We Teach People How To Treat Us.

Reality Check: You Can Never, Ever, Use Weight Loss To Solve Problems That Are Not Related To Your Weight. At Your Goal Weight Or Not, You Still Have To Live With Yourself And Deal With Your Problems. You Will Still Have The Same Husband, The Same Job, The Same Kids, And The Same Life. Losing Weight Is Not A Cure For Life.

Be Your Authentic Self. Your Authentic Self Is Who You Are When You Have No Fear Of Judgment, Or Before The World Starts Pushing You Around And Telling You Who You're Supposed To Be. Your Fictional Self Is Who You Are When You Have A Social Mask On To Please Everyone Else. Give Yourself Permission To Be Your Authentic Self.

It's So Much Easier To Tell People What They Want To Hear Instead Of What They Need To Hear.

I Grew Up In Athletics, Where People Keep Score.

Like An Enemy I Knew As Intimately As Any Friend, I Came To Know The Nagging, Constant Emptiness Of The Incongruent Life. I Ignored Myself And Lived For People, Purposes, And Goals That Weren't My Own. I Betrayed Who I Was And Instead Accepted A Fictional Substitute That Was Defined From The Outside In.