Healthy Weight Loss Tips—A Holistic Approach
We will explore weight loss from a holistic or whole life perspective. Losing weight and getting healthy goes beyond what you eat. To really get healthy for a lifetime, you need to change your relationship with food and with yourself.
This will help you to focus more on getting healthy and less on weight loss. As a result, we learn to really nourish ourselves both inside and out. When we are happy, healthy and eating real wholesome nutritious food, the pounds gradually disappear without a lot of struggle.
Through healthy weight loss tips and instruction along with our diet free weight loss discussions, we will cover:
Stocking a Healthy Pantry:
When the foods that support you are readily available, life is much less stressful and it is easier to make healthy choices
Get Moving:
A healthy life includes exercising so we need to find ways to incorporate exercise and movement into our lives. Even a 10-minute walk can help to clear your mind, boost your mood, and get your circulation going. What do you enjoy and how can we make it part of your healthy life every day?
Eat Your Fruits and Veggies:
Mom and Grandma were right! Every day more studies confirm the healing powers locked within these colorful, flavorful foods. Together we will explore ways to increase your consumption of these fantastic foods.
Drink Green Tea and Plenty of Water:
Green Tea is full of antioxidants. Drink several cups a day—hot or cold—and make sure you are drinking enough of water too. This helps with both digestion and elimination.
Take Your Vitamins:
In a perfect world you would get all the nutrients you need from your diet. However, studies show that very few people do. So unless you are one of the few, a high quality multivitamin is your best insurance policy. I follow the advice of Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Mehmet Oz regarding what to take and will share the details with you.
Pampering Self-Care, Rest, and Sleep:
The power of rest and self-care cannot be underestimated. When we take care of ourselves and indulge in self-care, we reduce stress. This leads to decreased stress hormones and improved metabolism, which are critical for overall health and healthy weight loss. Just sitting quietly and breathing for five to fifteen minutes a day can be very rejuvenating and restorative.
Emotional vs. Physical Hunger:
It is important to be able to distinguish between physical hunger and emotional hunger. Many of us eat for emotional, rather than physical, reasons. To learn to manage our health and weight for life, we must be able to make this differentiation and learn other techniques for coping with our emotions.
Clearing the Clutter:
One of my main healthy weight loss tips for you is to reduce or eliminate soda, refined sugars, and overly processed foods. Following this approach can be an important step on the path to improved health. These ‘noisy’ foods provide empty calories devoid of nutrition. We want to make room for foods that provide lots of nourishment and reduce those that don’t.
Health and Happiness:
To be healthy and happy and at our optimal weight requires more than just eating certain foods. We need a happy, healthy life that includes family and friends who support healthy social connections, satisfying work, comfort able surroundings, balance, joy, fun, and us. What makes you happy and where do you need to insert more happiness into your life?
Healthy vs. Non-Healthy Fats:
Not all fats are created equal. Fats are a necessary nutritional component, along with carbohydrates and proteins. They have taken a bad rap over the past couple of decades. Some fats, like saturated fats and trans fats should be avoided because they are unhealthy and contribute to heart disease. However, healthy fats like those found in olive oil, nuts and avocados, are important to optimal health.
Slowing Down and Creating Space:
In providing you with healthy eating advice and healthy weight loss tips and instruction, I know it takes time and commitment to replace unhealthy behaviors with healthy ones. When we are over-scheduled and over-committed, it is hard to find the time required to incorporate healthy behaviors into our lives. We must free up some time and energy if we hope to transform our behaviors.
Quick, Easy, and Simple Healthy Eating Strategies:
There are lots of things we can do to streamline the process of eating healthy. I have lots of ideas, recipes, and healthy weight loss tips to help you achieve your goals.
These healthy weight loss tips, topics, instruction, and advice can be explored in any order in accordance with your goals, needs and desires. With a gradual incremental approach to healthy eating and weight loss, you can make lasting changes. It is amazing how effective small steady steps can be on your path to a more fully enriched and nourished life.