I struggled to get any foothold with my healthy eating and weight loss for years, especially after my mid-40s. But I found a couple of tools that helped me finally get traction to follow my higher intentions. This is Part 2 of my discussion about what we can do to achieve our new year's resolutions for healthy eating and weight loss. There's a part of us that sabotages those efforts--but we can reprogram that. In the video attached here, I share a powerful process you can use to finally get a breakthrough. If you try it, let me know how it goes! Slender for Good rock stars have been using...

Why do New Year's Resolutions fail so often? What can you do differently in 2025 to make healthy eating habits easy, and achieve your weight loss goals so naturally? Visualization can be a helpful tool-- but we have to be smart about how we use it, or we can make goal achievement more difficult. When you understand what's going on inside your own head sabotaging your goals, you can discover how to make your brain your ally! I have helped people change entrenched habits for over 30 years, and now specialize in transforming eating habits to get naturally slender. In this video, I explains...

The Most Overlooked Key to Success with Weight Loss (and other habit change, too)... Most people jump straight into behavior change, hoping and praying that this.time.it.will.stick Hopes and prayers can help! And we find that preparation can help a lot, too. From quitting smoking to starting a fitness program to establishing new healthy eating habits that last, people who do some thoughtful preparation and get READY for change really set themselves up for much better success with a habit change. We are thoughtful about the Readiness stage in Slender for Good. Learn more in the video...

In the Slender for Good community, we support each other's success. After Thanksgiving, some Slender Warriors were frustrated with themselves about letting more of their healthy eating go over the holidays than they intended.  They knew that beating themselves up over it wouldn't help, but they struggled to get on a solid emotional footing again. In this video, I speak to why this happens, and what we can do, and should NOT do, to get back on track. Beating ourselves up doesn't help at all-- it actually interferes with our learning and growth.  Instead, we must build the muscle of...

Check out this interview on the Curious on Life podcast, where we discuss health, food, midlife, wellness, and the natural way to get slender for GOOD. 

I thoroughly enjoyed this high energy interview by Amber Griffiths of the Real.Loud.Purpose podcast.  We discussed how eating MORE leads to lasting weight loss, less stress, and never having to diet again.

We do not have to gain weight over the holidays. We do not have to throw out healthy eating or "go on a diet" either! Learn how you can thoroughly enjoy the season and the holidays with zero weight gain. This recording is from Day 1 of a 5 day event that changed people's lives. Reach out to me if you want the rest of the...

Are cravings and emotional eating sabotaging your health goals? What can you do about it? First, quit fighting with yourself! Watch this 10 minute video presentation to learn a much more simple, direct way to just make emotional eating naturally fall...

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...

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...

Too many of us feel our emotional eating habits make consistent healthy eating and lasting weight loss impossible.  It doesn't have to be so hard-- we are overcomplicating this.  Learn how we naturally and easily bust those habits.

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...

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 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...

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. 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...

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

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 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...

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...