How To Lose Weight & Keep It Off: Do What Makes You Feel Alive
Here’s something that’s true for everybody no matter who you are: there’s something in this world that makes you feel alive like nothing else does. When you do what makes you feel alive, you lose time doing it. You can’t wait to get back to it when you’re not doing it. You wake up excited …
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The Key to Effective Weight Loss: Forgive Yourself
One of the keys to effective weight loss is to forgive yourself. Maybe you refuse to forgive yourself because you’re not where you want to be in your life at this exact moment in time. Or maybe you made a mistake or lots of mistakes and you can’t seem to get it right no matter …
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Avoid The Quarantine 15: Two Simple Questions That Will Stop Binge Eating
I’ve struggled to stop binge eating (& avoid The Quarantine 15) more in the past few weeks than I have in the past few years. It’s partly the state of the world right now; it’s also partly from feeling vulnerable and exposed because of the publication of my weight-loss book. Even after all these years, …
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5 Easy Steps To Stop Overeating During Stressful Situations
I’m qualified to talk to you about how to stop overeating because I used to weigh 304 pounds. Now I weigh 130 and I’ve kept it off for 8 years and counting. I’ve struggled more with wanting to overeat in the last few weeks than I have in the last few years. Here’s how I …
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FREE Self-Care Activities & Adult Coloring Pages
One of the best things you can do for yourself when you’re going through a stressful time is to take excellent care of yourself and practice some self-care. Self-care helps alleviate anxiety and fear. It also helps you feel nourished and supported. And in uncertain times, it also empowers you because self-care is something that’s …
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3 Ways to Practice Self-Compassion
Compassion is what you feel when you see someone hurting and your heart breaks for them and you want to help. Self-compassion is turning that same feeling on yourself. Self-compassion is what you most need to heal yourself. Nobody can grow while they’re being mowed down You may have turned on yourself and berated yourself, …
Perfectionism Got You Trapped? Here’s How To Get Out.
If you live your life by perfectionism, you probably have an overwhelming fear of making a mistake. And if you do make a mistake, maybe you: let that be an excuse to make a lot more mistakes (well, you didn’t do it perfectly so the heck with this) and/or give yourself permission to abandon yourself …
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4 Steps To Overcoming An Eating Disorder So You Can Thrive
I suffered from binge eating and bulimia for nearly 30 years. I’m qualified to talk to you about how to overcome an eating disorder because I’ve been free from any eating disorder for 10 years and counting now. Living with an eating disorder is not living, it’s surviving. You are worth more than just surviving. …
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National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA): Binge Eating Will Never Fix Weight Shaming (Or Anything Else)
Being shamed, bullied, and teased about weight significantly increases the odds that a person will gain weight, binge eat, and also participate in radical techniques to lose weight. (NEDA) I sit in the school library at a table tucked in the corner with a textbook, a few loose-leaf notebook pages, a stubby pencil with the …