Lifestyle Works Clinic

In our experience at the Lifestyle Works Clinic (LSW), the majority of people who come to learn about the Clinic and/or to participate in it have weight loss as top of mind. We describe weight-loss (body composition) in the following context: "body composition is a symptom of one's health, one's health is a result of their lifestyle". It is because of this relationship that those who embrace it succeed and those who do not embrace it struggle. One of the most common themes that comes up in LSW is time.  Everyone should have the opportunity for reflection of their day, their week, their life. So in that regard, a few thought provoking questions are listed to help with reflection and the issue of time: How important is your health? What measures do you use to determine if your health is going in the right direction? What do you want to be able to do when you are 50, 60, 70, 80 or even 90 years old? What determines how your time is spent? What are your prioriti

Below is an excellent video. Lets call it "The Mayonnaise Jar". I hope you will watch it. But before you do - a little context. While coaching people on nutrition and fitness for some time now, I have found some common things that people find as challenges. It's not so much the food plan - some may not like spinach, some may not like bok-choy. If the solution was just what foods should I eat and what foods should I avoid, we could post those lists and America would become healthy. If you ask people what is the most difficult aspect of making healthy food, its "time". Time to shop, time to cook, time to eat..... This next point is not meant to be cruel, but meant to be to the point. If we say we don't have time, what we are really saying is "it is not a priority" So that probably struck a cord with some, because we all have so much on our plates these days and so much we feel is important. Some days we feel like failures because we can'