Mind Body Connection | The Fit Shack

Many people (maybe even you) live with a daily pressure, a feeling that they need to lose weight, that they should lose weight. This pressure might seem to be coming from the outside, from media, family, friends, doctors, but it actually all comes from the inside, from your thoughts and beliefs telling yourself that you [...]

Today is the 4th of August and guess what - we’ve got only 5 months until January 1st, can you believe it!?
I’m bringing this up to encourage you to take advantage of today and get moving on your weight loss and fitness goals.
If you haven’t been taking much action lately you might be feeling several negative emotions [...]

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 [...]

Here’s something that seriously bugs me - referring to how you eat by announcing, “I’ve been good today” or, “I was so bad today”.
Why does this bother me so much? Because you’re essentially labeling yourself as being either good or bad based on how you eat.
Well I don’t know about you, but I’m much more [...]

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 [...]

I’ve seen this many times before - well-meaning folks pinning all their hopes and dreams of happiness on their weight loss, thinking that once they get to their goal weight that they’ll be happy and fullfilled.
Unfortunately, thinking that weight loss will make you happy can backfire on you - weight loss does not guarantee happiness.
You’ll [...]

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 [...]