Be careful when weaning yourself from one habit that you don’t pick up another. It’s a natural tendency, especially for those of us who tend to use food to fill emotional gaps. Just because you may not be eating so much, don’t substitute your old too-much-food habit with a new habit of too-much-coffee, cigarettes, sweets…

A great way to understand what’s going on in your life, in your habits and actions, thoughts and needs, is to write about it. Keep a journal or diary. Write what you’re thinking and doing. Talk on paper about what and how much you are eating, and what you’re doing to move your body and…

Very interesting news… there are three recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine that report brown fat, or brown adipose tissue, something that burns energy faster than regular “adult fat” was originally thought to be only in newborns.  Doctors and researchers believed that once we grew older, the brown fat went away.  This…

Losing weight, being healthy, straightening up finances, healing and mending troubled relationships — all are about making changes.  Living life, being satisfied with what is, and what we have, not always questing for something out-of-reach.  Loving what there is and how it is. I was thinking of these truths the other day, planning to write…

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