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Surviving Myself: Summer Structure – Something Out Of Nothing!

Jul 16, 2015

As much as my clients look forward to summer for the anticipated relief from the grinding routine of getting their kids everywhere they need to be (illusion though this often turns out to be!), this very lack of structure poses […]

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Surviving Myself: Strategies for the Vegetable Challenged

Apr 24, 2015

In virtually every initial call I have with a client when they are desperately seeking help to keep the weight off for good this time, they will usually attribute their weight to one of three issues: lack of portion control […]

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Hot Off the Press: Gut Bugs and Extra Pounds? Seriously?!

Apr 12, 2015

There is a whole second universe of little critters living within your gastrointestinal tract, trillions of tiny microbes that outnumber your cells 150:1 with up to 300 times more DNA than you have in your own body, an invisible organ […]

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Surviving Myself: I Did It My Way – Andrea’s Story

Mar 3, 2015

As a speaker and body image coach, I work with professional women who struggle with self-esteem issues and emotional eating and give them tools to be more confident and feel relaxed around food. Before I met Susan I had already […]

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Surviving Myself: Power Hour

Nov 5, 2014

I get up every morning defaulted back to my original factory settings which, given my life-threatening lifestyle history, is definitely not the me I want running my show for the day! So I get up with enough time for my […]

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Surviving Myself: A Scone By Any Other Name…

Nov 2, 2014

I used to joke that when I die they are going to have to take out my appetite and beat it with a bat, so constant was my longing and preoccupation with food.  I managed my weight because I understood […]

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Surviving Myself: Keeping a Grip on My Skinny Self Through the Holidays

Nov 2, 2014

Halloween can easily be an early catalyst for the annual six week Thanksgiving to New Years “Tornado Season” of weight management, each holiday potentially cutting a swath of destruction in our healthy habits in its wake…or maybe not! With that concern […]

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Surviving Myself: I Did It My Way – Emma’s Story

Oct 14, 2014

Before I had met Susan I had been on just about any and every diet (including fasting and starving myself as a teenager) for the last almost 40 years. I was a serial Weight Watchers joiner and tried OA meetings, […]

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Surviving Myself: Skinny Agreements

Sep 26, 2014

Much like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors, my internal cookie monster is awakened – not appeased – by holiday goodies. So, it’s no surprise that right about this time every December, as “Feeeed Me” would drown out any […]

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Surviving Myself: The Selfie Method

Sep 26, 2014

My favorite cartoon ever was one where Ziggy is looking at himself in a mirror saying, “Well, what’s it going to be today?  Are you with me or against me?”  There, in a nutshell, was my history with weight management. […]

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