by Andrea Amador | Nov 14, 2007 | Make Peace with Food, Stress-Relief, Supreme Self-Care
I want to offer you my deepest apologies for this long absence. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hit with a awful flu that kept me out of the office until very recently. In keeping with my offer to extend this audio series and share it with you, here is...
by Andrea Amador | Nov 1, 2007 | Your Thoughts Count
I woke up this morning with the words, “Wall to Wall Gratitude” blasting in the ears of my imagination. As a person who is heavily reliant on my ability to hear and sense information through my ability to listen, I’m considered an auditory learner. Information...
by Andrea Amador | Nov 1, 2007 | Binge-Busting, Make Peace with Food, Tame Your Inner Critic
Cravings! Don’t they just drive you completely nuts? They’re guaranteed to sabotage any dieter’s best efforts. It doesn’t matter how ‘good’ you are or how motivated you are toward achieving a goal, they just seem to pop in when you...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 27, 2007 | Stress-Relief
Resistance is fueled by feelings of hopelessness and negativity. When you are experiencing those feelings of wanting to give up and go stick your head in the sand, it’s a natural inclination that we all have as humans. We all want to be safe. Please don’t...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 21, 2007 | Inspiration, Intuitive Eating, Make Peace with Food
Dieting and stress go hand in hand. I don’t think that anyone would disagree with that. If you’re a woman who’s ever been on a diet, you know that if you’re on a weight loss program, then you feel pressured to do it perfectly. Don’t you? There’s just no room for...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 15, 2007 | Binge-Busting, Health At Every Size, Make Peace with Food
The past few months I’ve been working on my first book. Say Goodbye to Dieting: Reclaim Your Power over Food, Love Your Body and Yummy up Your Life. In the year that I took to test out Intuitive Eating and figure out how to use energy coaching to boost the...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 15, 2007 | Bust Out of Body Shame
Weigh ins. Ugh. Saturday mornings used to be a very stressful time for me. When I was a dieter, I used to wake up at 6:30 in the morning so that I could get to the first meeting that opened at Weight Watchers. At 7:15, I stood on line, anxiously waiting for my...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 15, 2007 | Self-Promotion
Support is an essential ingredient in creating new habits. Without consistent encouragement and feedback, it is very difficult to maintain new learned behaviors. If you’re a woman who has been struggling with weight loss for decades and discovered that diets don’t...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 15, 2007 | Binge-Busting, Body Respect, Bust Out of Body Shame, Coaching, Creating Confidence, Health At Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Make Peace with Food, Mind/Body Connection, R.E.C.L.A.I.M. System
As a coach, I know that taking daily steps to create change in your life is essential. Repetition and support is the best way to learn something new. In my Juicy Woman Yahoo discussion group, I often post a challenge or insight on the board to guide my clients to...
by Andrea Amador | Sep 15, 2007 | Bust Out of Body Shame, Inspiration, Power of Role Models, Raising Body Happy Kids, Sexy At Every Size
Several months ago I cleaned out my closet and was amazed to find that in it, I had clothes that I hadn’t worn for nearly 20 years. Now wearing a size 14/16, I had to come to grips with the fact that the size 6 Betsey Johnson black and purple mesh slip dress wasn’t...
