I have found that to maintain consistency in a healthy lifestyle depends upon a never ending quest for interesting ways to change up your routines. If we don’t actively seek out new and exciting ways to get physical activity, or fun new foods and preparations, we get bored. If we find that we are getting bored with things we may fall back into counter productive patterns. If we stay engaged in the pursuit of healthy options that appeal to us we end up making changes before we get bored. This also helps us to maintain a greater variety both food and physical activity, helping to keep your body from falling into a rut and causing a plateau.
Try out new foods don’t be afraid to pick a new recipe every week just to see what new flavors you might like.
Maybe once a month you try out a new class at your gym or studio, or check out that place you always wondered about that offers a free trial class.
The most important thing is to not let your self stagnate. Be adventurous try new things and never forget to always make it fun!
Warmest Regards,
Ken Aubuchon
http://www.kenswisdomcookies.com
As we head into the summer months it’s easy to forget the vision and commitment you have put in sense the beginning of the year. A lot of us go through a cycle of getting into shape for the warm weather and start to lose sight of our vision of a healthy self. We find it easier to let our regular work out routines drop with the “I’m more active in the summer” mantra.
Being more active is a good thing but it does not take the place of a well-planed workout schedule. Then factor in the increase of BBQ’s picnic’s and vacations, that all tend to lead to excesses. We can find our self’s falling out of our good habits and back into the bad ones by mid summer. Now once again the same yearly cycle is running amuck on our lives.
This year lets break those cycles! Let’s make the commitment to our selves to live more consciously, make better choices, and continue a workout program for the entire year.
Push your self over the hump and make the lasting changes for life!
Warmest Regards,
Ken Aubuchon
http://www.kenswisdomcookies.com
There seems to be a common thread that runs through all of us that fights a weight problem, and that’s an all or nothing mentality toward our health. I use health and not weight because we like to separate the two but they are so interconnected that it really is not possible. Healthy eating and activity habits promote overall health. We fail to remember that it took a long time to get to the place you are at, and it’s going to be a gradual process to get to where you want yourself to be. To expect otherwise just isn’t logical.
We need to break it down with out the emotional baggage, the psychological baggage, and the socioeconomic baggage to see if our choices are logical and truly make sense and you will need to ignore the justifications of you inner child.
Warmest Regards,
Ken Aubuchon
http://www.kenswisdomcookies.com
We as a society seem to want to ride a hard line on weather something is good or evil. Whether its refined sugar or white flour, we see them demonized in the eyes of the health conscious media. Not to mention researchers belaboring us from the bully pulpit in order to get attention.
Now do not take this as an endorsement to eating foods void in nutritional value. I am saying a small indulgence once in a while can help to keep you on track.
I would like you to look at the big picture. The weight problem is not the availability of nutrient deficient food it’s the inability to observe how it makes us feel to consume them.
These things are not harmful in small servings on occasion. It is when we become obsessed with nutrient deficient foods and eat it regularly it becomes a problem.
I am saying that if we actually get in touch with our bodies and feel the sensations we are experiencing after consuming more than comfortable amount of these foods. You will begin to make healthier choices purely because you want to feel better.
I encourage you to find balance in your dieting. Leave yourself open to the possibility that if you get in touch with what your body is really feeling you will make the choices to feed it well.
Warmest Regards,
Ken Aubuchon
http://www.kenswisdomcookies.com
If you are anything like me as you have gone through you diet life, you haven’t found something that sticks with you. I tried over and over to find a diet and exercise program that would stick with me and I would never look back. But that magic formula never seemed to come together.
That just frustrated me how could all these experts and endless parade of infomercials for diets, workouts, incredible promises from everywhere and I find that the weight would come back.
Well I’m going to share with the one thing that I have found to work. I eat healthy foods in moderation and allow myself some indulgence once or twice a week. I have also found healthy activity that I enjoy doing, and when I get bored I find something new. As long as I can keep working with foods and activities that I enjoy I continue to do them.
Both verity and enjoyment are very important to maintaining a program. Stay happy, stay interested, and staying motivated becomes much easier.
Remember to find the things that will work for you, it may take some time for you to get your system down. But your lasting results will be worth you efforts.
Warmest Regards,
Ken Aubuchon
http://www.kenswisdomcookies.com
ken@newwaymeditation.com
The way we are living today is making it quite difficult to create balance in our lives. With the obligations work, and family pulling us in every direction, we rarely find time for ourselves.
Far to often we find we are consuming food with out conscious thought of quality let alone nutritional value. If we are to change our behavior in order to live more consciously and make choices that allow us the balance in our lives. We are going to have to take back some time for our selves and make an effort to be true to you r path of balance.
I would like you to consider the prospect of taking even 1 hour a day to focus on you and your wellness. Weather that’s going to the gym or club to work out, or the studio for yoga. going for walk. Finding time in your life to be yourself and take care of your self is an important part of your wellness. You will be better for your self, your family, and most likely less stressed.
Please take some time for yourself every day to try to find some balance.
If you find you need a hand I am always available to coach you through the tough spots.
Warmest regards,
Ken Aubuchon
http://www.kenswisdomcookies.com
ken@newwaymeditation.com
How often do we really pay attention to what our bodies are feeling?
We have grown distant from our bodies spending all our time in our heads. We run our monologues look for outside reasons that effect our choices, and often neglect the true feelings of our bodies. This is why I stress the reconnection of body and mind. Learn to spend time actually feeling what your body is feeling.
I have found it a lot harder to over eat or neglect exercise when I am paying attention to what my body is saying.
If we work at building our awareness through meditation techniques, breathing exercises, yoga, and being conscious of our choices. The body and mind connection builds and our choices reflect the true desires of our bodies. Our choices are all we have control over so if we make them count we are far more likely to feel good about them. The better the choices we make today the better we feel about ourselves tomorrow. Making it easier to believe in our ability to make the choices that fit best with our individual bodies and what they require us to give them.
Best Wishes,
Ken Aubuchon
The reason we tend to gain weight back eventually after a dieting. Could be that these are only temporary changes made to create a quick fix.
I feel that if you make lifestyle changes that you enjoy you create lasting change.
I have found that if you work to develop your body and mind connection you learn to listen what you body truly craves, and are less likely to fall back into old patterns.
I work with clients using basic meditation techniques to strengthen the connection of body and mind and find it particularly well suited for clients in the contemplation and preparation stages of the Trans Theoretical model of change.
Using this method you find your way through what your habits and triggers may be. You organically move into action phase creating your own goals and visions by becoming more attuned to what your body is asking you for, rather than following a prescribed diet that will be abandoned when the numerical goal has been met.
The approach to your health and wellness should yours. Discover the path rings true to you and embrace it as your own. Don’t be afraid to try different things you may find a food or physical activity you love that you didn’t know existed.
Most importantly make it fun, then you will want to keep doing the good things.
Feel free to contact me with any questions and comments.
Best Wishes
Ken Aubuchon
When it comes to your health and wellness and the need to make changes. Before we start a diet or jump into an exercise program. We should take some time to figure out we are at psychologically. What we should be working on?
In the Trans Theoretical model of change there are five stages we could be working from.
The five stages of change are:
1. Precontemplation (Not Ready For Change)
2. Contemplation (Thinking About Change)
3. Preparation (Preparing for Action)
4. Action (Taking Action)
5. Maintenance (Maintaining a Good Behavior)
What stage you are has a direct affect on the things you should be working on and your overall success. If you work through the stages, building on your goals and successes. You are more likely to create lasting change and less chance of falling back into old patterns.
Starting Saturday, November 20, 2010
Classes at Body and Mind Fitness
239 E Nine Mile Road, Ferndale, MI 48220 (1 Block East of Woodward).
Saturdays
8:00am - 8:45am
Sunrise Yoga, $10.00 a class.
Gentle Yoga and peace full meditation to start your weekend relaxed and de-stressed. Yoga poses approved for all levels.
8:45am – 9:25am
Mind and Body Weight Loss group sessions. $10.00 a session.
As a group we will openly discuss the highlights and strategies of the week and how too integrate as well as build on those as we plan for our next week.
The group will discuss different topics that affect us emotionally, psychologically, and physiologically in order to develop a plan that will help us deal with these issues.
There will be a question and answer portion in each class.
The group will then do some guided meditation.
To sign up for classes or for more information.
248-990-3912
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Grand Opening and Open House
10:00am – 4:00pm
Full Circle Wellness
Where Traditional Psychotherapy Meets Holistic Wellness
5600 West Maple Rd. Bldg.A-110
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Come out meet the practitioners I will be discussing meditation as a solution to distracted eating at 1:00pm. I will be available to answer questions, and take registrations for individual and group sessions. Wellness Coaching, gentle yoga, and meditation.
