For YEARS I was on a diet, looking for the next diet or stressing and obsessing about my weight.  I was unhealthy and certainly unhappy and felt trapped in my body.  Slowly, but surely, as I started to work though some other issues, like what I thought of myself and

Not too long ago, I was in a funk.  Nothing seemed to be going right, I got charged for something that wasn’t my fault.  I over-scheduled myself and was running around like a chicken with my head cut off and I was tired.  One thing led to another and I

Food is not good or bad, it just is.  So if eating certain foods doesn’t make us a bad person and we can eat whatever we want, how do we keep ourselves from eating play foods all of the time?   Ask yourself these two questions when making choices around

It has been said that we have about 60,000 of them a day.  Many of them sparked by a question, which require us to answer, ultimately yielding our results.  For a long time, my questions looked like this:   Why can’t I stay motivated? Why can’t I eat whatever I

By now, I hope you’ve realized that this is about being fit, not worrying about being fat.  In case you still don’t believe me.  Listen to Steven.   Steven Blair is a renowned exercise researcher at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.  His research shows

When it comes down to it, the real reason you’re not exercising consistently is because you are a taker.  You want to take the pounds away with exercise, rather than give your body the other benefits.  I was a taker for years.  I would work out 5-6 days a week

Somewhere along the line we started equating exercise primarily with weight loss.  Yeah, yeah, if I asked you what do you believe the purpose for exercise is, some of you would say, to boost mood, energy, control blood pressure, regulate blood sugar, help improve sleep, rev up your sex life,

Many of us think we can because we remove calories and foods from our diets, start exercising more and see weight come off, but we have no idea if it was fat, or muscle tissue.  The problem with that is our body is designed to maintain a certain level of

It’s a ritual that we chronic dieters do 1-2 times a day, once a week or not at all when we are “off the wagon”.  Why is it so important to know that number?  What do we believe that number means? More importantly, is it true?   I watched it

If you remember that for everything that happens in our life we immediately have a thought about it.  What we choose to think about that circumstance causes us to feel a certain way.  When we feel that way about that circumstance we do something (or don’t do) which when done