I’m qualified to talk to you about how to stop overeating because I used to weigh 304 pounds. Now I weigh 130 and I’ve kept it off for 8 years and counting. I’ve struggled more with wanting to overeat in the last few weeks than I have in the last few years. Here’s how I …
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Compassion is what you feel when you see someone hurting and your heart breaks for them and you want to help. Self-compassion is turning that same feeling on yourself. Self-compassion is what you most need to heal yourself. Nobody can grow while they’re being mowed down You may have turned on yourself and berated yourself, …
If you live your life by perfectionism, you probably have an overwhelming fear of making a mistake. And if you do make a mistake, maybe you: let that be an excuse to make a lot more mistakes (well, you didn’t do it perfectly so the heck with this) and/or give yourself permission to abandon yourself …
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I suffered from binge eating and bulimia for nearly 30 years. I’m qualified to talk to you about how to overcome an eating disorder because I’ve been free from any eating disorder for 10 years and counting now. Living with an eating disorder is not living, it’s surviving. You are worth more than just surviving. …
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Being shamed, bullied, and teased about weight significantly increases the odds that a person will gain weight, binge eat, and also participate in radical techniques to lose weight. (NEDA) I sit in the school library at a table tucked in the corner with a textbook, a few loose-leaf notebook pages, a stubby pencil with the …
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A lot of times, people (myself once included), look outside themselves for others to give them permission to: do/say what they want, pursue their dreams, create a life that matters to them, and on the list goes. Thing is, you’ve got to be the one to give yourself permission if you ever want to be …
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According to studies, the vast majority of efforts at weight loss fail. I spent over two decades on what I call the diet-go-round: jumping from one diet to the next to the next, hoping that this next one would be the answer. It never was. I kept myself going in circles until, at my heaviest, …
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The short version of my weight-loss transformation: I was a chubby kid starting at about five years old. By age ten, I was dieting. I ended up with an eating disorder by the time I was thirteen. I suffered for nearly 20 years with bulimia and spent more than two decades on what I call …
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I’ve got a channel full of weight-loss videos on YouTube. They are designed to empower you find what works for you so you can create a body and a life that you love. You can find me doing weight-loss videos on YouTube about: Looking at every mistake as simply a brand new chance to …
For a long time, all my weight-loss efforts failed and I spent over two decades on what I call the diet-go-round: jumping from one diet to the next to the next, hoping that this next one would be the answer. It never was though because diets have a failure rate of anywhere from 40-99% after …
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