February 7, 2012

Declare Your Independence from Food Addiction on the Fourth of July

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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. [...]

Cheat Days – Good Way to Lose Weight or Not Worth the Cost?

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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 [...]

Think You’re Depriving Yourself for Weight Loss?

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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 [...]

Shrink Yourself Emotional Eating Experiment – Week Twelve

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 [...]