Essential Weight Loss Ingredient

Feeling Good is important for Weight Loss
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Feeling Good is Essential for Weight Loss

As someone who loves food and cooking, I find it helpful to think of weight loss like a recipe.

There’s no shortage of diets and weight loss plans to choose from.

Have you strolled the “diet and weight loss” aisle at Border’s or Barnes and Noble or some other big bookstore lately?

There are hundreds of books all claiming to have the secret to solving your weight loss woes. No wonder weight loss is a $60+ billion industry!

It’s enough to make your head spin.

After decades of trial and error and contributing more than my fair share to the diet and weight loss industry, I’ve discovered that with most things in life, including weight loss, simpler is better.

Life is complicated enough without adding a bunch of unnecessary rules, regulations, requirements and restrictions.

That’s why I’ve come up with what I consider The Best Recipe for Losing Weight.

It’s a simple approach with just three main ingredients – food, fitness, and feeling good.

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Ready to Simplify Life?

Is it time to simplify?

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
~Henry David Thoreau

Are you drowning in your stuff?

Starved for time?

Feeling overwhelmed?

Ready to get out of the vicious work and spend cycle?

Do you long for a a life that reflects your priorities and values?

Do the headlines and economic indicators – skyrocketing gas prices, declining house values, increasing job layoffs, and diminishing dollar – have you exploring ways to tighten your belt?

The time may be right to take a closer look at Simple Living, an approach to life practiced for centuries by the Shakers, Amish and Mennonites and advocated by Henry David Thoreau back in the 1850s.

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Simple Wardrobe Test

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Do we really wear only 20 percent of our clothes 80 percent of the time?

It seems hard to believe, but studies say it’s true for most of us.

How many of your clothes have been languishing in your closet for years?

Do you have items with the tags still on them?

I am guilty on both counts.

Who hasn’t made an impulsive clothing purchase they’ve later regretted?

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Simple Living

I have been an avid reader of Janet Luhrs’ Simple Living newsletter for years. It began back in the late 1990s when I read her book, The Simple Living Guide, a thoughtful practical guide for how to simplify our busy lives and live more deliberately.

According to lawyer turned simple living advocate and writer Luhrs, living simply is not about being frugal, living on a tight budget, or a modest income; it’s about being fully aware of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it so we can have lives that nourish us.

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