You must see the change you wish to be in the world.

There are times when I’m exercising, or times when I’m around food, and I’ll think, I just can’t do this today. Or, I just can’t walk that extra half-mile today. I may have been feeling...

I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I don’t need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I don’t need...

feel-good” hormones lift our spirits, boost self-esteem and improve our overall sense of well-being. It’s a sort of built-in reward system. There’s a reason for that. It’s because we are meant to be active.

No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved and accepted by the very person that should be giving that...

It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that...

Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment...

Eating crappy food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment.

Every day I wake up and re-commit to my health. This is a very important step for me. I let the past be the past. I try not to dwell on the mistakes I’ve made,...

The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.And the more I made myself look good to the...

Self-help isn’t really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We’d like to be that someone.

Food, like your money, should be working for you!

On need of supplement & vitamins- “If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don’t need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful.

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

Strong emotional feelings don’t just go away overnight. In fact, they may never go away. The fears of feeling disliked, or that I wasn’t going to fit in, all quickly bubbled up to the surface....

I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many...

I’d like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor

If you aren’t losing weight, and you know you need to (you know), then you gotta go look in the mirror. Step up and own it. Don’t hate yourself. Don’t play the victim. Just admit...

We can only bring about change in our lives when we clearly see two truths: that the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of fighting our toughest battles, and that by...

Comfort foods they may have been, but helpful foods they most definitely were not. By merging my identity with certain foods and thinking of them as old friends, I found myself in the food equivalent...

That’s it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.

I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my mom’s homemade peach cobbler. I enjoy flopping like that dead fish with hips that can’t lie in dance class, and I...

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don’t eat! Who knew?

No one wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!