Renee

  Renee is 42 years old and began turning to food for comfort when she was as young as 8 years old. The teasing and taunting from other children about her weight only made the problem worse.... Read more...

  Have you ever had a miserable encounter with the bath room scale? When the scale doesn't move do you feel like all of your healthy eating and physical activity is in vain?

Step 1: Separate healthy eating and physical activity from weight loss. Exercising and dieting strictly to lose weight makes eating and activity seem like a punishment.

"If I hadn't gained all that weight I wouldn't have to do this…"... Read more...

After a challenging holiday season filled with mixed emotions, Renee, a single mother shared this story  during one of our weekly sessions.  

Renee:... Read more...

Repeat after me. People gain weight in response to very specific situations. You may have few or you may have many, but your weight gain is a result of your eating and activity that results in response to very specific situations.

Before you feel overwhelmed, keep in mind that once you know exactly what these situation are you can let your weight loss 'guard' down during other times. Thus saving your energy, strategy and 'willpower' for when you really need it. Here is Renee's story:... Read more...