Taking Back Control of Your Life
Life is About Choices
control is when you make them
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The Great Irony of Dieting and Weight Loss
Forget “food” restriction. To lose weight we need to feed our bodies, NOT starve them!
I always thought I could tell if someone was obese just by looking at them. YOU CAN’T!
The Halo Effect: How We Get Trapped into False Beliefs
From best-selling business books to false prophets, if IT looks too “good” to be true … it is!
What is the Halo Effect? … a cognitive bias in which our initial or superficial …
I Finally Found Peace When I Accepted Atheism
FAITH: By definition, it can’t be proved, but it can make life’s journey so much easier… and perhaps yours as well.
I was raised in a Christian fundamentalist home. The Bible was taken as literal truth…
OBESITY: Millions of “normal” weight people are OBESE … only they don’t know it! Could this be you?
In fact, 40 percent of people who are “normal” weight — or skinny even — are not only obese, they’re dangerously obese! Despite what we’ve been told, obesity is NOT a weight issue it’s a health issue, and it’s a much greater problem than the
They Say; “Weight Loss Begins in the Kitchen” Don’t You Believe it!
You can’t out-exercise a poor diet any more than you can eat yourself thin because if weight loss began in the kitchen, then all we would have to do is eat real food, create a slight caloric deficit and voila, the excess
Be Wary of Setting Goals When the Outcome Really Matters!
I’ll begin by saying that goal setting is wickedly effective. In other words, if you desire an outcome and make it a goal, the odds are pretty good that you’ll achieve it. And therein lies the problem. For example, suppose you’re
Trouble Losing Weight? Here’s how to Avoid the Twisted Logic of Obesity, Dieting, and “Food”!
Just about everything we’ve been told about obesity, its cause and cure – is wrong … intentionally! The weight-loss industry claims we need to eat less. The food industry says we need to move more, and the pharmaceutical people say obesity’s
Should You Take a Vitamin D Supplement? It all depends…
If that sounds like an economist’s answer to a straightforward question, I won’t argue the point. However, just because there isn’t a straight-up “yes” or “no” answer, it doesn’t diminish the critical importance of taking vitamin D if you happen to
You Can’t Answer These 3 Simple Riddles because Your Assumptions Blind You!
Our decisions will determine the quality of our lives. Making good decisions is more of a discipline than a skill, especially when it comes to overriding our assumptions. 6 Blind Men describing an elephant from their limited experience. Image by OpenClipart-Vectors