by Rebecca Garland | Apr 20, 2016 | coaching, confidence, fitness, health, loving-kindness, new habits, nutrition, struggle, success, weight loss, wellness
This post is about change, courage and finding freedom (along with a personal – surprising – moment of triumph at the tanning salon). Habits are hard to change… Especially the ones that relate to how we treat our bodies, and how we use...
by Rebecca Garland | Aug 19, 2015 | coaching, food, new habits, nutrition, weight loss
COUNTING & RESTRICTING CALORIES Have you ever counted and restricted calories to lose weight, or at least have thought you should? I don’t count my calories, but used to when I struggled with my weight. Well, I sort of used to. I tried maintaining food logs and...
by Rebecca Garland | Jun 17, 2015 | change, fitness, health, struggle, success, weight loss, wellness
Vibrant health is a lifestyle, not a deadline. But “deadline” is so often how we treat it. We set deadlines to achieve a certain weight, lift a certain weight, race within a certain time-frame, and so forth. Although there is nothing wrong with...
by SiestaLOL | Jun 9, 2015 | confidence, new habits, nutrition, struggle, weight loss, wellness
The Connection Between Language and Your Relationship with Food Language is tremendously powerful, and so is the language we use around food. I have found language to be a fairly accurate predictor of one’s success in achieving short term behavior change or long term...
by Rebecca Garland | May 24, 2015 | coaching, confidence, loving-kindness, new habits, stress, struggle, success, weight loss
This is the first post of a series, where I share common nutrition and weight loss backfires. The first I’ll discuss is Body Attitude… When we decide to embark on a weight loss or nutrition plan, it is usually because we want our bodies to be different in some...
by Rebecca Garland | May 18, 2015 | coaching, confidence, loving-kindness, new habits, stress, struggle, success, weight loss
When it comes to your nutrition and weight loss endeavors, are you a wagon-rider? Do you ever catch yourself sharing that you’ve fallen off the “wagon”, or committing to getting back in the “saddle” on Monday? If you’re like most of us, you likely have. However,...
