Weight Loss Motivation

Eating Perfectly Doesn’t Fix Everything

January 26, 2021 2 comments

Realizing that I couldn't control everything felt crushing, but it opened the space to embark on the true process of growing.Moving away from expectations and control I spent my young adulthood absorbing the unfolding story of how our daily food and lifestyle choices can manipulate who we are. Hard to pronounce superfoods could guarantee our [...]

2020 – A Year for Perfect Vision

January 4, 2020 2 comments

Happy 2020 everyone! What a year 2019 was… and what hope a new year always brings. I commented to my husband that 2020 already sounded so familiar to say (usually it takes me a while to warm up to the yearly transition) and he replied: “it’s because it’s perfect vision”. And so a theme for […]

Long-term motivation vs my susceptibility to anxiety and self-medicating

October 25, 2019 4 comments

I originally shared this post in the "Introductions" CARE Forum topic, visible only to current members. But these details shouldn't be excluded from my "About" page. That timeline ends in 2011. I wrote the below in March of 2019; an update will be coming soon (the life raft I mentioned below was damaged over the [...]

Quality of Life: Do lifestyle choices matter?

August 15, 2019 0 comments

Quality of Life How do your daily lifestyle choices impact your quality of life? In the activity for CARE Step 1, new CARE members are asked to define your ‘Health Destination’. An exercise to help you visualize what true health means for you – the reason you want to adhere to a therapeutic lifestyle. The [...]

Trying to make healthy lifestyle changes? You’ll need a daily distraction.

June 7, 2019 2 comments

Trying to make healthy lifestyle changes? You'll need a daily distraction. Is Your Healthy Lifestyle List Complete? Restore healthy body weight – check! Eat 8 + a Balanced Plate – check! Move More – check! Always be prepared for my next meal before it’s time to eat – check! Define my daily distraction, my ‘fun [...]

Ladies: How Much Weight Did You Gain Between Ages 20-30?

June 2, 2019 0 comments

photo: blogs.luc.edu Ladies: How Much Weight Did You Gain Between Ages 20-30? Every 2 lbs Gained Increases Your Risk of Heart Disease by 3% Many of us are all too familiar with the legendary weight gain known as the ‘Freshman 15’. Although it was recently published that the average freshman only gains 3 1/2 pounds, [...]

Why We (temporarily) Feel Worse When Eating Healthy

April 7, 2016 32 comments

In the spirit of CARE, let’s start this conversation by having you envision a single cell in your body. Cells look a lot like a pin cushion. The surface of cells aren’t smooth at all, but rather, are full of individual receptors (the pins). These receptors are critical to influencing how that cell behaves. […]

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