Morning Musings: May 1
Strategy: Make travel days skinny days by creating routines or bringing my own food. Why: The available food on the road or in the air is generally not great anyway, and this way I bookend the trip with low days. […]
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Morning Musings: April 30
Strategy: Never assume that something is safe from my clutches just because it theoretically “isn’t my thing”. Why: I will eat anything when I am desperate or already on a roll. Nothing is sacred. Diet jelly with diet butter on […]
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Strategy: Delay gratification by saving the goodies for the end of the vacation. Why: Especially on vacation I am walking a fine line anyway. If I love the pastries from a particular French bakery that I only ever go to […]
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Strategy: Always ask what my meal comes with. Why: I remember once ordering a Black Bean Burger on a whole wheat bun and it surprisingly came with Cajun curly fries. Who would assume that something that healthy would come with […]
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Strategy: Peruse the buffet line without a plate in my hand first. Take a plate of salad or veggies alone, eat it first, and then go back – after I have taken the edge off. Why: Unlike my sister who […]
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Strategy: if I’m not planning to have dessert, then don’t read the dessert menu. When I really want to keep myself out of harm’s way, I read the menu before I even go to the restaurant and pick out my […]
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Strategy: Don’t set up tomorrow’s binge today. Don’t buy any more than I need for the indulgence I am having right now. At least give myself the opportunity to decide not to overindulge. If I buy extra, that decision has […]
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Strategy: If there is no reason not to, have a skinny day. Why: Because I can and I never know when I will need extra calories. My life isn’t even as food intensive as lots of my clients and still […]
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Strategy: Always exercise on a Monday. Why: It sets the tone for the week. I guarantee that if you charted your exercise patterns you would see that virtually every week with Monday exercise is a week with more exercise overall. […]
read moreMorning Musings: April 22
Strategy: Don’t miss more than three days of exercise in a row. Why: For some reason that is the magic amount of time in which the warranty on your momentum expires and you wondered how you ever got yourself to […]
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