On the Giving Voice To Your Story Podcast today, I had the chance to speak with Dorit Sasson about how perfectionism is just fear in disguise. How we plan ourselves into paralysis waiting for the perfect opportunity, waiting for all the pieces to fall into place, waiting until the time is right. Everyone’s Got A […]
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. – Forrest Gump On December 1st, 2014 I started to run. And I’ve ran every day since. 1,000+ days in a row. In sickness and in health. Come rain or come shine. Come hell or high water. I’ve ran in the […]
America is a funny place. We worship daily at the altar of fitness and beauty. Multi-billion dollar industries flood our airwaves and facebook feeds with images of the beautiful people exercising. They’ll sell us everything we need from thigh masters to gym memberships, from $200 running shoes to the latest and greatest digital doodad that […]
Losing weight isn’t like quitting smoking or drinking or heroin or anything else, we say. People can quit smoking cold turkey. You can stop drinking and never have to touch another glass of alcohol. Once you’re off the needle, you’re off the needle. You don’t have to smoke, drink or sniff glue, but I’m addicted […]
I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but you’re never going to be perfect. There’s no such thing. Perfect doesn’t exist in nature. Perfect is an illusion created by marketers to sell us hair care products And perfect is an obstacle. Every day we let the siren song of perfection get in the way of […]
Two years ago, I was a couple of Krispy Kreme donuts shy of 300 pounds. As of today, I’ve lost weight for 8 consecutive quarters. Two years. That’s a winning streak I’m pretty proud of. Yay me. Now I wish I could say that’s the heaviest I’ve ever been, but it’s not. This ain’t my […]
There can’t be too many things that are a bigger kick in the groin than a doctor saying the words “You have cancer.” Except for maybe a doctor letting you know that you have cancer without ever saying a word. I had a mole on my stomach that had been growing for a couple of […]
Your grandmother probably told you not to eat late at night because you didn’t burn off as many calories and it made you fat. Today, nutritionists disagree on whether late night eating in and of itself can cause weight gain, but recent studies at Northwestern University show that mice that ate when they should have […]
I was driving home the other night from an after work function, around 8 o’clock or so and I was starving. Not starving in the third world country sense of the word, but starving in a middle aged, chubby suburban kind of way. I hadn’t eaten since lunchtime and I was seriously ready for a […]
Not that long ago, I ran a full 5k for the first time in my life. And I use the term “run” loosely. It was more like a jog or a trot, kind of a shuffle. But what it most definitely was not was a walk. I didn’t stop to walk, catch my breath or bend […]
