Weight Loss
Sustainable weight loss, when needed and desired, is one of the outer signs of transformation. In this section, find tools to help you move forward with achieving your ideal weight and healthy, happy relationship with food, eating, and your body.
Are You Hooked on Dieting? The Problem and The Mindful Eating Solution
Are you hooked on dieting? Has an obsession with getting thinner hijacked your eating mentality, ruining your innate wisdom about when to eat? If your days are filled with constant reference to and thinking about anything eat-to-lose-weight related, the question may...
Insights on Being a Mindful Vegan with Lani Muelrath (video)
In this in-depth video interview with Jeanne Schumacher of starchqueens.net, I describe the mindfulness practices as taught in The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness that have restored a healthy, happy relationship with...
Whole Foods Plant-Based Holiday Eats with Lani Muelrath on CBS TV (video!)
This week I was invited back to CBS TV to share the secrets of replacing processed holiday treats with whole food plant-based foods. Double click on the video to enjoy this five minute presentation including taste tests and recipes from The Plant-Based Journey....
Chef AJ Teleclass With Lani Muelrath and The Plant-Based Journey
"Hi Lani, I listened to your telecast interview with Chef Aj this morning. You sound so upbeat and happy, and not judgemental but helpful on the path that we all take once we make the decision to change our lives. Your message about the several steps would have helped...
Proteinaholic Book Review and Giveaway
The winner of the random drawing for a copy of Proteinaholic is Cynthia Scott. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and entered the giveaway, and congratulations to Cynthia! Buried in the back of my closet... ...is a stack of decades-old food journals with...
Is This The Ultimate Skinny Food?
Azumio, an online and mobile service that publishes daily insights into health and fitness, has asked me to be a contributing author to their nutrition column. This is my article published at Azumio this week: Are Beans The Ultimate Skinny Food? Have you ever noticed...
Is Weight Loss Sustainable? My Ten Year Weight Loss Photo History
Is Weight Loss Sustainable? People who have known me for some time know that my weight was a longtime struggle for me. As someone genetically predispositioned to easily gain and have trouble losing weight, I have paid my dues with decades of wild weight fluctuations...
Four Musts For Getting Unstuck While Making The Switch To Eating Plant-Based
Peggy called me for help, deeply discouraged because her weight loss efforts had stalled. She felt at a loss as to how to get moving again toward the weight loss she wanted and needed. She was also quite frustrated by the pattern she had developed of overeating in the...
Four Steps to Halt Creeping Weight Gain and Feel Better in Your Clothes Today
4 Steps to Halt Creeping Weight Gain and Feel Better in Your Clothes Today The Problem Are you finding it harder and harder to control your weight the more years you live? Have you discovered that—despite all your efforts to the contrary—your belt cinches...
Which plant-based food plan is right for you?
Which Plant-Based Food Plan is Right For You? Have you noticed that the more popular whole food plant-based eating becomes, the more it can seem that 'plant-based diet' can mean one thing to one person, another thing to someone else? It might even seem...
What does new research say about losing weight with a plant-based diet – without counting calories?
According to a new meta-analysis - that means a review of mountains of research studies - published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, adopting a vegetarian diet causes weight loss, even in the absence of exercise or...
How strong is the link between eating more whole grains and longevity? PLUS The Plant-Based Journey title page sneak peek!
If you were to ask me the biggest challenges in writing The Plant-Based Journey, I would have to say one of them is this: Keeping up with the daily flood of information about the benefits of plant-based eating. News about easy weight management, longevity,...
The truth about weight loss that lasts, your relationship with food eating and your body, dreaming big, and breaking the number one rule of marketing
What I'm about to tell you breaks the number one rule of marketing. In case you haven't heard it, the number one rule of marketing is this: Don't tell people what they need to hear. Tell them what they want to hear. In all the marketing courses of study I've taken...
From serious health risk to serious health coach – Debby’s down 30 pounds and 4 sizes
Debby is a shining example of courage in the face of extreme health challenges. She exemplifies the power of tenacity, being connected with vision, and doing what it takes - including the often-overlooked important attention to mindset and habit change - when it comes...
2 reasons comfort foods are essential for your weight loss plan
People look at me today and tell me that they find it hard to believe that I ever had a weight problem. But I did. I'm the one on the left (see above, circa 1998). It doesn't help that everyone else in the picture is skinny. For decades, over thirty years as a...
How Janice pulled herself ‘out of a hole’, lost 15 pounds, and gained her life back + book giveaway
Janice, then Janice, now Are these the same person? When Janice sent me these pictures to post side-by-side as we reflected on our three month benchmark of working together in the Fast Start Program, these are the first words that came to mind: are these the same...
The 2 changes Keturah made to drop 10 lbs in a month: Booty Camp success story
Keturah was in one of my Body Transformation Booty Camps several months back. It sets my boat to floatin' whenever someone writes to me months later, out of the blue, to tell me of their ongoing success. Keturah did just that. I asked her if I could share her letter...
The Plant-based Pharmacist’s Recipe for Weight Loss Success
Note: Today's guest author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD., is throwing a Fit Quickies book giveaway contest on the Pursue a Health You Blog. Click on the image below to enter. Weight Loss - The Recipe For Success by Guest Author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD Looking to...
Karen’s story: down 20 pounds, 2 sizes, up in hope and enthusiasm
Karen, 9-22-2012 Karen, 11-5-2012 Karen, 12-31-2012 I want to share Karen's story with you today because you may be one of those people, like Karen, who had lost hope and was frustrated with her attempts at weight loss, getting fit, and having a body that just...
6 steps that stop compulsive overeating
"Thank you so much!! It was all amazing!!! Thank you very much!!!" "You got me right back on track. I don't know how to thank you enough." "What an amazing call! I took so many notes and can't wait to put the 'insight' strategy into practice. Thank you!" These...
Is agave syrup a healthy sweetener? The truth about tequila’s cousin
I'm betting my bottom cactus pad that many of us heard first of agave in connection with tequila. It's only been recently that it came back into our field of vision as the 'new health food'. Natural? Healthy? Not so fast. Just like every other miracle sweetener...
Teleclass! Chef AJ’s story: How a vegan chef made one simple change & easily dropped 12 pounds
This teleclass has already taken place. If you would like a recording of the event, simply fill in the form below and follow through on the confirmation email and the download link will be sent to you at no charge. Join me and my special guest Chef AJ on September 11...
Be present with your poundage: How to weigh mindfully, get out of fear of the scale, and use the bath scale to help you lose weight.
Part 3 in a series. Part 1: Does checking the scale help with weight management? Part 2: Is the bath scale a taboo or a tool? Readers weigh in on weighing in. Part 3: Be present with your poundage: How to weigh mindfully, get out of fear of the scale, and use the...
Does checking the scale help with weight management?
If you have never struggled with a weight problem, I know the following scenario may sound crazy. But if you have, you know exactly the angst we weight-challenged have associated with the scale. You jump on the scale in the morning and your weight registers up 3...
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