February 8, 2012

What You Eat Can Make You Feel Anxious and Depressed – Surprised?

Fresh Veggies

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. [...]

Do Panic Attacks & Stress Have You Running to the Frig?

Stress Knot

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 [...]

Think You’re Depriving Yourself for Weight Loss?

Raspberry Ice Cream Dessert

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 [...]

Maybe You ARE Out of Control in Your Eating?

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 weight [...]