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News Flash! What you eat can make you feel stressed, anxious, and depressed. On the flip side if you fuel your body with whole foods like you see pictured on the left, you can create an awesome effect in your body! What you fuel your body with has a direct effect on how you feel.
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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 [...]

Last Sunday I started my experiment with Michael Thurmond’s 6 Day Mini Makeover plan. If you didn’t catch my post about that please go ahead and read that first before continuing on with this one. It contains very important information that you’ll want to know if you are considering doing the 6-Day Mini Makeover.
My experiment [...]

I’ve written several posts about Michael Thurmond’s 6-Week Body Makeover lifestyle plan and you’ve heard me talk about it in my video posts, too, however there’s something that is included in the 6-Week Body Makeover kit that I haven’t mentioned yet - the 6-Day Mini Makeover.
The 6-Day Mini Makeover is a different plan than the [...]

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 [...]

Can you believe I’ve now completed my 12-week emotional eating experiment with Shrink Yourself? I can’t! It seems like it was just yesterday that I started this experiment on myself.
Well for any of you emotional eaters (and especially if you also struggle with food addiction) who think “there’s no way I’m going to spend 12 [...]

You’ve heard all the talk (and maybe even said it yourself) about the lifelong struggle with food and weight, the struggle of keeping it all going, of watching what you eat, staying motivated to exercise, etc., etc.?
Well for myself, this isn’t so much a struggle with anything outside of me as it is a struggle [...]

So here we are, week ten in my emotional eating experiment with Shrink Yourself. Normally I save this bit of info until the end of my weekly updates but this week I’ll tell you right up front - I’m 4 pounds lighter today than I was last Wednesday (yeah!).
If you’d like to read more details [...]