It never failed! I would be so good all day. I’d have my dried out chicken breast and plain steamed broccoli for lunch, my rice cakes with sugar-free peanut butter for a snack. I even passed up the donuts at the staff meeting.
Just to go home and somehow find myself standing in the pantry elbow deep in a package of oreos…
Read MoreYour 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.
Read MoreIt’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!
Read MoreWhat 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…
Read MoreBut 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.
Read More“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…
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.
Read MoreHave 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...
