Follow my journey from the day I found out I had Hashimoto’s disease through all the doctor-prescribed diets to finding my own way by learning that keeping my carbs low would help with a lot of problems I was having.

It is not your relationship with food that determines whether you can stick to a program (any program), lose weight and accomplish your goals. It is your relationship with yourself that determines any and all success that you have. Nothing ever good comes from hating yourself. The secret sauce to your success is forgiving yourself and moving on.

An urge is a strong desire or impulse to do something usually in response to a trigger. Usually an urge that lands up with eating something is your impulse to soothe a trigger in some way. The blog will help you recognize urges and triggers and will help you work through them.

We all have triggers, habits and emotional connections with food. When we are "hungry" but not really physically hungry, it is know as head hunger.You might also be experiencing heart hunger. It’s important to recognize when you are experiencing this, because if food is not actually the problem, then eating won’t solve it.

You are NOT broken or stupid or lazy! You are brilliant and your brain and emotional eating habits are working just as they should. Your brain and your body are designed to seek pleasure. You have habits and patterns that are working for you! It is just a matter of interrupting some of those patterns.

I used to face parties, vacations, holiday meals, office lunches, going out to dinner, etc., hoping for the best. Then I discovered the good-better-best method of making food and behavior decisions. To my surprise entering and living in the Land of Good Enough opened the gates to the Lands of Doing More and Feeling Better.

Wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, truly a remarkable man with a remarkable story, has a great way to set goals that he refers to as SMACK DOWN. Start by making your goals Specific, Measurable, Attainable and Compatible. This blog walks you through the entire goal-setting technique.

Don’t label food labeled “good” or “bad”. Instead look at foods as getting us to our goals or moving us further away from them. Explore what foods help you feel your best, while still indulging once in a while in “fun” foods.

This blog examines what food freedom means for us, as people caught up in the multi-billion dollar diet industry, with – at best – it’s rules and requirements, and with – at worst – it’s tendency to drive people into disordered eating and towards other emotional issues.

This blog guides you through the several possible ways to keep a food journal - without actually writing down how much food you are eating. Even if you are journal-resistant, taking one of these suggestions will help bring you lasting success.

There are two types of hunger: physical and emotional. This blog examines some of the mechanics of physical hunger and dives a little further into answering the questions, "Am I hungry," "Why?," and "How can I self-regulate this?"

There are many reasons we find ourselves unable to stop yo-yo dieting. This blog explores the reasons why we tend to be on the string of a yo-yo, constantly up and down. Lfearn to cut the string by eating in a low carb way, no matter what eating style or plan you are following.

Create a safe-food home environment so you can “recover” from parties and vacations. Learn how to break your day into quadrants so that if you go haywire on a meal, you don’t have to carry the craziness over to the next one. With Home-Base and Course Correcting, learn how to NEVER EVER need to start over again.

Grocery shopping for any eating style does not have to be expensive and difficult. Front-end list-making and grocery shopping will pay off, not only in your pocket, but in the amount of confusion that may arise when starting a new eating plan.

In today's post I will show you how often it's the food that determines your success. I don't mean the food in terms of dieting and calorie restriction. It’s the food that controls hormones, which control how your body processes what you are eating.

No amount of willpower to stick with a healthy eating plan is as strong as using your WHY POWER. This blog walks you through finding YOUR why and shows you how you will have many and how they must be fluid to get you to your goals.

When I first began my work in earnest with the hunger scale, the hardest part for me was not following a prescribed plan, but rather tuning in to my body and trusting myself. Learning to use my hunger scale has opened up new eating horizons to me.

The nutrition world is rife with misinformation leading to confusion, mistrust and poor dietary choices. This is coupled with the fact that nutritional science is constantly changing, and it is understandable that we can’t keep up with the latest diet trends and advice. Let's unravel my top ten diet myths.

I never thought of the idea of Protocols and instead I was “Hoping for the best” and never really got anywhere successful. The hopes and thoughts were like sugarplum fairies dancing in my head. Once I got some concrete strategies for establishing protocols, my goals started to take shape and get me on the road to success.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I followed a certain diet plan or eating-style plan, summertime, with it's parties, vacations and travel, seemed to take on a free-for-all feeling. After all, now that we are adults, don’t we get summer vacation too? Here are 10 SOLID WAYS to get through challenges.