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Weight Loss Tips For People Who Love Food
December 26,
2008
Issue 18
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A Note from
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Feature
Article: A Christmas Story From A Land Far
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A Note From Liz
Hello!
Season’s greetings to you all! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas
and are enjoying the holidays.
This is a slightly shorter newsletter as I am currently working on my programmes for 2009 and I’m looking forward to telling you about them!
This is a time of year when we reflect on the past and look forward to the new year. You’ll find more thoughts on this below, to get you moving towards 2009 in a gentle but effective way.
And you’ll find out about pigeon museums in Nuremberg (I like to add a little novelty at Christmas).
This is a slightly shorter newsletter as I am currently working on my programmes for 2009 and I’m looking forward to telling you about them!
This is a time of year when we reflect on the past and look forward to the new year. You’ll find more thoughts on this below, to get you moving towards 2009 in a gentle but effective way.
And you’ll find out about pigeon museums in Nuremberg (I like to add a little novelty at Christmas).
Liz
Feature Article
A Christmas
Story From A Land Far Away
Our Christmas began early when my daughter
and I went to Nuremberg to visit the Christkindlesmarkt or Christmas
market. I went there to buy, among other things, angel chimes, only to
find that the chimes I wanted actually come from Sweden - and can,
therefore, probably be bought at IKEA!
But Nuremberg is much nicer than IKEA; the old town dating back to the middle ages and looking like something from a story book. They have the oddest collection of museums including the Hat Museum, Pigeon Museum, ghoulishly the Hangman’s Museum and unrivetingly the Nuremberg Allotment Gardeners Museum. We played safe and went to the Clock Museum.
The Christkindlesmarkt is worth a visit if you want to stock up on Christmas ornaments (wooden and clockwork ones a speciality), bratwurst and gingerbread. They also do delicious chocolate covered fruit – strawberries, for example, put onto a wooden skewer and covered with chocolate.
What with the chocolate, gingerbread and Glühwein we expected to put on weight. But with a healthy breakfast and miles and miles of walking around the markets we came back thinner than when we set off! Of course we sampled the munchies, but didn’t overindulge. That, and the exercise, kept us trim. Which I suppose is a weight loss Christmas message.
So here are some tips to get you through to the New Year without getting bigger:
Enjoy the rest of 2008 and have a great start to 2009!
So Fröhliche Weihnachten and a Happy New Year to you all.
Best wishes, Liz
But Nuremberg is much nicer than IKEA; the old town dating back to the middle ages and looking like something from a story book. They have the oddest collection of museums including the Hat Museum, Pigeon Museum, ghoulishly the Hangman’s Museum and unrivetingly the Nuremberg Allotment Gardeners Museum. We played safe and went to the Clock Museum.
The Christkindlesmarkt is worth a visit if you want to stock up on Christmas ornaments (wooden and clockwork ones a speciality), bratwurst and gingerbread. They also do delicious chocolate covered fruit – strawberries, for example, put onto a wooden skewer and covered with chocolate.
What with the chocolate, gingerbread and Glühwein we expected to put on weight. But with a healthy breakfast and miles and miles of walking around the markets we came back thinner than when we set off! Of course we sampled the munchies, but didn’t overindulge. That, and the exercise, kept us trim. Which I suppose is a weight loss Christmas message.
So here are some tips to get you through to the New Year without getting bigger:
- Whatever you have eaten so far, don’t fret about it; as Scarlettt O’Hara said, “Tomorrow is another day”.
- Don’t feel compelled to finish off leftovers. Put them on someone else’s plate not on your hips.
- Do enjoy treats. I mean REALLY enjoy them. Eat consciously, savouring every mouthful with the taste, texture, aroma and all round yumminess of the food. When you’ve done this (eating this way will take you twice as long as normal) decide whether you really need a second mouthful. Will you enjoy it as much? Will it taste the same? Be aware of the “stomach-feel” of the food, not just how it tastes.
- Enjoy festive eating with friends and family, then prepare to really look after yourself, love yourself, value yourself in 2009. I will be here to help you do that.
Enjoy the rest of 2008 and have a great start to 2009!
So Fröhliche Weihnachten and a Happy New Year to you all.
Best wishes, Liz
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About Liz
I have been looking after people’s health
for over fifteen years.With a background in biochemistry I was initially interested in how
to boost metabolism to promote weight loss and how to feel satisfied after
eating – what the nutritionists call “satiety”. All of these things
are important for weight loss but for many people the biggest change comes
about when they conquer their emotional eating.
I know this because as a child I was stocky, and then became chubby,
then fat! I hated exercise and loved food. And my love of food went way
beyond physical hunger.
I still love food, but now I know how to enjoy and how
to set limits around it – all without feeling deprived.
With a training in coaching and NLP as well as my knowledge of
biochemistry and nutrition, I am ideally placed to solve your problems
with emotional eating.
Liz’s credentials…
- Degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (that’s where I get my biochemistry knowledge).
- Degree in Nutritional Therapy (that’s where the nutrition knowledge comes from).
- Module leader in Masters Level Module Tackling Obesity at the Centre for Nutrition Education & Lifestyle Management. On this module I lecture on the biochemistry of eating and starvation, satiety mechanisms, stress and obesity and emotional eating.
- Fifteen years experience as a herbalist and health coach.
- Practitioner level qualification in NLP, Coaching and Stress Management.
And, most importantly, a love of food and a passion for health,
wellness and vitality!
The information in this newsletter is not intended to replace
medical advice. If you feel you need to lose weight and you have any
medical problems please consult your doctor before starting a
diet.
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Weight Loss Success Tips
It’s been
scientifically proven…
Many facts about healthy eating are common sense. But the Universities are determined to prove common sense is scientifically justified. Here is a summary of some of their findings, as reported in the Sunday Times 21.12.08 (University of the bleedin' obvious).
Why are we deluged with academic research ‘proving’ things that we know already?
Brendan Montague
Some of the food/health related research factoids are:
- Watching junk food ads makes you more likely to eat junk food.
- People perform better at work when they exercise.
- Children who lack confidence are more likely to be overweight adults.
- If your kids don’t eat veg you can disguise them in mush food – the veg, not the kids (don’t tell my older son).
My favourite research snippet, though, is a non-food one. They’ve shown that bits of string, left to their own devices, tie themselves in knots.
They need research for that? Don’t they own Mp3 headphones?
Happy eating.
P.S. See also in the Sunday Times, how music lowers cholesterol.
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