Tis’ the season for all things pumpkin! Did you know food companies refer to this time of year as Pumpkin Spice Season?

Let’s face it, trying to lose weight is challenging. Add to that being a busy and exhausted mom can make it feel borderline impossible. Add on the overabundant amount of information available, and it can feel overwhelming to get started in your weight loss journey.

“I'm so fat. I'll never lose weight. I don't have the resources. There's no way it will work.” This sounds familiar, doesn't it? It's the negative self-talk we’ve all indulged in at some point on our weight loss journeys and it's doing nothing to help us reach or maintain a healthy weight.

Many of us know that there is a strong relationship between being overweight and chronic pain. Obesity affects pain in many ways and almost all of them are negative. Many of these effects also interact negatively with each other, creating a downward spiral of increasing weight gain and intensifying pain.

Does this sound familiar? You start a new weight loss plan and you're super excited. You are doing it and your motivation is at 100%, but gradually you begin to do less and less and less until you’re back at square one.

I am so excited for you to hear this interview with seven of the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ community members! I love to celebrate the success of my clients, virtually AND in real life and so I recently hosted a small group of eleven members of Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ in Philadelphia for our first in-person event.

So you are interested in being more healthy and have decided that clean eating is the way to get you there but what exactly does it mean to eat clean? And more specifically, what does clean eating mean for you?

I often say that weight loss is just the beginning of a lifelong transformation. An essential tool for this transformation is coaching.

Here is the truth about weight loss - losing weight can feel hard, frustrating, lonely, and confusing.

Each week when I think about you all, my audience, and how I can show up and bring you value. I often reflect on myself, version 1.0 and I remember the shy, anxious, overweight human that I was.

When I say change your identity to change your weight, I am not talking about transforming from Peter Parker into Spiderman. Nope! I am talking about working with your mindset to create your version 2.0 identity as a person who is already at their forever weight.

In today's episode, you will hear from boot campers, Amy Cobbs and Yusefa Smith.

Our default is that we all want to feel the positive effect of change when we lose weight and we're sporting this new body, but we don't want to do the work that it takes to actually change.

It is tempting to think of your future self as far away. This is the version of yourself where you’ve achieved your forever weight, you’re doing what you love, and existing as an all-around happier person.

Losing weight and keeping it off can be a challenge. So imagine setting a weight-loss goal, achieving it, and then going on vacation. How do you maintain that weight loss and withstand the temptations of wanting to eat and drink all the things?

It's summer, summer, summertime! Chances are you have a vacation coming up because it's peak travel season. For many of us, not only are we taking a vacation from our jobs and businesses, but we are also taking a vacation from our weight loss journey.

There is a strong connection among stress, anxiety, and ADHD when it comes to emotional eating. Most of us live with chronic stress and anxiety and most of the time, we don't pay it much attention because we've normalized it.

The Clean Plate Club started out as a useful tool to reduce food waste but in the modern-day, it’s contributed to overeating resulting in more people being overweight and has become more of a curse than anything else.

Some of us are really good at making decisions. We make decisions constantly - all day every day at work or for our families but when we need to make a decision about ourselves, especially decisions that put ourselves as a priority, it's easy to skip this decision. There is a reason for this.

I recently had a conversation with a current member of the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ program who had gained weight.