Monthly Archives: July 2012

Don’t you hate it when everyone around you is on their fourth piece of pizza, and you’re sitting there with a salad on your plate? Somehow, it seems unfair. If they get four pieces of pizza, we should get four pieces … Continue reading →

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to wait around on a boring old diet to lose weight at the rate of one pound per week. I want it to be FAST, EASY, and FUN.

I really should have called this category “yummy food eating.” It’s the type of eating we do when we see a pan of lemon bars sitting on the counter as we pass through the kitchen. We’re not hungry. We’re not … Continue reading →

Have you ever thought, I’ll never get over this, I’ll be struggling with my weight ’til the day I die? I used to think that.

You’ve seen the headlines: 50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight! How I Lost 20 Pounds in Just 3 Weeks! Eat All You Want and Lose! Combine those headlines with our American belief that life should be easy, and we have … Continue reading →

The telltale sign of emotional eating is that you feel driven to eat. You don’t just see a brownie on the counter and want it; you go looking for the brownie because you need it. Sometimes it’s a desperate feeling … Continue reading →

Sometimes it helps to take a break and look at life. Find out what’s working. What’s not. And what needs to change. It also helps to do that with eating. If we find out what areas we need the most … Continue reading →

Happy Independence Day! I thought I’d talk about holiday/vacation eating in this post since we’ll have plenty of opportunities to break our boundaries today. It’s easy to break boundaries on holidays and vacations because we have all kinds of things … Continue reading →

When I first started truth journaling 12 years ago, it never occurred to me to beat myself up when I failed. My renewing of the mind project was anger, but since I never did anything when I was angry (no … Continue reading →