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Welcome to week seven in my 15-week experiment on myself with Lucinda Bassett’s Attacking Anxiety and Depression program.
If you haven’t been following along with this series up until this point please go back and read the intro, which is where I explain how this series relates to your health and fitness goals. 95% of the [...]

If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
I heard this quote this weekend and it applies so well to our topic of health, weight loss, and fitness here at The Fit Shack.
You see it’s so very easy to tell yourself that, “tomorrow I’ll start eating better”, “tomorrow I’ll start exercising”, or the ultimate, “I’ll start over [...]

Do you ever feel like you’re “falling behind” in your weight loss or feel like you’re not doing all that you can do to achieve your goals?
If you do, here’s what I think: you can never “fall behind” when it comes to losing weight. Why? Because it’s always a brand new moment!
In every moment you [...]

Have you ever said to another person that, “actions speak louder than words”? If you have then you’ve had the experience of someone telling you that they love you but their actions showed you something completely different. They may have said, “I love you” but you hardly ever saw them; there was always something else that [...]

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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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 [...]