Storm eating is a type of binge eating and is often followed by shame and guilt. For me, it usually follows getting too hungry. 🙁 How it Happens Clean and Delicious provides a great description of storm eating: You are …

Understanding Storm Eating

Changing Our Response to Cravings
We’ve explored our cravings and now understand why, what, and when we crave. Now, we can begin changing our response to cravings. Our Natural Response Because our cravings can sometimes be a response to nutritional or hormonal imbalances, we’re pre-programed …

Moving Your Body Naturally
In our fast-paced, goal-oriented world, we tend to be focused on working out. But moving your body naturally provides more health benefits than hitting the gym 5 times a week. Sitting is the New Smoking For years, we talked about …

Keeping a Food Journal
I’m a big advocate of keeping a food journal instead of logging your food. A journal encourages you to work through your feelings, but logging details can sometimes lead us down a dangerous path. Obsessing over Details For many of …

Getting Past Scale Anxiety
For me, scale anxiety was one of the major obstacles to my weight loss. This is why we’re weighing in daily for the Love Your Body Challenge. Why We Weigh in Daily I’m not a fan of logging meals or …

Gut Health and Your Weight
2020 was a tough year for most of us. For me, it started before Covid restrictions. In January, I lost an old friend to cancer, and in February, my husband and I were hit with what we thought was a …

How I Lost 7 Inches
Whenever I share pictures of my progress, the first thing people ask is “How did you do it?” The short answer is that I got healthy. The complete answer is just too long for Facebook, Twitter, or any other social …
The Decade Challenge
Everyone on social media is participating in the decade challenge, posting a picture from 2009 and 2019. I generally spend the month of December reflecting on the year. I don’t write much. I just journal and take a break to …

Learning to Love Myself
For Lent this year, I decided to give up being so hard on myself. It’s only been in the last six months that I’ve realized just how hard I really am on myself. When I was 17, I thought I …