4.01 Self-Compassion
Having self-compassion is perhaps the most important factor to being successful sticking to a healthy lifestyle. If you “blame” yourself for your...
4.02 Having a Positive Attitude/Mindset
Your overall attitude and feelings toward a lifestyle change will have a big impact on your success. If you start the program with a negative attitude...
4.03 Understanding that Healthy Living is a Skill
Enter the HeartStrong.com program with the idea that you are learning a new skill, no different than other skills like learning to play an instrument....
4.04 Focusing on the Long-term
Focusing on things like how you look or waist size may be helpful to get you motivated in the short term, but that rarely lasts. You need to really...
4.05 Making a Healthy Lifestyle Fun
If you do not enjoy what you are doing, the chances of keeping it going lifelong are almost zero. Be sure that the healthy eating plan that you develop...
4.06 Reward Yourself
The HeartStrong.com healthy eating plan will include “rewards meals”, so you don’t have to give up all the foods you love, even if they are not very...
4.10 Stress Reduction for Heart Health
In this HeartStrong.com video/article, we will discuss how stress effects your health, how to reduce the stress in your life and how to cope with those...
4.11 How Stress Affects Health
Having high stress levels has a major negative impact on your health. Stress affects sleep and it is well known that good sleep is important for good...
4.12 How to Reduce Stress in Your Life
Reducing stress in your life is not very complicated. Here are the steps that it is recommended to take:
4.13 Identify Your Stressors
Everybody’s life is different and there will be quite different stressors for each person. Sometimes the stressors are obvious such as a new job,...
4.14 Identify How You Deal with Stress Now
This is an important step to take. Once you can stop and think about the activities that you have been doing to relieve stress, you can target them as...
4.15 Start Doing Things to Relieve Your Stress
You know how important dealing with your stress is for your health and you have identified your personal stressors, now its time to actually do...
4.16 Exercise and Eat Healthy
Look at that! Staying physically active and eating healthy can reduce your stress! This is well proven. Do not think to yourself that you must reduce...
4.18 Give Yourself Some Alone Time
Everybody is different in regards to their need for time to themselves. Some people need a lot while others need only a little. If you are a person...
4.20 Stress Reduction Summary and Conclusions
Keep a journal and/or daily log to be sure your are thinking about your stress daily. After making your log, watch this video again and try to apply...
4.40 No Excuses Not to Lose Weight
In this HeartStrong.com video, we are going to talk about some of the excuses that are common about why someone is not able to lose weight, the facts...