Some days it can be hard to keep sight of the targets we set for ourselves. There are times we falter and lose sight of the goals we put blood, sweat, tears and then some into achieving. When this happens, it’s time to re-focus and commit yourself again. Think of yourself as an outdoorsman in [...]

I find that sometimes when I plan to do something, I get off track and end up going in a totally different direction. Life always seems to send many different twists and turns my way, and I seem to easily lose focus of what I aimed to do, sometimes a bit too easily if you [...]

Let’s face it. Very few people in our society use food strictly as fuel for their daily activities. We eat for flavors. We eat for entertainment. We eat to alleviate boredom, fatigue, excitement or heartache. We eat to be part of a social event. We eat because advertisers spend millions of dollars seducing us into equating [...]

In less than 2 weeks I will be participating in the Beaches Jazz Tune Up 5K Walk with Slimband colleagues, patients and MySlimband members. I am very excited about this because I feel not only is it away for myself to get more active this summer in a fun way, but I believe this event [...]

Some people absolutely LOVE winter, if you are one of those, well sorry I can’t relate. I LOVE summer, the hot sticky days, going to the beach, lemonade, pool parties, drinks on the patio and best of all, ice cream, mmmmmm!!!!! So when it comes to winter, well I have a super hard time adjusting [...]

Every holiday season I do the same thing, I tell myself that I am going to be good and eat healthy and try to stay on track with my exercise schedule. However, first chance I get I sleep in, which in a weird way seems to throw off my whole schedule. This and not going [...]

The hardest part of any challenge, whether it’s losing weight, eating healthier, quitting smoking or finishing a project, is staying motivated. No matter how fired up you are in the beginning to get started, eventually the enormity of what you are taking on becomes emotionally, physically and psychologically daunting. This is when we are at [...]