“I'VE NEVER MET A CAKE OR A COOKIE I DIDN'T LIKE.”   This sentence used to slide out of my mouth like it was a fact. Like I was reporting the news. At first glance, the sentence seems pretty...

I hired a therapist named Carolyn to help me lose weight. One day I told Carolyn that in my dream life I'd hire a personal chef to deliver 3 perfectly healthy meals to me.  Then I'd just eat those...

Dopamine is a chemical in your brain that helps you feel pleasure, motivation and satisfaction. We tend to get a dopamine rush when we start something new. In fact, a dopamine rush can...

I'll share some honest insight and an important tidbit related to thoughts and body image, shortly.  But first. Let me set the story up for you.  My son Thor told me about his Dad's girlfriend when...

Yesterday when I arrived at the gym I was awarded a 100 Workouts Badge. I’d been going to the gym for 8 months. Simple math tells me 100 workouts in 8 months = 3.2 workouts/ week. After I got my...

You’re here because you want to lose weight permanently and you want to know if I can help you. I have two words for you: I can. But we’re not going to start our relationship with what I can do for...

I used to blame my ex husband for the fact that I was 25 pounds overweight. He neither supported my diets nor my diets that weren’t a diet but a new lifestyle. He thought it was crazy for me to run...

Diets are based on the premise that you need to know more. Specifically, you need to know more about the diet the expert is selling. Depending on the expert, you need to know more about intermittent...