Dropping our mask when we journal can bring our unconscious to life. Pearl One Wondering how to do the “dinner hour?” I mean, you make food and eat with your partner every evening, but now that you’re focused on losing for a lifetime you don’t know what to do about dinner. Learning how to prepare [...]| The Inspired Eater
Getting back to the basics of what’s most important in life. Labor Day Weekend I never met a holiday menu I didn’t embrace. Like so many of us I was “dieting” some of the year, but when a holiday rolled around, out the window the diet went. Problem is — in our current culture — [...]| The Inspired Eater
Getting back to the basics of what’s most important in life. Pearl One I love Dave Ramsey. He pops up on my Instagram feed once or twice a week and I’ve saved bucks just watching his little reels saying how “dumb” we are for getting ourselves into various financial pickles. And I love his “seven [...]| The Inspired Eater
Do you have a smart written plan for navigating disappointment?| The Inspired Eater
Life happens. Plan for it to go your way.| theinspiredeater.com
Life happens. Plan for it to go your way. Pearl One Hello everyone! We have new thrivers onboard and welcome! If you haven’t yet read “Begin Here”, I encourage you to. It’s the kind of info. that helps these posts make a lot more sense! The following pearls are partially from older pearls. Pearl One [...]| The Inspired Eater
It’s simple. We weren’t given the right information.| The Inspired Eater
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Pearl One You’ve done the hard work. You lost the weight. You made it stick but now, in maintenance mode, you’re running on empty — and willpower alone just isn’t cutting it. Willpower fatigue is real. In the past nobody talked about the elephant in the room — maintenance — because if one regains all [...]| The Inspired Eater
As we take baby steps into lifetime maintenance we need to find the fun everywhere.| The Inspired Eater
Pearl One Welcome to a five-week focus on maintenance (or what I call “preservation”, I use both terms interchangeably until we all get used to the new word). Today in our first week we’re talking about how I’ve preserved weight loss for eighteen years to date. So, you’ve done the hard work — the weight’s [...]| The Inspired Eater
Pearl One First a caveat, I’m so thankful for the self-help world; I’ve benefited greatly. So please don’t think I’m dissing self-help. Not at all. Given that, I’ve spent the last five decades reading self-help books, listening to cassettes (lol) and to podcasts these days. And I love a good TED Talk. I also became [...]| The Inspired Eater
Who doesn’t love a pudgy baby?| The Inspired Eater
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As a young person, I had zero confidence. Back in the 80s I would never mumble what seemed to be true: that working out didn’t appear to work in terms of losing weight. I’d been a Jane Fonda, Jazzercise, and Lilias, Yoga and You woman for years. | The Inspired Eater