Category: Coaching With Connie

Tired? Wiped Out? It’s Staycation Time (A Vacation at Home)

Are you exhausted? Burnt out from your work, financial stress and all the things you have to do?
If you’re short on funds or if you’re just not in the mood to leave town but still want to relax and chill out, it may be time for a staycation — i.e., a vacation at home.
Lately, lots of publications are touting the merits of a staycation.Consumer Reports and SuperEco give you tips to have a great one. And today’s Daily News even has some ideas.
A staycation is on my mind, because, after taking lots of time off earlier this summer, I’m taking a staycation this weekend.
Actually, more to the point, I have lots of homework to do for my life coach training and I want to be done with all the requirements before I get my certification as a CPC (Certified Professional Coach).
This weekend, I’m bicycling in the parks, going to fun events, catching a movie or two, hosting a Labor Day Meetup to see Madama Butterfly at Lincoln Center and doing lots of homework to wrap up my life coaching certification requirements from my training at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). (Great school. If you want to go there, tell them Connie recommended you.)
Want help to kick sugar, write or promote a book or find passion in your life? Grab me now at my pre-CPC rates. Learn more now about Coaching With Connie.

New Yorkers in Sugar Shock: Hear Me Speak Sept. 10 at the New York Open Center Open House

New Yorkers, would you like to get more energy, lose weight, improve your relationships and boost your libido?
Well, learn how you can do that on Thursday, Sept. 10 when I speak at the New York Open Center’s Open House. I am one of 9 speakers featured that evening.
On Sept. 10, you’ll get some ideas on how to begin to break free of your sugar habit.
Then, in the new year (2010), I’m teaching a four-course week at the New York Open Center, beginning January 12.
If you sign up for the class as a result of reading about this on this blog, please let me know here, and I’ll give you a special gift.
Plan now to attend the New York Open Center’s open house on Sept. 10.

Off Vacationing to Walk My Talk: Do You Take Time for You?

Lately, I’ve been striving to walk my talk. Sure, I stay away from sugar and refined carbs and work out, but I just work too hard and don’t take enough time for me.
So I’m off on vacation now taking some much-needed time for me.
Back on July 13 to help you again.
Do you walk your talk? If so, I encourage you to do so. I’m already feeling much more invigorated and ready to give back.
By the way, if you have sugar issues, did you know that I offer coaching (of course, my time is limited).
If you’re fed up with your sugar issues, it would be my honor to help you break free of your sugar addiction. And I know we can do that together!

Declare Your Sugar Independence!

As we near Independence Day, wouldn’t it be nice to achieve Sugar Independence, too?
Getting over a sugar habit can enable you to:
* Feel liberated and FREE
* Get more energy
* Lose weight
* Get along better with loved ones
* Enjoy yourself more
* Find your sense of calm
* Become more confident
* Concentrate better
* Have a stronger libido
* Accomplish more
* And so much more!
Let me help you reach Sugar Independence.
Just listen and get inspired by these Successful Sugar Kickers
Learn how getting over their sugar addiction helped them to feel liberated.
There’s nothing more motivating and exciting when you’re trying to get over a sugar habit
than to listen to or read about Sugar Kickers and how they succeeded.
FYI, these were preview calls for my Fast-Track, Kick-Sugar Countdown Program.
Go ahead. Listen to these liberated people now.
If you become liberated from sugar, your life will dramatically change.
When you break free from sugar, you can find a deep-seated sweetness in all aspects of your life — but that doesn’t necessarily mean the sweetness from foods.
Just listen now to how the lives of these Sugar Kickers became sweeter in so many ways just by
kicking sugar.
Remember, you CAN kick sugar and have a life of sweetness, too!
I have high hopes for your success and wish you a sweet holiday weekend.
By the way, if you get tempted over the holiday weekend by candies, cookies or ice cream, just listen
to these people tell you how getting over your sugar addiction is the first step to having a better, sweeter life.
Did you know that I work with people privately to help them break free of sugar and other unhealthy habits? My schedule permitting, I’d be happy to work with you, too.

Lose Weight, Boost Energy & Kick Sugar in Only 4 Weeks

Are you tired of your excess weight?
Are you disgusted with yourself that you have a sugar habit?
Would you like to begin to Break Free of Sugar Shock in only 4 weeks, beginning this Monday?
Just think as summer begins, you could be well on your way to losing your excess pounds, getting a beach body and breaking free of sugar shock.
Are you ready to change your life for the better?
Learn how to Break Free of Sugar Shock now!
You deserve a better life!
Would you like to feel:
* Free from worry about weight?
* Full of glee, zest and pizzazz?
* Amazing—both physically and emotionally?
* Energized, enthusiastic and excited?
* Fulfilled by your activities, pursuits and loved ones?
* Completely free of a desire or need to plan or plot to eat your next sugary or carb snack?
* Released from the fatigue, headaches, brain fog and mood swings that hit you after consuming those quickie carbs?
* Like you’ve been reborn?
Sign up now to make all of that come true.

Get Help to Lose Weight, Tone Up & Unwind — Just Visit Me All Over the Internet

Thousands of you often write to me to ask questions and seek tips on how to kick sugar or resolve other health issues and counter-productive habits, etc. Unfortunately, I can’t personally reply to all of you — just don’t have the time — but you can find me all over the internet.
Below you’ll find a list of places where you can find me, as well as get information, tips, articles, links and much more:
* The White-Out Diet (my next book): Spread the word about this book, which can help you Peel off Pounds, Boost Energy & Rev Up Your Libido by Breaking Free of White Foods. (That’s the subtitle.)
* The new Facebook fan page. Friend me at this page, where you’ll get links to interesting articles, etc. that I don’t have time to post here and updates about my radio show, etc. (This is separate from my regular Facebook friends page. I’m urging people to join the new page, because the old one won’t let me invite all friends with one click to upcoming radio shows other events. Thankfully, the fan page will.)
* Follow me on Twitter for short, snappy 140-character updates. Again, you’ll get tidbits that you can’t find on my Sugar Shock Blog.
* Stop Stress with Dr. Jill Baron.
* Private Coaching. Learn about the Sweet Friends Coaching Package and the Unlimited, Star-Treatment Coaching Package.
* Book a speaking engagement or media interview or buy bulk copies of SUGAR SHOCK!
* Listen to
* Get Free Stuff at the Sugar Shock website.
* Catch the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show on Blog Talk Radio, where you get inspired, motivated and educated every Tuesday at 3 p.m. EST by guests such as Marilu Henner, Suzanne Somers, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Montel Williams, Lisa Nichols of “The Secret”, blogger Robert Scoble, Twitter author Joel Comm, raw food expert David Wolfe, HARO (Help a Reporter) founder Peter Shankman and many more. Listen live or later.
* Get free podcasts of the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show so you can listen to the show at your convenience.

Slipped? Destroyed Your Diet? 7 Tips to Get Back on Track

Often, whenever I give a talk, I hear from people who started eating sugar again and who wanted some guidance. Here’s an article I wrote to help them — and you — if you fell off the no-sweets wagon.
Slipped? Destroyed Your Diet? 7 Tips to Get Back on Track
By Connie Bennett, CHHC
Did you fall off the diet wagon? Did you eat foods you promised to forego? Are you upset with yourself for “stupidly” eating sugary or fast-acting carbs?
Time and time again, my clients and readers of my book SUGAR SHOCK!complain to me about how they stumbled and fell down yete again. They desperately want to know how to get out of their muck and kick sugar, refined carbs and other horrible habits — and for good this time.
Here are 7 tips to pick yourself up and get back on track and finally succeed.
1. Be gentle with yourself. If you slip and forego your good intentions, this is not the time to berate and belittle yourself. Instead use this “mistake” to lavish yourself with compassion, understanding and sympathy. Yes, you messed up, but your’re human so give yourself a break!
2. Accept that you’re imperfect. People with food issues and unhealthy habits often tend to expect themselves to get everything exactly right–or perfect. That sets you up for a huge letdown. Now that you’ve slipped, use this as a chance to claim your humanity, which means you’ll make mistakes from time to time. Owning up to your limitations can be quite freeing.
3. Consider this a golden opportunity to start again. Instead of viewing your falling off the wagon as the most horrible dieting disaster or other fatal error that never should have happened, regard your slip as a chance to begin anew. You see, whenever you make a so-called “mistake” such as this, this could be exactly what you need! Think about it: Aren’t you always more psyched when you begin a project?
4. View your slip as a learning experience. Falling off the no-sugar, no-coffee or no-more-late-nights wagon could be just the instructive incident that you need to to break out of your habit. So be thankful (yes, you heard me right — thankful!) that you “sinned” and ate those junk foods, swigged caffeine like it was going out of style or burned the midnight oil. Now study yourself dispassionately like a lab rat to see just how much damage you caused yourself by slipping. Doing so will enable you to develop deeper resolve to boldly move forward with conviction and finally succeed.

Tired of Kicking Sugar Alone? Bring Me to Your Area to Speak or Coach You

Often, people complain to me that they don’t want to do kick sugar alone. They hate being surrounded by sweets wherever they go and people — especially good-intentioned loved ones — not understanding what they’re going through.
I’m here for you. Did you know that I’m available to speak to your group or company?
Bring me to your area to educate, inspire and motivate your group. I’m available to speak at everything from your small gatherings to corporate conferences.
I also can offer private coaching while I’m in your community.
If you’d like to book me, click here and/or call for availability. (866) KICK-SUGAR or (866) 542-5784)