Self Help and Personal Development Blog by Paul Piotrowski
By Paul Piotrowski on Sep 14, 2007 in Health and Fitness, Spirituality, diet, eating healthy, nutrition, subjective reality | 9 Comments
In my last post I spoke about how my beliefs broke my diet. There are basically two parts to the challenge I’m encountering and today I figured out one part.
How Spirituality Affects Diet and Nutrition
Is a slimy cheeseburger dripping with fat bad for you? Does it harm your body? Or is it only bad for [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Sep 11, 2007 in Health and Fitness, Spirituality, beliefs, diet, nutrition | 8 Comments
This is going to be a somewhat unusual post by me. I normally don’t like writing articles presenting a problem. I prefer to write articles presenting a solution to a problem once I’ve actually already solved it. However, today I felt compelled to share my problem even though I have no solution yet. Maybe someone [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Aug 12, 2007 in Health and Fitness, diet, dieting, food, health, losing weight, nutrition, personal development, self development, self help, self improvement | 1 Comment
There’s one thing that most of today’s fad diets have in common. They almost always relate back to calories and trying to get people to consume just the right amount of calories to lose weight. The theory being that if your body burns 2000 calories per day, and you consume 1800 calories per day, then [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Aug 11, 2007 in Certified Sports Nutrition Consultant, Health and Fitness, diet, health, nutrition, wellbeing | 1 Comment
Yesterday my certificate in Sports Nutrition Consulting from Alive Academy of Natural Health came in which now officially allows me to use the Certified Sports Nutrition Consultant (CSNC) designation. The course covered everything relating to proper nutrition for athletes and sports enthusiasts ranging from the study of macronutrients (Carbohydrates, Fats and Proteins) to micronutrients such [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Aug 10, 2007 in Health and Fitness, diet, health, self help, self improvement | 1 Comment
On Saturday July 28th, I started my “98% Diet” plan. My starting weight was 193lbs with a body fat % between 24-26% depending which of the two scales I use. The outcome I’m targetting to achieve is to hit a body fat % of 12% or less by August 2008, which would put me at [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Aug 9, 2007 in Health and Fitness, diet, exercise, fitness, health | 0 Comments
Those of you who have read my SelfHelpWisdom.com blog know that I have tried several different work-out and healthy eating diet trials over the years. There was one diet which I followed several years prior to starting my blog which was based on the Dr. Robert Young alkalarian diet from his book Ph Miracle. I [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Jan 8, 2007 in Health and Fitness, diet, exercise, exercising, fitness, health, personal development, working out | 0 Comments
Today we’ll cover a very important step in achieving long term success with your health & fitness program. If you’ve been following this series from the start, you should by now have a written down Outcome/Vision statement which outlines exactly WHAT you want and WHY you want it. You should also have a written down [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Jan 1, 2007 in Health and Fitness, diet, exercise, exercising, fitness, health, personal development, working out | 0 Comments
On December 19th I began a new challenge in my life to significantly improve my personal health and fitness levels using every self-development tool, strategy and technique I have learned over the last 10 years. Out of this process, the “Getting in Shape Series” of articles was born. My plan is to work on and [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Dec 23, 2006 in Health and Fitness, beliefs, diet, exercise, exercising, fitness, health, personal development, working out | 0 Comments
If you haven’t yet read the first two parts of this series of articles I suggest you read them first as the series build on top of each step as we go along. The first two parts are here: Step 1 and Step 2.
To review, here are the steps I’m following in this challenge:
1) Decide [...]
By Paul Piotrowski on Dec 21, 2006 in Health and Fitness, diet, exercise, exercising, fitness, health, personal development, working out | 0 Comments
Well, it has been three days since I started the “Getting in Shape, No Holds Barred” challenge. My first order of business was to address the mental aspects of getting in shape. This is very often a neglected or even skipped step of getting into shape for most people. Most people begin by going to [...]
