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 […]
Diets Cause Weight Re-GAIN – Here’s How
May 21, 2014 By
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 […]
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 […]
You Donʼt Really Want to Lose Weight, Do You?
May 15, 2014 By
You donʼt really want to lose weight, do you? by Boyd Jentzsch TRYING to lose weight IS the path to FAILURE. TRYing to lose weight is your way of telling yourself you are doing something about your excess weight. TRYing to lose weight is your way to focus on your weight, because you sincerely want […]
