Showing posts with label curb emotional eating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curb emotional eating. Show all posts

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Adult Dancers Worry About Weight When They Get Back to Ballet

Some adult ballet beginners or dancers who have gone back to ballet after years off, need to CURB EMOTIONAL EATING first. Many have established eating habits that are hard to break. A little special help is needed to change lifestyle choices and create healthy eating habits which can benefit you in many ways.

An adult returning to ballet, or just thinking about getting into ballet wear can blush at the vision in their mind.

Oh boy, standing at the barre in leotards and tights...... what will that look like? It takes courage!

Many dance studios allow adults to wear baggier clothes for ballet. Dance accessories such as leg warmers and favorite ballet company T shirts can disguise bulges and bumps in the silhouette.

But the dream is to get into pink tights and a beautiful flattering leotard. Or for the men in ballet, black tights and a tight T shirt showing off some pecs!

Some individuals can lose weight fast by cutting carbs. But many, depending on their age, don't drop the fat so easily.

Then there is the issue of emotional, or nervous eating. Nervous eaters do not succeed with the one week weight loss diets or the "fast easy" fat melting diets.

Eating because of social shyness, or or some other condition, results in a weight gain that now gets a person on a circular track of getting brave - getting back to ballet - then eating out of fear - but still wanting to go to the dance studio and eventually look good.

Well, the posse has arrived. It is called CONSCIOUS MIND POWER. Brain training programs are not new, but the attention on dancers for this activity, is.

You are brave and should be applauded if you have decided to get back to ballet. Part of brain training is learning how to applaud yourself - but there is a lot more to it than that. Give yourself a support system - learn how to create a new CONSCIOUS MIND POWER and CURB EMOTIONAL EATING with The Inner Dance of Success - Dancer's Weight Loss.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Dancers - Learn How to Curb Emotional Eating

Get the tips on how to curb emotional eating now. Over eating, or eating the wrong foods is usually an emotional decision. Refraining from eating empty calorie high carb foods is not really dieting. It is just eating well. Dancers need calories, but they need to get those calories from a lot of protein and supporting nutrients from green vegetables, salads, healthy fats, and fruit.

Often teen dancers will ask me how they can lose weight in a week - they want to look better in a tutu or get thin for someone's wedding. Or maybe a ballet exam. They want to drop the fat NOW.

Most serious ballet and dance students know what not to eat, or what to eat little of. Empty carbs like white bread, cracker, cakes and cookies are not required for life. They do drive the brain into producing chemicals that feel good - but so does dancing!

So to get rid of excess pounds quickly, all that needs to be done is stop snacking, and do not eat the starches and sweet foods. But growing, dancing intensively, young people with normal metabolism still need to eat the good foods. They don't need to diet.

Some diet gurus say that refraining from eating breads, sweets, pastas and grains, truly changes the body's desire for these things, within a couple of weeks. But a dancer who practices emotional eating will find this hard.

Eating sugar to calm the nerves is a habit and a deep craving for a highly stressed person. Many people can sleep better after eating sugar.

If a person eats enough starches or dessert foods, a tranquil non-thinking state results. And usually afterwards there is panic - how will the tutu feel now?

The nervous, inferior-feeling or other-wise self conscious dancer now feels ten times worse. Emotional eating is like a mild addiction. However, it can be undone with brain training, and changed.

Creating a new mind map and actually wanting what is good for you, is possible.

Of course this is easier for some than others. But anyone who plans to change what their mind tells them they want, needs the latest information on brain training. Specifically, there is a program for dancers who want to CURB EMOTIONAL
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