Weight Loss Motivation? – Remember the Alamo! by Boyd Jentzsch A long time ago, in what was then the distance reaches of the American frontier, a small band of men, some with wives and children, holed up in the 100 year old Alamo church mission of West Texas. Making the soft adobe walls as strong […]
Don’t be a REPEAT Weight Loss Customer
June 6, 2014 By
Don’t be a REPEAT Weight Loss Customer by Boyd Jentzsch Defeat is an ugly word. No one wears it very well. When it happens to you, you put the best face you can on it, and move forward. I had a lengthy conversation with a soon-to-be-retired Chairman of one of the oldest and biggest “meal-plan, […]
Get Unstuck – or Lower Your Expectations for Weight Loss
June 2, 2014 By
Get Unstuck – or Lower Your Expectations for Weight Loss by Boyd Jentzsch You have to find a reason, a reason beyond food, to eat less, to lower your appetite. To weigh less. You need a counterweight to your hunger. That is where, like so many of us, you get stuck. And keep getting stuck. […]
Saving Thrown Away Food – Instead of Starving to Feed Your Kids
June 1, 2014 By
Saving Thrown Away Food – Instead of Starving to Feed Your Kids. by Boyd Jentzsch As we learned in “How NOT to Lose Weight,” with no credit and no cash to feed her kids, Ramona felt she had no other choice but to leave her two pre-school kids home alone. With a TV set for […]
How NOT to Lose Weight – Starving, So Your Kids Can Eat.
May 29, 2014 By
How NOT to Lose Weight – Starving, so your kids can eat. by Boyd Jentzsch Ramona was a single mother with three children, two of them pre-school age. She worked two minimum wage jobs in South Chicago to support her little family. Despite her mother’s advanced diabetes, grandma would take the bus over to watch […]
Overweight? Blame it on Mom.
May 27, 2014 By
Overweight? Blame it on Mom. by Boyd Jentzsch It is important sometimes to ask why you eat the way you do. The most surprising answer to that is “Mom made me do it.” Mom may have made you do it. But, your Mom is not a villain, of course. Nor was she on a warpath […]
Losing Weight and Losing Your Panties on the Courthouse Steps.
May 26, 2014 By
Losing Weight and Losing Your Panties on the Courthouse Steps. by Boyd Jentzsch Strange things happen, sometimes, that can call into question how you view your body. Like Leila losing her panties on the courthouse steps, the effect can be surprising. When you look in the mirror you don’t see yourself. You see who you […]
Making Love is the Antidote. We eat emotionally. Then use rationality to justify it.
May 23, 2014 By
Making Love is the Antidote. We eat emotionally. Then use rationality to justify it. by Boyd Jentzsch A few years ago, Geneen Roth wrote a book about “Feeding the Hungry Heart.” Plus another one, “When Food is Love.” Published 30+ years ago, their central theme, which resonates even more today, was… “Empty Heart = Empty […]
To Lose Weight Successfully – Hang Your Husband on a Clothesline
May 21, 2014 By
To Lose Weight Successfully – Hang Your Husband on a Clothesline Attention: Women Losing Weight, with Men in Their Lives by Boyd Jentzsch OK. So you don’t have a clothesline. But your mother did, so you know what I’m talking about. Perhaps the man (or partner) in your life shouldn’t really be hung on a […]
How do you finally lose weight? Cry for René.
May 19, 2014 By
How do you finally lose weight? Cry for René. by Boyd Jentzsch A few years ago I was producing a testimonial video for a French weight loss education company. The film crew, all five of us, had settled into one of those great old small French farm houses, which ooze charm and the history of […]
