted to food?

Clink on this link http://dld.bz/Cmc5  and check out this article regarding how the chemicals in our body and brain lead us down the fat bucket pathway......  let me know what you think!

What Motivates You?

Just the sound of the word "motivation" is exciting, especially when associated with anything to do with weight loss and keeping weight off.  Motivation seems some magical "thing" that just happens and makes us want to do something.  Unfortunately, motivation is difficult to come by and one must be truly motivated to even put in the work required to find their own motivation (especially the weight loss and keeping weight off type of motivation). Truth be known, we are more often than not driven more by what I call....  "The Anti-Motivation", spending much time thinking of ways NOT to do things, such as diet and exercise and all the boring, nasty things we must actually get ourselves motivated to do to lose weight and keep it off - excuses, excuses, excuses. We somehow find the motivation to dream up some amazing excuses!

"Motivation" is the carrot, the prize, the incentive that triggers the GO chemicals in our brain.  For millions, the prospect of stomach surgery can get the GO chemicals going with thoughts of rapid weight loss clouding any reasonable thought process required to think through this potentially life changing procedure. For those about to receive this magical knifing, the motivation to lose initial weight and attend any number of counseling sessions as required by the insurance company is NO PROBLEM!  Just think -  suddenly thinness - all weight problems gone (there's the carrott).  The bad news....where are those wondrous GO chemicals three years post op when the weight starts looming once again?? (Gee, maybe I should have taken off my surgery goggles and listened more closely in those classes).

If you're serious about weight loss and weight management...think about what motivates you - think about what might motivate you -reflect upon a time in your life when you were truly motivated.  Conjure up ways to get yourself inspired to reach for the carrot.  Imagine yourself motivated and  allow your brain to find those GO chemicals and get them surging through your body.  Be a kid again and play pretend if you're blocking....BE motivated, believe it and keep going and going and going - it will save your life.  With motivation and those GO chemicals on your side.....the low fat, low calorie, healthy diet is the easy part.

Weight Loss Surgery & Supplements

Without the proper tools, weight loss surgery of any type does not work in the long run.  Weight loss surgeries usually benefit only the surgeons.  Also, any advertisements regarding weight loss supplements - I do not support.

Dr. Stacey A. Hilton-Davis

Tweeting thru the Holidays

The World of Twitter is now upon us all.  Zillions of resources - try it - I have. Follow me on Twitter @drhiltondavis. 

If you are interested in my Psychological self-therapy.....WiTHIN You Now!™........stay tuned.  Guaranteed to help you with the challenges of weight management.

WiTHIN You Now!™........my book is in progress - you will LOVE!!

Rainy days, food & money

Rainy days are great days to dust off your exercise videos, put your mat down and move....stretch, Yoga, and little cardio.  Then, before a hot bath, Google a healthy, low fat veggie soup recipe, run to the store thru the raindrops and get the fixins'. Enjoy some down time if you can, enjoy the Season, watch White Christmas with Bing Crosby and Vera Ellen and know you don't have to ever be THAT skinny...

Hint:  Save $600.00/year, buy the necessary tools ($100.00 at most) and give yourself your own manicures and pedicures.  After 5 years you will have saved $3,000.00.  You may need the extra cash one day.

Leave your hair to the pros....please.