When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you cringe, or just cover up the mirror? You may hear the statistics, know that you don’t feel physically well by having this extra weight, yet you aren’t able to move forward to make any changes. It feels overwhelming to handle both your extra weight and the negative thoughts you have every time you have to look at your body. What if you were to look at the situation differently?

For most people the extra pounds came about slowly, year in and year out, new pounds, less activity entered our lives. We slowly changed our eating habits, exercised less, or added more stress to our daily lives. By the way, research is showing that stress adds pounds. With so many pounds to shed, you just forget about doing anything as it feels too daunting an effort. It’s normal that when we feel overwhelmed we tend to do nothing. So what needs to change is the belief we have attached to our weight issue.

What you weigh is not who you really are, even if society places a high premium on looking slim. You have internalized that message either from parents, society, or peers and you believe that you are not good enough because you are overweight. There are a lot of overweight people contributing in many great ways to society. They are also mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, employees, employers and the list goes on regarding the many potential ways each of us add value to society. Yet you keep coming back to your weight as an indication of your worth.

Overcoming the significant belief that you are valued less because of your weight adds to the struggle of losing weight. It’s a habit that is fully imbedded into your thinking patterns. How about you change the rules of the “belief” game you have played for so long. I’m not advocating that you don’t lose weight, but more so, how you feel about yourself is most important. You may still want to lose weight but the process is different. Let’s put the actual pounds on hold and start looking at how you can feel good about yourself. Follow the next steps and see where you end up.

Do you want to lose or gain?

So you have a number in your head about the perfect body - 10, 30, 50, or 100 pounds less of you. You want to lose them today…right! Lots of people state how many pounds they need to lose in order to feel good about themselves. Well 30 pounds could take some time and does that mean you can’t feel good about yourself? Instead of using poundage to evaluate how you feel about yourself, how about you replace that focus with a different goal – how much self-love do you want to gain today in your life?

Self-Love is Important

Sounds hokey, doesn’t it. Your are thinking, “Feeling good about myself never helped me lose weight, so why bother.” That’s only because, just repeating “I love myself” doesn’t make you feel better. Instead, adding small changes in the choices you make around food can help you build your self-love muscles.

How to Build Success into Your Life

If you make small changes in the way you deal with food, you build success into your life. Success is important in building your self-love muscles. In the present, every day, you are in charge in deciding what success is.

Let’s use an example; you want to lose 30 lbs. You could select some type of diet and try to follow it until you lose the 30 lbs. You may or may not gain the weight back. Maybe you are successful for a short period of time, lose some weight, and then slowly go back to your old habits. Or you try the diet for one day, feel so deprived that your normal eating habits will take over and you don’t feel good about yourself. Why not try something else?

What if you were to look at your eating habits and say, “I can eat one less slice of bread at lunch.” Very specific…very small…yet very manageable to handle. Today, you eat one less slice of bread. That is a small success for you today. You decide to take 3-7 days eating one less slice of bread, or cup of pasta or one less of anything in your food day. At the end of this time period, you will have less calories and more success in your life. It’s manageable, doesn’t overwhelm you and is something you can do.

Two Warnings!

First, your negative thoughts will pop up quickly stating, “What a waste of time, one less slice of bread will do nothing in losing 30 lbs.” In a day, even if you were to eat nothing, you still wouldn’t lose 30 lbs. Don’t let your negative thinking take over as you build your self-love muscles.

Second, I would recommend that you keep the small changes you are making to yourself, or be very selective with whom you choose to share what you are doing. Though people do care for us, they also have their own issues and can add more negativity to your life.

Why a Small Change?

You have to make sure your change is small because otherwise your negative thinking will come in and take over. If you act on small changes, they are quickly incorporated into your life without a lot of resistance from you. After 3-7 days, or when you feel ready, select another food that you would reduce in a small way. Now you will have one less slice of bread and maybe one less cookie at night. Success is built in small steps.

At the End of the Day

I suggest you keep a success journal to capture your activity for the day. Keep it simple or write to your heart’s content. The goal is to write down your successes for the day: You can write: 1) ate one less slice of bread and 2) felt really good about myself because I stuck to my choice, or any other words that express how you experienced success in your day. You can also add other successes that have nothing to do with food. It’s your success journal.

How Do You Feel Now?

It sounds too simple to be true, yet this powerful technique of making very small changes and writing in your success journal can add success and self-love into your life. Try it for 30 days, one day at a time, and evaluate how you feel about yourself at the end of that time.

Remember small steps are wonderful and bring more energy into your life. This is your personal journey in creating more joy in your life.

Copyright (c) 2006 Pat Brill

How To Use Color to Cure Adult Dylexia

Many of those affected by adult dylexia must learn to manage the condition on their own. Colors can be out to use effectively when doing so.Historical evidence points out that diseases like dyslexia are quite often caused by color. There is a widespread belief that the glare of white paper is the culprit on why children and adults with this condition have a hard time reading the page.People that have this kind of dyslexia are not able to focus on the data they are reading on plain white paper. Thus, they have a hard time memorizing or learning the information that is written on the paper. White paper is considered to be very aversive, which is the same reason why learning has become aversive as well. Also, color is used to make reading somewhat more pleasant, especially to a dyslexic reader. So here are some ways on how putting color into your life can change your reading and organizational skills dramatically!Color coding has been found to be useful by a lot of dyslexics. This can have a great impact on your organizational skills. For example, color coding your computer disks by class can be helpful. You can also try making specific colored labels to stick to your disks, or CD’s so that you know which one is for which use. Buying color coded notebooks can be done too. In this way, you know which notebook is for what class by simply looking at the color. Color coding saves you a lot of time, since you don’t have to waste your time looking through unorganized material.Since most printed material in the market are usually on white paper, highlighters can become your best friend, if you want to read the page with some color. You can have several highlighters close by when reading books. This can also be helpful when you often lose track of the meaning of what you are reading and what part of the book are you already. Highlighting may seem messy for some people, but it can be very useful for dyslexics. However, be sure that whatever it is that you are highlighting is yours. Keep off highlighting library books since this can cause you to pay fines or even replace the book. If you don’t like highlighting data that you have written, then writing it down or printing it on colored paper would be useful. It will only make your reading effort easier, in the absence of the glow of a white paper. If you trouble differentiating right from left, then you can use colors to help you distinguish between them. The use of contrasting colors, such as red and blue, would be best. For example, wearing a blue sock on your right foot and a red sock on your left can assist you to remember which is which. Nothing can be more useful if and when direction is an issue.

Agoraphobia - How to Handle Agoraphobia
by Bertil Hjert

Agoraphobia can be referred to as one of the forms of panic attacks. This is one of the most depressing and restricting types of panic attacks.

Most people understand agoraphobia as an extreme fear of a loss of total control. Here, the patient tends to feel this fear as soon as he or she leaves a place full of security and control, usually home.

A lot has been written and said about how to overcome this condition. It means the way to remain calm when trapped in a situation thats out of control.

Here are some of the most common treatments followed widely to handle this panic attack:

1) Cognitive therapy

This is an approach thats based on the traditional belief that lying on the couch and talking about problems works. Since, it is quite difficult to fix up an appointment to meet therapists and the treatment is quite costly, this therapy just might work.

2) Behavior therapy

During this therapy, the patient gets exposed to different situations that would make them panic at a slow pace. This is done to make the patient hard against these situations. The whole treatment can be full of problems because it is scary for the patient. The treatment will work but it is very painful.

3) Relaxation techniques

These techniques are not harmful at times, when nothing seems to work, relaxation techniques work.

4) Hypnotherapy

This method allows the therapist to make the sufferers reprogram their thought patterns to a certain degree. This technique has a lot of positive effect on the sufferer when it comes to controlling agoraphobia

Apart from the techniques mentioned above, there are several other ways to overcome this disorder. The best and the most effective way is to understand the condition. It is true that the sufferer may be well aware of the situation, but it may be misunderstood by the friends and relatives of these sufferers.

Hence, it is very important to ones that agoraphobia can be a debilitating disorder. Most people with this phobia are actually not afraid of open space but fear getting anxiety attacks when they come out of their comfort zone. This also causes them a lot of embarrassment.

When it comes to overcoming this disease, the process may be quite long and tinning. It may actually take a long time to reverse the effects of agoraphobia. The cure may take a long time depending on the severity of the condition. If you four on treating the condition as early as possible, the better will be the results.

Hence, when it comes to curing agoraphobia, early diagnosis is extremely important.

Try to fix up a meeting with the health care practitioner as soon as you feel that you are feeling anxious about certain situation or want to avoid them.

Your health care practitioner would be the best person to judge which treatment to provide you.

What is The Law of Attraction?

The law of attraction is the belief that like energy attracts like energy. What we %26ldquo;put out there%26rdquo; is what we receive back. This is a very powerful concept when you think about it. It basically states that we are ultimately responsible for everything that happens to us in our lives%26shy;good or bad. Once you embrace this idea you really have to let go of a victim mentality.The law of attraction is the idea that our thoughts can influence our lives significantly. Whatever we create in our minds we can then manifest in our lives as long as we are taking some kind of action. Because this applies for positive and negative thoughts, it is important to be aware of our negative thoughts and minimize them as much as possible.Did you know you have over 100 negative and only 6 positive thoughts in your mind in the course of one day?You can use several techniques to minimize your negative thoughts. Meditation is great for quieting the %26ldquo;ego chatter%26rdquo; in your head and helping you to really become aware of the thoughts racing through your head. Yoga is another practice used to better direct your energy flow. Positive affirmations repeated daily can also be an effective tool to keep your thought more positive throughout the day.The law of attraction can be used to attract prosperity, marriage; dream jobs truly anything you set your mind to you can achieve. Have you ever noticed that the people that you are close to in your life are like minded? That has to do with your energy drawing the people into your life that you feel most comfortable with.Our minds can easily setup expectations that then will play out in our daily lives. Did you ever have a day where everything seems to go wrong? It starts in the morning maybe you break something by accident; the newspaper isn%26rsquo;t delivered etc. and it sets our tone for the rest of the day. You may even catch yourself saying %26ldquo;what else is going to go wrong for me today?%26rdquo; At that point you are expecting something else to go wrong, and that is what you are %26ldquo;putting out there%26rdquo;. The law of attraction will not disappoint you it will send you just what you are anticipating another thing to go wrong!The law of attraction has been recently popularized by the movie and book %26ldquo;The Secret%26rdquo;.It has millions of people asking themselves, %26ldquo;can using the law of attraction bring wealth, love and happiness into my life?%26rdquo;

Alcohol Rehab Programs - Does AA Work?

Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most well known alcohol rehab programs in the United States and yet some experts are questioning its effectiveness despite the widely held belief that this 12 step program is effective.According to many sources there are more than 10 million alcoholics in the United States. The current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous stands at only 700,000 admitted alcoholics. This is roughly 7% of potential members enrolled in the program. This short coming is startling when you consider their massive head start over other alcohol rehab programs in that they had a near monopoly since their inception in 1935.And yet 4 out of 5 people who go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings soon drop out.According to Jerry Dorsman of Maryland’s Cecil County Department of Health, only 12% of members remain in the program for more than three years. Other researchers consider 12% to be a highly optimistic figure.When considered in the light of the total number of alcoholics in the United States Alcoholics Anonymous has a success rate is between 1.2% and 2.4%. Consider also the fact that 45% of the people who attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings never return after their first meeting and 95% never return after the first year.Figures like these led Jeffery Schaler, author, editor and therapist to claim that while many believe Alcoholics Anonymous is an effective alcohol rehabilitation program, “There is no evidence to support this claim.”But what are the other options?According to many authorities most successful treatments are non-confrontational approaches that create the desire to change in the individual with the drinking problem.It starts by building the individuals awareness of their problem and its effects. This can be done through Alcoholic Self Assessment Tests or through direct intervention, which could be no more threatening than a review of the amount an individual drinks during a given period.Once the extent of the drinking problem has been established a set goal of reducing the number of alcoholic drinks is agreed upon rather than complete abstinence. A regular structured review of the patients progress can be, and often is reinforced by other positive motivators such as self help manuals and personal reflection on the contradictory nature of their desire to drink and their view of their problems.The focus of true alcoholic rehabilitation comes with an awareness of the individuals own desire to change and the discovery that they have the strength to do so without turning to the bottle.People change when they are ready. Helping people become aware of their drinking problem and its effect on their life and the lives of those around them is a huge step towards alcoholic rehabilitation. Confidential Self Assessment Tests are a great tool for someone who isn’t quite ready to even begin thinking about approaching a counselor or group.Effective change happens with the individual.

How To Use Color to Cure Adult Dylexia

Many of those affected by adult dylexia must learn to manage the condition on their own. Colors can be out to use effectively when doing so.Historical evidence points out that diseases like dyslexia are quite often caused by color. There is a widespread belief that the glare of white paper is the culprit on why children and adults with this condition have a hard time reading the page.People that have this kind of dyslexia are not able to focus on the data they are reading on plain white paper. Thus, they have a hard time memorizing or learning the information that is written on the paper. White paper is considered to be very aversive, which is the same reason why learning has become aversive as well. Also, color is used to make reading somewhat more pleasant, especially to a dyslexic reader. So here are some ways on how putting color into your life can change your reading and organizational skills dramatically!Color coding has been found to be useful by a lot of dyslexics. This can have a great impact on your organizational skills. For example, color coding your computer disks by class can be helpful. You can also try making specific colored labels to stick to your disks, or CD’s so that you know which one is for which use. Buying color coded notebooks can be done too. In this way, you know which notebook is for what class by simply looking at the color. Color coding saves you a lot of time, since you don’t have to waste your time looking through unorganized material.Since most printed material in the market are usually on white paper, highlighters can become your best friend, if you want to read the page with some color. You can have several highlighters close by when reading books. This can also be helpful when you often lose track of the meaning of what you are reading and what part of the book are you already. Highlighting may seem messy for some people, but it can be very useful for dyslexics. However, be sure that whatever it is that you are highlighting is yours. Keep off highlighting library books since this can cause you to pay fines or even replace the book. If you don’t like highlighting data that you have written, then writing it down or printing it on colored paper would be useful. It will only make your reading effort easier, in the absence of the glow of a white paper. If you trouble differentiating right from left, then you can use colors to help you distinguish between them. The use of contrasting colors, such as red and blue, would be best. For example, wearing a blue sock on your right foot and a red sock on your left can assist you to remember which is which. Nothing can be more useful if and when direction is an issue.

What is The Law of Attraction?

The law of attraction is the belief that like energy attracts like energy. What we %26ldquo;put out there%26rdquo; is what we receive back. This is a very powerful concept when you think about it. It basically states that we are ultimately responsible for everything that happens to us in our lives%26shy;good or bad. Once you embrace this idea you really have to let go of a victim mentality.The law of attraction is the idea that our thoughts can influence our lives significantly. Whatever we create in our minds we can then manifest in our lives as long as we are taking some kind of action. Because this applies for positive and negative thoughts, it is important to be aware of our negative thoughts and minimize them as much as possible.Did you know you have over 100 negative and only 6 positive thoughts in your mind in the course of one day?You can use several techniques to minimize your negative thoughts. Meditation is great for quieting the %26ldquo;ego chatter%26rdquo; in your head and helping you to really become aware of the thoughts racing through your head. Yoga is another practice used to better direct your energy flow. Positive affirmations repeated daily can also be an effective tool to keep your thought more positive throughout the day.The law of attraction can be used to attract prosperity, marriage; dream jobs truly anything you set your mind to you can achieve. Have you ever noticed that the people that you are close to in your life are like minded? That has to do with your energy drawing the people into your life that you feel most comfortable with.Our minds can easily setup expectations that then will play out in our daily lives. Did you ever have a day where everything seems to go wrong? It starts in the morning maybe you break something by accident; the newspaper isn%26rsquo;t delivered etc. and it sets our tone for the rest of the day. You may even catch yourself saying %26ldquo;what else is going to go wrong for me today?%26rdquo; At that point you are expecting something else to go wrong, and that is what you are %26ldquo;putting out there%26rdquo;. The law of attraction will not disappoint you it will send you just what you are anticipating another thing to go wrong!The law of attraction has been recently popularized by the movie and book %26ldquo;The Secret%26rdquo;.It has millions of people asking themselves, %26ldquo;can using the law of attraction bring wealth, love and happiness into my life?%26rdquo;

People with Social Anxiety or think that they might have this state must be opened about it and see a surgeon to be given appropriate healing before it’s too behind. Have you experienced what it must be like gathering your big boss for the first time? The thought of being watched by your bigger while running is demanding, isn’t it? Or, possibly you are so anxious to go to a beach crew because you have not shed enough pounds to apparel the two-section swim flatter (who knows how many living have them!), and you are so bothered on what the people might say if you apparel them with the spare baggage wrapping around your body? Those feelings are just naturally. For while you have reasons to be anxious about something, it is wholly habitual .Nevertheless, if the unease is drinking you up and you become anxious about what other people might say, or think, or do to you, which you know does not have rational origin, and the worst part is, you find it strenuous to charge your thought or emotion, that is shared unease. Social alarm or party horror are one of the principal mental strength heed harms in the word in the award day. A someone with shared worry easily spends time forlorn, closeted, away from people. They lean to decide to be deserted than to be around with other people for fear that they might not fit in some ways or the other. Even when they are with forward people, they may still feel overwhelmed and have the belief that every movement and thought they made have been constantly watched or criticized. The mood of being pragmatic or being misjudged is one of the things that keep them away from people. People with communal disquiet are regularly misdiagnosed and are usually labeled as schizophrenic, creepy-depressive, among other detrimental misdiagnoses. Because there few public anxious people have heard of their own state and have never seen it discussed on any media, they tend to think that they’re unaided in this world anguish from the disturbing symptoms. The current is they keep their order to themselves for fear of being misjudged, and with the lack of report, tutoring, and good healing community angst continues to impair their lives. In addition, when the time comes the people with communal terror lastly gets to their feet and seeks help, the odds are very slim. When worst comes to worst, people who experienced this name for a day, will have it everyday for the lean of hi/her life. They are people with party angst disorder. One thing regular to all socially anxious people is that they allocate the same data that their feelings and fears are basically irrational, which only means, they know right that the people they think are misjudging and criticizing them are not exact at all. They acknowledged that their opinion, doubts, and feelings are in a way exaggerated and irrational, yet, despite the actuality that they know what’s truly free on, they find it hard to sway, and remain to think that way. If there’s bad, there’s forever good, and the good thing is that gathering worry is curable. There are many therapeutic methods which have been studied, but cognitive-behavioral therapy is the only modality that has been made known to work effectively. Actually, the behavior of social terror through cognitive-behavioral methods has the scope to deliver long-term, permanent relief to sufferers of social horror. Isn’t it a delighted finale, after all? Want to find out about social phobias and school phobia? Get tips from the Phobia List website.

The Role of Denial in Chronic Pain Management

Dr. Stephen F. Grinstead, LMFT, ACRPS, CADC-IIThe Roadblock Called DenialIf you don’t know whether or not you have a problem, it can be difficult to find a solution. Many of my clients have the mistaken belief that “I can’t be addicted because I’m in pain and a doctor gave me the medication.” If you do have a problem, and if in fact have been abusing or are addicted to your pain medication, as well as experiencing life-damaging consequences, this can be one of the four levels of denial. The first step in managing denial is recognizing it and understanding what level you’re at. The Four Levels of DenialThe first level of denial is a lack of information about addiction, pain and recovery. The above example shows this first level. The solution here is for you to be open to education and information about addiction, pain and recovery. It is important for you to learn as much as you possibly can about medication dependency, abuse or addiction and what constitutes effective pain management.The second level of denial is conscious defensiveness. You know that something is wrong but you don’t want to look at the problem and face the pain of knowing. You tend to vigorously defend yourself and deny a problem even though you know you have one. The solution for this level of denial is to recognize that you are experiencing an inner conflict where one part of you knows there’s a problem, but another part doesn’t want to admit it. To resolve this conflict you must be willing to listen to the part that knows the truth and take authentic action. The old saying “the truth will set you free” is certainly relevant in this case. The third level is denial is an unconscious defense mechanism. You get to this level when you have stayed in the inner conflict, mentioned above, and the defensive voice keeps winning. Once this happens denial then becomes an unconscious defense mechanism. The solution here is more difficult. It usually takes outside interventions or what is called a motivational crisis to break through this defense and allow yourself to see the truth and address the problem. For some of my patients this motivational crisis was generated when their treating physicians became concerned about their use/abuse of pain medication. For others it was family members intervening and urging them to seek help.The fourth level is denial is the delusional system—this is the toughest level to get through. Terence Gorski describes this level of denial as “a mistaken belief that is firmly held to be true despite convincing evidence that it is not true.” Sometimes this fourth level is exacerbated by brain damage that was caused by the use of psychoactive substances, such as prescription medication and/or alcohol and other drugs. If your denial were at this level you probably would not be reading this article. People at this level of denial usually need psychotherapy and probably medication management to resolve their delusional system. The Denial Management ProcessDenial Management Counseling (DMC) is a treatment modality designed to assist people with alcohol and drug related problems or other self-defeating behaviors that are also experiencing high levels of denial and treatment resistance.The DMC process focuses upon developing appropriate treatment plans, targeted interviewing, and using a sequence of proven action steps to help people to make the initial commitment to treatment. The main goal of DMC is to help motivate people to accept the need for additional help, to seek it out and follow through with specific action plans. Identifying and managing denial and resistance is often the missing link in many programs that treat addiction or chronic pain.Goals of DMC- Interrupt patterns of denial- Recognize potential addiction related, or other self-defeating life problems- Identify the problems and negative consequences that result from these self-defeating patterns- Motivate clients to accept a referral to the next level of treatmentIn my new Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management Workbook by Stephen F. Grinstead, Terence T. Gorski, and Jennifer C. Messier, I adapted the DMC process and specified it for pain management. It is an excellent resource for those people who may need more comprehensive denial management work. To learn more about it please go to my website articles page http://www.addiction-free.com/articles/articles/view/from-denial-to-effective-pain-management; or go to my publications page http://www.addiction-free.com/publications.html to see how to order.I believe that understanding and managing denial is crucial for effective pain management. The following are the titles and brief description of the twelve pain denial patterns from the Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management Workbook, used with full permission.The Pain Denial Pattern Checklist1. Avoidance: “I’ll do anything to not talk about my pain management problem!”2. Total Denial: “No not me! I don’t have a problem with my pain!”3. Minimizing: “My pain management problems aren’t that big of a deal!”4. Rationalizing: “If I can find good enough reasons for my problems with pain management, I won’t have to deal with them!”5. Blaming: “If I can prove that my problems with pain management aren’t my fault, I won’t have to deal with them!”6. Comparing: “Showing that others are worse off than me proves that I don’t have serious problem with my pain management!”7. Compliance: “I’ll pretend to give you what you want so you’ll leave me alone!”8. Manipulating: “I play the game to convince others to do all the work for my pain management.”9. Having A Flight Into Health: “Feeling better means that I’m cured and I can coast!”10. Fear of Change: “If I don’t focus on having a problem with my pain I won’t know who I am or how else to relate!” 11. Diagnosing Myself as Beyond Help: “Since nothing I do has ever worked for my pain management, I don’t have to try anymore—I don’t want to be let down yet again!”12. I Have the Right to be This Way, AKA It’s My Body: “I have the right to do whatever I want to do or don’t want to do with my body and for my pain management and no one has the right to tell me any different!”

Weight for weight’s sake, health for god sake

The facts about being over-weight “The difficulty of weight loss is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves, and help themselves and help themselves…” Some would say this is unfair, since not all weight control problems are caused by overeating, or is it?Overweight people, especially the young and parents of children often think they have something wrong with their glands. Fatness from this cause is exceedingly rare-a busy doctor might go through his career without seeing a case. To all intents and purposes, obesity is the result of eating too much, or too much of the wrong food. There are three types of fuel in the diet, fat, protein and carbohydrates. They are to some extent interchangeable. Any unburnt fuel can be converted to fat and stored in the tissues. In practise, the excess is nearly always carbohydrate and not fat or protein. Too much fat in the diet is difficult to stomach, and too much protein increases the rate of combustion and the excess is burnt and not stored. Unfortunately, there seems to be no justice about weight control problems. Some people seem able to eat any amount without putting on weight. Others are chemically less adaptable and have to be strong-minded if they are to control their body weight within the reasonable bounds. Overeating is a common neurosis, in some way due to a sense of insecurity. In such cases the patient is not likely to reduce his diet without skilled attention to the emotional problem. Or it may be a habit acquired in early childhood and hard to break later on. The popular belief that chubby babies are healthy is fostered by advertisers of baby foods. It is a dangerous belief, chubby babies grow into weighty children and weighty adults. Exertion for the large is a trial, so they take less than enough exercise and have less control on their weight issues. On the other hand, ill informed slimming and weight-loss techniques also has its dangers. Bangkok CureAccording to science, there are only two-certain ways for weight loss. One is to eat less, in particular less sugar and starch. The other is to use more energy without eating more, unfortunately exercise promotes appetite and a very little extra amount of food would cancel out most of the exercise. Health foods which include, fruits and salads and certain breads or rice, not to mention extra water intake help by filling the stomach and taking the edge of appetite without providing much fuel. The dictators of fashion are not concerned with health, and when fashion decrees that we should look like half-starved whippets, we run a very big risk of malnutrition and other diet related illnesses. Specialists tell us that we should seek medical advice when it comes to dieting, hospitals such as the Samitivej hospital in Bangkok, Thailand offer a range of services including health and weight control assessments using some of the latest state-of-the-art technology. Next time you are in Bangkok why not pay them a visit, they are open daily for consultations.