Hey there! My name is Diana and I am a teacher and a health coach who strongly believes that we all deserve to feel amazing in our bodies. After teaching courses and people in weight, nutrition, health and mental wellbeing I fundamentally believe that when we love ourselves and take care of ourselves from a place of fundamental worthiness, we shine a bit brighter and there is nothing that can stop us!
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" it is very easy for me to eat lots of raw vegetables, nuts, seeds and legumes and achieve optimum health ". That is my personal, positive, present tense affirmation.
My adipose tissue has virtually gone. I were 92kg now I'm 77kg, down nearly 20% due to a largely whole food plant based diet for 2.5 years now. I want to ensure my prostate cancer dosent return after brachytherapy. My psoriasis has virtually disappeared as a bonus!😮
I am a counselor and I STRUGGLE to communicate effectively and connect with my clients. It’s really put a wrench into my passion for helping others, for adopting counseling techniques and approaches, and from truly meeting a person where they are at. It’s been taking a major toll on my mental health and confidence.
Just wow... It has been 4 days since I am struggling to understand this model. You are indeed a very good and brilliant teacher. I could not understand a single thing my teacher told me and here you are
As an Interior Designer (Richmond BC) we have opportunities to engage WELL AP keys that assist in making calculated design decisions that help to create truly healthy spaces for everything from pathogen control to human-centric lighting controls to using psychology to infuse natural elements to promote healing within living, working, and learning spaces. Thank you for your excellently detailed videos! - Jade from GreenJade Interiors
This is a great video and covers so much! I’ve watched 3 people in my immediate family (all in their 20’s BTW) put on 20-50 lbs over the last 3 years. Then they get irate when I call this to their attention and try to figure out solutions with them. They consider this to be “shaming”. I’ve struggled to control my appetite my whole life and it’s hard to watch them”indulge” in yet another special occasion meal. Obesity rates have soared over the last 30 years. So sorry - I view a little bit of “shame” as a good thing and hopefully inciting people to take steps to change. I’m proud to say I feel shame when I look fatter and it motivates me to do something about it.
Thank you so much for explaining the theory models, it really helped me with my assignments as I wasn't quite understanding them before seeing your videos!
Fantastic video. Thank you. I would think that food, unlike drugs, is a “feel good” mechanism that goes back to babyhood and childhood, that the act of eating equals comfort that an infant gets when nursing from its mother and later in infancy when being spoon fed, ie nurtured by its parent. Drugs ultimately give a person a feeling of wellbeing but the nurturing aspect is missing.
Interesting perspective! Thanks for sharing. I can definitely see how nurturing food can feel - and we do often use it as a way to celebrate and show love ❤️
It sounds like an addictive behavior as with drugs and alcohol. Glad she finally mentioned some neural Science. The bottom line, what has the track record for helping people with addictive behavior, a drug? No. Programs dealing with the whole person including behavior change with the help of dealing with deep personal issues, including recognizing the reality of having a problem. Having another perspective is not necessarily shaming.
Hi Celine! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. If I’m understanding correctly, you mean the excessive food intake seen in obesity is like a food addiction? It’s an interesting area of research without a clear conclusion as to whether food can be addicting or not - but many ppl would tell you that’s how it feels. Yes, both drug dependency and uncontrolled eating have neural foundations focused on reward centres. There are various things that can be used in the management of drug dependency, and - sometimes drugs that target reward pathways are used. But yes, these don’t treat the underlying reasons why a person got there in the first place. I completely agree that we need to look at the whole person. No two people are the same and we all arrive at our current behaviours and weight through very different means - and we can all work towards our own personal health and weight goals in our own way. For some people, these medications calm the noises and feelings/thoughts that have held them hostage with respect to their eating. They’ve literally tried everything in their capacity and feel frustrated with how little theirs efforts have paid off (most behaviour change programs only result in about 5-10% weight loss and the weight comes back in the majority of cases). There are definitely non- drug ways to do this (that’s my personal approach), but these drugs can also help some people finally feel in control of their eating and lives and that is a major positive outcome I don’t want to leave out as an option. To each they’re own is how I feel about it.
But having “another “ perspective about someone else choosing to take meds is shaming. Don’t you realize that overweight people have tried every thing under the sun (3 times) to no avail. I have to lose 40 pounds and started a week ago after watching the special. I decided to take it once I realized that there was something I could do to calm my nerves around food. I think about it all day--whether I’m eating healthy or not. When I’m really eating healthy I’m thinking about should I have an apple or maybe I should skip it. What time should I eat dinner? Maybe I I should start putting some cinnamon on my apple…and so on and so forth. If I’m in a downward spiral then I’m trying to figure out which bakery I should go to. Do I want cookies or cake. Maybe I should go to that specialty cupcake bakery that is 25 minutes away. Now that I’m a week on the meds, I just don’t have those intrusive thoughts. I’m not preoccupied. I really do feel like I have my life back. A support group and therapy couldn’t fix that. Trust me, I have tried!!
@@Lovelyone1 by your own admission, there is more than on way to get your goal. I found a way after over 40 years of trying. I am free. Please dont hear what I am NOT saying.
@@celinemartinez7831 I didn’t say there wasn’t. What I said I said in my first sentence. I’m 50 and this works for me. I was never over weight until I had my children in my late 30s. It’s just annoying to hear people give their opinion about something that is so personal and individual. No one wants to hear about all the reasons they are overweight. It’s actually very cocky of you to think you should say something as if they have never heard or thought about that before.
Hi Maria, This model can be applied to many different programs. I suggest picking Ip the book I mentioned and seeing if what it outlines is a good fit with what you are trying to evaluate.
Is obesity complex? The individual suffering from it is defiantly trapped, and not by their of fruition... What I mean is no one wakes up and say I plan to get fat (sumo excluded), instead people do change their behaviours and quite gullibly also. If we examine the saturated fat catastrophe in regards to heart disease (between 1950-pressent) we can see that all areas of heart disease have gone up, but this is in the face of people actually drastically changing their behaviours; they swopped their eating choices and patterns (polyunsaturated fats swopped in for saturated and growing/rising/cooking their own food for supermarket stuff) all via through government recommendations. To me this says people are happy to change, to drive their health positivity. This indicates something else is afoot which is inhibiting them, and I would say it falls in the field of certain foods (and life styles, disconnect from the earths electrical field ) now promoted tapping straight into the endocannabinoid pathway (driving food consumption) and also causing swelling and excitation of the neurons (all cells really) driving a stress inflammatory response. This itself is a huge driver for food consumption (via increasing estrogen, cortisol, adrenalin, serotonin and inhibiting progesterone, pregnenolone, thyroid etc) leading to obesity and worse still expansion of adipocytes alternative to division. To me this seems like blaming a crack head for their addiction when there is nothing around them to consume but heroin laced products, and then looking for the solution via telling them they just need to change how they think... Not you but this whole system is a 100% stitch up designed to create hopelessness and disease abundance via.
4:55 isn't that THE problem indeed...body just screaming to eat and you're trying not to but people outside are just ready to compound the shame you're already experiencing
Here from my health education graduate course and this is one of the best videos out on transtheoretical model change, thank you so much! Think I will be using this for my research.
