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To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
~ Robert Fulghum
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After many, many years of trying to lose weight by following one program or another, I resign. DIETS DO NOT WORK - and they're not healthy.
ALL diets, including the "lifestyle change" diet, have a ...
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
~ Robert Fulghum
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After many, many years of trying to lose weight by following one program or another, I resign. DIETS DO NOT WORK - and they're not healthy.
ALL diets, including the "lifestyle change" diet, have a 98% FAILURE rate. That means that only 2% of people who lose weight on ANY diet are able to keep the weight off for more than 2 years. Of those people, almost none are able to keep the weight off for more than 5. That's why ALL weight loss ads now have to carry the "results not typical" warning in their advertising. Not some diet plans - ALL of them!
Diets damage us physically, psychologically and emotionally and I refuse to subject myself to this constant torture for one more day.
I am embarking on a journey of self-care where I will learn to eat intuitively, responding to physical and emotional hunger as an act of self-love and self-care; where I will learn to love myself as I am right now without the need to fit someone elses image of health and beauty; where I will exercise because it is enjoyable to me and helps me care for my body - and where I will not use the size and shape and weight of my body as a way to judge, disparage or harm myself any longer.
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Member Since: 3/9/2010
SparkPoints: 13,257
Fitness Minutes: 3,698
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Holy cow! I'll be graduating from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) in ONE MONTH!! It's hard to believe that a whole year has gone by since I started this journey!
~ Feeling truly, truly blessed and grateful!! ~
My Program:
** I choose to make peace with my body.
Instead of continuing starve my body on one endless diet plan after another in hopes of fitting an impossible image of health and beauty, I choose to love it as it is right now.
** I choose to make peace with food.
There are no more "good" or "bad" foods in my life. Instead, I choose to make all foods available and give myself permission to eat the foods that my body craves whenever I am physically hungry for them.
** I choose to make peace with exercise.
I exercise because it feels good and it does wonderful things for my body. I do not exercise if it feels like a "chore" or is not enjoyable to me. Nor do I exercise with the intent of losing weight.
Personal Information:
* I am the proud parent to three "furbabies" - two dogs (Hunter & Troy) and one kitty (Lily).
* I have been married for the past six years and look forward to many more!
* I am a Reiki Master Teacher and Holistic Health Coach. I'm looking forward to opening my own Personal Health Coaching practice and healing center in the Spring of 2013!
Other Information:
Favorite Cookbook - Eat Shrink & Be Merry by Janet & Greta Podleski (because it features fabulous healthy food without relying on "fake food" products or artificial sweeteners)
Favorite Fiction Book - Too many to mention! I Love anything by Anne Bishop, Charlaine Harris, JR Ward or Patricia Briggs among many, many others
Favorite TV Shows - Tool Academy, Supernatural, True Blood, The Walking Dead, Dexter, Homeland, Grimm, Kitchen Nighmares, Chopped, Master Chef, Hell's Kitchen, and Restaurant Impossible, among others!
What I'm Reading Right Now - "Fat?So! Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size" by Marilyn Wann
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