Vickie's Viewpoint

As a life and weight coach, overeating is a concern we discuss in our coaching sessions. From my experience and my clients, I’ve concluded that most of us are not aware of the enormous price we pay for overeating.

Here are Some of the Costs of Overeating…

FINANCIAL COSTS

• Added expenses of larger-sized clothing.

• Health club memberships never used.

• Extra money spent on extra food.

• Money spent on various diet programs.

• Higher medical bills due to weight issues.

• Lost job opportunities, promotions, or customers.

HEALTH COSTS

• It’s easier to get run down and pick up the latest bug.

• Poor health, like having high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes or heart conditions.

• Increased difficulty in doing physical activity, which relieves stress and improves our health.

• Suffering from side effects from additional prescriptions.

• Low energy.

TIME COSTS

• Thinking about what we are going to eat next.

• Constantly eating.

• Waiting in fast food lines, which is probably the same amount of time it takes to prepare a healthy meal at home.

EMOTIONAL COSTS

• Decreased connection with friends and family.

• Distraction from achieving our dreams and goals in life.

• Keeps us hanging onto other problems because we numb our feelings and “stuff them” instead of deal with them.

• Lack of self-esteem and confidence.

• Lessened ability to listen to our intuition.

• Forgo adventure, passion, and “being alive“.

After all of those, is overeating really worth the price we have to pay?

If you are tired of paying the enormous price for overeating and want to end it, contact Vickie Champion.  Just click here and leave a short message.

A few months ago I searched the web for any information I could find on the hCG diet before trying it. I even read a couple of books about it. What I didn’t find is much info on the mental challenges that people experience and how we cope with that.

Just like any weight loss program, I think the hCG diet has it’s own set of mental challenges. What makes this diet different is the speed the weight comes off (1 to 2 pounds a day), the lack of exercise required, and the unforgiveness of the diet, if you cheat even slightly.

Here are Some of the Mental Challenges of the hCG Weight Loss Diet…

• Immediately having to replace emotional eating with another activity. Most diets fill this void with a lot of exercise.

• Dealing with the difficulty of socializing. Almost every event revolves around unhealthy or addicting foods.

• Handling the depression that can come when we hit a plateau and have days without weight loss. Again, this can be intensified on this diet more than others because of the speed with which we have been losing weight.

• Struggling with the guilt if we cheat. On the hCG diet one little slip can not only stabilize our weight, but might even cause actual weight gain, which magnifies the guilt.

• Contending with our rapidly changing self-image. Many of us have been overweight for so long, it takes some adjustment to see ourselves as “normal” or “thin.”

If you want help with overcoming the mental challenges of the hCG weight loss diet, contact Vickie Champion at 480-838-9866 or click here and leave a short message.