Comments on: The Question to Double Your Enjoyment of the Big Meals http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/ Desperate to reclaim your body and control your insatiable appetite? Diet not working? It is time for \"Inside Out Weight Loss.\" Learn to stay slim, no matter what life throws at you.Leading diet and weight-loss coach Renee Stephens, of www.mindforbody.com, has helped hundreds shed from 5 to 125 pounds. Renee specializes in turning around the eating and diet habits of those most resistant to change, including yo-yo dieters, binge eaters, and bulimics, with whom she has an astonishing 75% success rate.Drawing on cutting-edge techniques from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy and Positive Psychology, host Renee Stephens\' signature fusion-therapy approach will transform your relationship with your diet, your body, and yourself, permanently. Each week you\'ll get closer to creating the body of your dreams, supported by Renee\'s focus on diet and weight issues for more than twenty years. Listen and let Renee reprogram your mind and your relationship with food, shifting your underlying belief systems. You will learn how to tame your inner rebel, align your goals with your values, and achieve lifetime weight mastery. End the diet, regain, diet cycle once and for all.Dieting or not, you can add this weekly podcast into your current lifestyle and witness significant and lasting results. Renee\'s great voice, smooth delivery, and numerous examples of people like you succeeding make this podcast a must listen every week. So toss out your diet pills, diet plans and diet mentality. Start at the first show, or jump right in, and get ready for a program that will pay off for a lifetime. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:37:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: lauren http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-577 lauren Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:55:39 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-577 Although I am not a serious overweight person, i have been thinking (over the past few months up till now) that i am too obsessed with food and overeating. of course i knew i would feel bad after overeating, but at the moment of eating, i could think of nothing but piling the food in front of me until i felt too full to even move around. too full to take my little walk back to the dorm. i got over this habit throught the use of antidepressant, but i was constantly afraid that i might get it back... and now i have Renee's help. you are, truly a star! I have learned to love myself more and more, and be thankful for the smallest things of my life... and now I know that I am not living life to eat, but rather I eat to live my life to the fullest! Thanks Renee! ps. one question i have is that, at the very beginning of the episodes, I imagined the way i wanted to look? and as i moved on, you said hold on to the image really tight and then let it go altogether... now I am a little confused here because I am not sure whether i should be keep thinking of the fab body i would like to be in, or I should throw away the image and rather learn to enjoy my life and consequently make that dream body mine. Although I am not a serious overweight person, i have been thinking (over the past few months up till now) that i am too obsessed with food and overeating. of course i knew i would feel bad after overeating, but at the moment of eating, i could think of nothing but piling the food in front of me until i felt too full to even move around. too full to take my little walk back to the dorm. i got over this habit throught the use of antidepressant, but i was constantly afraid that i might get it back…
and now i have Renee’s help. you are, truly a star! I have learned to love myself more and more, and be thankful for the smallest things of my life… and now I know that I am not living life to eat, but rather I eat to live my life to the fullest!
Thanks Renee!

ps. one question i have is that, at the very beginning of the episodes, I imagined the way i wanted to look? and as i moved on, you said hold on to the image really tight and then let it go altogether… now I am a little confused here because I am not sure whether i should be keep thinking of the fab body i would like to be in, or I should throw away the image and rather learn to enjoy my life and consequently make that dream body mine.

]]> By: Liz http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-334 Liz Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:47:38 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-334 I just wanted to share this fascinating article- I know Renee has talked about how feeling hungry is a GOOD thing, and about how it makes our meals more enjoyable, but this takes it to a new level! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25680029/ I just wanted to share this fascinating article- I know Renee has talked about how feeling hungry is a GOOD thing, and about how it makes our meals more enjoyable, but this takes it to a new level!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25680029/

]]> By: Jennifer http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-330 Jennifer Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:53:35 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-330 I am hooked to these podcasts. Thank you so much.. I am hearing the older ones in order now.. I am 50lbs overweight and have struggled for years .. I believe this is a a God send for a break through.. I am hooked to these podcasts. Thank you so much.. I am hearing the older ones in order now.. I am 50lbs overweight and have struggled for years .. I believe this is a a God send for a break through..

]]> By: Jess http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-329 Jess Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:10:18 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-329 I asked myself the question and I answered, "Satisfied and happy." A couple hours later, I was overjoyed and had energy that I just used it up by exercising away the night! (lol) Now, I can enjoy eating without restrictions which makes eating a better and happier experience. I asked myself the question and I answered, “Satisfied and happy.”

A couple hours later, I was overjoyed and had energy that I just used it up by exercising away the night! (lol) Now, I can enjoy eating without restrictions which makes eating a better and happier experience.

]]> By: Celina http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-328 Celina Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:41:16 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-328 What has really helped me with this situations is the "away-from motivation". Just to think what I will be telling myself AFTER I have overeaten, I really prefer NOT to overeat. Now I like what I say to myself when I feel in control. We take so much time reassuring the people we care for and take so little time to reassure ourselves for all the things we do right. Feeling good about myself is the best platform to stay on the path of a naturally slender person. What has really helped me with this situations is the “away-from motivation”. Just to think what I will be telling myself AFTER I have overeaten, I really prefer NOT to overeat. Now I like what I say to myself when I feel in control.
We take so much time reassuring the people we care for and take so little time to reassure ourselves for all the things we do right. Feeling good about myself is the best platform to stay on the path of a naturally slender person.

]]> By: Liz http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-327 Liz Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:13:27 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-327 I've found that not only do I have to ask myself how I want to feel after a big meal...I also have to IMAGINE feeling the way I want to feel. I've noticed that Renee uses this technique when we envision ourselves the way we'd like our bodies to be and "step in" and really feel what it would be like to be that way, so I started using the same approach before meals. When I imagine putting down my knife and fork, I imagine my stomach feeling satisfied but not uncomfortably full. I imagine that maybe a few hours later I have plenty of room for a glass of wine (that always seems to happen at special occasions!). I imagine reflecting on the meal and appreciating the flavors and textures of the food, without feeling at all guilty. I even imagine telling myself, 'Of course you don't want to eat anymore! You're a naturally slender person, and you want to make your body feel GOOD, not stuffed from eating too much!' Maybe it's silly, but it works! I’ve found that not only do I have to ask myself how I want to feel after a big meal…I also have to IMAGINE feeling the way I want to feel. I’ve noticed that Renee uses this technique when we envision ourselves the way we’d like our bodies to be and “step in” and really feel what it would be like to be that way, so I started using the same approach before meals. When I imagine putting down my knife and fork, I imagine my stomach feeling satisfied but not uncomfortably full. I imagine that maybe a few hours later I have plenty of room for a glass of wine (that always seems to happen at special occasions!). I imagine reflecting on the meal and appreciating the flavors and textures of the food, without feeling at all guilty. I even imagine telling myself, ‘Of course you don’t want to eat anymore! You’re a naturally slender person, and you want to make your body feel GOOD, not stuffed from eating too much!’ Maybe it’s silly, but it works!

]]> By: Celina Garza http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-326 Celina Garza Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:27:19 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-326 I am just begining with the program (Chapter 7) and I can already see the changes. I feel as if finally my inner-self has been taken care of, I feel so much more compassion towards myself and why I have been overeating. I really think this is the best starting point when wanting to make permanent changes, being good to yourself... I have always said that the trick to lose weight had to be somewhere inside me because, as you say, I am a walking nutrition encyclopedia! Well after just these few chapters, not only do I feel more compassionate towards myself, I am in a better mood, more patient and much more happier because I don't have these negative self-talk all day long inside my head. Thank you Renee for this wonderful gift...a gift of a lifetime! Hope to meet you sometime... I am just begining with the program (Chapter 7) and I can already see the changes. I feel as if finally my inner-self has been taken care of, I feel so much more compassion towards myself and why I have been overeating. I really think this is the best starting point when wanting to make permanent changes, being good to yourself…
I have always said that the trick to lose weight had to be somewhere inside me because, as you say, I am a walking nutrition encyclopedia! Well after just these few chapters, not only do I feel more compassionate towards myself, I am in a better mood, more patient and much more happier because I don’t have these negative self-talk all day long inside my head.

Thank you Renee for this wonderful gift…a gift of a lifetime! Hope to meet you sometime…

]]> By: Angela http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-325 Angela Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:28:49 +0000 http://renee.personallifemedia.com/2008/07/03/the-question-to-double-your-enjoyment-of-the-big-meals/#comment-325 This one is a toughie for me. I try to keep in mind how I want to feel after the meal, yet that does not always override my taste buds. It doesn't make sense that we deliberately do things that we KNOW are going to make us miserable. This one is a toughie for me. I try to keep in mind how I want to feel after the meal, yet that does not always override my taste buds. It doesn’t make sense that we deliberately do things that we KNOW are going to make us miserable.

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