FOOD: Dismantling 5 Common Beliefs That Keep You Struggling
Challenging common beliefs systems around food that hold us stuck and struggling.
A Surprising Moment of Personal Triumph – at the Tanning Salon
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...
Nutrition & Weight Loss Backfires (Part VI)
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...
You’ve Met Your Goal. Now to Maintain It!
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...
‘Cheats’ and ‘Treats’
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...