How to Control Your Weight? Have Surgery. by Boyd Jentzsch Anne was 43 when she had bariatric surgery. She had no choice. Her scale was nearing 600 pounds, and it was either surgery, or a long slow decent into death, with every moment until then a disappointment that life had turned out that way for […]
Weight Loss Motivation? – Remember the Alamo!
June 8, 2014 By 38 Comments
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 42 Comments
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 37 Comments
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 48 Comments
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 33 Comments
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 […]
Making Love is the Antidote. We eat emotionally. Then use rationality to justify it.
May 23, 2014 By 28 Comments
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 32 Comments
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 […]
Continued: To Lose Weight Successfully
May 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
<<< CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Going it alone. Giving up. And Why I Started Writing about Weight Loss Motivation If you are the only one dedicated to losing serious weight in the family unit, there is no free ride. The problems only multiply. Years ago I owned a large suburban fitness center – the kind […]
Diets Cause Weight Re-GAIN – Here’s How
May 21, 2014 By 33 Comments
Diets Cause Weight Re-GAIN – Here’s How What they never tell you before you buy a weight loss program. (And likely won’t admit, even after you pay them for it.) by Boyd Jentzsch Before you depart with your scarce cash on a low calorie weight loss program, take a look at what the Science of […]
