Originally published December 6 2005
Oprah's personal trainer shares advice on how to avoid holiday overeating
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Bob Greene, fitness consultant and personal trainer to Oprah Winfrey, discusses the patterns that contribute to overeating and how to break them.
Fitness consultant and author Bob Greene, best known as Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer, has spent the past decade converting folks to healthy lifestyles through best-selling books, television appearances and the Internet, which offers his "Get With the Program" 12-week training course.
Tomorrow, Greene will talk about how to overcome patterns that cause overeating at a health and fitness expo in Timonium sponsored by The Sun.
We figured that the man who helped Winfrey lose 90 pounds and run a marathon would have some good advice for navigating the food perils of the holidays - and beyond.
Expectations that aren't fulfilled can trigger a mini-depression that makes you vulnerable to overdoing it with food.
Now that we're adults, it's more about the responsibility of getting the shopping done and throwing the parties.
Keeping your exercise consistent will help cut stress and overeating.
The majority of people who want to lose weight look at the food side first, look for the right diet that's going to get them to the weight they want.
I try to establish what level of activity can be consistent throughout your life.
You're either the person who hates exercise and resists it, or you're a person that understands that it benefits your life.
Last year, you cycled across the U.S. in 36 days as part of a public awareness campaign for fitness.
When I first met her, she was 237 pounds, but still had a lot of energy for someone carrying that weight.
I progressively modify her diet and exercise for her schedule and age.
I keep an eye on her knees - age doesn't help that situation - so we try to take a lot of the pounding off them.
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