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Feb 23 2016

Unleash the ONE change that will transform your life

by Marilyn McKenna

A decade or so before I finally lost weight, in the midst of one of my more earnest attempts at dieting, I enlisted the help of a nutritional counselor. She was a sort of hybrid nutritionist and behavioral coach who had me record what I ate for the week and then take it to her […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Changing Habits, Eat Like It Matters, Life Transformation, Transformation, Weight Loss

Nov 19 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter 12 “Spreading the Message: Changing Our Lives So We Can Change the World”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 194 – 195 of Eat Like It Matters: When people ask me why I decided to write about my struggle with my weight, I tell them that sometimes I secretly wish I could just sit down and shut up about it. Truly, I find it embarrassing to talk about my food demons, my unhappiness in […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Change the World, Eat Like It Matters, Transformation, Transformational Change

Nov 12 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter 11 “Taking the Lead: How I Helped Others by Helping Myself”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 180 – 181 of Eat Like It Matters: Raise your hand if you have an uncomplicated relationship with your mother. So nobody, right? Yeah, me either. This is one of the most complex human relationships there is. For those of us who are lucky enough to have our mothers in our lives, we may still […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Mom, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Motivation

Oct 30 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter 10 “The Price of Change: What Price Will You Pay?”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 166– 168 of Eat Like It Matters: This may sound harsh. Certainly it’s a big ol’ serving of tough love with no holds barred. And the last thing I’m gonna say before I launch into it is that I made every one of these mistakes, to the nth degree, for decades. So the tough love […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Emotional Eating, Price Of Change, Weight Loss

Oct 29 2015

Book excerpt: Chapter 9 “Get Moving! How Exercise Helped Me Heal”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 151 – 153 of Eat Like It Matters: Does everybody have an inner athlete? I dunno. I do know that 120 pounds ago I would’ve told you that I didn’t have one. Turns out, I was wrong. I do have an inner athlete, and I have harnessed her strength and drive to finally put to rest […]

Filed Under: Cardio, Fitness, Strength Training, Weight Loss Tagged With: Athlete, Behavioral Change, Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Exercise, Fitness, Running, Strength Training, Transformation, Triathlon

Oct 20 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter 8 “My Food Blueprint: A Formula for Eating”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 128 – 130 of Eat Like It Matters: Stilettos are sexy. Fast cars are sexy. Some say facial hair is sexy (though generally only on men). But let’s be honest, schedules aren’t sexy. Still, sticking to a schedule when it comes to your eating and exercise habits can make all the difference when it comes to […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Blood Sugar, Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Eating Plan, Food Blueprint, Metabolism

Oct 13 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Seven “The Solution to Willpower, Motivation and Other Things That Don’t Work: The Two Tables Strategy”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 119 – 122 of Eat Like It Matters: If dieting left me feeling like I was holding my breath underwater, it’s no wonder that I found it impossible to do it for very long. But this is what relying on willpower has always felt like to me: it takes so much mental energy […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Moderation, Weight Loss Strategies, Willpower

Sep 29 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Six “Creating a Food Sanctuary in My Life: Remaking the Family Food Culture

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 105 – 107 of Eat Like It Matters: Finally!” the readers exclaim in unison. “She’s gonna get to the point about what to eat, how to eat, and how to actually lose weight!” Oh, don’t get your panties in a bunch. Of course I was gonna get to it, but you can’t just […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Family Food Culture, Food Sanctuary, Healthy Families

Sep 24 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter 5 “Reaching Out: Having the Courage to Ask for Help”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 92 – 95 of Eat Like It Matters … When I decided I was ready to change my life I knew I needed support from the person I had the closest relationship with: my husband. My decision to have lap-band surgery worried him initially; the surgical risks are not insignificant, and the cost […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Family, Team, Weight Loss

Sep 17 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Four “Digging Out of Emotional Eating and Reclaiming Ourselves”

by Marilyn McKenna

When I look at this book in its entirety, it strikes me how every single strategy I’ve learned—really, every single point I make— is about putting yourself first. When you put yourself first you have high standards for yourself and your life. You expect to be happy and to have satisfying relationships with your family […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Emotional Eating, Put Yourself First, Reclaiming Ourselves

Sep 8 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Three “The Root of Emotional Eating”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 48 – 49 … While I disengaged from my physical body and pretended not to notice the damage I did to myself over and over again with food, the most destructive manifestation of my denial was the detachment I felt from my conflicted misery in my role as wife and mom. It’s extremely […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Emotional Eating

Sep 1 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Two “Where to start when you don’t know where to start”

by Marilyn McKenna

If there is one thing I’ve learned during my weight-loss journey it’s that I’m not terribly exceptional. Oh, don’t get me wrong. The fact that I lost over one hundred pounds and have kept it off for more than eight years is remarkable. And I’m not claiming modesty here. I work very hard, and every […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters

Aug 11 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter One

by Marilyn McKenna

Chapter One MAYBE YOU CAN’T BREAK THROUGH UNTIL YOU ADMIT YOU’RE BROKEN I once weighed 265 pounds and had a body mass index of 43. To clarify, the National Institutes of Health labels as “overweight” those people with a body mass index (BMI) of between 25 and 29.9. Those who have a BMI of between […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Personal Narrative, Weight Loss

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