Weight Loss Guru

Hi there everyone,

Most of you know that one of the most important things I talk about is the voice in our heads that quacks away at us like a duck.

Our basic quality of life comes down to how we communicate with ourselves and what we say to ourselves. Our lives can improve so much by getting the duck to shut up, so the next time you find yourself giving yourself a hard time, say the mantra to yourself: "SHUT THE DUCK UP"

I hope you like the picture of the duck flying away because with a bit of work may be yours will too and you'll be free to enjoy your life more!
Download a really big version of the picture here.

Oh, and - here's an older post on the duck... 

See you all soon!
Pete

If social pressures to eat have brought you down in the past and you find it hard to say “NO” it doesn’t matter. You’re free to make up a whole new set of rules for dealing with situations in the future. Your circumstances might not change, the people around you might not change. But you can change!

So why do we find it so hard to say NO when we are offered tempting food? There are few reason for this, one being that we don’t want to hurt other peoples feelings when they offer us something. Another reason is the simple fact that these foods taste great and give us a high. In the western world most people eat, not because they are hungry, but because food stimulates their senses and makes them feel good.

We're biologically driven to feel good and our brain seeks out pleasure. Food fits the bill for a lot of people a lot of the time and this is why so many waistlines are expanding.  To help you, the next time someone offers you something and you are not hungry, stop for a moment and ask yourself the question “Do I like this food enough that I want to wear it?” Then picture this food on your thighs or on your backside. I am sure this will make you think twice and make it easier for you to say the magical word “NO”

Hi there everyone,

As you probably already know I have weight loss programme called www.petecohen.tv

It's been up and running for about eight months and during that time we have had some amazing results from people following it. 

Recently we were able to get a few of these people together to film their testimonials about the programme. If you like, you can see this video here

Hope you enjoy,
Best, Pete.

I am often asked by people who want to lose weight the best ways to measure their progress. The most popular measure is of course using the scales. I sometimes tell people that weigh themselves often that scales are for fish rather than weighing.

It’s important to remember that the scales don’t always give an accurate reflection of how you are doing. When you get on the scales, you’re not just measuring fat loss, you’re weighing everything else as well: muscle, bone, skin and water. Fat loss needs to be your primary focus and it should be a priority to actually increase your muscle and bone density. There’s a lot more to slimming than shedding fat. If you just shed fat, it’s very likely to creep back on again. If you want to be permanently slimmer you’ll have to replace some of that fat with energy-burning muscle.

Fat takes up to five times more space on your body than muscle, but muscle weighs a lot more so the scales won’t show that rapid reduction you’ve been hoping for. Remember that your weight can fluctuate from day to day for many biological reasons – and women, in particular, retain more fluid at some times of the month than at others. More important, even with modern scales it’s hard to be exact about your muscle mass and tone, or work out exactly what proportion of your weight is made up of fat, muscle or bone.

Over the years, I have seen hundreds of people, who have followed my weight loss programme, who couldn’t understand why their jeans were getting baggier when the scales didn’t register any change for, three, four, or even six weeks. The reason, of course, was that as they were losing fat they were gaining muscle, and the muscle they gained was heavier than the fat, it also took up much less body space.

When some people follow my programme they find that their weight can fluctuate a bit to begin with, especially if they have been yo-yo dieting. Some people start to lose around 2 pounds a week steadily right from the first week. While others will be two or three weeks into the programme before they see a consistent loss. This is absolutely fine – it took you a long time to gain the weight, so give your self time to lose it.

Read on and check out my guidelines for measuring your weight loss success...

Hi there everyone.

I have come up with a new survey to find out about how people's weight affects their summer holidays.
http://www.petecohen.tv/go/weight-loss-questionnaire/

I would really appreciate you taking the short bit of time that it takes to fill it in. We will be colating the results at the end of the month and be sharing them with you all.

Please could you ask anyone you know who wants to lose weight, even if it's just a few pounds to fill in the questionnaire.
Thank you so much.
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Do you find that there are times in the year when you feel seriously overworked, that no matter how many hours you put in your in tray remains full? Does your energy dip and your home life suffer; you have no time for relaxation and you begin to feel under the weather? If so you are not alone. As the pace of life increases and our expectations rise the incidences of stress in our daily lives multiply.  In this Sort Your Life Out chapter I will give you tips on how to identify and cope with stress.

In 2004, the Government announced that stress costs the UK economy approximately £13.5 billion each year through lost productivity and increased illness at work.  And it’s estimated that 70% of visits to the doctors and 85% of serious illness is triggered or made worse by stress. It’s easy to see from these dramatic statistics that stress has become very common - but what exactly are we talking about? 

The official definition of stress (as defined by the Health and Safety Executive) is ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them’. Or, as Dr. Frank Bond, senior lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths College, London, said, stress is ‘dealing with a situation that we feel exceeds our ability to cope’.

But stress isn’t always a negative thing because we can experience good and bad stress.

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