Everyone has the moments that trigger emotional eating. As you bring more awareness into the weight loss work, you will be able to catch the moments when you are about to eat off the plan (off protocol). It it tempting to follow the desire right when it arises… you may even want to defend it […]
Continue readingFood Journaling is a useful tool when we want to lose weight. In fact, I think it is indispensable. Without it – how would we know what to change? These are the main benefits of food journaling: It helps us to be aware of what we eat. This habit won’t let us to stay in […]
Continue readingApril 7th, 2021 Emotional eating comes up when we talk about weight loss. If we didn’t cover up our emotions with food, we wouldn’t have all those extra pounds to lose. So it makes sense to end it to lose weight. But also, to be more present to life. You may think that you love […]
Continue readingRemember the time when you committed to certain food plan, and your friends judged you for eating healthy? In the past you would not want to “hurt people’s feelings”, you would want to “belong” by eating the same bad food. You’d eat it all. And you would hurt your feelings. Now you know how to set boundaries with love. And keep the promise you gave to yourself.
This is progress.
It’s not about willpower. It really isn’t… It’s about your awareness of what you do or don’t do. It’s about your ability to change the state of mind. About knowing what, when, and why to eat. Knowing how to plan. It’s really hard: to use willpower when you don’t know what to eat. when you […]
Continue readingWhen we treat our weight loss process as something temporary, like a diet, we look forward to return to “normal eating”, once we reach the desired weight. When we look at our weight loss process as a return to wellness, we learn what’s natural for the body, we learn a new, natural way of […]
Continue readingResults vary for every person. I wanted to share a success story of one of my clients. I always expect changes and improvements but sometimes those changes exceed even my expectations. This client have been consistently and significantly losing weight after every session. I asked her: how did you do it? Not all people have […]
Continue reading(video below.) Sometimes we commit just partially to a goal. It’s not conscious. We may not realize how much effort it really takes to get there. But somewhere along the way we need to look at the results we are getting. Are we closer? Are we moving ahead? If we don’t like our results […]
Continue readingEveryone’s story is unique. Everyone has a different story to tell when they arrive at the point when:“This (excess fat) has to go. I’m the real me when I’m thinner. I am ready to prove I can accomplish that.” I have been thinking about every person that coached so far with me… at what point […]
Continue readingIn this video I will describe to you stages of Emotional eating [EE] So even though I’m not giving you “the HOW” here, I will mention the ONE essential thing that has to happen for you to free yourself from emotional eating. Are you an emotional eater one day and free of EE the next […]
Continue readingEliminating flour and sugar is hard in itself but we are making it even harder. When you start the weight loss process you will likely hear that you need to eliminate SF. Or at least drastically reduce. It. And you may have an opinion, a thought about it . you may have an emotional reaction to it. And yet if we want the results – F+S has to go. It’s just one of these things that we do.
Continue reading[personal story] In 2018 I got over my sugar addiction on my own. It took a long time. At that time I didn’t have any special tools. Fast forward to March 2020 (covid panxiety) baked a cake and got on the downward spiral of emotional / addicted eating. (ok it wasn’t a spiral – it […]
Continue readingHow do you keep believing that all the effort will pay off when you don’t receive the weekly reward: a lower number on the scale… When there seems to be no progress, how do you keep going? What if progress and success meant that you keep the promise you gave to yourself? That you keep going? […]
Continue readingLet me walk you thru what’s often going on in my mind. And maybe you can relate a bit. When you feel deprived or restricted. If you are not trying to lose weight or you are not trying to support your body functions by choosing the right food – this post may be useless to […]
Continue readingAre you stopping yourself from committing to your weight loss process, because you don’t want to feel deprived? I call it a “dead end thought.” You think “I don’t want to feel deprived” and it ends here. An obstacle have been thrown on your path, by your own mind and you don’t question it. If […]
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