Wellness For Weightloss

Did you know that the benefits of exercise are cumulative?  If you exercise just five minutes each day its better than not exercising at all.  Isn’t that amazing? 

There are over 67 different documented health benefits to exercising.  Only a handful of them require that you “get your heart-rate up and sustain it for 20-30 minutes”.  Now, don’t get me wrong – sustaining an elevated heart-rate for 20-30 minutes a day is ideal – the benefits to your heart and lungs is priceless. 

But many people decide that if they can’t do 20-30 minutes then they might as well not exercise at all.  NOT SO!  If you can find five minutes to walk there are health benefits to that.  If you can find five minutes three times a day then WOW – you’ve walked 15 minutes that day!  But even just five minutes a day is better than not exercising at all.

Now…. don’t tell me you can’t find five minutes. 

Often people think “I just need to eat the right foods, make better choices, get some exercise – then I’ll loose weight.” 

If its that simple, why don’t we just DO it? 

Because its not about that.  For most of us, weight issues run much deeper than just changing our eating habits.  We use food to comfort, reward and celebrate.   If we take away those foods – the foods we use for these reasons then we feel that we don’t have the means to comfort, reward or celebrate with ourselves.  So, in order to change that, we have to change our thinking… and change takes work.  (check out our “W4W Services” page to the left to see how we can help with this)

Its important to get to the root of why we do things the way we do and then we can deal with it. 

“Oh, no!” you’re thinking “I don’t have the time, or the energy, quite frankly to do therapy”

Not necessary!  You can get to the root of the problem without crying.    There are all kinds of ways to do this, two of my favorites are NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programing) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) – both of which I use in my practice.