I got out my copy of Intuitive Eating so that I could write this blog today and realized that I would be repeating some of what I said in my previous post. But that’s OK, I think that “food police” and guilt about food and eating are so common among people working on achieving a [...]
Guilty: having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong.
Guilt: a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some real or imagined offense, crime, wrong, etc.
Too many people I talk to about weight loss, food, body issues, disordered eating feel “guilt” after eating. Perhaps some foods don’t induce guilt (broccoli and cabbage tend to be “guiltless” as [...]
Many, if not most of us are “emotional eaters.” By that I mean that we eat in response to feelings rather than in response to biological hunger. We eat when we’re happy (wedding cake anyone?) We eat to soothe after a stressful day. We search for a snack when we’re bored at work. For many [...]
I used to hate going to the gym, now I just don’t like it very much. There’s always that one smelly guy, there’s the twenty year old texting in front of the free weights, and that “cougar” woman wearing way too much perfume (even if she were at a night club). But weight lifting transforms [...]
You can do lots of things with a pair of vise-grips. I’ve pulled screws out of walls (don’t ask), used them as a hammer (but only when a shoe with a substantial heel was unavailable), used them as a wrench (I stripped many nuts on my bicycle by using vise-grips instead of the right sized [...]
I think sometimes we hang onto things because they’re “supposed” to motivate us or remind us how things “should” be. The problem, at least for me, is that sometimes these “shoulds” and “oughts” and “inspirations” are not motivational. Here are a list of things that may be motivational, but may just be subtle saboteurs. Remember, [...]
I had plans to go for a 4 mile run this morning. The weather is perfect, a little slushy maybe, but lovely all the same. I got plenty of sleep last night and then when I woke up, I tried to swallow and noticed a roaring pain in the back of my throat. When I [...]
The only thing wackier than the content in many women’s magazines are the advertisements. While on the treadclimber at the gym this morning, I came across a doozy. At first it seems rather innocuous. It’s not telling you to DIET, I mean, we all know that’s a load of malarkey at this point, right? It’s [...]
Most of the time New Year’s resolutions don’t take hold. People make them and are done with them by February, if not sooner. My story is one of success, and possibly hope. Eight years ago I set a goal. You can call it a New Year’s resolution because I started in January, but it was [...]
It’s almost a new year and for many people that means making resolutions they’ll never be able to keep. I think this is as good a time as any to take stock of things and make changes to have a healthier, longer, better life, but I think it’s very important to make resolutions that are [...]