Losing weight and keeping it off isn’t as much about defeating challenges as it is taking advantages of opportunities. You read that right. I’m an opportunist. I don’t dwell on my challenges. I know what they are and I know what they can do and they’ll never go away. Why should I waste my time […]
Getting married is arguably a major lifestyle change. It may be the biggest lifestyle change we’ll ever experience. Although not quite as much of a lifestyle change as marriage, switching from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy lifestyle is another major change. They’e similar in that there are four distinct phases for each. Understanding what’s […]
There is so much talk about ideal weight, goal weight, healthy weight and perfect weight. It’s confusing. Are those all ways of saying the same thing? Maybe, but I don’t think so. This difference, as far as I’m concerned is huge. Ideal weight: Some magical weight that isn’t just a number but at the same […]
January 2016 I woke up on January 2 with a fat-fighting spirit. 2016 would be the year I’d get down to “hot mama” weight. All the holidays are behind me. I have never been so big in my life. Today I start my diet. I’m giving up all sweets, dining out, pizza and […]
I wrote a blog called “Can Weight Loss Can Be Depressing?” I experienced moments of frustration and disappointment. I was confused sometimes about why when I did very well adhering to the food plan, I gained instead of lost. I was never what could be described as “depressed” because so far my life has been depression-free. […]
Me: Your diet survived the weekend? That’s great! Your diet survived the weekend and are you going to survive your diet? The answers I get often overlook the part about, “Are you going to survive your diet?” Seems like the dieters are too happy about how they avoided a temptation than to consider how their […]
I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist. I haven’t spent my life studying or researching this. No doctor, no research scientist, just a wife/mother/grandmother and I suspect I’m smart enough (I like to think that anyway) to have been one of the aforementioned occupations if I were interested enough to follow through. The point […]
Your head is good for more than being a place with a hole you call your mouth through which food enters your body. Weight gain and loss begin in your head albeit in different areas of the same head! While your mouth is the portal for food, the brain is the CEO of your body. […]
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