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Balancing Work, Life, and Yourself: Do You Have Time To Stop Overeating?

October 27, 2009 - 9:12am 93 reads 0 comments

To get on track with your healthy lifestyle goals? Lately I’ve been encountering many women who tell me they don’t.

I’ve been hearing from women who are incredibly frustrated with their eating habits, their weight gain, their lack of progress on important health goals. I’ve talked to women who fear their family history of diabetes or heart disease. I’ve talked to women who’ve even had weight loss surgery and are terrified because they are seeing the weight they’ve lost start to creep back. I’ve also talked with too many women who have put some aspect of their life “on hold” until they can start losing weight. Their struggles with food and emotional eating or overeating are something they think about every day.

But they aren’t moving forward.

They aren’t moving forward because they are using a faulty recipe for success. These busy woman are trying to make a positive change by cutting back; taking things (food) away and doing with less. But they aren’t adding anything else in—because they don’t have time. They don’t have time to feed their spirit, their soul, their passion in non-food ways. They don’t have time to go to the groups, the seminars, the inspiring places or activities that could keep them on track.

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