The Missing Element of most Health Resolutions
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Not all New Year’s resolutions are created equal, which is why up to 80% of them fail by February. Here is the missing element, and how to upgrade your health in 2018.
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Letting Go of your Inner Fat Kid
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Do you have an inner fat kid who is sabotaging your health? Today’s guest post by Stacey Ogden shares how she is letting go of her inner fat kid…for good! I have felt fat my whole life. Growing up, everyone would comment on how skinny my sister was. They would tell me I had […]
How to Strengthen Self Love through Song
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The most important person you will ever love is NOT your partner. Sing your way to more confidence and give yourself the gift of self love.
September Success: Meet Mariana Ruiz
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Welcome to September Success, a month of inspirational weight loss success stories from real women like you. In my previous two years of September Success stories, I asked for written responses from folks in the weight loss community. This year, I would like to shake it up with an audio format. My first guest is […]
Dancing Saved my Life: A Little Girl’s Journey to Bliss
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Find out how a little girl found body bliss through the power of dancing. Dance saved my life. No, I never took dance classes as a child. Richard Simmons was about as complicated as my childhood dancing got, and that was with my mom at home. The only clubs I danced in were in Europe (and […]
How a Father’s Love Shaped my 100-Pound Weight Loss Story
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This is an ode to the bond between father and daughter and how it molded me into the woman I am today. On May 17, 2016, Alfredo “Freddy” Espinosa passed away peacefully in his home from two types of aggressive cancer. He spent the weeks prior to his death surrounded by his family, including his […]
The Secret to Loving Yourself when you Hate your Body
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Do you wish you knew how to love yourself when you can’t accept your body as it is today? Look at these rolls! If only I could lose this darn baby fat! Ugh, my thighs are so thick! At least my FACE is pretty. If you have ever found yourself saying any of these things […]
Gobble, Gobble Your Way to a Healthy Thanksgiving!
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“Turkey, lobster, sweet potato pie! Pancakes piled up till they reach the sky! Lots of rolls and lots of greens, lots of fancy, chocolate-covered ________” Does that describe your typical Thanksgiving pretty well? November is a magical time of thankfulness, turkeys, and trees. It is also a magical time of bloating and busting out of […]
The Worst Thing to Say to a Fat Woman
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Seventeen years ago, a woman asked me something that I will never forget. I will never forget her words, or how I felt after she uttered them. It was one of the pivotal moments in life when I was fat shamed. I was a college student working at an office supply store. It was a […]
Who do you See in the Mirror?
Posted onWho do you see when you look in the mirror? For many years, when I was at my highest weight of 275 pounds, I hated looking in the mirror because it reminded me of what others saw when they looked at me, NOT how I felt inside about myself. I felt happy and pretty that day, […]