Make today the first day of the rest of your life!

If you are telling yourself you will never lose weight or that it is too hard, or that you have no self control and you accept these thoughts, you will only sabotage your efforts to manage your weight.  What you tell yourself can make you feel stressed, anxious, worried, depressed and more apt to binge or overeat.  You need to change your thinking!! Recognise that there will be events which you will not have control...

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Learn to say "No".

Learn To Say 'No' It is such a small, but can be a very powerful word. It is not always easy to say. There are however some things that you can do to make ‘saying no’ a bit easier in your life, so that you can put more of your time and energy into the things that truly mean the most to you - such as reaching your goal! Kindly defuse and then say your needIt becomes easier for people to accept your no if you kindly defuse...

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Addictions & Discipline

Discipline is a something that most people lack, even though they might try to convince you otherwise. Most of us believe that we are capable of making our own decisions and nothing can influence those decisions. 99% of the time this is not the case. Many, if not all of us are slaves to our addictions. They are hard to fight and when we do not get our fix, we get irritable and try anything to get it.  It doesn’t...

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Margaret Homsy Continued Journey

Since my last entry as to my weight loss journey, I have shed a few more kilos!  I am stablising now, which is fantastic! I can't believe I have lost a total of 98kg.  It really does blow my mind! Cohen's has taught me to listen to my body and only use food as my fuel. I have learnt that I am unique and I'm no longer that unhappy person I once was. Shedding my sumo suit has revealed so much about my emotional struggles and I'm grateful...

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Say No To The Victim Mentality

Say NO! How do you react if your day doesn't go the way you planned? At first you might feel pain, but after your initial feelings, do you think of yourself as a victim with little or no control or power? You might slip back into a headspace where you feel sorry for yourself and it feels like the whole world is against you. Many people get stuck in this mentality from time to time. Here are a few things that may help you move out...

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Guilty As Charged

We are all guilty of breaking "weight-loss rules" from time to time. It comes with being human. The important thing is that we learn from our mistakes. Label them as experience, put them behind us and keep working towards our goal.  I will start again next week You decided that you wanted to start living a healthy lifestyle when you signed up for your Cohen's Lifestyle Clinic Program. Sure, but it is Thursday. Might as well wait and...

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Margaret Homsy in the Hills Shire Times - Let's beat the obesity epidemic together!

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Make A Decision And Focus

Keep your focus on things that are useful The things that you dwell on in your conscious mind, grow in your experience, so the key to success is to focus your conscious mind on the things you desire, not the things you may fear. This is very important and sometimes clients do not grasp the full extent of it. When your focus is split and you fill your mind with a normal amount of negativity or dwell on times that you slipped up with...

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A Little Loss Weighs Up to a Lot

Personal note from Margaret:- I am getting a lot of people comparing their weigh loss to mine and they are becoming very disappointed that they are not losing the same amount of weight. People shouldn't be comparing their weight loss. When I was a bigger girl I would do the same. The weeks I had lost 500grams, I had lost a heap in measurements and the weeks I had lost a heap of weight my measurements didn't really shift. So appreciate all weight...

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How to beat the Easter Chocolate Crave!

The countdown is on! Easter eggs have taken over the supermarket isles and children are counting the sleeps until the Easter Bunny pays them a visit! With any holiday, most people associate it with glucose gluttony and health experts are urging Australians to think about Easter treats in terms of exercise rather than eggs. It's not just the chocolate that we eat over Easter that keeps us from achieving our healthy weight, so I'm not going to rant...

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Making lifestyle decisions for our future generations

There has been a lot of discussion on Facebook given the Biggest Loser is about to air! One of the discussions is about our children, our next generations. What would you do for your child if they had a weight problem? Why did it get to that point to start with? Children need role models, they learn and then follow what you do! It's all about what you put in your mouth. You make the decision to purchase processed food. Those decisions are then...

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Get Motivated Now!

You can use these very easy steps to find your personal reasons for wanting to change your lifestyle or simply refuel your motivation right now!  What motivates you? When you want to make changes in your life to lose weight, it is not always easy to keep the motivation up. It can slip and you may fall back into old eating habits or you may get stuck in daydreams and never actually start changing your lifestyle. Here is a very effective...

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Why do we fall off the wagon?

I bet I know what you're feeling right now. You have been following your program for weeks or months and you were feeling good about yourself and the progress you were making. Your weight was getting closer to your goal and all was good.  Until . . . you fell off the wagon! It probably started with that little piece of chocolate that turned into two or three bigger pieces. Perhaps it was more sudden, like pigging out during a big birthday...

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The Beck Diet Solution

I really dislike the word “diet”, hence why I was very hesitant in buying this book!  I am glad I did though. Losing weight – that’s the easy bit!  It’s keeping it off and training that brain of ours to work with us not against us! For me, keeping the weight of this time is going to be different!  I have also learnt how to deal with those "food pushers". Yes you all know who I am talking about.  It is such a wonderful joy...

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Letting go of the "large" person and seeing YOU

  I thought I would get a little personal with our blog today and talk about the tricks our minds play on us when we lose weight. It is especially hard on my loved ones when they can clearly see what I look like now, but I don't. I think unless you have been in “my shoes”, people do not realise the emotional downside to being overweight almost your entire life to becoming healthy. You do not know how to look at the world, or yourself,...

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