by Paula Coleman | Feb 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Holding a grudge can be fattening! Many women who feel wronged, angry, and hurt “stuff” their emotions by overeating. They find the bitterness and rage too uncomfortable to feel, so they distract themselves with food. Also, many women do not feel their hurts and...
by Paula Coleman | Jan 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Addressing your overeating directly by clamping down on how much and what you eat is much like addressing a runny nose by putting stoppers into your nostrils. The runny nose is not the real problem. If you cure the disease, then the symptom ceases. Unlike the common...
by Paula Coleman | Jan 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Because women tend to have very negative associations with the word “exercise,” I prefer to talk about “movement.” Movement is what we all very naturally do. However, cultural, social, psychological, and family pressures can influence us to suppress and ignore the...
by Paula Coleman | Jan 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s the time of year when people want to start over – especially with their attempts to lose weight. But the promise of being a new you because a new year has started really isn’t logical. All the beliefs and emotional habits that motivated your overeating on...
by Paula Coleman | Jan 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Everyone knows that exercise is good for you, right? Exercise is what you need to do to get into shape, to be healthy. This is common knowledge. Exercise is what you really should be doing—but it’s torture! Exercise that’s considered torture is not sustainable as a...
by Paula Coleman | Jan 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
There’s a television commercial airing lately that suggests if you’re human, snacking in the face of any and all emotions is your default setting – and therefore the weight-loss program the ad is promoting is needed because they provide personal coaching to help you...