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These surprising mind hacks or mental tricks will help you stay on the healthy eating path without white-knuckled willpower. Try it and see! Have you ever vowed to stay away from the dessert table only to find yourself pulled in by its sugar-coated gravitational force…
Inside: If you have the right mindset for healthy eating, you’ll win in the long run. And it all starts with self-compassion. Sound familiar? “If I’m not tough on myself, I’ll never lose weight.” “I’m disgusted with myself because I always eat too much when…
Inside: Is it good to have a cheat day? Lots of dieters get tired of their rigid food intake, so the lure of a “legal” cheat day is strong. But is it good? What does the word cheating bring to mind? When I was about…
Your eating environment (or any environment) is more important than willpower. Find out how to fix your eating environment and your eating habits with one tiny change. I have finally killed my obsessive email-checking habit! And what a change: I’m more productive. I enjoy my…
It’s not that you’re too lazy to eat right. It’s that healthy eating is hard – and for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with your character. Could it be that all the lazy people of the world came to me to help…
Can you trick your brain to build healthy eating habits? This brain hack will help you eat better. And feel better about yourself. Can celebrating your wins help you eat more broccoli and fewer cookies? Will yesterday’s “You go, Jill,” get me to jog a…
Sometimes the best hacks about how to change your eating habits come from the people around you. Here’s how to find the right trick for you. I think I’ve saved about a million calories since I learned one simple trick from a patient more than…
The reason you don’t stick to a diet is NOT the reason you think it is. You’re busy! I know you are. Who isn’t? Your mental to-do list includes healthy meal prepping and taking a walk after dinner. What else? pry open the bedroom window…
Feeling like a diet failure because you quit your healthy eating plan after just a week – again? Let’s talk motivation to eat healthy. “No pain, no gain.” I ran my first race – a half marathon – about 25 years ago. My goal was…
The first step to fixing your bad eating habits starts with asking yourself the right questions and challenging your own beliefs. Here’s how. What subjects did you dislike most in school? For me, it was math and science. Other subjects were much easier, so naturally,…
Welcome to my Blog
Hi there! I'm Jill, a nutrition & diabetes expert and the author of 4 books.
I believe simple changes in health habits can bring you life-changing rewards.
And I believe willpower is way overrated.
Right here is where you can discover the mindset and habits to stick with healthy lifestyle choices most of the time - and drop the guilt when you don't.