Using Self-Control: Eating Well Is Within Your Power

Using Self-Control: Eating Well Is Within Your Power

We have to eat – that’s something over which we have no control. Our bodies need fuel to function and we must eat in order to survive. But while we can’t control the need to eat, we can control what we eat. Practicing self-control when it comes to eating comes much...
When Do We Need Self-Control?

When Do We Need Self-Control?

Ancient man didn’t have much time for self control. He lived an instinctive life, relying on his wits and snappy, fight-or-flight responses to keep him alive, fed and out of trouble. If he was angry, he picked a fight, if he saw something good to eat, he ate it....
Good Health Is Habit-Forming

Good Health Is Habit-Forming

Wanting to do something and actually doing it are often two completely different things. It’s easy to want a piece of chocolate and then have a piece of chocolate, but not so easy to want to adopt healthier habits, and then actually end up adopting them. Healthy...
The Challenge Of Change

The Challenge Of Change

Even when we’re very motivated, adopting shiny, new, healthy habits is usually easier said than done. We may have the best intentions to change, to becoming better, healthier versions of ourselves – mentally and physically – but any progress we make is often nothing...