http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog Lose Weight Permanently Without Diets and Willpower Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:17:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Friends, So the million dollar question is “How do you love and accept yourself exactly as you are and not rely on external circumstances to determine your self-worth?” If I could bottle this solution, I would be extremely wealthy! I made a list of what I call my “peace robbers,” things ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=321 Dear Friends, In the last article I spoke about food guilt, and now I want to show how it's related to my obsession for the perfect weight.  These last two days I've felt frustrated and somewhat defective for my body not releasing weight quickly enough,  even though my food choices have gotten ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=326 Dear Friends, Yesterday I was talking to my coach about how much I enjoyed eating out at this Thai place (I actually had grouper in coconut curry sauce with white rice and I ordered sticky sweet rice with mango to go).   So to eat white rice is not my idea of healthy eating, and ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=324 Dear Friends, I head out for a family vacation tomorrow to Maine!  I've never been there before and so I'm looking forward to it.  It's always a little scary for me to radically change my routine, although I do love to travel and see new places and meet new people and ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=335 Dear Friends, I think that the answer to ALL of my problems is self-love and self-acceptance.  Being a compulsive personality, it’s easy for me to want everything perfect and orderly and planned out. As a result, I like to set goals for myself and set up all sorts of expectations about where ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=318 Dear Friends, I've been speaking about bringing Presence (a dimension of consciousness and awareness) into our daily lives and making that our main purpose.   Per Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth), as we begin to dis-identify with our thoughts, emotions and reactions by recognizing them for what they are, our sense of self ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=313 Dear Friends, So what happens when we let go of our agenda?  It feels unnatural and like there is a gap there that we need to fill in with activity.  Just being has been difficult for me.  Being available to the moment, to what comes next.  I'm not necessarily saying not to set goals.  ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=311 Dear Friends, I have always been very hard on myself.  Somewhere along the way, I learned that working hard equated to making money.  The harder I work, the more money I make.  Is it any wonder that subconsciously I don't want to be more "successful"?  I'd like to think I don't ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=309 Dear Friends, One of my goals for the session was to learn which part of me wanted to retain an extra fifteen pounds.  No matter what I seemed to do physically, very healthy eating and exercising, this extra weight remains.  She was my last part to show up.  She seemed afraid and ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=306 Dear Friends, I enjoyed meeting my sixteen-year-old self.  She was the tenacious, lively part of me who wasn't afraid to take risks, and she knew exactly what she wanted and went for it.  She was confident and vibrantly alive and spunky.  This was a time in my life when I'd began dating a ... http://naturalweightlossresources.com/blog/?p=303