I Believe: An Excerpt from ‘Busy, Stressed, and Food Obsessed’

Lisa Lewtan is a health and lifestyle coach, author, and founder of Healthy, Happy, and Hip. Lisa’s mission is to help highly successful, hungry go-getters slow down, chill out, develop a better relationship with food and stress, look good, and feel great. She uses the skills she developed as a successful technology entrepreneur, as well as her own process of exploring mind and body to restore her health. Here’s an excerpt from her book, Busy, Stressed, and Food Obsessed.

I BELIEVE

I believe that you are not crazy, even if you think about food all day.

I believe that willpower is for superheroes.

I believe that you will feel much better if you slow down and breathe deeply.

I believe that people will remember you for how you made them feel, not for how much you weighed.

I believe that you will not benefit from beating yourself up.

I believe that you should move your body to feel alive, not to punish yourself.

I believe that hunger is our body telling us it needs something.

I believe that you are not broken and, therefore, do not need to be fixed.

I believe that diets don’t work, but strategies do.

I believe that you will not feel better for eating that cookie.

I believe that food should not be labeled good or bad, but rather “more often” or “less often.”