When I ask women what they consider as their major weightloss struggle, do you know what is the number one answer I get? Emotional eating. Emotional eating is when you eat without feeling hungry, just to deal with your emotions. These emotions are most of the time negative ones. Women eat to NOT feel …
When you listen to some weightloss gurus, it’s like you have to be always perfectly self-disciplined to be able to drop those excess pounds. Otherwise you are “self-sabotaging”. https://mitracodel.com/are-you-self-sabotaging/ The problem is, you can’t follow a rigid framework on the long term. Otherwise you will quickly lose your joie de vivre! It …
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What’s your preferred, easy to cook and easy to eat lunch meal? For me sandwiches are one of my go-to lunch ideas. I know that many diet plans ban or restrict bread and it’s a shame! Bread, and carbs in general, are supposed to be hard to digest and calorie loaded. And it’s not true. …
The other day I went over an article in the Washington Post about a new study about “active couch potatoes”. What is that one? you may think. It looks like active couch potatoes are those who work out for 30 minutes every day as recommended by official guidelines such as the Center for Disease Control …
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Summer is almost over: kids are back to school and life has returned to its normal rhythm. And this year my summer was quite exciting: after a 2-year break due to Covid, we returned to France for summer. My husband, my 4 kids and I usually spend part of summer every year in France …
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If you try to lose weight, chances are you have heard about “emotional eating”. You know, we call emotional eating each time you reach out to food, not because you’re hungry, but because you feel some overwhelming feeling… It can be as common as feeling tired or bored, but also feeling sad, upset …
Are you struggling with time? If you’re like many adults, chances are the answer to this question is a massive YES! So when is the best time to start to lose weight? The short answer is now! This may sound cliché but it’s not: If you are waiting for the right time in your life …
Self-sabotage is a real and serious mental health condition. But many weightloss coaches and weightloss programs talk about “self-sabotaging” as a reason why you don’t get the results you are longing for, even if you follow your methods. This is labelling an annoying thing by a big fat term and thinking that you have …
French people always value their mealtime, which means that they take time to only eat. Whether it’s in their company’s cafeteria (most companies do have cafeterias) or at home, they always sit down and take time to eat. You would never see a French employee eat in front of her computer or see people eat …
In France, people traditionally eat 3 to 4 times a day: breakfast, lunch, snack (not every day and not all adults, but definitely children do eat snack once a day around 4pm) and dinner. People usually don’t snack and for sure they don’t eat each and every time they provide a physical or intellectual effort. …