Healthy Behavior Change
Sustaining healthy behaviors is one of the most important things people can do to live long healthy lives. When you learn skills and practice healthy behaviors regularly, you can transform your body, habits and life in significant ways.
Stella's Fitness Progress Report Stella's results illustrate the importance of incorporating a well designed strength training program. Notice that Stella "only" lost 3.4 pounds but her efforts resulted in an astounding loss of 9 inches and 1.7% body fat in ten weeks. Her lean muscle mass incr ...
Found in: Food • Healthy Behavior Change • Success Stories • Weight Management
TV Watching Linked to Heart Disease
Each hour spent watching TV may lead to an 18% greater risk of dying from heart disease if you are of healthy weight and no history of heart disease. Sedentary people who spend more than 4 hours a day watching TV may have a whopping 80% greater risk of death from heart disease. (1) In a study published in BMC ...
Found in: Health Conditions • Healthy Behavior Change
Combating Negative Self-talk and Programming your Brain for Success
Do you say things like this to yourself? "I ate too much at dinner. I have no self-control." "I sure blew it with my diet yesterday." "I can't seem to do cardio for more than 20 minutes. I must be lazy." "Everyone else can lose weight. What's wrong with me that I can ...
Found in: Healthy Behavior Change • Mindset • Weight Management
Another success! Congratulations to 63 year old Joan. In 98 days she has lost 18.4 pounds, 4.1% body fat and 14.5 inches. Only 10 more pounds to go to reach her goal weight of 130 pounds. I train and give her nutrition advice via my online services with one in-person meeting a month. Joan exercises daily and enj ...
Found in: Active Healthy Aging • Fitness • Food • Healthy Behavior Change • Success Stories • Weight Management
Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Having a heart attack increases the probability of having another because coronary artery disease can progress over time. Certain interventions or treatments such as angioplasty, artherectomy and bypass surgery decrease the probability by improving the blood supply but do not cure the disease. In order to attempt to slow do ...
Found in: Active Healthy Aging • Health Conditions • Healthy Behavior Change
1/8/15 6/3/15 CHANGE Height 5'8 Weight 146.4 135.8 -10.6 Age 48 Neck 13 12.25 - .75 Arm 10.5 10 - .5 Wrist 5.75 ...
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Best Foods To Put In Your Shopping Cart
Most supermarkets stock more than 50,000 items, however every time we shop, we toss same 25 foods into our cart. Which isn't such a bad thing, as long as you're taking home the right foods--ones that will keep you healthy. Why would you even want to consider making the effort to include healthy food in your diet? ...
Found in: Food • Healthy Behavior Change
Assessing an Actual Client's Food Journal
This is a client's actual food log from MyFitnessPal. Want to know how I evaluate it? First read "How to Evaluate the Data from your Online Food Journal". Then read my notes below to see how she did. Foods Calories Carbs Fat &nbs ...
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This is Vicki. Her progress to date is 16 pounds lost, 12.75 total inches and 4.2% body fat. Most notable were the 4 inches lost around her waist and 2 and a half inches off her hips! Vicki initially wrote to me, "I was always skinny as a child and young adult but since having two kids, I never lost that p ...
Found in: Food • Healthy Behavior Change • Success Stories • Weight Management
Christy's Story: "Approaching 45, I felt exhausted, unhealthy, was steadily gaining weight and had terrible sugar cravings. I was concerned by my high cholesterol, lack of energy and overall poor health. I decided it was time to find a professional dietitian to help me figure out where I was going wrong. As a lifet ...
Found in: Fitness • Food • Healthy Behavior Change • Success Stories • Weight Management
For the trainer or dietitian: Helping a Client Past A Plateau
This is from an article I wrote that was published in the magazine IDEA Fitness Journal. I am Registered Dietitian and a personal trainer who specializes in weight loss management incorporating lifestyle changes and behavior modification, nutrition and fitness. I'll share with you the process I go through when a ...
Found in: Healthy Behavior Change
Deliberate Practice to Reach Your Fitness and Health Goals
Written by: Callie Parry, InternThe long standing rule has been that it takes an accumulation of 10,000 hours to be considered a master in something. In the premise of change, those 5 big zeros are daunting and discouraging. If only there was a way to cut down those hours even to just 1,000.Recent findings have countered th ...
Found in: Healthy Behavior Change • Mindset
