Food Addiction | The Fit Shack

Happy Fourth of July! If you’re in the States I wish you a safe, healthy, fit and fun holiday weekend, and if you’re not in the States I wish the same thing for you - it doesn’t have to be a holiday for you to treat yourself with love, respect, and good health after all. [...]

A smart reader of The Fit Shack brought up a very interesting topic in her comment today on my post What Does Eating Clean Really Mean?
Sarah asked about “cheat days” because she’d heard that they are supposed to boost your metabolism but she wondered about how they would affect her fat cells.
I’m not really concerned [...]

If you’re over 18 I’m sure you’ve heard this hundreds of times, maybe you’ve even said it yourself: “but I don’t want to deprive myself!”
I know, you don’t feel like you should live a life filled with deprivation of all of those favorite, yummy foods you love, but you know what? There are other ways [...]

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 [...]

I can see from yesterday’s comments that we’re on the same page here – there’s a little bit more that goes into losing weight and making a lifestyle change than just “getting a grip on yourself” and exercising self-control.
Does this mean that you can let it all hang out and still reach your [...]

Ok, so I’ve been keeping you in suspense since last Friday when I shared that I started another mono diet to cleanse myself from my Splenda affair. Yesterday I gave you the whole rundown on the fallout of my affair with Splenda, but I also said that I’d give you some more details today about [...]

Yes, I’ve got a sugar addiction, just like many of you smart readers of The Fit Shack have told me that you do, too. In fact there are more of us out there than you can imagine, and I actually agree with the information in William Dufty’s book, Sugar Blues (which I highly recommend) that [...]

Here are some interesting links for you to browse through either today or this weekend. I came across all of these posts (except for my reminder on A New Earth) after signing up for Entrecard, a service that definitely gets you out there in the blogosphere.
Entrecard is a fun way to not only discover new [...]