Summer is undeniably a good time to deal with your body. We are all, the willing and the unwilling, forced to deal with our bodies. Even commercials on TV are telling us it’s time to rein in the calories. But it’s predictable that unless you dig in deeper with a real plan, all your good […]
Many of you know me as someone who has been coached by the Handel Group and gotten healthy and learned how to manage my weight over the past 7 years. Well, guess what? I have a confession to make! Currently, I’m selling out again. Here’s the scoop: One snowy afternoon in late January, I opened […]
I write about all sorts of things that come up in my coaching – love, relationships, time management, character traits… but today I want to I want address a subject that is possibly THE most important concern (or should be) for me, my family, my clients and community: Health. The state of your body during […]
I was driving in my car the other day and heard on the radio that the number one New Year’s resolution people are making this year is to lose weight and exercise more. Not so surprising, right? IT WAS MY NUMBER ONE NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FOR YEARS. Every year at this time since my twenties, […]
Could you imagine throwing a holiday dinner party and not preparing for it? I’ll give you a scenario. It’s December 24th. There’s a knock on the door. Your family arrives all dressed up for a party and you are lying on the sofa watching Scandal in your sweats. You offer them a half bottle of […]
Let me take you through my latest trial/tribulation. They are always good for a lesson. I am about 26 weeks pregnant with my third kid. Surprise, for those of you don’t know! I’m pretty happy about it, but after 10 years full on in the work force as an executive for Handel it’s hard to […]
When I was in grade school, I came to the conclusion that there were two types of people in the world: lucky people and unlucky people. You were either rich or poor. Fat or thin. Attractive or ugly. Talented or untalented. You were either in one camp or the other. There was no in between. […]
I don’t know about you (cough, cough), but to be perfectly honest, if I was waiting for the day I want to eat kale, exercise, jump my husband, or even write (which is my passion), I’d be fat, my husband would be bitter, I’d never have created and sold my first TV show and I’d truly […]
Have you ever done a detox? It’s pretty radical. Ancient wisdom from many cultures teaches us to leave our land fallow at regular intervals. Taking a break is so important. Whether it’s food, drugs, technology or love – letting something go for a prescribed period of time causes a huge shift that just curtailing won’t. I […]
Have you ever been in a bookstore and walked past the diet section and seen an extremely overweight woman sitting on the floor searching through stacks of diet books? Well, for years I was that woman. I would spend my Saturday afternoons on the floor of Barnes and Noble drinking a mocha latte and flipping […]
Why do people overeat? I know why I did. I was unhappy, in a bad marriage and wanted to escape my life. There were other contributing factors, but I’ll put the ones I just mentioned at the top of my list. People overeat for many reasons and it’s not typically because they are just hungry—it’s […]
I still can’t help but take a big gulp when I see the pictures of me at my heaviest. It’s as if a completely different person is staring back at me. What is more painful is thinking of the photos that were never taken, the life I missed because of the way I looked and […]
