Strategies to Help 

As we approach the week before Halloween, a holiday synonymous with sugary treats, and herald what many consider the "kick-off" of the holiday season, temptation lurks around every corner. This time of year, it's especially challenging to maintain a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Rather than focusing solely on weight loss, let's delve into strategies to help us avoid temptation altogether, setting us up for a truly happy and healthy holiday season.

1. Harnessing Your...

Beliefs: An Unseen Force Guiding Our Lives

Beliefs are the scripts we live by, often formulated in childhood and passed down through generations. The lessons our parents and caregivers imparted to us and the environments we were exposed to all leave deep-rooted impressions on our minds. These beliefs become the invisible architects of our lives, subtly guiding our behaviors and attitudes.

Breaking Free: Changing Beliefs

For many years, I lived under the influence of a belief that limited my...

Do you eat at the same time every day, regardless of whether you're truly hungry?

Do you reach for food when stressed or emotional? You're not alone. Many of us fall into the trap of routine eating, where we eat out of habit rather than responding to our body's actual hunger signals [1]. But why do we behave this way?

As humans, we have evolved to seek out food to survive. In the past, we didn't always have easy access to food, so eating when it was available was important. This has led us to...

Why is it so hard to take one bite and stop? It's not you. It's the food. Processed foods keep all of us eating and wanting more by design with unstoppable taste, flavor, and variety, stimulating us so we can't stop eating. 

Tasty Tricks 

Taste is the first place our brain registers stimulation and flavor. So that's why food manufacturers know to develop substances stimulating the tongue and the brain. And they constantly formulate new ways to amplify the power of what we...