I met Rachel last night at a cocktail party. She’s a dog breeder in her mid 60’s with a beautiful, intelligent sparkle in her eyes. We talked ‘dog’, and then she asked what I do for work. I started to tell her. She excitedly cut me off: “I lost 42 lbs last year!” “Nice work” […]
February 3, 2010 by Sheri Lynn
There are two popular routes to ‘fast’ weight loss. The first one is fasting and the second is diet pills. A third route gaining in popularity is a dangerous combination of the two – the HCG diet which combines injections of human growth hormone with a metabolism-wasting 500 calories a day. First some factual background […]
January 31, 2010 by Sheri Lynn
Robert has cancer – lymphoma of the liver – and is waiting for a liver transplant. We spoke at length about nutrition. He’s highly nutrition aware these days, and this is what he told me: “Basically, I’m living on a lot of raw veggies and fruit, and I had to cut my protein down from […]
January 3, 2010 by Sheri Lynn
Resolutions are nice, yes – if you understand that resolutions are basically an emotional response. Other words for ‘resolute’ are: purposeful, adamant, firm, unswerving, steadfast, staunch, unwavering, unfaltering, persistent…you get the drift. We make ‘resolutions’ out of a feeling of resolve for change. Moving from a resolution to a GOAL requires a little more thought […]
December 28, 2009 by Sheri Lynn
A long while ago, a great warrior had to make a decision which ensured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to […]
November 14, 2009 by Sheri Lynn
Where SELF RESPONSIBILITY really gets testy with people is around illness. In our culture, we do not accept responsibility for illness – we loooooovvvve the victim stance. We say, “I’m sick because I was exposed to a bunch of sick kids this weekend” or “My whole family has been sick with this, it was only […]
November 12, 2009 by Sheri Lynn
“Sheri, I had such a great week. The best ever. I am feeling so good and finally feel like I can be successful and have what I want with my body! I’m so excited.” I’ll bite. “What happened?” “Well,” she gushed, “every day I am really good about drinking 3 quarts of water. I’m great […]
October 31, 2009 by Sheri Lynn
I want to break something down to you really fast, here: What caused the fat gain in the first place? Until that reason is determined — different in each of us — no fat loss system can possibly succeed over the long term. Even if a short-term loss is achieved, the weight will be regained, […]
October 11, 2009 by Sheri Lynn
This video footage starts with me telling a story and going into a short spiel on GT. Then we were done filming and I was having a smoothie. The camera guy asked me a question and I went off on an impromptu rant – and didn’t know he was filming. As a result, it was […]
October 8, 2009 by Sheri Lynn
When planning purchases, especially major ones, life is much easier if you’ve saved up for them, isn’t it? If you haven’t, then you end up in debt – and once you’re in debt you’re accruing interest rates, and now you owe even MORE money, right? And the pain of payment is stretched out over time; […]
March 26, 2010 by Sheri Lynn
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