You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day..

Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions..

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals..

The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone..

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal..

When I'm in the grocery store, I'll do lunges up and down the aisles. In the checkout line, you could do squats. I used to worry about what people th….

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first..

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives..

When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra….

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good..

When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any envir….

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want..

I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself….

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life..

All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That hel….

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possib….

Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a d….

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out..

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat..

To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get ther….

You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week..