Greetings from the Desk of Rita Black, Hi everyone, Happy end of October!  I hope you are enjoying your autumn. I love this time of year when in Los Angeles it finally begins to cool down a bit and we can pretend like we have seasons LOL. GHOULS AND GOBLINS AIN’T GOT NOTHING ON THE … Continue […]

Greetings from the Desk of Rita Black, It’s annoying, isn’t it?? We get on track – eating healthfully and releasing weight and then POOF! We fall off track and then try to pull ourselves back on track – only to fall off track again. Why is it that we know HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT, but … […]

As humans, we all tell ourselves stories.  We can’t stop–it’s just part of our brain trying to make sense of our world. IS YOUR STORY FATTENING? But, we can learn to recognize our stories.  This is part of distinguishing what I call Fat Thinking from Thin Thinking.  In fact, the bigger […]

Greetings from the Desk of Rita Black, I have just started going to Jazz dance class at my local YMCA with my daughter. We laugh at ourselves a lot because there are really good dancers in the class and we are obviously beginners. We stick with it though and have fun. It’s joyful to move … […]

Greetings from the Desk of Rita Black, “If we all went to bed at 5pm we would be thin!” Well, at least that is what I joked with J.J. Flizanes when she interviewed me for her podcast last week. It seems to be true. Rarely do weight management clients tell me that they struggle with … Continue […]