Archives: September 2010 Archives › Tru Health and Wellness

If You Want Change, Stop Playing The Same Game!

Fact #1: The weight loss industry’s annual revenue for 2008 was roughly $60 billion dollars. The major players in this game include weight loss centers like Jenny Craig, cosmetic surgeons who perform liposuction, over-the-counter diet supplements and prescription diet pills, diet programs such as Nutrisystem, and the diet food and [...]

THE HIDDEN POWER BEHIND OUR GOALS

In my 15 years in the health and fitness industry, the 5 stages below are the most common pattern I’ve seen when a person does NOT reach their health goal: A person decides to follow a new exercise or nutrition program. Before starting the program, they decide what they’re trying [...]

Is It Possible To Be Stuffed and Starved?

For the first time in human history, we are experiencing a state of being that I like to call “stuffed and starved.” The vast majority of our genetic lifetimes, our body only went into starvation mode when we had no food. Two major technological advances changed all that. (1) Large [...]

THE WEIGHT LOSS OBSTACLES WE FACE ARE CREATED BY THE APPROACH WE TAKE TO OVERCOME THEM

An Indian holy man named Ramana Maharshi once said that the mind is like a thief who steals things from a house, then goes outside and becomes a cop…to find the thief that is himself. I’ve thought quite a bit about this statement, and in the area of weight loss [...]