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Weight loss tool product launch – 19 May 2009

5 May

Which of the following challenges stop you from achieving your  healthy lifestyle or weight loss goals?

Self sabotage,  not being able to get your mind right,

giving in to negative self-talk, emotions 

Think it’s impossible to change?

Not anymore!

Read this blog on

19 MAY 2009 for the

LAUNCH OF A NEW INNOVATIVE, PRACTICAL AND EMPOWERING

WEIGHT LOSS TOOL

 to turn all those excuses around!

No gimmicks or quick fixes rather a healthy way to

change your mindset and keep negative thoughts and habits at bay.

 

 

More about the Weight Loss Kit

22 Nov

    

Weight Loss Kit

 

Weight loss is not just about the food your body needs. Losing weight (and keeping it down) requires more than knowing what to eat. To lose weight and be successful you need to feed your mind, body and soul.

 

Over the years, I found that assisting clients with a healthy eating plan alone is, in itself, not enough. I wanted to use the tools and skills that I acquired during my weight loss journey to inspire and motivate other people so that they may gain insights into the barriers that are preventing them from achieving their goals. I also wanted to share the skills and insights I learned in the hope that their weight loss journey would be shorter than mine and that by regaining their self-esteem and confidence they could lead the life they choose.

 

This prompted me to create and design interesting lifestyle products not only to help people lose weight, but also to help them achieve optimum all round, mental and physical health. The result is a unique and exclusive Weight Loss kit. It includes a book, “Low fat food for your mind body and soul,” 42 deal-a-meal recipes cards, 44 inspirational cards, a journal and fridge magnets.

 

All the products in the Weight Loss / Healthy Lifestyle Kit were designed so that they could be used in conjunction with any healthy eating programme – not just Unique Lifestyle’s. I want as many people as possible to benefit from the products. So whether you do your own thing or follow any one of a range of healthy eating plans that are available you can still use the products in the kit. It can also be used by dieticians, nutritional counsellors / coaches, lifestyle coaches as practical tools to be used in conjunction with the healthy eating programmes they provide their clients

 

CONTENTS OF WEIGHT LOSS KIT

BOOK

Low fat food for your mind, body and soul

by Sandy Goldberg

There are so many “diet” and self-help books on the market, and so many gimmicks about how to lose weight. Most of these contain conflicting and confusing information. I wrote the kind of book I wished I could have read during the 9 years I struggled to lose weight. I wrote the book to motivate and inspire people with weight problems, as well as to offer tools to help them change their thinking. It is a combination of inspirational messages and self-help techniques along with practical tips and advice.

The book is divided into four parts – something like four courses. It begins with my personal story of weight loss. It tells of my nine-year long struggle with 21 kilos of excess weight and how the struggle ended when I discovered mind, body and soul balance that helped me slip back into a bikini, a fitted evening dress and a pair of blue jeans.

 

Low Fat Food for your Mind, consists of a set of practical exercises that are designed to help unlock your mental barriers to losing weight. The main course, Low Fat Food for your Body, gives practical advice on weight loss, food choices and cooking. And for dessert, Low Fat Food for your Soul provides inspirational snacks for the soul to help maintain the balance you need in order to lose weight healthily.

  JOURNAL

Journaling has been said to be “therapy for the soul”. I believe using a journal is a self-discovery tool. I learnt an enormous about myself – patterns of behaviour that I only became aware of when I reread the journals I had kept over a period of time. It enables a person to record their, thoughts, experiences and feelings and often helps people to get to know themselves better, and to gain insights about themselves. Whether one chooses to write about food choices or moods and emotions doesn’t matter – what is important is that each individual writes about what is important to them. Just a few pages a day is all it takes. The insights it provides are invaluable.

 

SOUL SNACKS PACK

 

If people want to empower themselves they need to believe in themselves – believe that they can do it. Many people look at outside sources for inspiration and motivation. What they need to realize is that the power to change comes from within. However sometimes people need a spark to ignite the motivation and inspiration within them, to achieve their goals and dreams. It was with this in mind that I created “Soul Snacks” – a pack 45 cards containing inspirational and motivational quotations

 

DEAL-A-MEAL PACK

 

No weight loss kit would be complete without recipes. I found most of my client’s were looking for delicious, quick and easy recipes. Being rushed or tired at the end of the day and not having the correct ingredients often leads people to making the wrong choices. How often have you rushed into the shops on the way home, to buy ingredients for supper, only to find you’ve forgotten an  important ingredient?

 

Whether you are single or married, working in an office, or at home the Deal-a-Meal recipe cards make it really easy to follow a healthy lifestyle. They are small enough to fit into your purse, or shirt pocket. You can pick a card before you leave home, pop it in your pocket and shop on the way home. Once home stick it on the fridge with a magnet (included in the pack) and make a delicious dinner that is quick and easy.” 

TO ORDER / PRICE

The Weight Loss Kit is available directly through the Unique Lifestyle. For further information on how to order and prices click on this link http://sandygoldberg.wordpress.com/weight-loss-kit/

All products (besides the journal) are also sold separately and can be purchased directly through the Unique Lifestyle. For further information on prices and ordering, please look at the individual tabs at the top of the page

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO CONTACT ME

 sandy@uniquelifestyle.co.za

 

The power of choice – will you chose to lose?

8 Sep

During the time I struggled to lose weight I used every excuse in the book for why I was overweight, until one day……. I ran out of excuses! It took me 9 years to realize that I held the power in my own hands. I had the power of choice. I could choose to hide behind the excuses and stay overweight or I could choose to make some changes. Having run out of excuses I only had one choice left! Having made the choice, what had for years seemed like an insurmountable wall just crumbled away. It took me 6 months to reach my goal.

 

Most of us want our cake and we want to eat it! So many of us want to lose weight / lead a healthy lifestyle but  the price of giving up the food we love or learning new habits is often a price we’re not willing to pay. It is so much easier to wish away our weight. We wish we could lose it all in a week. We wish the next diet we find will be THE answer. We wish that we could have surgery. Basically we wish that what has taken years to put on would disappear overnight. The reality is that our bad habits have become an integral part of our behaviour and to learn new ones takes time, practice and patience.  It is so much easier to blame circumstances and make excuses rather than accept or take responsibilty, for the consequences of our choices.

 

Each one of us has the freedom to make choices. These choices determine our future and our success.

 

The choices that you have for your body are:

 

  • The choice of a healthy lifestyle or a quick fix “diet”
  • The choice of health or ill health (diseases such as diabetes, stroke, heart attacks, high blood pressure, high cholesterol are often as a result of an unhealthy lifestyle)
  • The choice of how much food you eat.
  • The choice of what food you eat.
  • The choice of how your food is cooked.
  • The choice to exercise or not do any exercise.
  • The choice of how often you exercise.

Assuming the consequences of your choices are currently negative – imagine the positive impact on your life if you changed some of your decisions by making different choices. The impact of making different choices does not just affect your weight it also affects your energy levels which in turn has positive consequences on your health. It’s YOUR CHOICE – you can chose to stay the same or chose to lose!

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