I remember my mother going to the refrigerator to prepare breakfast on one of many Saturday mornings, pulling out a pack of bacon, cooking the entire package, and then eating all of its contents. She would then eat a whole can of prepackaged biscuits, several scumbled eggs, and drink half a carton of orange juice. At the time, I didn’t think that there was anything to be concerned about. I just knew that my mom had experienced a hard week at work and that she was treating herself. She would tell me that she needed to sit down and finally enjoy her food — for once. As the years went on, I ..read more

There’s an old parable that says you can’t fill a cup that’s already full. When you are looking to change your health habits, you are not only struggling with adopting the requirements of the new habits, you are also struggling against the old version of yourself. Your old habits. Your old personality. The picture that you have of yourself in your mind. This picture defines you – but it’s more than that. This picture is also the picture that other people in your life have gazed upon for as long as you have been on this Earth. THEY have a picture in THEIR mind of you. They have a picture in the ..read more