Lose Weight Find Life

I was in my advanced coaching practicum class last night.  In coaching the client that is part of the class, she was talking about a concept that I’d heard about years ago.  It was a wonderful reminder for me personally.  I’ve thought of it ever since our class. Isn’t it interesting how you can hear [...]

Even after losing weight from our surgery and faced with a weight regain or even moving forward to our goal after a period of no weight loss, we can psyche ourselves out before we ever start to lose the weight.  The enormity, frustration, shame and disappointment are so overwhelming we shift into the “I’ve failed” [...]

Before you had surgery and lost weight, there was a time when you could not do many of the things that you can now.  Take long walks or use the stairs without becoming winded to the point that you can’t breathe, sit in a movie theater or airplane seat comfortably, sit at a booth in [...]

There are 1,440 minutes in a day. Just as you budget and know how you spend your money, how do you spend your 1,440 minutes. The activities you do in your day are a reflection of what you value. Do you say that you don’t value television but upon your reflection of your 1,440 minutes, [...]

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King Are you silent about things that are important and matter to you? Many times when we’ve been morbidly obese, we learned to keep quiet. Our opinions didn’t matter or we were taught early on to keep quiet to [...]

Clean out the closets of your life. Have you ever looked at the clothes in your closet with a critical eye: the bargain shoes in the wrong color or that hurt your feel when you wear them; the expensive suit you got on sale that never fit; the “great” shirt that was a gift that [...]