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Permanent weight loss requires understanding thoughts. Thoughts drive emotions, actions and inevitably your results. Evaluating thoughts critically, challenging fixed false beliefs and being intentional with new thoughts are key components of getting results, including permanent weight loss. In this four-part podcast series, I discuss the thought model in-depth. During this episode I focus on thought …
Permanent weight loss requires understanding thoughts. Thoughts drive emotions, actions and inevitably your results. Evaluating thoughts critically, challenging fixed false beliefs and being intentional with new thoughts are key components of getting results, including permanent weight loss. In this four-part podcast series, I discuss the thought model in-depth. During this episode, I provide an overview …
Commonly, we have predefined and implicit expectations of other people. In coaching, we refer to this concept as our manual. Our manuals for spouses, friends, neighbors and coworkers are often extensive. When people fall short of these expectations, our thoughts spiral and assign meanings to their actions. These thoughts cause emotional turmoil, which often result …
Have you ever considered all the things in your life that you’ve started and stopped? All the things you didn’t follow through on, such as professional aspirations, personal commitments, gym memberships and weight loss programs? We’ve all had the experience of getting a great plan and then watching it fizzle out. We …
Manipulation is a behavior that involves managing or influencing skillfully, typically in an unfair or coercive manner. While commonly used in interpersonal relationships to achieve a desired outcome, we often turn to these same techniques to motivate our own weight loss efforts. Just like a spouse or coworker may rebel against manipulative tactics, self-manipulation typically …
Meditation is a useful tool for managing stress, cravings and achieving permanent weight loss. Through actively calming the mind and body, meditation can reduce the stress hormones that contribute to weight gain. Additionally, the practice of meditation allows you to train your brain to better manage urges and cravings. Meditation also allows you to …
Any new skill requires practice, failure and fine-tuning to become proficient. The practice of losing and managing weight is no different. Each day, you will encounter small successes and failures that will require you adjusting your approach. The challenge is to see these failures as opportunities to refine your plan rather than let them undermine …
Like a toddler learning to walk, sometimes we struggle and fall. Setbacks are expected anytime you are practicing a new skill, such as managing weight. The ability to overcome these setbacks, regain balance and continue moving forward is necessary to successful and sustained weight loss. This podcast discusses how having a determined mindset is …
Food journaling is essential to permanently lose weight. Why? Because it works! Studies have shown journaling to contribute to successful and sustained weight loss. Food journaling provides data to help with food plans and decision making. In this podcast, I discuss the efficacy and components of food journaling for effective and permanent weight loss. …
Learning to manage urges and food cravings is essential to lose weight and prevent weight-related disease. In this podcast, Dr. Vaughn discusses managing the strong desires or impulses to eat foods that don’t serve the body. She introduces the idea of recognizing and validating the urge without acting upon or complying to the urge. In …
Do you struggle with weight loss? Has your doctor warned you that your high blood pressure or diabetes is the result of excess body mass? Perhaps you tired various diets only to experience initial weight loss followed by plateaus and relapse. You are not alone. Millions of Americans struggle with overeating or other unhealthy behaviors that lead to weight gain.
My name is Dr. Delane Vaughn, and I’ve been in your shoes. Like you, I’ve struggled with uncontrolled eating and steady weight gain. To gain control over my own addiction to food, I hired a life coach who helped me gain “freedom from food” by addressing the underlying reasons for my eating. My life coach was so influential in improving my life, I became a life coach myself. Now I use my medical degree and life coaching techniques to help clients achieve their wellness goals.
Effective and permanent weight lose requires addressing the underlying thoughts and emotions, which drive our actions and inevitably our results. Like most doctors, I started my career telling patients to make better life choices. I would say, “lose weight and follow-up in six months.” Then, I’d act shocked when they were unsuccessful. While I wanted my patients to be healthy, I was operating in a system of “disease care” not health and wellness care. Health and wellness is a completely different model that takes more time than a 15-minute doctor visit. Proactive and effective health care requires addressing the thoughts, which produce emotions and the resulting patterns of behavior. Only by altering these patterns of behavior are we able to produce effective and permanent improvements in health and well-being.
Today, as a doctor and life coach, I’m finally fulfilling my purpose of helping people achieve a better quality of life through preventive health. If you are interested in learning how your own personal life coach can help you achieve your health and wellness goals, contact me today for a free mini-coaching session.
If you are interested in effective and permanent weight loss, contact me today for a free mini-coaching session.