Weight loss when busy can be hard, but it doesn’t need to be. No doubt about it—losing weight requires a time commitment. But if you’re like most of us, the daily stresses of everyday life may have you wondering how...
Sunday Explorations – Sunday Sept 25 2022
Sunday Explorations are part of the Beyond Phase 1 series where we look at weight loss and wellness from a variety of perspectives beyond what to eat.
Sunday Explorations – Cravings! July 24th 7:30pm
Sunday Explorations are part of the Beyond Phase 1 series where we look at weight loss and wellness from a variety of perspectives beyond what to eat.
Sunday Explorations – June 19 7:30pm
Sunday Explorations are part of the Beyond Phase 1 series where we look at weight loss and wellness from a variety of perspectives beyond what to eat.
Sunday Explorations – May 29th 7:30pm
Sunday Explorations are part of the Beyond Phase 1 series where we look at weight loss and wellness from a variety of perspectives beyond what to eat.
A Guided Meditation For Weight Loss: Before Going to Bed
Meditation has many benefits, plenty of which support those trying to lose weight. The benefits of meditation have been proven to include: overcoming addictions, promoting compassion for yourself, improving your ability to be present while eating, and it helps people sleep better.
How to Lose Weight With Gratitude
It can be difficult feeling grateful while on your weight loss journey, but investing a few minutes each day to indulge in warm feelings of appreciation will definitely pay off, and here’s why…
How To Adopt Healthy Habits To Support Weight Loss
Everything in life is a choice, including weight loss. Change has the potential of bringing an unlimited number of positive effects to your life, if you’re ready for it. Although it isn’t easy, each of us has the power to reset our routines, making the time to be healthy.
How To Set Your Environment Up For Weight Loss Success
Your environment influences your decisions, behaviours, and attitude, and it plays a big role in your ability to reach your weight loss goals. These tips can help you set your environment up for success.
A Guided Meditation For Weight Loss: Before Eating
Clients who lose weight and keep it off often are the ones who do the inner work, such as meditation. Try this guided meditation before your next meal…
How Your Kitchen Can Help You Lose Weight
When you’re tired and hungry, so often “what you see is what you eat”. What do you see when you open your refrigerator or pantry? Use these tips to help you set your kitchen up for weight loss success.
Branched-Chain Amino Acids
The article Sleep and Weight Loss is written by the experts behind the Ideal Protein weight loss protocol and helps answer the common questions: does sleep affect weight loss? and how much sleep is enough?
A Guided Meditation For Weight Loss: Upon Waking
Meditation is a wonderful wellness practice, it promotes happiness, taking better care of ourselves, and it is even being shown to positively wire (or re-wire) parts of the brain that help you lose weight. Try this guided meditation to support you on your weight loss journey!
Weight Loss Truths
Everyone knows that diet, nutrition, and fitness all play a role in weight loss, but there are a few more truths that should be taken into consideration by those starting, or on, a weight loss program.
The Connection Between Self-Care and Weight Loss
Often, those on their weight loss and wellness journey find themselves derailed when unrealistic, irrational and often damaging thoughts lead to disappointment and, ultimately, abandoning goals. This is where self-care plays an important role.
8 Ways To Reduce Stress for Weight Loss Success
Stressed, anxious, overcommitted? These feelings can seriously undermine health, wellness, and weight loss. We have become accustomed to accepting chronic stress as a standard and ever present part of life.
How Drinking Water Can Help You Lose Weight
Losing weight is not just about what you eat—it’s also about what you drink. Not only is the humble glass of water a no-calorie, healthful and free beverage, it may also help you in your efforts to slim down.
How to Avoid the Triggers
What is a trigger? It’s simple: A trigger is any kind of stimulus that we can have a reaction to. Triggers can be sights, smells, sounds, locations, stressful situations—even people—that break down our resistance and cause us to eat things that sabotage our weight loss efforts.
How To Implement New Habits Into Your Life
Whether you’re on your journey to lose weight or are trying to increase your overall health, with a small amount of discipline you can create a new habit that requires little effort to maintain, and can dramatically increase your quality of life.
Start With a Plan: Meal Planning Basics to Help You on Your Weight Loss Journey
Planning what you’ll eat in advance and cooking at home are skills that will help you both reach your weight loss goal and maintain your new weight. During Phase 1 of the Ideal Protein protocol, your meal planning will be made easier because many of your meals and snacks will be based around Ideal Protein foods. Even so, if you sit down for a few minutes and plan out your meals and snacks in advance, it will be easier for you to stay on protocol.
How To Detox From Sugar
Have you heard? Sugar is the new fat. We’ve been brainwashed into thinking that fat is bad, but as it turns out it’s sugar, not fat, that makes you sick and overweight.
The Basics of Reading Food Labels
Learning how to read food labels will help you make choices that fit your healthy eating goals. You’ll find this helpful not only while trying to lose weight, but also when you move on to maintaining your weight loss.
Successful Weight Maintenance
You lost the weight — congratulations! Now it’s time to shift your strategy to make it last. All three phases are key to keeping the weight off…
Eliminating Sugar: Get to Know Your Sweet Tooth
Removing sugar from your diet can be more challenging than expected. If you’re struggling with eliminating sugar while on your weight loss journey, it might be time to take a deeper, honest look at your sugar intake.
Ease into Exercise
One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a sense of normal routine. If you’re working at home, and the kids are underfoot because their summer activities have been cancelled, you may have found that you’re not moving as much as you did before.
Learn How To Love Healthy Foods
Whether you have the palate of a toddler or are bored to tears by healthy food, we have a few simple tricks that can help you start eating better.
Strategies to Improve Eating Habits
Permanently improving your eating habits requires a thoughtful approach. If you are trying to lose weight and create new positive habits that stick with you long term…
Tips for Handling Emotional Distress
If you’re feeling well… like you don’t even know what you’re feeling, you’re not alone. We’re learning to navigate and adapt in real-time to a world that feels foreign. It’s normal to feel adrift ..
Food Journaling 101: Write Your Way to Weight Loss
You may have resisted keeping a food journal in the past because it sounded too time-consuming or complicated. With COVID-19 concerns keeping you closer to home, this just might be the time to give it a try. Plus, it’s super easy to record your Ideal Protein Phase 1 meals, snacks, and drinks—all the information you need is right on the labels, and servings are measured out for you.
What You Need To Know About Sugar
Let’s talk about sugar and its effect on weight loss. It’s becoming more well known that sugar is addictive, but there isn’t too much information out there about what to do about it..
Five Ways to Fight Sweets Cravings
It’s normal to crave something sweet now and then—humans are hardwired to seek sweet tastes. You
might be fighting more sweet cravings than normal right now, because of the stress related to the events
and uncertainties surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
How To Kick Start Your Healthier Lifestyle
Eating healthy takes more than sourcing a list of healthy foods and recipes. It requires planning and some discipline to shop for and prepare nutritious meals…
Is your body always craving carbs or sugar?
Higher-sugar, higher-glycemic foods are addictive in the same way as cocaine and heroin. In the vast majority of cases, certain types of food -processed foods made of sugar, fat, and salt combined in ways kept secret by the food industry- are addictive, and we are biologically wired to crave these foods and eat as much of them as possible. It’s no wonder so many people feel trapped!
How-To Make Lasting Health Changes
Did you know? Consuming a diet of low-glycemic and high-quality food choices can help keep weight balanced and health risks at bay?
Weight Loss Tips: Building New Habits
Did you know? By linking your new habits to a cycle that is already built into your brain, you make it more likely that you’ll stick to the new behaviour?
Is Food the Ultimate Medicine?
Did you know? Consuming a diet of low-glycemic and high-quality food choices can help keep weight balanced and health risks at bay?
How to Reduce Self-Sabotaging Thoughts
Are self-sabotaging thoughts keeping you from reaching your weight loss goals? Then check out these helpful tips!
Is Lack of Sleep Affecting Your Weight Loss?
The article Sleep and Weight Loss is written by the experts behind the Ideal Protein weight loss protocol and helps answer the common questions: does sleep affect weight loss? and how much sleep is enough?
Tips for Staying Healthy and on Protocol
You’ve worked hard to get to where you are but the holidays can be a challenging time to stay committed to weight loss goals. To help, here are 6 tips to help keep you on track this holiday season.
Phase 2 Meal Plan Examples
You have just totally reset your metabolism, given your pancreas a delightful rest and it’s time to go back to using food as energy and keep building and strengthening your new lifestyle. You are clean, clean, clean and have an amazing opportunity to really see how foods impacts you.
Unhealthy Helpings: Understanding Portion Control
There are many factors that influence a person’s tendency to gain weight, some of which we have little control over. However, one factor that does contribute is portion control.
Debunking Weight Loss Myths
Many people rely on the Internet for information on losing weight. There’s so much information on weight loss out there that it’s easy to get confused. To help you separate fact from fiction when it comes to successful weight loss, we’ve debunked some of the more common weight loss myths that can ultimately affect your weight loss journey.
Tips for Thanksgiving Success
Thanksgiving is a challenge if you’re on program and can also be a challenge in Maintenance.
Even though you can count it as an indulgence day it’s good to keep best practices in mind.
We have a few tips and recipes that will help you stay on track.
Tips from George Watson who lost over 100lbs
George Watson guest post. George shares some of his favourite resources and passion for living a fabulous life.
Ideal Protein vs. Keto
If you or someone you know is interested in trying a proven a ketogenic diet and haven’t seen success with Keto, the Ideal Protein protocol might be the weight loss solution you’re looking for.
Even if you are crazy busy, you can still lose weight
No doubt about it—losing weight will require a commitment of time. But where do you find that time?
If you’re like most of us, you have a job that keeps you hopping (or sitting most of the day), an active family life and the daily stresses that happen in our lives. You may wonder how you’re going to add one more thing to your day.