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Body Lift Recovery Tips

I want to share with you the top 6 tips that helped me tremendously in getting through my body lift surgery. I wish someone would have told me these things beforehand. Number 1 was my biggest life saver. It was …

Benefits of Focusing On Your Strengths

When we focus on our weaknesses, we live in a problem-based world, one where there's doom and gloom around ever corner because we don't feel equipped to deal with hardships. When we focus on our strengths, we live in a solution-based world, one where we're able to…

Food Addiction Help: Conquering Demons

I want you to know that if you’re living a double life, if you’re pretending everything is okay but on the inside you’re struggling like a mf. I understand how it feels to be completely and hopelessly consumed and controlled by a food addiction. I also understand just how dark your thoughts get, thoughts you don’t want to share with anybody (even your closest loved ones). I know what it feels like to be completely out of control and spiraling down to a place you truly don’t think you’ll survive once you reach it. Addiction is…

Will Today Be The Day You Unf**k Yourself?

On any given day you can decide to change. How amazing is that? To think that just one decision can change your direction and transform your entire life is just incredible to me.

We all get stuck in ruts. Before we know it, we feel hopelessly cemented in place. Sometimes this lasts for months, years, or even decades! And as I'm sure you know, the longer you stay idle, the deeper that…

Stop Avoiding Pictures Because You’re Overweight!

Today I wanted to share with you something that is very personal to me and something that I truly struggle with. I don't want you to have this same mark on your conscious. I can't tell you how much I needed to hear these words decades ago. I'm hoping it gives you some perspective and saves you the guilt I harbor over this. One of my biggest regrets was…

Dealing With Food Addiction

Today's article talks about food addiction and how you can learn to use that addictive personality to work on solutions instead of causing more problems. When you can change your perspective on a problem, you can take back your power and find a way to cope that isn't destructive. I share how I was able to overcome my food addiction and why I think the same technique will work for you. You don't have to take orders from the food in your pantry anymore. You can take control of your mind and of your life and finally start living the life you want to live.

Are You Self-Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Efforts?

Okay we all know how it works. You go on a diet, you lose a couple pounds, then you hit a wall, and then you quit. Or maybe you lost 30 pounds and you were happy at that, but then six months later you’ve gained 15 of it back. Or maybe as many times as you’ve tried to even start, you can really never get going. I could go on forever with the or maybes and come up with a ton of different scenarios but they all end the same… a weight loss journeys that never succeed. Why? I mean with all the efforts that we've all put in for years and years, why aren’t there more success stories?

Think about it. How many people in your life do you know who've tried to lose weight? I bet a lot. But just for shits and giggles, let’s say you only know a few. If everybody that walks the planet knows just one or two people who've tried and failed at losing weight, well, uh that’s a lot of friggin people!

So why do almost all of us fail? ...