“But Exercise Is Torture!”

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...

Is Having a Snack Your Default Setting?

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...

Perspective on Resolutions and Repentance

After “letting ourselves go” during the holiday season, it seems only right, as we enter a new year, to resolve to buckle down and start over at “being good.” We want to “repent” of “bad” behavior and start doing what we know is “right.” The problem with most people’s...