OVER 40? STOP EMOTIONAL OVEREATING & LOSE WEIGHT FOR GOOD

These last two weeks since my mastermind coach training, I've been applying new tools that have transformed my mind... The biggest transformation I've been experiencing is how to learn to REALLY trust myself by believing that I can figure out the answers and by asking myself great questions about things that seem hard...Then understanding that I truly have the ability to find solutions to everything I want to. I invite you to think about on a scale of 1-10, (10 being the highest amount of self-trust) how much do you really trust yourself to make decisions, stick to them and know that you can figure it out? If you were to have asked me this question about a month ago, I would have said about a 7.  After this experience in my new coach training, I'd say a 12+.  It's so EXCITING to learn this. If you were to have asked me about 6-7 years ago, I would have said maybe a 2-3.  I didn't understand so much of what was going on in my brain and that compell...

Happy Friday my friend. Read to the end....this is longer...AND GOOOOOD. As many of you know, I went to an exclusive master coach training last weekend in Chicago. I want to share the back story because my world has transform and I know it can help transform your world. I had originally applied for it back in April & didn't get in.  They offered us the option of having them keep the deposit to receive priority consideration for the next one or get our money back. I chose to have them keep the deposit because I had decided to be completely committed to getting to this training. I chose to look at that as an opportunity to learn and I didn't pout that I didn't get it. Instead I asked myself, what do I need to do to so they will have me in the group. Then I got to work...not perfectly, pretty messily in fact, but I got to work persistently and consistently. I  made decisions  that I was going to figure out how to grow and get accepted to this program. Then I worke...

Everything we do in life is essentially a series of decisions. We decide what time to get up. We decide what to do or not do right after we get up. We decide to go to work. We decide how to speak to our family and co-workers. We decide to eat breakfast. So many of our decisions however, are on auto-pilot. We made decisions about so many things so long ago and they became habits that we never think to evaluate. Losing weight after 40 is really about a series of decisions. I am in a mastermind coach training this week with an AMAZING coach teacher, Stacey Boehman. Today she shared with us that the faster we can make decisions and implement, the faster we can see if they worked and self-correct. This applies to our journey with weight-loss too. We have so many thoughts that are on auto-pilot for us around food that were the result of decisions we made many years ago and sometimes because of decisions others made. Notwithstanding who made the decisions, the p...

Hi y'all... This week, it's time for some ce-le-bra-tin'! I got to go to Texas to visit my new step grand baby! Celebration! (My hubby John and the little lady! Aren't they adorbs?) Then we flew to Arizona to celebrate my mom and dad's 50th anniversary! Celebration! Look how cute they are!! All my siblings (there are 8 of us) and most of the 32 grand kids will be in attendance. We haven't all been in the same place at one time since 2012. Celebration! You know why we need to celebrate? Because it feels good. Really, do we need another reason? It's a way to honor all the time, work, blood sweat & tears that we put in to things. From a brain perspective, and you know I always throw that in there, when we celebrate things, especially when we wake up our brain to the new things we have accomplished or done, it helps the brain remember that that thing was important...and to remember it, store it, and repeat it again in the future...

I've always been the type of gal who likes to do well at things. I didn't always have to get an A++, but I'm not going to lie, I did try and I like to work hard, I like to be successful and I have picked up on a lot of things in life sorta quickly, not all, but many. This is a pattern I've noticed about myself...I like to excel and I like to excel quickly. When something takes me longer than my instinctive brain thinks it should take me to excel, the more survival parts of my brain throw a bit of a tantrum and start to make me feel like, well, that I suck. Do you notice this in yourself? You love to do well. You love to be on your A-game. You love to succeed quickly? You do really well in so many areas of your life and when you don't do well quickly in an area of your life, your brain shames you or isn't very nice to you? If so, you just may be human. Has this happened to you with weight-loss? You're successful in so many areas of ...