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The Health goal tops most people’s list, I suspect. It did mine. My knees ached and I puffed and panted up hills. I wanted to move without pain, with ease and more often. My love of clothes and fashion was my second reason: I wanted to wear more than cover ups. Choosing a top thatContinue reading “The best reason to lose weight”

Of course, it will, I hear you say. I will be healthier, and happier. But are you? You are not healthier emotionally if you are obsessed by dieting, anxious and nervous about everything you put in your mouth. You are not healthy emotionally if you obsess about ways to lose more weight, keep the weightContinue reading “Will losing weight change your life?”

Attention around your body and your weight is a double-edged sword. You love it when you lose weight and people tell you how fabulous you look. Oh, come on, it does feel good. Especially when you have felt invisible for so long. I craved external validation when I lost weight. When friends didn’t comment, IContinue reading “Did you notice I lost weight?”

With most diets we need to eliminate something, maybe it is sugar or perhaps it is all carbohydrates? Think of all the diets (probably every diet you have been on!) where you have been deprived of something, how did you feel and what happened? For me, the banned item became my most desired food. MyContinue reading “To lose weight stop eating these foods”

Weighing it up .. How often should you weigh? Should you weigh every day, once a week, more, less , or perhaps never? As a Dieter in Recovery, I wanted to be less dependent on the scale. In the past, my mood was decided by the number on the scale.  It dictated how I felt,Continue reading “Should I weigh daily? Weighing in on the debate”

Or is it? Haven’t you been doing this for years? For decades, losing weight topped my New Year Resolution list. “This year,” I would announce, to all who would listen, “I will get all those extra pounds off forever and get my perfect body.” The idea that dieting was a onetime solution and life wouldContinue reading “It’s January…Time to go on a diet”

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”― Madeleine Albright. Who is really sabotaging you? Is it a friend, a family member, a significant other sabotaging your journey? Do you feel they are not being supportive when they insist on giving you a “little more”? Or is someone cooking foodContinue reading “Saboteurs on your weight loss journey”

How can I stop the hunger when dieting? “You can learn to live with it, work through it, talk a walk or drink a big glass of water.” This was the advice I heard over the years. It never worked for me! I hated going to bed hungry and waking up ravenous. Sheer torture! Often,Continue reading “Hunger Pains … How to stop them”

When I started on my weight loss journey, I could not find many blogs about women in their 60’s written by ordinary people in their 60’s. Losing weight in my 30’s was vastly different from doing it thirty years later. It has some unique challenges. I could not found my tribe: people my age, whoContinue reading “Two reasons to start a blog”

“Maybe I have a medical condition that prevents me from losing weight?” I asked my doctor, after telling her “I eat very little.” One week later, after following her orders to keep a food journal, I knew the problem: I had been on cruise control for years, an unconscious eater. Often nibbling a whole mealContinue reading “Why can’t I lose weight?”