The Power of Now for Weight Loss

The Power of Now for Weight Loss has ideas based from Eckhart Tolle's book called, you guessed it, "The Power of Now" The premise is like many other philosophies and self help suggestion that any change we want can on come from this moment right now.

The key here is to accept our current predicament exactly as it is, because from this foundation of acceptance we can control all the controllables to our life in any one of almost infinite possibilities and directions.

There is no point dwelling in the past as we can not change the past, but in the present we can change our perspective to it. For example that bad thing that happened in the past, is now my motivation to ensure I achieve my goals and prove that person wrong.

There is no point focusing too much in the future because we can only control the future by our action in this moment right now, right here. So in the moment you have the power to choose the best behavior or action to make your ideal future at your ideal weight. The power is now, the power is yours!

Speak soon.
Mindful Mark

Meal Sizes and Portion Control

I found this quote which really made me think as it fits in nicely with what I read about Buddhist weight loss.

"Eat Breakfast like a king, Lunch like a prince and Dinner like a Pauper"
Source - Work Out Box

The reason behind this is best illustrated in the picture above. but also a quote from a post entitled 'The Five Contemplations While Eating' suggests why it is better to eat more in the morning according to Buddhist monks:

"I have read an interesting way Buddhist Monks eat only in the morning and why. The theory goes something like this; In the morning one hour before and one hour after sunrise the large intestine are at the most productive. The technique the monks use is to not eat until there is enough sunlight for them to see the lines on the palms of their hands. They will eat as much as they like at this point up until the sun is at its highest point (midday). The rest of the day the can drink as much water as they wish. They say that water is a great way to plug the hunger should they have any, however if they are hungry at any point through out that day, the next morning they will have more appreciation for the food and the people who supplied it."
Source - www.mindbodyweightloss.info

We would love to hear from you if this method of eating alot for breakfast, alittle less for lunch and a small dinner is something you have tried yourself and if so what results you got.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

Good Health a Great Way to Live

Today I would just like to share a quick quote which moved me and really made me thing and clarify a belief of Good Health a Great Way to Live.

The quote is this:

"Good health is simply the slowest way a human being can die."
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It moved me for 2 reason one is the realisation that, as much as we may not want to, we are all going to die. We can see this all around us there is nobody alive today who was born 150 years ago. From this we work out that we are only here for a limited time only. There is nothing we can do about it. However from the quote above shares with us that with good health we can slow the dying process down. And surely slowing down so we can spend more time on this planet with the ones we love and care is great thing to do. I say this for the reason of motivation because with good health comes our optimum healthy weight. Our weight loss can just be a by product of living healthy to spend more time with our family, friends and others. So please consider this as option, stop focusing on weight loss and concentrate on being healthy and dieing (no I did not miss the 't' out of dieting, I said dieing) as slowly as possible.

Some of the best way we can get health and slow down our dieing process is by reading these blog posts:

• Eat Less CRAP, Eat More FOOD
• Quote which makes you think about the Importance of Food
• The Best Weight Loss Strategy
• Good Food to Eat for Weight Loss

I hope you found this post thought provoking and made you think about weight loss in a different way and motivated you to try to live in a healthy and lose weight as a by product of a healthy lifestyle to live longer.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

p.s. If you wanted read more about living a longer life, I found the above quote in the above on this website.

Zen Weight Loss Tips - Part 1

Today I would like to share with you some great zen weight loss tips that I have found on Zen Habits. This first part of the tips I am going to share with you today. Keep checking over the next few days for even more.

Don’t try to lose weight. The number one indicator of excessive weight gain in the future is attempting to lose weight in the past. Don’t diet, it won’t last. Instead get up and go get more exercise.

Interestingly in hypnotherapy 'try' presuppose failure. and as the yoda once said 'Do or Do Not there is not try'

Never, never, never eat between the 3 main meals. Then eat what you want when it is time to eat.

This is very interesting and is very much a buddhist perspective, which we discussed in more detail in this post.

Avoid processed food, or at least food where you can’t pronounce the ingredients. Keep it as natural as possible.

Bang on there are so many tips that evolve around this premise, one is 'Eat Less CRAP, Eat More FOOD' the others you can read more in the post we did recently called - 'Good Food to Eat for Weight Loss'

For people who want to lose 100+ pounds, dealing with the underlying issues of self medicating depression or anxiety is going to be a lot more effective then anything else. Feeling bad about being fat and trying to lose weight, or putting yourself in exercise situations you don’t feel comfortable in are not going to really help until the underlying issues of using food to treat boredom or anxiety or depression. After treating this underlying problem, the good habits will come without nearly so much struggle.

This is so true a recent study of Psychologist concluded that Emotions were the biggest block to weight loss. With this in mind we created three posts which could help you - 'Emotions and Weight Loss', 'Emotions and Weight Loss Technique' and 'Guilt and Weight Loss '

If you would like to learn more you can check out the other parts in this series:
Zen Weight Loss Tips - Part 2
Zen Weight Loss Tips - Part 3
Zen Weight Loss Tips - Part 4


Take care and speak soon

Mindful Mark

Our Relationship with Food

Learn about why our relationship with food is so important and what our philosophy could become to enable us to lose weight.

We hope you found it helpful and if you can read the transcript for the audio on our Mind Body Weight Loss website.

Guilt and Weight Loss

Guilt and weight loss are strongly linked because diets are designed to encourage this feeling. Listen to the audio above or read the transcript on our MindBodyWeightLoss.info website to learn.

Diets do not work because they ask you to take away and deny yourself something you like, so when you have the 'thing' which you should not eat you feel guilty. This 'Weight Loss and Guilt Audio' helps demonstrate what we can do instead, how guilt is not good for us and what we should do instead.

Guilt is one of the most pointless feelings ever as we are looking back and wishing we could change an event, which we all know is impossible. With this is mind, guilt is destructive and keeps us stuck in suffering and pain. There is another way which is suggested by Buddhists, the experts on ending suffering and we discuss this in the above audio.

We would love to hear your views on this post.

Take care and speak soon.

Mindful Mark