No body wants to do anything they HAVE to do. Do you think you HAVE to get control of your weight or your diabetes?  That you HAVE to take medications or check your blood sugars? When you have to do something, you end up forcing yourself, pushing yourself toward it.  You resist it.  You argue […]

Awesome question, right? In life coaching, we are in the business of asking awesome questions.  When you ask awesome questions, you get awesome answers. Try it. Answer this question right now: “How can I have fun while reversing my diabetes?”  Sit with it for a minute.  Focus your mind.  If you do not direct your […]

Hunger is painful.  And scary for most people.  Enough of it will break anyone’s determination to lose weight and improve their health.  😩 Anyone who has ever followed the conventional dieting advice of restricting calories and exercising more probably remembers suffering with hunger.  We have to lean HARD on our willpower to push through it, […]

Deprivation is a feeling that usually happens when we are restricting our options.  It’s the wanting of something we cannot have. For any of us that have changed our diet in an effort to lose weight or improve our health, this is a big reason we avoid diets.  Deprivation becomes an obstacle to reaching our […]

Living with a disease like Type 2 Diabetes or obesity affects your life every day in countless ways.  It’s no wonder that it becomes a part of your identity. Even if you haven’t acknowledged that you identify as a person with a chronic disease, it’s probably impacting your thoughts day to day in a way […]

Ok.  We just got through round one. Thanksgiving is a holiday centered around indulgence, so understandably this is going to be an obstacle for people trying to keep their blood sugars under control. How did it go for you?  Have you thrown in the towel and surrendered to the onslaught of celebratory binging going on […]

I will never tell you not to exercise if you want to.  Exercise has enormous benefits, both mental and physical.  I don’t even need to get into all those benefits, because most people are well aware that exercising is good for you. However, it is misguided to believe the reason why you haven’t reversed your […]

Whether we are trying to lose weight or not, Americans are obsessed with figuring out what foods are “healthy” to eat. What does “healthy” even mean anymore? When it comes to nutrition, the barrage of contradicting advice on this topic can seem a sea of madness. Red meat or no red meat is the controversy […]

Why is it that sometimes you can be super motivated, productive, and focused on your goal… And then slip into apathy?  As in, you stop caring in the moment about your goal.  What’s worse is that you don’t care that you don’t care. It can be paralyzing, even mystifying.  What happened?  One minute, you are […]

Are you living your life on default or on purpose? Most of us want to feel like we have some control over our life and our future.  We understand that we get to choose and decide what we will do, but few of us are actually setting goals and crafting a plan to get where […]