Healthy Eating Habits that Last

There are 4 parts to getting healthy eating habits-- and weight loss-- that lasts.Watch this video to learn: How getting the whole proven formula for healthy eating makes weight loss so natural and sustainable.  But there's a catch! Why I never thought I would be helping people with weight loss! When you see the 4 steps to healthy eating habits and weight loss that lasts, you will see why your previous attempts failed.   Maybe you were using an unsustainable eating approach. If it was based on starving your body into submission, it was! Maybe your mindset was wrong, making it...

6 Simple Hacks for Better Metabolism

In this video, I address how you can know if you are experiencing metabolic illness- most of us are! And I share 6 science-backed hacks to strengthen your metabolism by reducing blood sugar spikes. Focusing on cutting calories is an unsustainable approach when you want weight loss. Strengthening your metabolism is different! I have seen hundreds of people transform their metabolism and get slender for GOOD with truly healthy eating. Part of what's happening with Slender Way eating is that we're naturally managing our blood sugar in a healthy range. It's the whole formula that turns the...

Debunking the Idea of No Good or Bad Foods : The Truth about Nutrition after 50

No Good or Bad Foods-- is that true?  Does this idea help or hurt our healthy eating efforts? Just have "a little" of the treats-- it's no big deal, there's no good or bad foods. Beating ourselves up for eating "treats" is definitely not helpful. In fact, it will make our healthy eating journey more challenging. But, to suggest that all foods are equally beneficial is not helpful either. These are two extremes, and neither is helpful. In this talk, I share a mantra many of us have found much more true and much more helpful: Everything I eat or drink either helps or harms my body. Slender...

How to get a Healthy Weight and Protect your Brain after Hormone Changes

Did you gain weight after your hormones changed? How do you understand what's going on? And how do you turn things around?? Menopause plays an important role in women's health. But we may not be able to STOP MENOPAUSE. It's often better to focus on what we can change. We can change our metabolic health, and that is key to both getting a healthy weight and protecting our brain. In my weekly talk, recording shared here, I go into some depth about what happens to our brain with these hormone changes, and how these changes contribute to a perfect storm for our health. Estrogen is especially...

Body Image and Weight Loss | finding a more elevated love and healthy appreciation for your body

  Body Image after Weight Loss Our body image may drive us to lose weight, and weight loss can affect our body image, too. How has your body image fluctuated at different points in time? Has it ever become truly a painful issue? It had for me, as I found myself trying to hide my body in various situations. I hid from cameras for over 10 years, because I was so uncomfortable with how I looked. In the video, I discuss body image and weight loss. Toward the end, I share what we in the Slender for Good community have confronted about people commenting about our weight loss.  It's not...

Interview with This Naked Mind

Naked Life Story podcast interview, hosted by Annie Grace.  I surprised myself sharing certain vulnerable aspects of my story with alcohol, and with food. And I shared my big "wake up call" moment when I finally got REALLY seriously motivated to change my habits. Show Notes: In this week's episode of "This Naked Mind," hosted by Annie Grace, Dr. Ginny joins us to share her remarkable journey along with some profound insights on sustainable weight loss. Dr. Ginny, a licensed psychologist, dives deep into her complicated relationship with alcohol and how working in a nursing home made her...

Health, Alcohol, and Imposter Syndrome

Health, alcohol and imposter syndrome. Isn't red wine good for you? I was having to face the fact that I wasn't as healthy as I liked. I was catching myself saying "I shouldn't but..." And "I deserve this." Eating and drinking in an indulgent way was just part of being a successful, sophisticated woman, right?! I just completed an interesting interview with my friend and colleague, Beth Purcell, on "Health, Alcohol, and Imposter Syndrome." Beth is a certified This Naked Mind alcohol freedom coach and an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach who talks about feeling like a fraud and...

Secrets to Live Pain Free at Any Age

How to feel good and live pain free in our later years. Dr. Ginny interviews Paula James from the Art of Moving Well about how to feel good in our later years—simple strategies for maintaining flexibility, mobility, and comfortable, pain free living. Learn how easily Paula can help you at https://www.artofmovingwell.com

Exercise for Weight Loss = Futile

I thought Exercise was KEY to weight loss, but the research does not bear this out! Exercise is very beneficial for our health. Actually, it may be more accurate to say it's important for us to move our bodies and use our muscles. The idea of going out to a dedicated place to engage in a particular exercise routine is a more recent idea in human history, and may appeal to some people more than others, and that's fine. I loved various exercises at the gym myself. Research does show there are various important health benefits associated with regular exercise. People who exercise more have...

Why I Don’t Use Intuitive Eating

Why I don't use intuitive eating and you shouldn't either. Intuitive eating SOUNDS like a great idea. Maybe it makes our body lead us to what we really NEED. But that's not what experience, or research, suggests. In this video, we dive deep into the misunderstood world of food cravings and the popular concept of intuitive eating. Despite its widespread promotion, research suggests that intuitive eating might not be the effective strategy many hope for. Discover why cravings aren't always an indicator of nutritional needs and how cultural conditioning and habits significantly influence our...

How I Overcame Struggles with Food & Drink

I struggled with eating and drinking habits and weight gain for years. I didn't want to admit it was a problem, because I kind of LOVED my indulgent eating and drinking. I was going out to dinner several times per week. When I ate dinner at home, it was also special. Baking an extra special loaf of multi grain multi seed bread, and enjoying it with special cheeses and olives. And red wine I felt I chose with discernment. And dark chocolate for dessert. I felt I was making relatively healthy, wholesome choices. And my meals were special. Special, special, special! I felt kind of high class...

Reversing Inflammation

I walk like a young woman again after reversing inflammation! I wanted to get slender for GOOD-- slender in a way that would LAST and slender in way that corresponded to real health improvements. And what I discovered turned out to be something so beautiful and simple and sensible that I can't help but share it with you. The healthy eating principles for losing weight sustainably and for reversing chronic inflammation and for reducing risk of the chronic diseases of aging are all the same. That's good news! When I recently polled people in my Slender Warriors Facebook group about topics...

How I set My Goal Weight

How I Set My Goal Weight We may have set a goal weight in the past and felt disappointed with our results. At this point, we may feel reluctant to set an inspiring goal weight. There's no one-size-fits-all goal weight! But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have a goal. In this talk, I share some ideas about what to do, and what NOT to do, when establishing a goal weight. You want it to be inspiring, and you want it to be achievable. There are a variety of standards you may apply, and I run through some of them in this video. You want goals that set you up for success!...

Dieting Regrets

Once I discovered clear and effective principles for healthy eating that completely transformed my results, I discovered that my mindsets were completly wrong. There are dieting mindsets that block our success. Watch to learn more.

Why You Should Stop Dieting

Stop dieting and adopt an entirely different approach to lasting change. I work hard to make this point clearly. Almost everyone has heard for years that weight loss diets don't work. But what on earth does this mean, and what should we do instead? I do a 2 hour program on this with some regularity (links below), but I wanted to share this very brief video hoping it is helpful to you. Weight loss diets-- eating less-- are not the solution. Truly Healthful Slenderful Eating IS the solution. We need to shift from eating an average of 30% highly nutritious food to much closer to 100%. It...