Decisions ahead of time are the secret to the life we want.   We have two parts of our brain – the habit, or primitive brain, that wants to keep us safe but has some non-helpful ideas on how to do that, and the neocortex, the new, fancy, iPhone part of the brain...

So how is the shame cycle keeping us overweight?   When we set a diet or exercise goal or plan, spoiler alert, we are human, and we ARE going to mess up from time to time.   When we do, many of us will then beat ourselves up with the belief that shaming...

So let’s talk a little about how your brain works. There are different areas of your brain that evolved at different times and that have different objectives. It’s just confusing because they all sound like "you" in your head.   Your primitive brain wants to keep...