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“To get something different, you must do something different.”
It is no secret - I LOVE rice bowls! It used to be quinoa but after a whole summer of that I got kinda quinoa’d out and wanted something that felt a little more substantial. I didn’t actually touch rice for many years because in my 20s I went on a couple of crazy rice diets that put me off rice for a long time. But I’ve fallen back in love with it…
Today was a tough day and I was close to chucking it all in, once again. I have been here many, many times before and this is exactly why I created my online course Resistance to Resilience - not just to keep holding myself accountable but also to work through this journey within a safe and supportive community…
Christmas happened almost a month ago and it completely derailed me. I regained 6.6lbs and the physical and mental toll are not to be denied. Yet I try and look at the positive: I am still down 2.2lbs from when I re-started my program in November and this time round I am looking for the lessons instead of beating myself up…
I loved Christmas as a kid. We did not have a lot of money but my mom always made this time of year very special, and growing up in Germany added a bit of extra magic, too. One of my most treasued memories is baking Christmas cookies, the smell alone makes me feel all…
Starting a diet just before Christmas is not for the faint-hearted! This is the season of food indulgences and I am particularly prone to inhaling German Christmas chocolates and cookies. That is how my descend into regain started in December 2016, one year after my mom…
This is the hard part: stepping on the scales and feeling disappointed at only losing 1.4 lbs during my first week. It’s a healthy loss and I would be very happy to sustain this level every week but for my kick-off week I was hoping for more. Because that’s what makes us feel good and helps us keep going, right?
Yesterday I started calorie counting. Again. For, like, the gazillionth time. Actually, I just took stock and this is the 5th time in 40 years that I am getting out the calculator and adding up the food I consume. So why am I doing this? I figured there are two possible reasons:
In the last two weeks I re-gained 5 lbs. And Intuitive Eating proponents will nod their heads and say: “Of course you did. Diets don’t work.” It would be so easy to blame my diet, to put it all on an ‘external’ system that sets us up for failure, to throw up my hands and say “it’s not my fault.” As so often in life this is not a black or white situation…