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The Importance of Taking Time Out For You

If you are anything like I am – you are busy. Sometimes I can’t believe how much I have to do on a daily and weekly basis. Running the children places, schooling, cleaning, exercising, negotiating arguments between little boys, keeping up with friends, checking in on family members, etc. It makes me tired just thinking [...]

Are You Suffering From Post-Holiday Letdown?

It’s finally over – the major holiday season is past us. For many of us – myself included, avoiding the post-holiday letdown is an important part of our continued success. The whole months of November and December were spent either planning how to avoid forbidden delights, or planning how to include a taste of those delights [...]

Do You Have A Food Friend?

So do you? Have a food friend I mean? Is there someone in your life with whom you enjoy eating food? Or was there someone you enjoyed eating with before you started on your journey to get and stay healthy?
I had a food friend during my obese years. Actually I had several of them. The [...]

Psychological Costs

Unhappiness with our appearance
Stress related to unhappiness with our health
Anxiety over social situations
Depression
Someone emailed me recently and asked if I thought there were psychological costs to obesity. I responded to them privately, but thought that the question was a very interesting one. Are there psychological effects to obesity? And if so, how can we overcome [...]

Emotions Revisited

NewMe asked this question the other week:
Diane, your posts are incredibly honest and truthful, but I’d be interested in hearing more about how you overcame what was clearly a huge (pardon the pun) problem with emotional eating. What did you do from a psychological point of view to address your emotional need for food? It [...]

Prepare Mentally

Yesterday I gave you a couple of lower fat/calorie recipes for the upcoming holiday. Whether or not you make and eat lower fat desserts for Thanksgiving, I want to encourage you to mentally prepare yourself for the upcoming holiday and beyond. Mental preparation is so important in this journey towards better health and fitness, and now [...]

No New Clothes

“I don’t want any new clothes,” I’d tell John when he asked if I’d like to go shopping. “Why not?” he’d ask. “I’m losing weight,” I’d say. Then he’d try and encourage me to get a few things just to tide me over until that magical day when I finally lost weight would arrive but [...]

The Hayride

At 300 pounds I didn’t really fit into social situations very well. I spilled over chairs. Got stuck in restaurant booths, and sat on the sidelines of life. As active members of our church John and I were involved in an adult class. Most of the other couples in our class had small children and [...]

Forgiveness

Forgiveness: The process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, difference or mistake, and/or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. (source: Wiki)
I’ve been thinking a lot about forgiveness lately. Forgiveness isn’t just a gift that we give people who have wronged us, but forgiveness is also a gift that [...]

Finding Myself In Thinness

Last week Michelle asked me this question in the comment section:
I would love a post about how you ‘found’ yourself in your thinness. I think that people freak out when they lose the weight and fill into their fat suit again. How did you start to recognise yourself?
I found this question absolutely fascinating. I have [...]

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