tresschanda

Hi everyone, I'm Talitha. I'm chronically ill, which makes exercise almost impossible for me. I spend a lot of time too sick to get out of bed and because I'm always in pain and stressed, I comfort eat. As a result, I am pretty overweight and very unhappy with my life in general. I'd love to meet someone and have kids, but…

My mother has been diagnosed with heart disease and despite regularly having to lie down with chest pain, it has been extremely difficult to get her motivated to look after herself. I have been making us both green smoothies, but while I am drinking a bottle a day, she often takes three days to drink the same amount. She…

Just take it one day at a time. If you have a bad day, remember its just one day. The next day, you just focus on eating healthy again. If you beat yourself up about it, you're going to start to feel negative about the whole experience and it gets harder and harder.

Macaroni and cheese. I make my own, at least, I've never had the packet/store brought stuff, but there is still so much cheese in it, even when I make it myself. I'm still having it at least once a week at the moment. Needs to stop.

A friend recently gave me a book called 'Green for Life' which is all about drinking a liter of smothies everyday and including green leafy vegetables in your smoothies. I can't recommend it highly enough. It has been a fantastic, tasty way to add six cups of vegetables to my diet, keeps me full for hours and gives me…

My mother is the worst. Whenever I say that I'm buckling down on weight loss and exercising and eating healthy she shows up with four or five packets of chocolate cookies. Or chocolate bars. Or bottles of soft drink. Mostly stuff she doesn't even eat or like. I'd like to think it's subconcious and not deliberate and when I…