Lose Weight Find Life

I’ve been all messed up on the issue of body image and self-esteem for much of my life.  If my body happened to be in the losing weight mode, my self-esteem (or what I perceived was self-esteem) was high.  If I was on the up mode of eating out of control and gaining weight, my [...]

I’ve experimented with my blog.  Originally I started it to provide motivation, inspiration and information to my coaching clients, members of OH and to myself!  While I enjoyed it, after posting fresh content daily for over a year, I got overwhelmed and burned out with all the other parts of my personal and professional life.  [...]

As career dieters, we hear a lot about willpower.  We need willpower to overcome temptation.  Well, I think we need will-power and won’t-power. Sometimes, you wish to go for a walk, knowing how good it is for your health and how wonderful you feel afterwards, yet, you feel too lazy, and prefer to watch TV [...]

I used to think of problems as something to stop me or stay stuck.  Previously, problems were a pre-cursor to failure.  Now, I like to view life’s problems as growth challenges rather than as obstacles. Problems as an opportunity to grow and have deeper insight into myself.  Problems don’t pop up in your life to [...]

I have been so inspired by Britain’s latest find on “Britain’s Got Talent,” Susan Boyle.  If you haven’t seen the clips of Susan, you can check her out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk Susan Boyle wowed the world on the April 11, 2009 show when she sang “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables.  She came out [...]

All of us like and need to feel a sense of control in our lives.  Notice, I did not say to be a control freak but we need to have a feeling that we have control over certain things.  There are many things that we cannot control despite our efforts.  There are a few aspects [...]

Have you ever paid attention to what you think about throughout your day?  What occupies the thoughts that play through your head.  There is so much truth in the saying that “we become what we think about most of the time”. The human brain is a goal-seeking, problem-solving machine, and the things we think about, [...]

I was coaching a client on a weight regain that she is frustrated and upset over.  It is a big challenge to her, just as it was for me when I was where she was. Certain when the challenge is in front of you, it looks huge, difficult, overwhelming and seems impossible to overcome.  Yet [...]

No question our future is in the lives of our children.  We send them to school, stress school as their first priority rather than the latest video game, we educate them constantly about the risks and consequences of illegal drugs and drug addiction, and we preach about the tobacco sticks that many years ago were [...]