A Simple Way to Help Get Control Over Hunger and Cravings

Your first meal of the day, no matter what time it happens, does make a difference…especially when it comes to your hunger and cravings the rest of the day.

Hunger & Cravings, Weight LossKristen DuckettOctober 10, 2022Hunger, Cravings, Blood sugarComment

How to get back on track after a “cheat”?

It’s those thoughts that make the “cheat” bigger than it is. Then you spin out on that and it can become a self fulfilling prophecy.

The problem here isn’t the donut, it's all the shit running through your head after you eat it that is!

Hunger & Cravings, MindsetKristen DuckettAugust 15, 2022Cheats, Stay on Track, Off The Wagon

Is your hunger the problem or the symptom?

What if your hunger and cravings aren’t the problem - what if they're actually the symptom?

When you’re overweight it's easy to think that the fact that you’re hungry all the time is the reason WHY you’re overweight - but what if the reason you’re overweight and the hunger and come from the same place…

Navigating The Holidays Without Going Off The Rails On Your Diet

But it really doesn’t have to be that way you can still enjoy the holidays without having all the wheels fall off.

It just takes slowing down a bit (another challenge this time of year?), a little mindfulness and thinking ahead. But you can still have your favorite treats without feeling like you have to dig yourself out of a hole come January 1st.

Hunger & Cravings, Weight LossKristen DuckettDecember 17, 2021Holidays, Stop Dieting, Sustainable Weight Loss

“It's really hard to lose weight when I’m hungry all the time!”

I know this struggle well, because this was me…

Not only was I hungry all the damn time but I also suffered from reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) - so to avoid that I was told to eat often “to keep my blood sugar level”.

This made it really hard to lose weight…

Hunger & Cravings, Weight LossKristen DuckettDecember 15, 2021Hunger, Cravings, Weight loss, Blood sugar

Any Diet That Starts With Your Being Hungry Is Doomed To Fail

You want to lose weight so you do the usual things to try to make that happen which usually includes things like cutting calories and exercising more….

This might go ok for a little bit... sometimes a few months, other times a few weeks... sometimes you’re lucky if you can make it to noon.

When Those Things That Used to Work In Your 20's No Longer Work...

Have you noticed that what used to work in your 20s no longer seems to cut it??

I personally never found weight loss easy - even back then, mainly because even when I lost weight I couldn’t manage to keep it off very long .

But once I hit about 37 weight loss felt like a whole new kinda hard...

All those things that used to work before no longer did...