Emotional Eating
Why Diets Don't Work For Emotional Eaters…
I was out to dinner with a dear friend of mine and she was picking my brain about her weight. For as long as I’ve known her she’s wanted to lose 30 pounds. I’ve admired her commitments to trying paleo, cleanses and committing to eating 10 vegetables a day. Years had gone by and nothing…
Read MoreYAY! Freedom from thigh chafing is here!
Oh the agony of thigh chafing! There is NOTHING worse! And when the weather is oppressively hot, the last thing you want to wear are pants! While there are literally hundreds of remedies to protect your precious thighs from the excruciating stingy and burning of thigh chafing, many solutions are messy and as sexy as…
Read MoreHow To Love Your Body (Even If It's A Work In Progress!)
You may have been taught, that when you finally lose the excess weight, THEN you’ll love your body. I know I did! Which made me really good at what I like to call the “hating yourself skinny” method. I don’t recommend it. It wasn’t much fun. In fact, it was torture. But I couldn’t…
Read More5 Signs You Are An Emotional Eater (And What You Can Do About It!)
“Why didn’t anyone tell me?!” I remember saying screaming that to a friend of mine as I recounted the story of my own weight loss journey. I had been struggling to find freedom from worrying about food and my body for more than half of my life. I tried diets. Doubling up on workouts.…
Read MoreMy top 3 gluten-free beers
I’m not much of a beer drinker. But every once in a while, at a baseball game or like this 4th of July, I’ll want an ice-cold beer. But my digestion is super sensitive and my body can’t handle a lot of gluten without paying a price ;-P Now I have to be honest… a…
Read MoreWhy You Gain Weight Without Eating Extra Food
Do you feel like you gain weight just by looking at food? Like just walking down the ice cream aisle at the grocery store packs on 10 pounds without even putting a spoon to your mouth!? Or have you noticed, during really stressful overwhelming times in your life, you blow up like a puffer fish…
Read MoreDo you emotionally eat? You may be a ‘Highly Sensitive Person’
If I were to name ONE thing that changed everything when it came to finally finding peace with food and my body, this would be it. It literally changed my life. It was a catalyst in dropping my first 10 pounds after years of deprivation and doubling up on workouts got me nowhere. It’s what…
Read MoreHow to Enjoy Your Favorite Foods Guilt Free!
I used to think, in order to have a body I loved, I’d have to swear off my favorite foods FOREVER. No cookies. No cake. No chocolate. I gave this a valiant effort for some time (about 2 weeks was all I could stand) before feeling like I was going insane in food jail. Did…
Read MoreHow To Manage Emotional Overwhelm
There’s one thing I do every single morning no.matter.what. I’m not talking about brushing your teeth or eating breakfast or putting on your favorite lip gloss, even though I do those things too because they’re part of my self-care and set me up for a successful day. I know a lot of people won’t do…
Read MoreHow to Curb Your Sugar Cravings
I hope you had a fantastic and relaxing Memorial Day Weekend! Zach and I spent this one down the shore with my family in Ocean City, NJ. But one thing that always used to plague me after a weekend, holiday or not, were sugar cravings. For years it seemed like I couldn’t exercise or eat…
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