An interesting thing happened to me on the way to work today. Panic set in when I started to think about the weight loss goals I have. I began to wonder ‘Can I really do this’? ‘Am I really willing to pay the price and forever eat and live in a new way?’ The reality...
We all have predictable ways that we sabotage ourselves. We sabotage ourselves because we don’t love ourselves – at least on some level. In some part of our conscious or subconscious mind, we are not really committed to ourselves or our life in ways that encourage us...
On Saturday I spent an hour with my personal trainer going through the lifestyle inventory that they do at Goodlife Fitness and I was able to see the exact changes that would be necessary in order for me to reach my ideal weight. Most importantly for me, I was able to...
My mother would best describe me as a ‘stubborn’ child. When I was growing up, this was not a good thing… When she was trying to toilet train me, apparently I was slow to learn. This was a story she used to tell me because I remembered nothing about the actual event....
Eating is a mindless habit of mine that I chose to confront. Last week in my blog post I talked about habits – neurological wiring that keeps us doing the same thing over and over because it’s easy. Once our neurons are wired together, it is effortless to make choices...
As I shared in last week’s blog, I have made a commitment to lose a serious amount of weight. And I have been successful thus far – I’m in week #4 and it’s going well. Getting this far has been a challenge because it has taken me this long to rewrite most of my...
