In our Haven program, we have just started a new series on ‘Overcoming Procrastination’. In our group, we all agreed that it’s a topic that we all do in varying degrees but most of us are stumped on how to eliminate this nasty habit permanently. If you have taken our monthly 21-Day Challenge then you…
The other day one of my son’s soccer coaches sent out a 3-page email telling the boys that they did not want success bad enough. At first I was offended that a coach would be so hard on 14 year old boys but after thinking about it, he was 100% right. Here’s a line from…
Many of us have a hard time coming up with healthy low-carb. snack options. Here is a list of 10 + low carb. snacks that will help to stabilize your blood sugar, keep you energized and help your body to burn fat. lettuce chicken wraps ( or turkey) handful of nuts boiled eggs sweet potato fries…
The low-carb. craze is too big to ignore. If you’re anything like me, you’ve said things like: ‘I could never give up my bread’ or ‘I would not be able to function without my carbs’ yet after only 10 days on my low- carbohydrate eating, I’m down almost 10 pounds and I can’t ever…
“How much should I weigh?” This is one of the most popular responses I get from clients when I ask them ‘what is your ideal weight?’ Whether you want to know ‘just how bad it is’ or you want to know what a healthy weight range should be for you, it is important that you…
This week in our Haven program, we decided to extend our discussion of limiting beliefs for another week. We’re learning that this is probably one of the main factors that is preventing people from attaining their healthy weight. Yes, we’re overweight because we have not exercised as we wanted to. Yes, it’s because we ate…
Being too optimistic can also make it very hard for us to change because we are not able to see ourselves as we really are. We actually can become a bit delusional about our success. Over the years of training clients I’ve learned that our human nature is to overestimate our accomplishments and underestimate our…
This week in both the Haven program and the ‘Weight Loss, God’s Way Challenge’ the topic of sneaking/hiding to eat came up in our discussions. These discussions took me back to all the times when I would wait for dinner company to leave before I would devour all the left-over desserts that I told the…