Desperate to lose weight? Stop blaming.

  via GIPHY Before we discuss blaming, I wanted to invite you to my free webinar, where I’ll teach you Seven Ways to Stop a Binge. I got so many responses to my last blog, where I described one episode of how I avoided overeating, and I want to teach you how to do it too. […]

Want to lose weight without dieting? Become your own witness.

If you want to lose weight without dieting, you’ll need to learn how not to eat when you feel the urge. via GIPHY I’m sitting at my dining room table working. It’s 12.24am and I really want to be in bed with my husband. I want to be asleep. My bed is so soft and […]

Please don’t wait until you lose weight to change your world

Want me to tell you about this? Click here Six years ago, I was training to be a weight loss coach And I was obsessed with the size of my stomach. I had lost a lot of weight already, And my stomach was flatter than it had been in many years, But I still let it […]

Being willing to feel your feelings is the best antidote to emotional eating

Click here if you’d like me to read to you! Last week, I led a magical mindfulness retreat in Imperial Beach. Yep. I got to spend a few weeks down there, lucky me. We started every morning with beach yoga, Injected mindfulness into activities and coaching throughout the day, And ended with craziness like spontaneous […]

Stop overeating because you want to.

Two of my clients have been overeating this past week. They’ve become used to eating high quality, nutritious foods that fuel their bodies. And they feel energetic, clearheaded and positive when they eat this way. I do too. But, being human, sometimes we forget how much power we have to make ourselves feel good (or […]

Eating together is eating together and connecting is connecting.

I’m in Imperial Beach with two of my favourite colleagues, Deb on the left and Suyin in the middle. We’re staying in a wonderful beachside condo and planning our business for the coming year. Or trying to. We seem to be doing a lot of beach walking and dolphin searching! We wandered into town today […]

A number is just a number, until you make it mean something.

We got some news on Monday. It was a number. It was not the number we were expecting. It was lower. Much lower. We’d been so certain of the number it was going to be, We’d made some fun and exciting plans about what we’d do with it. When we got the number, we shared […]

When something feels urgent, take it as a sign that you need to slow down.

I want to talk to you about hurrying today. Or rather, not hurrying. In order to arrive speedily and effectively. But first, I want to dedicate today’s blog to my mother, of blessed memory, Who we lost two years ago today, according to the Jewish calendar. We Jews retain a relationship with our departed loved […]

Knowing your desired outcome makes it so easy to decide what to eat

Want to hear me read this to you? Click here! I have a new client, Chloe, and she is so cool. She came up with a weight loss strategy that I think is pretty foolproof: She calls it “starting with the end in mind“. Here’s how it works: You decide what outcome you want for your […]

What do you make it mean when you gain weight?

I gained 2 lbs this week. After eating one red velevet cupcake. Man it was delicious – light and fluffy, and the cream cheese icing was perfection. A perfectly worthwhile Joy eat, Which I savoured wholeheartedly. Yup. Next day, the scale told me that that cupcake cost me two extra pounds. And here’s what I made […]