What Your Dog Can Teach You About Losing Weight

I am bubbling over with joy and gratitude. Last week I hosted the first Laugh Yourself Skinny Escape where 9 women unplugged, rebooted and shed hundreds of pounds – physically, mentally and emotionally. I love watching the transformation and their faces as they get their zest for life back all without starving themselves or working…

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How Spanx and shapewear are causing you to gain weight

Let me tell you about my first, and only, one night stand…with Spanx (aka compression shapewear). At the time, I was desperately trying to drop 10 pounds, without much success and was heading to a summer wedding in a dress that was basically a neon sign that I had been eating too many cookies. I…

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Jcini-TV Diet Corner

When chatting with women who are interested in learning more about Laugh Yourself SkinnyTM, I’ve heard some pretty crazy techniques women take when it comes to slimming down. (No shame, we’ve all tried something off the wall…even me!) The white rice diet, the cookie diet and the fasting diet are at the more extreme end.…

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Jessica's Top 3 Stress-Fighting Foods

Ever feel so stressed like you’ve got a one way ticket to crazy town…running around like a chicken with your head cut off? Welcome to my world just a few years ago. My friends and family used to start every sentence with “I know you’re so busy…” before they’d say anything to me. Nowadays, honestly,…

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How Shopping Is Adding Inches to Your Waist

“I saved over $ 10,000 working with you last year” was in a love note I received last week from Amy, who finished my signature program Laugh Yourself SkinnyTM last year. She told me that she had been prepping her tax stuff and she couldn’t believe how shifting her relationship to food saved her some…

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How to Stay Full All Morning

We’ve allll been there…that awkward time between 10am and lunch where hunger creeps in a lot earlier than it should!  Where you find yourself playing eeny, meeny, miny, moe to help you choose between your only 2 dreadfully disappointing options: Option 1 is to eat and not be hungry for lunch (which means giving up…

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How to be Happy!

After a Laugh Yourself Skinny session with me, my clients will often report how I always make them feel lighter, calmer and peaceful…like this losing weight thing is tooootally doable. Other people have even gone as far to say that I’m like a beam of sunshine. Which totally makes sense because I spend the first…

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How to Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind

Busy buzzin’ like a little bee over here preppin’ my apartment for my dinner party tomorrow night! Believe it or not, I JUST took down my Christmas tree this weekend. Thought it might be in poor form to have you all “over” to my place and see that my tree was still up – and…

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How to tone up, slim down and lose weight fast!

I confess if we were to rewind a few years ago, I was addicted to my heart rate monitor. I wore it every day (because I used to work out every day) and would LOVE watching the calorie count tick away during a sweat session. Back then it was normal for me to burn upwards…

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Got Crazy Sugar Cravings?

Do you have a killer sweet tooth? I don’t know about you, but I used to crave sugar when I woke up, at breakfast, at lunch, after lunch, at 3pm, when I got home from work, at dinner and after dinner. And those nighttime sugar craving were always the worst! I used to try not…

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