I am a weight loss life coach. I lost 147 pounds six years ago. My passion is helping clients achieve their weight loss and life goals. I am a member of the International Coaching Federation and Obesity Action Coalition.

• Emotional Medication of Food
  01/05/2008 | Fitness
  When you have a headache, you take an over-the-counter pain relief medication. If you have an uncomfortable emotion, do you take the relief self-medication of emotional eating? For many of us that have weight issues, emotional eating is the result from attempting to change the way we feel. When we feel an uncomfortable or undesirable emotion, we provide relief by emotional eating. Medication has its proper place just as food does too. Read
  
• Weight Loss Success Without the Scale
  22/04/2008 | Health
  Do you wake up and weigh yourself? That's fine but does it determine what mood you're in and set the pace for your day? Are you in a good mood or bad mood depending on the scale? Is the tone of your day based on the number reflected on the scale? Break the ties that bind you from being a slave to the scale. Celebrate your success and changes you're making in your life in ways other than the scale. Read
  
• Impossible to Regain Weight After Weight Loss Surgery?
  20/04/2008 | Health
  With weight loss surgery, are your worries about your weight are over? Do you need to think about weight issues? Weight loss surgery is not a cure for your weight woes. The surgery does not do all of the work for you. As we know, weight loss surgery is a tool. Weight regain can occur. It is a tool that WE choose to use. If you want to lose ' choose to use your surgery. Read
  
• Avoid Weight Regain From Bariatric Surgery
  05/04/2008 | Health
  When having weight loss surgery, you commit yourself to certain nutrition and dietary requirements. You become dedicated to a healthy lifestyle with habits that support your weight loss. Weight loss surgery is a tool to use but you must choose to use that tool. Unfortunately, weight regain or a stalled weight loss can occur. If you want to avoid the dreaded return of pounds, become aware of the pitfalls on your journey to weight loss success. Read
  
• Turn Off the Scream of Emotional Eating
  01/04/2008 | Health
  You received good news; you want to eat; you feel anxious or worried; you want to eat; you are feeling down for no particular reason that you can identify; you want to eat. What is this voice similar to a recording playing over and over in your head? Sometimes this voice is screaming and so overwhelming for the urge to give in. This is head hunger or emotional eating. What is emotional eating and how can you silence that voice? Read
  
• Dumping Syndrome of Gastric Bypass and Non-weight Loss Surgery Weight Loss
  29/03/2008 | Health
  Are you thinking of having weight loss surgery and you've heard about dumping syndrome? What is dumping syndrome? What causes it? What's the advantage to dumping? Dumping can work well as a deterrent of eating unhealthy, sugary food choices. You can find out details about dumping syndrome as it relates to RNY Gastric Bypass, and how it can benefit non-RNY patients and non-weight loss surgery weight loss. Read
  
• Visualize Your Weight Loss
  26/03/2008 | Fitness
  Weight loss goals are important. Your dreams of wearing a certain size or see a specific number on the scale are also important. Are these weight loss goals and dreams where you can see them? Do you have a visual reminder of what you want? Take it out of your head and create a weight loss vision board. To see it is to believe it. Whether you call it the law of attraction or a visual work in progress, a weight loss vision board works! Read
  
• Top 10 Ways to Regain Weight After Weight Loss Surgery or Weight Loss
  22/03/2008 | Health
  As many weight loss surgery post-operative patients know, it is possible to regain weight after having weight loss surgery. If you aren't a weight loss surgery patient, the same applies to you too. A nutritious, active lifestyle is the key to losing weight AND maintaining your weight loss regardless of how you do it. Learn the Top 10 reasons how to do it. Follow the opposite of the Top 10, you can have weight loss success. Read
  
• To Lose Weight-seven Habits to Avoid
  19/03/2008 | Health
  Due to many years of unhealthy habits and food choices, we find ourselves overweight or obese. Habits are hard to break but they can be broken. Replace the unhealthy habits that have made you heavy with healthy habits. To help you lose weight and reach your weight loss goals, notice if any of these seven habits apply to you. Change your habit, change your weight, change your life. Read
  
• Little Changes Add to Weight Loss, Part 4
  17/03/2008 | Health
  Little changes can add up to weight loss success. One day you don't eat a bag of cookies for dinner and then the next day expect to be satisfied eating nothing but vegetables. Extremes don't work win making changes in your diet. As you accomplish one small change, add another successfully, you'll find yourself moving forward and your scale down. Before you know it, your small changes equal to big success in your weight loss. Read