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 Today I had an epiphany of sorts, I was listening to podcast about diet tips for weight loss and I realized that you can't do everything all at once.  If you do you feel restricted and deprived which causes me to be depraved.  But baby steps are not my style.  I want to lose a hundred pounds and I want to do it yesterday, so every time I start I go a little gung ho.  Be it Keto or Weight Watchers it was jump in and do, and while both worked I couldn't sustain the victory.  None became a new habit or a new way for me to continue.  But I realized this morning that when I do a big job, whether at home, like cleaning or at work, working on files, I breakdown the tasks. (Dan, there is that stinking word, tasks)   But I wasn't doing that for my self-care.  Instead I was trying, even though I didn't think so, to do too much at once. So, where do I start?  There are lot of steps in self care. Maybe I should start by making a list, I like l...

I am at war - constantly with myself.  You can't see it on the surface but it is there.  I feel that this is one of the major things holding me back to any kind of success in my life.  My battle with my weight, with anxiety and that sense of not fulfilling what God wants me to do.  So how do I start-how do I find peace and harmony in my life. He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.” ~Marcus Aurelius Great words - but where are the instructions. I started googling because that's what I do best, and there are a lot of good instructions out there on finding peace but none seem to speak totally to me.  I think that it probably a problem for a lot of people.  We are all individuals and we are all different journeys.  We have different feelings and we see things differently.  So how do I following a how to list that really isn't going to help me. Maybe inner peace is not what I need - maybe I need balance - or may...

<a href="https://www.tomoson.com?code=TOP1d1dc0bc9d84df2e255558b8cecf1471" rel="nofollow" style="display: none;"></a> One thing I have learned in all the years of dieting is that you need to write it down.  If you don't you go way over calorie wise.  I learned this at Weight Watchers, but I don't want to go back but I need to loose over 100 pounds.  So I decided to start writing it down and guess what - I have lost 6 pounds so far. Yup! 6 pounds.  Of course it hasn't come easy - did you know that my favorite corned beef hash is 400 calories. First - I recommend finding out how many calories you need to loose weight - a great online calculator is  http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html  Next - write it down - I recommend committing to 12 weeks with the handy Food & Fitness tracker - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939754917 Now that I think I got it right - watch out for some of my healthy recipes! Once you kno...

So, after much thought and many years under my belt of trying to get healthy and never quite succeeding. I have decided to take a more holistic approach to my health and life as to the whole thereof. Over the years I have studied herbs and herbal medicines with small on-line courses. I  have done yoga and meditation.  I have done Weight Watchers, Slimfast and The Daniel Plan.  I am truly a wealth of information on living and eating healthy.  The only thing....is that I don't do it.  At 260 pounds at 60 years old I am vitamin D deficient and my cholesterol is starting to climb.  I have an enlarged fatty liver so I don't want to take cholesterol medicine and feel like I take enough already with blood pressure pills, gabapetin for neuropathy, thyroid medicine  and prilosec for acid reflux. I decided after the last doctor visit that it is time for a change, time to take all the information I have used learned over the decades and pull them together and...