Cathy Wilson - Articles

 

I am a certified life coach that specializes in weight loss. I coach many weight loss clients with successful weight loss and maintenance. I also coach clients internationally as well as throughout the United States. I lost 147 pounds seven years ago. My passion is helping clients achieve their weight loss and life goals. I am a member of the International Coaching Federation, the International Association of Coaches and Obesity Action Coalition.

Being Perfect on Your Diet as Set Up for Failure

It's very important that you begin your healthier lifestyle with an understanding that there will be days when you will stray from healthy eating and exercising. You will not be perfect in your diet and exercise program, nor should you be. Success doesn't come from being perfect. Success comes to you from a balance and moderation of healthy habits. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 19/08/2008 | Health

Your Weight Isn't About Food

Your weight and body issues don't have anything to do with food. It isn't what you eat but why you eat. One of the problems with weight loss surgery and diet programs is our belief that they hold the answer. If only we can follow them, they will work for us. Unfortunately for many of us, we didn't experience long-term weight loss success. Did we fail? No. Absolutely not! The diets failed because they are not the answer. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 15/08/2008 | Health

Committed or Wishing?

Do you want to lose weight? Are you hoping for a way of life that includes losing weight, feeling good in your body, wearing a smaller size, and have strong sense of confidence? You can have it. To reach any goal, you need to be committed. To lose weight requires persistence and consistency. It requires saying no to food choices when you'd rather indulge. It requires a commitment to your diet and along with a promise to yourself. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 09/07/2008 | Health

Your Personal Independence Day

As we celebrate our country's independence, celebrate your own. Independence Day is one day a year; your own personal Independence Day can be any day of the year and every day. From changing our lifestyle and our habits, we have changed our relationship with food. Rather than living as a slave and victim to food, we are now free and independent of the limitations of emotional eating. You are free! You are independent! Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 03/07/2008 | Health

Emotional Medication of Food

When you have a headache, you take an over-the-counter pain relief medication. If you have an uncomfortable emotion, do you take the relief self-medication of emotional eating? For many of us that have weight issues, emotional eating is the result from attempting to change the way we feel. When we feel an uncomfortable or undesirable emotion, we provide relief by emotional eating. Medication has its proper place just as food does too. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 01/05/2008 | Fitness

Weight Loss Success Without the Scale

Do you wake up and weigh yourself? That's fine but does it determine what mood you're in and set the pace for your day? Are you in a good mood or bad mood depending on the scale? Is the tone of your day based on the number reflected on the scale? Break the ties that bind you from being a slave to the scale. Celebrate your success and changes you're making in your life in ways other than the scale. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 22/04/2008 | Health

Impossible to Regain Weight After Weight Loss Surgery?

With weight loss surgery, are your worries about your weight are over? Do you need to think about weight issues? Weight loss surgery is not a cure for your weight woes. The surgery does not do all of the work for you. As we know, weight loss surgery is a tool. Weight regain can occur. It is a tool that WE choose to use. If you want to lose ' choose to use your surgery. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 20/04/2008 | Health

Avoid Weight Regain From Bariatric Surgery

When having weight loss surgery, you commit yourself to certain nutrition and dietary requirements. You become dedicated to a healthy lifestyle with habits that support your weight loss. Weight loss surgery is a tool to use but you must choose to use that tool. Unfortunately, weight regain or a stalled weight loss can occur. If you want to avoid the dreaded return of pounds, become aware of the pitfalls on your journey to weight loss success. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 05/04/2008 | Health

Turn Off the Scream of Emotional Eating

You received good news; you want to eat; you feel anxious or worried; you want to eat; you are feeling down for no particular reason that you can identify; you want to eat. What is this voice similar to a recording playing over and over in your head? Sometimes this voice is screaming and so overwhelming for the urge to give in. This is head hunger or emotional eating. What is emotional eating and how can you silence that voice? Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 01/04/2008 | Health

Dumping Syndrome of Gastric Bypass and Non-weight Loss Surgery Weight Loss

Are you thinking of having weight loss surgery and you've heard about dumping syndrome? What is dumping syndrome? What causes it? What's the advantage to dumping? Dumping can work well as a deterrent of eating unhealthy, sugary food choices. You can find out details about dumping syndrome as it relates to RNY Gastric Bypass, and how it can benefit non-RNY patients and non-weight loss surgery weight loss. Read

By: Cathy Wilson | 29/03/2008 | Health