Weight Loss Sabotage?

If you're seeking a truly healthy weight, this could be helpful reading for you.

Stefani breaks down important logistical tips, along with vital psychological tips that will help daily life for any of us.

I can’t tell you how many women I have worked with who continually went up and down with their weight, but could never stabilize at a healthy one.

They might not have known it at the time, but they were all sabotaging themselves in one way or another.

Fortunately, when we sit down and talk, and when I give them some feedback, we normally figure out where the sabotaging is coming from, and how to stop it.

Go forth: http://paleoforwomen.com/how-to-stop-self-sabotaging-your-weight-loss/

This Is My Body

This post by Molly Galbraith made the rapid rounds of the interwebz a wee bit ago: https://www.girlsgonestrong.com/this-is-my-body/

My fervent desire is that you could write the same sort of post, with your own picture. Edit and tweak for your body's history is, where it has been, what you have done to it. BUT finish up with these same words of love:

This is a body that I spent too much time, energy, and mental space wishing would look differently.

And today? 

Today this is a body that is loved, adored, and cherished by the only person whose opinion matters — ME.

Women: Master Defusers

I don't even know what to say about this post, other than it makes me want to Hulksmash everything in sight, because I fully identify with far too much of it.

I have too many similar stories in my own life, and I bet you do, too.

Share this post with the men in your life, more than anyone.

Maybe it will help to create a world where your daughter won't see any bit of herself in this post.

It is the boss who says or does something inappropriate. It is the customer who holds our tip out of reach until we lean over to hug him. It's the male friend who has had too much to drink and tries to corner us for a "friends with benefits" moment even though we've made it clear we're not interested. It's the guy who gets angry if we turn him down for a date. Or a dance. Or a drink.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gretchen-kelly/the-thing-all-women-do-you-dont-know-about_b_8630416.html

Gaining & Losing the Same 5 Pounds? WE ALL ARE!

This is super-dee-duper awesome. This amazing woman meticulously recorded her weight several times each day, over a week, along with other notes, to see and understand the swings.

How is it possible to gain and lose 4-5 pounds in a 24-hour period? It’s not by crash-dieting, not by detoxing all day, not by any other form of lose-weight-fast schemes out there.

It’s by being human, people.

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This experiment demonstrates the intricate and individualized science behind weight sensitivity, but can have significantly positive emotional and mental consequences for us all! Knowledge is power – it frees us from unnecessary anxiety, stress, disappointment, discouragement, and unease.

Yet another vote for throwing away that worthless tool.

http://www.loveyourbodyproject.org/#!How-I-Gained-4-Pounds-in-One-Day%E2%80%A6-Then-Lost-It-All-By-the-Next/c1fhr/568bc0000cf23ef0cf5d9b3d

You Say You Want A Resolution (Or Not)

I'm finally sharing some specific resolution talk, three weeks into the year.

Oops.

But actually...maybe now's the perfect time to talk about them anyway.

If you've picked the right ones and are #killingit then you should pat yourself on the back, and peruse the article in case you could incorporate one or two into your new world o' ass-kicking.

And if you picked the wrong resolutions and are #awfuckit then try these on for size, for easy steps back toward feeling as though you're winning at life.

They are also good if you are completely anti-resolution.

Basically, I'm saying everyone should read it and EVERYONE WINS:

http://paleoforwomen.com/6-uniquely-helpful-new-years-resolutions/

Things You Need to Know

This list is full of stuff (21 stuffs, specifically) that I daresay could take a year (or more) to fully absorb & explore. So today seems like a good time to start, no?

It goes from simple training knowledge to nutrition to mindset. Everything. Read the list and see if anything jumps out at you as interesting, or totes wrong, or true to your very core. If anything in here makes your brain ZING, then delve in. Explore. Fully immerse yourself into learning more about it, and let us all watch it expand who you are, not simply your knowledge.

This is the one that is ZINGing hardest for me, right now, today:

Living a life of conscious, practiced positivity, joy, authenticity, and gratitude makes everything in your brain and body run better. This especially includes your immune system and your metabolism. Positivity, joy, authenticity, and gratitude make it harder to get sick and easier to lose fat.

Dig the list: http://jessikneeland.com/21-things-i-wish-every-woman-knew-about-health-fitness/

You Need Fun - Lots of It!

Sometimes the big important things are as small as this: how to have more fun in your daily life.

Here's a great little post about exactly that: http://whole9life.com/2014/02/take-back-the-fun-part-2/