Healthy Habits™ is a step-by-step program designed to help you get and stay slim by combining psychology, behavior modification, Neuro-Linguistic Programming along with the American Dietetic Association's eating guide.  Healthy Habits™ will help you uncover hidden reasons that may have prevented you from losing weight in the past.   

For example:  In Workshop "Week #1: Your Commitment to Change," we ask you to focus on the positive intentions associated with being overweight.  Many people continue to stay overweight despite their sincere efforts to slim down.

Positive intentions are an attempt to protect yourself, take care of yourself, or to meet some need.  Appreciate that there is an unconscious part of your mind that is using excess weight or overeating for some positive purpose.  Here are some examples: 

• Excess weight wards-off unwanted attention from the opposite sex.
• It provides an excuse to reduce, eliminate, or shirk a responsibility.
• It is another way to say “no.”
• It is a way to express anger.
• It feels like a protective shield from real or supposed dangers.
• It means you don’t have to compete with others who look beautiful.
• It means good health, if you think that thin people are sickly.
• It promotes modesty and humility.
• It prevents others from feeling jealous of your looks.
• It means people will like you for reasons other than your looks.

 Some unconscious purposes of overeating are:

• Overeating provides momentary comfort and distraction from uncomfortable emotions such as anger, loneliness, nervousness, guilt, sadness and stress.
• Overeating is a way of being sociable and fitting in with others.
• It is something to do when you are bored.

On pages 40 to 42 of Healthy Habits: Total Conditioning for a Healthy Body & Mind we give you three examples of women who used overeating and excess weight for unconscious purposes.  Amy became heavy so her husband would stop acting jealous and possessive.  Gloria used her excess weight to ward-off the unwanted flirtations and sexual interest of men.  Babette used weight to express anger toward her mother, who was overly concerned and critical about Babette’s physical appearance.

Once you purchase the book, Healthy Habits: Total Conditioning for a Healthy Body & Mind, you'll be able to download all of the workshop exercises.  It is a 10-week course that teaches you how to shed excess pounds and keep them off!
 
For a limited time, you can get the workshop exercises for free when you purchase the book.  These books are available at BarnesAndNoble.com and amazon.com.  BarnesAndNoble.com ships in 2-3 days and is offered at a discount. Once you have your copy of Healthy Habits: Total Conditioning for a Healthy Body and Mind you can access the online workshops.

In the near future, Healthy Habits will hold online weekly workshops to help you eat right, control stress and improve image in just 10 weeks! By participating in these weekly workshops you will effectively adopt a system of proven techniques that lead to success. This program will meet in a chat room once a week for 10 weeks.

This program allows you to practice these new habits over several weeks so you can incorporate them into your "real life" situations. Focused primarily in the health field, these success techniques will bring the mind and body together in total fitness. With a personal coach, you'll be challenged to develop the total you, bringing a sense of balance into many areas of your life.

Healthy Habits: Total Conditioning for a Healthy Body and Mind
By: Kathy Corsetty and Judith E. Pearson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Dageforde Publishing Inc.
Pages: 278 (Paperback)
ISBN 1-886225-47-8

Available at