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Building and Breaking My McDonald’s Habit
It’s 3pm on an unseasonably hot Tuesday afternoon, and I’m walking into McDonald’s. I’m running errands with my love who hasn’t eaten lunch yet. Thus, the impromptu stop at the Golden Arches. He wanted me to wait in the car while he ordered (so that I wouldn’t be...
read moreWhat To Do When You Hit a Plateau
I weigh myself daily and log my weight on a chart on Wednesdays. For the past 5 weeks, I have logged in between 181 & 182. I seem to have reached a plateau. Gut reaction: This sucks. I want to scrunch my face into an angry scowl, stomp my feet and scream, “This...
read more9 Ways I’m Making Peace With Weight Loss
I’ve struggled. With my own weight. With finding the best way to eat for me. With feeling powerless over food. With beating myself up because I’m not doing better even though I know better. As a weight loss coach, I’ve got a ton of knowledge and tools, and still…I’m...
read moreWhat I Did for 40 Days
I have endeavored to do many things to improve myself (aka: fix myself). I have tried to develop new habits, cut back, get healthy, exercise more, do less of this or more of that. As you can imagine, over the years many New Year’s Resolutions have gone by the wayside:...
read moreCHOCOLATE (#1)
One evening this past week I was absolutely not hungry. But man, did I want CHOCOLATE. Bad. I was about to head off to the kitchen for a couple squares of dark CHOCOLATE. (What could possibly be wrong with a couple squares of dark CHOCOLATE for Heaven’s sake....
read moreCOOL GIRLS
Have you ever wanted to be a COOL GIRL? (#RememberHighSchool) Often we’re striving to be a COOL GIRL. Or, if we manage to be one, we’re fighting like mad to stay one (or praying to God they don’t realize that we aren’t one). I just worked with a client who...
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