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She's on a Diet with me and talks about it, here ....
Sara, you are going to make it this year !
Let's read it ...
She's on a Diet with me and talks about it, here ....
Sara, you are going to make it this year !
Let's read it ...
"Loving Yourself in the New Age: Diet
Coaching and Everything After"
By Sara Hare
January has passed and not soon enough for me.
It's always been my least favorite month of the year, dark and dreary, full of short days and long nights and big bills and little, if any, fun.
January brings something else, too.
After the New Year dawns, without fail I'm trying a new diet or exercise plan, pretty much making January equally fat-free and fun-free.
January is all about deprivation, even starvation, and the unnatural physical exertions that we are told are good for us.
One day I hope that somebody will please explain to me how it's possible that the yoga position Downward Dog, with all that blood rushing to the head and weight on your hands (which were not designed to hold weight), is actually good for the human body?
In a perennial quest for fitness and health, January has become the "it" month for starting a new cleanse, a new diet, an I'll-stick-with-it-this-time exercise routine or other weight loss regimen that might move the needle in the right direction a few ticks but always leaves me feeling as if it was all too little, too late and better luck next year!
But now it's February. And I feel fabulous. And I felt fabulous last month, too. January was different this year !
Yes, in Northern California the weather was sunnier than most years.
But there's so much more to this story than that.
Yes, this January was different.
Gone was the guilt and the shoulda-wouldas.
Gone were the insanity workouts and the raw, woody vegetables.
This January I dropped the diet and fitness plans altogether and did something entirely different.
I hired a diet coach !
Just as a life coach can help you achieve what you want in your career or personal life, a diet coach can help you achieve your physical goals.
The principles are precisely the same.
You work on strengthening your focus.
Your resolve.
You program several realistic, easy-to-follow steps into every day, steps that take you where you want to be.
And just as life coaching teaches you to be patient and to love yourself as you are becoming the person you want to be, diet coaching teaches you that if you love yourself, really love yourself, then you would never, ever, ever want to eat that piece of chocolate cake.
Because that cake (substitute twinkies or donuts or whatever your pleasure) is really not good for you. And if you love yourself you want the best for yourself, right? And in short order you arrive at the conclusion that you really do NOT want that chocolate cake. You really don't.
And you know something? It works.
Much of the science on health and fitness revolves around the mind-body connection. Research points out that whether it's hormonal secretions or physical cravings, it all starts in the brain. Psychologists have long pondered how to control physical obsessions and addictions through talk therapy and mind training. But the questions were always confrontational and externalized.
Q: "Why did you eat one too many donuts or drink one too many glasses of wine last night?"
A: "Because your brain told you to do it. It wanted to do it! It saw no reason why you should not do it! It said, "I am the boss and I choose to do something that is not good for me because I see no good reason why I should not do it."
It's similar to when Jennifer Lawrence's character in the current movie, American Hustle, said something like this to herself:
"I know it's stupid to date a mobster but I just can't help myself." Why? Because Lawrence's character was not actually using her brain. She was not actually present and conscious and seeing the connection between her mind and the impending danger of her body which is almost like driving a car without gas in the tank. You won't get very far.
Here's how diet coaching works:
Rather than focusing on what you can't have (or eat), diet coaching works with the premise that you have a choice.
You can dwell on what you don't have or you can see what you DO have.
You can do what is good for you or what is bad for you.
You can think about what you really want and do nothing about it or you can take small, measured steps towards change.
You can choose control or you can choose chaos.
You can choose success or you can choose failure.
You can choose your fate and if that doesn't make you wake up and smell the coffee, maybe nothing will.
In the end, diet coaching or any type of life coaching is about training your brain to believe what you already know to be true but were perhaps afraid to cop to: that if you love yourself, you would really want to be a million miles away from that chocolate cake.
I've only been thinking this way a few weeks but the results, so far, have been nothing short of miraculous.
It will take time and patience but I think I might actually get somewhere this time and when I do, every month will feel like February, the month of love, the month of red roses, the month of chocolate cake (ha! just kidding!) and then I will love January just as much as all the other months of the year. Well, almost as much.
As far as Diet coaches go, I am under the spell of Happy Wife - Spirit Life Coaching with Dominique Chauvet.
Born in France and now working in San Francisco Bay Area, Dominique uses her 15 years of experience in personal and spiritual development after having worked as a professional trainer with some of the biggest corporations in Paris.
She brings humor and grace (and more than a soupcon of style) to the experience of self-improvement, with proven tips and techniques. Her methods create self-awareness and self-love in ground breaking ways.
Do yourself a favor. Don't wait until January.
Call her today !
By Sara Hare
January has passed and not soon enough for me.
It's always been my least favorite month of the year, dark and dreary, full of short days and long nights and big bills and little, if any, fun.
January brings something else, too.
After the New Year dawns, without fail I'm trying a new diet or exercise plan, pretty much making January equally fat-free and fun-free.
January is all about deprivation, even starvation, and the unnatural physical exertions that we are told are good for us.
One day I hope that somebody will please explain to me how it's possible that the yoga position Downward Dog, with all that blood rushing to the head and weight on your hands (which were not designed to hold weight), is actually good for the human body?
In a perennial quest for fitness and health, January has become the "it" month for starting a new cleanse, a new diet, an I'll-stick-with-it-this-time exercise routine or other weight loss regimen that might move the needle in the right direction a few ticks but always leaves me feeling as if it was all too little, too late and better luck next year!
But now it's February. And I feel fabulous. And I felt fabulous last month, too. January was different this year !
Yes, in Northern California the weather was sunnier than most years.
But there's so much more to this story than that.
Yes, this January was different.
Gone was the guilt and the shoulda-wouldas.
Gone were the insanity workouts and the raw, woody vegetables.
This January I dropped the diet and fitness plans altogether and did something entirely different.
I hired a diet coach !
Just as a life coach can help you achieve what you want in your career or personal life, a diet coach can help you achieve your physical goals.
The principles are precisely the same.
You work on strengthening your focus.
Your resolve.
You program several realistic, easy-to-follow steps into every day, steps that take you where you want to be.
And just as life coaching teaches you to be patient and to love yourself as you are becoming the person you want to be, diet coaching teaches you that if you love yourself, really love yourself, then you would never, ever, ever want to eat that piece of chocolate cake.
Because that cake (substitute twinkies or donuts or whatever your pleasure) is really not good for you. And if you love yourself you want the best for yourself, right? And in short order you arrive at the conclusion that you really do NOT want that chocolate cake. You really don't.
And you know something? It works.
Much of the science on health and fitness revolves around the mind-body connection. Research points out that whether it's hormonal secretions or physical cravings, it all starts in the brain. Psychologists have long pondered how to control physical obsessions and addictions through talk therapy and mind training. But the questions were always confrontational and externalized.
Q: "Why did you eat one too many donuts or drink one too many glasses of wine last night?"
A: "Because your brain told you to do it. It wanted to do it! It saw no reason why you should not do it! It said, "I am the boss and I choose to do something that is not good for me because I see no good reason why I should not do it."
It's similar to when Jennifer Lawrence's character in the current movie, American Hustle, said something like this to herself:
"I know it's stupid to date a mobster but I just can't help myself." Why? Because Lawrence's character was not actually using her brain. She was not actually present and conscious and seeing the connection between her mind and the impending danger of her body which is almost like driving a car without gas in the tank. You won't get very far.
Here's how diet coaching works:
Rather than focusing on what you can't have (or eat), diet coaching works with the premise that you have a choice.
You can dwell on what you don't have or you can see what you DO have.
You can do what is good for you or what is bad for you.
You can think about what you really want and do nothing about it or you can take small, measured steps towards change.
You can choose control or you can choose chaos.
You can choose success or you can choose failure.
You can choose your fate and if that doesn't make you wake up and smell the coffee, maybe nothing will.
In the end, diet coaching or any type of life coaching is about training your brain to believe what you already know to be true but were perhaps afraid to cop to: that if you love yourself, you would really want to be a million miles away from that chocolate cake.
I've only been thinking this way a few weeks but the results, so far, have been nothing short of miraculous.
It will take time and patience but I think I might actually get somewhere this time and when I do, every month will feel like February, the month of love, the month of red roses, the month of chocolate cake (ha! just kidding!) and then I will love January just as much as all the other months of the year. Well, almost as much.
As far as Diet coaches go, I am under the spell of Happy Wife - Spirit Life Coaching with Dominique Chauvet.
Born in France and now working in San Francisco Bay Area, Dominique uses her 15 years of experience in personal and spiritual development after having worked as a professional trainer with some of the biggest corporations in Paris.
She brings humor and grace (and more than a soupcon of style) to the experience of self-improvement, with proven tips and techniques. Her methods create self-awareness and self-love in ground breaking ways.
Do yourself a favor. Don't wait until January.
Call her today !
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=== SARA HARE
Travel, Food & Wine
· Journalist
· Broadcaster
Editor-in-Chief, TasteLiveGo, a nationally syndicated travel, food & wine magazine. www.tastelivego.com
Producer, InGest Media Video Productions, Take a Byte Out of Life, www.ingestmedia.com
Contributing Editor, Hemispheres, United Airlines in-flight magazine
Contributing Writer, Diablo Magazine
Also Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Bon Appétit, The Wine Spectator, Wine & Spirits, Wine Country Living Television, ISLANDS, San Francisco Magazine
Founder and Trademark Owner, Dinner Divas - www.dinnerdivas.com
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