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Woman struggles with weight her whole life. Woman tries to lose weight many times, trying everything from fad diets to dangerous pills. Woman is not successful. If she happens to lose weight, she regains it and more. Woman realizes she must not really want to lose weight or she would ?just do... Full Bio
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Choose Your Easy by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss There’s a poster that’s been making the rounds on Facebook, Pinterest and various blogs. It shows the back of a fit, muscular young woman wearing a sports bra ... Read on »
Various & Sundry (Updates & Stuff) by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss 1. You know how important it is for me to find words that impart just the right shade of meaning? Here are two posts that do a great job explaining why: The Weigh ... Read on »
PRACTICING: Objectivity by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I’ll never forget the day, probably about five years ago, that I learned a lesson about objectivity in regards to one’s body. Raphael Calzadilla , who at the time was ... Read on »
Speaking Words Of Wisdom* by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss (*thank you Paul McCartney) Funny how I used to think that avoiding challenges would bring me peace. As if the peace I now have didn’t come from earlier challenge ... Read on »
How To [Fill In The Blank] Three Months* Of Emotional Overeating by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Choose which words work for you: [Undo] [Recover From] [Fight Back From] [Embrace] [Not Beat Yourself Up Over] [Accept And Move On From] * ... Read on »
Asking Better Questions: A Practice by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss “The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.” ~ Joseph Campbell Somet ... Read on »
PRACTICING: “Sure And Confident” by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, much of this will be familiar ground. I obviously need to keep revisiting it. Defensive and resistant. Th ... Read on »
And The Winner Is… by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss …Lesa! Please use the contact form to send me your mailing address and I will send you copies of “ 150 Pounds Gone Forever: How I Lost Half My Size And You Can Too “ ... Read on »
Interview With Diane Carbonell (And A Giveaway!) by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I faithfully read Fit To The Finish , a blog written by Diane Carbonell, who lost 150 pounds and has kept it off (for more than a decade) by moving away from the “die ... Read on »
Feeling What You Feel Because You Think It’s What You Should Feel by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I had initially intended to write and publish this post for Mother’s Day, but it wasn’t fully formed and I didn’t fully understand what I wanted it to say. A random M ... Read on »
Symptoms Of Inner Peace by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss I didn’t make this up…I’ve seen several versions of it around the www. Here are my favorites: Frequent attacks of smiling. Feelings of being connected with othe ... Read on »
PRACTICING: Doing It Even If I Fail by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss “What is worth doing even if you fail?” Brené Brown, author, speaker and researcher on the subjects of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, decided that ... Read on »
PRACTICING: BOTH Acceptance AND Improvement by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Have you noticed that we’re a country of extremes? That’s how it feels to sensitive old me. We’re bombarded via the media (traditional and social) with messages and i ... Read on »
PRACTICING: Gratitude* by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss *the healthy body/mind/spirit edition I am grateful for my ability to see both sides of most issues, even when I don’t agree. When I am not grateful, I find mysel ... Read on »
Can I Get Some Wooo-Hooo Up In Here? by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Woooooooooo-HOOOOOOOOOO!! What the heck, right? Well here’s the thing: I am realizing that there’s been too much boo-hoo in my life and not enough woooo-hooo! I d ... Read on »
Other People’s Words… by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss …because I have none of my own. Every once in a while, I don’t have much to say. I know, right? So here are some other people’s words that have resonated with ... Read on »
Proustian? Maybe At One Time… by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss In college, my writing professor suggested that my prose were Proustian. I am embarrassed to admit that, at the time, I had no real idea who Proust was, other than “a ... Read on »
My Grandmother, Myself by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss “She doesn’t like to be rushed in the morning.” “ She likes a lot of individual attention and doesn’t do well in groups unless she’s the center of attention. “ ... Read on »
Laughing At What Has Been Found by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss “When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.” ~ Sufi Proverb It’s no secret that I’ve been in a relatively cranky mood lately. ... Read on »
In Between All Or Nothing: A Practice by KCLAnderson Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Weight loss Although I sat on my ass in the land of “nothing” for the vast majority of six whole months, one thing I knew for sure was that if adopted the “all” mentality (which ... Read on »