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After the scale stops moving – Part 2

Best is yet to come

The holidays are over, and if you are like many people, so are your New Year’s Resolutions!

We start with such good intentions, and maybe they work for a while. But then we get tired or worried about our job or our finances, and little by little, they slip away.

But what if they don’t have to? Perhaps this can be the year when you really stick with your plans and reach your goals with weight loss, exercise, and healthy living. Wow, I would love to see that for myself, so I’m working on new ideas for staying on track with all of those things. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Emotional Eating, Long-term Success

After the scale stops moving- Part 1

Christmas cookies

Welcome to winter, at least here in the Midwest.

I live in Iowa where we have already had several snow days as well as two days when the temperature never got above 5 degrees. I know, I should be used to it. But it still doesn’t make me very happy.

When the weather is cold and snowy, it makes me want to snuggle under a blanket and eat lots of cookies and candy bars. I grew up on a farm in South Dakota, and that was part of the way we coped with winter! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Emotional Eating, Long-term Success

How to recover from a setback

When I get a setback, I get a really good one!

In case you wonder why you haven’t heard from me lately, it’s because I’ve been dealing with a LONG setback!

About a month ago, I started having some low-back pain. I did my usual back exercises, but it didn’t get better. In fact, it got worse. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Emotional Eating, Self Care

Don’t buy a book!

Need to perk up your weight-loss efforts?

Note: Don’t read a book

Last week, one of my readers told me, “I’ve been having a hard time staying on my weight-loss plan. I guess I need to pull your books out and read them again.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: 100 Days Challenge, 100 More Days, Emotional Eating, Motivation

The Power of Friendship

The two women in the restaurant booth next to me smiled a lot. Over cups of decaf and the senior breakfast special, they chatted quietly about many things. Clearly, they were good friends and companions to each other.

Despite my efforts to avoid listening to their conversation, pieces of it slipped through. I soon realized that the woman with the flowing white hair asked a lot of questions, often repeating the same one they’d just finished discussing. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Emotional Eating, Message from Linda

Body memories bring back grief

Some years ago, I went through a hard time coping with life. I couldn’t seem to figure out what was causing my struggles.

My life had been fine, and I hadn’t felt overly stressed. The weather had been good, my home life was stable, and I’d recently had good times with my friends and family members. But I kept feeling off balance and somewhat “out of sync” with life. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Message from Linda, Weight Loss Joy

Grieving our progress

This article was published on “Next Avenue,” online publication.

It fits with a lot of our struggles with weight loss as well as other challenges in life. Click on the link below.

Grieving our Progress

Hope you find it helpful.

Filed Under: Weight Loss Joy

To track or not to track?

One of the best weight-loss tools is the hardest one to do! It’s tracking what you eat and how much you exercise.

Personally, I hate it, and most of you do to. It’s tedious and has to be done every day, even when I don’t FEEL like it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Joy

You don’t HAVE to do anything!

As she sat in my office, Patty said, “It was another bad week on my diet. I didn’t really stick with it at all.

The problem is that I‘m so overwhelmed that I can’t even see straight. By the way, I can’t stay long today because I HAVE to run to pick up my daughter from a friend’s birthday party.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Joy

One of these days…

Last summer, Kate bought a new diet book. The plan looked great, and Kate knew that if she followed it carefully, she would lose her extra thirty pounds quite easily.

But the book was a little complicated and Kate had trouble figuring out exactly what she was supposed to eat. Whenever she got ready to follow the meal plan, she didn’t have the right foods on hand or time to prepare the recipes.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Long-term Success

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