Let’s get one thing out of the way right now. It’s not your fault. Polishing off a bag of chips or sleeve of Oreos at the end of a long, stressful day is NOT a matter of willpower or weakness. Your need for those things is a biological response to a chemical reaction. You’ve likely been […]
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Every quarter I promise myself I won’t do it. I won’t fill every single vacant slot on my calendar – already filled with Zoom meetings, classwork, kids’ sports, family events, school deadlines & bill reminders. But I pick up my head, & there it is again. I’m staring at months’ of commitments &
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I’ll be honest. Those photos of the neatly prepped & stuffed meal containers annoy the hell out of me. I’m just as Type-A as the next person, but the nutrition coaches who practice & preach this routine are expecting a LOT out of their clients. Not everyone has the time or energy to
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Over 10 years of helping people lose weight, although I hate to do it, it’s time I tell you the truth. Weight-gain is not your problem. Your problem is that you’ve spent decades believing you should be something you’re not. And living into that image has been wrought with nothing but self-blame &
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I’ve always felt it, but I never understood it. Until recently. My body strongly responds to two, common phrases. The first one was spoken by my husband, before he became my husband & definitely motivated to charm my pants off. (Ahem, it worked.) We were driving around my neighborhood, listening to
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I’m a 48-year-old daughter of a bipolar addict/alcoholic (ACOA friends, hello!); narcissistic parenting survivor; former addict (while earning my degree & working overtime hours to pay for tuition), ex-cult member (where my ex-JWs at?) & Multiple Sclerosis warrior. I spent decades in flight or fight mode, living every day in a highly stressed state
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