When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

If you are not growing, you are dying.

People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself.

If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.