I am a lifelong nutrition and fitness buff, and I just got back to my fighting weight (again). I would generally say that I'm a good old-fashioned health nut. I love to run, bike, hike, and play outside. I love healthy cooking and healthy eating. I eat my fruits and vegetables.

And yet sometimes, for months at a time, I turn my back on fitness and a healthy lifestyle. Blame it on depression. Blame it on winter weather. Blame it on the lingering effects of growing up in a family ...

I am a lifelong nutrition and fitness buff, and I just got back to my fighting weight (again). I would generally say that I'm a good old-fashioned health nut. I love to run, bike, hike, and play outside. I love healthy cooking and healthy eating. I eat my fruits and vegetables.

And yet sometimes, for months at a time, I turn my back on fitness and a healthy lifestyle. Blame it on depression. Blame it on winter weather. Blame it on the lingering effects of growing up in a family where all of the women, including me, had eating disorders.

I am so sick of gaining and losing the same 30 pounds. I am a classic yo-yo dieter, and I have been bouncing my way up and down the scale for more than 10 years.

I am DONE!
I am done with dieting.
I am done making bad choices because I think I don't deserve better.
I am done sabotaging myself when I start to succeed at weight loss.
I am done with the self-destructive behavior that caused my extreme weight fluctuations in the past (binged my way up, starved my way down).
I am DONE with all of that and more.

I have decided that this is the year that things change for good. I have already made some really good changes, and I know there are more to come.

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