This is week four in my experiment on myself using the Attacking Anxiety & Depression program by Lucinda Bassett.
I started this series of my experience with this program because I have met a very large number of people who are struggling with overeating and overweight who are also depressed. Additionally in my recent poll when [...]
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Your belief is your biology. With every thought you think, there is an associated chemical reaction and physical affects. - Attacking Anxiety & Depression, week three.
Depending on how long you’ve been a smart reader of The Fit Shack, you may remember that I used to write daily motivational posts.
These posts were focused on your thoughts [...]
Welcome to week two of my 15-week series in my latest experiment on myself here at The Fit Shack. In this experiment I’m using Lucinda Bassett’s program Attacking Anxiety & Depression on myself.
In this series I’m reporting my weekly experiences with you like I did in my emotional eating experiment, my ban on refined sugar [...]
This is the first update in a 15-week series about my own experience with Lucinda Bassett’s at-home program Attacking Anxiety and Depression.
Yesterday I gave you the background on why I’m sharing this with you and also how it all relates to the topic of weight loss. Living a life free of chronic stress, anxiety, and [...]
Do you have a lot of stress in your life? Ever feel anxious? Do your worries and anxieties become a bit of a downer, maybe even giving you feelings of depression, and then you might even use food to attempt to cope with those feelings?
Well I shared with you yesterday that I was going to [...]
Are you depressed because you overeat and are overweight, or do you eat because you are depressed? This is rather like a chicken and the egg question, but one that I have pondered after meeting many people who are struggling with overweight and are also depressed, some being on anti-depressants.
In my experiences with weight gain, [...]
When I have eaten for emotions instead of hunger, the top two reasons that I would reach for food have their basis in fear. The number one reason that I have eaten emotionally has been for feelings of anxiety (worry, based on fear), the second being procrastination (fear of not doing a task correctly or [...]



