Stop Dieting Forever

There’s something about a new year that fosters renewed hope. Are you ready to make 2011 the year you finally get serious about your weight? Are you ready to give up fad diets and find a better way to lose those pounds? One of the biggest pitfalls for people with a lot of weight to [...]

My husband and I were invited to an elegant weekend at a beautiful resort about two hours away. Everything was taken care of including the food and I didn’t know if, or how, my diet was going to survive. I don’t know if this would be considered five-star dining, but it was close enough for [...]

Most people would agree that losing weight is difficult. For some it might be how long it takes to see results or learning to eat differently. For many, though, the difficulty lies in “all-or-nothing” thinking. This attitude – if I can’t do it perfectly, it’s not worth doing – can affect your diet every day [...]

I started taking piano lessons when I was in the third grade. As any child, I had an on again/off again love affair with my piano but when I loved it, I dreamed of doing something professionally with music. That was, until I was in eighth grade and asked my piano teacher something about doing [...]

Back in the mid-1970s, I remember being on one of those 800-calorie-a-day diets where I had to go into the weight loss office Monday-Friday to get weighed, “counseled” and, once a week, a B-12 shot. You can lose weight this way but at what price? Your metabolism goes into starvation mode which slows down weight [...]

Affirmations — those things you say or think about yourself — shape your life and directly impact your weight loss efforts. You may not believe in affirmations, or you may know very little about them, but they are still at work in your life. Every time you say something like, “I’m never going to lose [...]

I remember a valuable “Aha!” moment I had years ago. It was a Monday morning and I was looking at my calendar to see what commitments I had that week. There were parent-teacher conferences, doctor’s appointments, a meeting at church and the orthodontist in addition to work and business meetings scattered throughout. Just looking at [...]

If you hear one more person say, “It took you more than a month to gain all that weight, it’s going to take you more than a month to lose it” are you going to snap? Do you think people don’t realize how condescending that sounds or do you think they’re just being deliberately condescending? [...]