Emotional eating signs, triggers, and tools to help

Posted on by Suanna Geater
While emotional eating may not be one of the 4 diagnoses of eating disorders according to the American Psychiatric Association's Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published in 2013, it is definitely disordered eating.  If you are interested in reading more about the eating disorders, The National Eating Disorders Association has an informative article about them and the Psychology Today website has an Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating Test th...
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Should I Detox?

Posted on by Suanna Geater
Springtime!  Dontcha love it!  Everything is going green, the temperatures are beginning to get warmer, the days are getting longer, there is the sweet scent of all the spring blooms in the air....Aaaaaaaand the questions begin about detoxing and/or cleansing.  Should I do a cleanse/detox?  I so which one is best?  How should we detox? and on and on. I get it.  People want to slough off the ickyness of having been cooped up all winter and feel like they want something to make them feel fr...
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You really eat that crap?

Posted on by Suanna Geater
Hahaha, I get the question in the title a LOT.   Yes, I really eat that.  That really was my breakfast one day last week.  I do not eat things like this all the time of course, but on occasion, yes I eat McDonald's food.  It is not bad, it is not good. It is food.  I also had a big ass ass salad for lunch, veggies and cheese for snacks, a small ass salad, some veggies and a steak for supper that night.  Oh and a a sip of everyone's mixed drinks to! Food is not inherently bad or good.  The wor...
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what if my best isn’t good enough

Posted on by Suanna Geater
Every single morning for the last 4 years one of the intentions I have written in my journal is Do Your Best!! The words Do Your Best is the 4th agreement in the book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.  This  was a life changing book for me!  Seriously click the link and purchase it, I do not think you will regret it. It was the very first personal development/self-help book that I read and seriously took to heart.  I go back and read it every so often just for a refresher. When we kn...
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Half the Woman I used to be….and yet soooo much MORE!

Posted on by Suanna Geater
I am half the size I used to be....well actually less than half, and yet I am also sooo much more than I used to be.  In the photo on the left was May of 2012 when I was wearing size 26 shorts...and those shorts were so tight I needed to be in a 28. The photo in the center is when I was at my smallest in Dec of 2014 at a size 6-8.  The photo on the right is me this 2nd week in May 2017 in one leg of the same shorts from the photo on the right.  I am currently comfortably in a size 10.  My size k...
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