One of the biggest mistakes that I see women make when it comes to weight loss is eating too few calories…somewhere we got this idea into our heads that we need to be eating 1200 calories or less to be able to lose weight. And quite frankly that's bullshit!
1200 calories/day on a regular basis is just too low for most adults (see chart here)
Yes, you can lose weight that way…temporarily…
Read MoreDiscover the 8 top reasons why you may not be losing weight or seeing the results that you hoped for.
Read MoreBut it really doesn’t have to be that way you can still enjoy the holidays without having all the wheels fall off.
It just takes slowing down a bit (another challenge this time of year?), a little mindfulness and thinking ahead. But you can still have your favorite treats without feeling like you have to dig yourself out of a hole come January 1st.
Read More“It's really hard to lose weight when I’m hungry all the time!”
I know this struggle well, because this was me…
Not only was I hungry all the damn time but I also suffered from reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) - so to avoid that I was told to eat often “to keep my blood sugar level”.
This made it really hard to lose weight…
No need to overcomplicate it start with these 5 simple steps.
Read MoreIf you’re trying to lose weight by cutting your calories you might be making it harder on yourself than it needs to be.
Continuing to lower and lower your calories isn't going to help you lose the weight long-term.
Sure you might see some weight loss initially, when you first start cutting calories but soon you hit that plateau - so you cut more to get that scale moving again…
Read MoreI would love to never hear the phrase “everything in moderation” again….
For a lot of us that doesn’t always work and it really isn’t that simple.
Everything in moderation was the motto I used that helped me gain over 50 lbs. I was the queen of justification and could come up with any reason to have whatever it was that I wanted.
Read MoreFocusing on calories in and calories out only gets you so far...and ultimately sets you up for failure.
If your diet requires you to weigh, measure, and track every bit that goes into your mouth and you keep having to drop your calories lower and lower to keep the scale moving…
If you have to push through hunger and cravings and rely on willpower just to get through the day…
Read MoreAfter counting calories for years, well decades really, I guess…<sigh!> the one thing I DID know was that I didn’t wanna do it anymore!
Come to find out all that time I spent trying to do that was really a waste…no wonder it never seemed to work very well...
Read MoreWe all want the magic pill that's gonna give us those quick and easy weight loss results.
But as good as that sounds, those things never really work….
Weight loss takes some effort - plain and simple - most things that are worth it do...
I’m often asked, what is the best diet for weight loss...
I obviously talk a lot about the keto diet but does that necessarily mean that I think everybody needs to be keto? No, I actually don’t think there is any one diet that is right for everyone.
I do think that in today's carb-heavy world that most of us would benefit from lowering our carb intake...but not everyone needs to take it to keto levels to see results.
When trying to find the diet that's right for you, it ultimately comes down to finding the way to eat that doesn’t feel like a diet.
Read MoreYou want to lose weight so you do the usual things to try to make that happen which usually includes things like cutting calories and exercising more….
This might go ok for a little bit... sometimes a few months, other times a few weeks... sometimes you’re lucky if you can make it to noon.
Read MoreWhen you think of blood sugar (if you even think about it at all…) you probably think diabetes or think of it in terms of how you feel when your blood sugar crashes. But there’s really a lot more to it than that.
Read MoreHave you noticed that what used to work in your 20s no longer seems to cut it??
I personally never found weight loss easy - even back then, mainly because even when I lost weight I couldn’t manage to keep it off very long .
But once I hit about 37 weight loss felt like a whole new kinda hard...
All those things that used to work before no longer did...
Our bodies are meant to be able to get energy from several different fuel sources - glucose, fat, ketones
But for many of us due to our carb heavy diets and sedentary lifestyles we’ve trained our bodies to rely on carbs/sugar as our primary energy source.
As a result our bodies have sort have forgotten how to use our body fat (or ketones) for energy. This happens when we have become insulin resistant
Read MoreThis was me. I was eating healthy and exercising…diligently tracking every bite that went into my mouth…
But despite spending a good part of my day thinking about food – what I’m going to eat? When? How much? Will this make me fat?
Read MoreCheats can also give you insight about the particular diet you’re following. Did you cheat because you were feeling hungry? Deprived? Maybe this means there’s a piece missing from the diet that is making it harder for you – is it not enough food? Missing favorite comfort foods? Maybe the food isn’t really satisfying you.
Read MoreIf you’ve tried it that way before you know you just end up, hungry, grumpy, fighting cravings and feeling deprived…not a fun way to live…
Read MoreIf you’re not diabetic you probably don’t give much thought to what’s going on with your insulin – but for many of us that are struggling to lose weight this important hormone may be the reason weight loss feels so hard.
Read MoreI want to eat healthy but I don’t want to have to spend all my free time in the kitchen.
When I first started out, I was tired, like bone tired. Like any energy that I had went into just getting through the day kinda tired.
The last thing I wanted to do was have to spend hours in the kitchen cooking and meal prepping. Just the thought of adding one more thing to my plate at that point just felt like torture.
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