Hello, I’m Kerstin.

☞ Aquarius・3/5 Emotional Projector・Calm Whisperer

I’ve been blogging on and off since 2005! What began as a weight loss blog turned into general musings about life and eventually led me to start my own business as a web designer and online business educator. If you are curious, click here to read more about my professional background.

Here is a little more about me:

Born and raised in Germany (still with the accent!) I spent my twenties to early fifties traveling the world, living in four countries, and moving homes 35 times. I married my American husband on my 42nd birthday, and after many more moves across the US and Europe, we finally settled down in a small town in northern Washington State, just south of the Canadian border. Here, we enjoy island hopping in our plane ‘Ginger’ and sharing scrumptious German meals with friends and family. I love going for walks along the sea, riding my bicycle around Bellingham and Vancouver, curating our cozy home, and hanging out with my husband and our cat ‘Stinky.’

Weight loss is still on my mind. I gained a lot of weight after moving to America, where the food portions are bigger, and I became more sedentary. I spent the better part of the last two decades losing and regaining 40-60 lbs (of the 100 lbs that I need to release), but between my PTSD-triggered emotional eating and the American lifestyle, it’s been a struggle. Those neural pathways in my brain are well-established! Alas, I do want to release enough weight to ease some of my weight-related health issues, but mostly, I want to get back to the place I wrote about here.

My interest in weight loss also goes beyond the personal. I see such a discord between the narratives of the diet industry, the anti-diet movements, and the deep need for trauma healing and support for emotional eating. I love writing about all of this; it helps me process my own journey. If you’re interested in the topics of obesity, ADHD, emotional eating, trauma, and weight loss - especially for older women - you’re in the right place!

Why New Life Monday? It’s a phrase I heard on one of my favorite detective shows: Inspector Morse. His sidekick, Sargeant Lewis, was chatting with one of the secretaries who mentioned that she was starting a diet on Monday. Upon which he replied, with a twinkle in his eye: “Ah yes, New Life Monday.” That stuck with me because the New-Life-Monday thinking is a big part of my own weight story.

Thank you for coming along on this journey!

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