Why What you Eat Isn’t Making You Fat What follows is a fairly typical response to a question on my intake forms from a woman regarding what brought her in for a session. “Where do I begin… Well, I have serious confidence issues due to an abusive childhood. I was raped when I was a […]
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The Top Four Reasons Diets Don’t Work (& What You Can Do)
The Top Four Reasons Diets Don’t Work (& What You Can Do) Diets don’t work. By now, it’s likely this is not news to you…you’ve heard it before or learned it from your own experience. In fact, if you’re an “average American woman,” you’ve learned it many, many times! Probably no one has told you […]
I would kill to be her size!
It was one of those rare days when my appointments were back-to-back, and every client arriving saw my last one leaving. Normally, I leave sufficient buffer time so this doesn’t happen, but I was going on vacation the following week and squeezing in as many clients as possible before I left. It just so happened […]
No More Pizza for You!
As a long-time weight loss coach and formerly overweight person myself, I know from firsthand experience that telling yourself, “No! Never, ever again!” about a particular food simply doesn’t work. The reason I bring this up is that it’s a big problem for a lot of people. As humans – and especially humans who love […]
What losing weight won’t do
What losing weight won’t do I recently had a sixteen year old boy come into my office for self-esteem issues, not terribly unusual. But what was unusual was his very insightful observation of how his previous efforts to fix this issue hadn’t worked. “I am here because I recently lost a lot of weight, but […]