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Virginia Bola's Articles in Weight Loss & Obesity

  • Food Journal: A Mirror To Yourself
    All the weight control experts recommend keeping a record of what you eat. A food diary can become so much more useful for your weight wars if you use it as a tool for self-exploration and self-discovery.
  • Dieting: I Can't Afford To Lose Weight!
    When it comes to our weight, our emotions reign supreme. We so desperately want to be more attractive, more respected, and more desirable. We will even subject ourselves to painful and sometimes dangerous surgery to bring our reality closer to our ideal. And we will rob our piggy banks, deplete our bank accounts, and run up our credit cards for anything that promises us a slender future.
  • Is Losing Weight Worth The Trouble?
    Reframing weight goals and redefining our diet success leads to higher self-esteem and make the probability of continued weight control far more likely.
  • Weight Loss Superfecta
    Approaching our weight loss efforts with a bettor's attitude, we're going to pick four sure winners in the dieting game. To improve our chances, we going to "box" our choices, meaning that they can finish in any order as long as our picks run first, second, third, and fourth.
  • Making It Through A Diet Day
    Like the alcoholic who faces the urge to drink at every turn, the overweight fataholic must also steer a narrow passageway through the shoals of temptation and the deadly barrage of food advertisements, ubiquitous drive-throughs, social occasions, and office treats.
  • Weight Loss At Work: Non-Food Rewards
    Food seems to be the perennial favorite for any kind of work reward because it is universally accepted. Some of us (we hard core dieters) may pass on the sweet stuff but usually find something allowable. In a world where two thirds of us are overweight or obese, is there nothing else available as a gift that cuts across all individual interests? Five specific non-food rewards are suggested.
  • Weight Control: Operationalizing Your Plans
    Before you run off, filled with enthusiasm for your latest, greatest, and final (you swear) weight control plans, slow down and take the time to operationalize your goals and the likelihood of your success will increase exponentially.
  • Weight Loss: Tweaking Your Lifestyle
    Despite our national propensity to overeat, under-exercise, and grow steadily heavier and more out of shape, we all yearn to be slender, fit, and attractive.

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