Encouragement
Where did your willpower go?
I would like to share a story that touched me deeply. One of my patients is a young adult who had an incident during childhood that resulted in damage to his brain. With exercise, diet, an appetite suppressant and mind-body medicine, he is maintaining a 20-25 lb weight loss for 2-3 years. But he has…
Read MoreA Tale of A Sticky Note
Synchronicity and Support! Don’t go the barber shop if you don’t want to get a hair cut. Sooner or later if you go to the barber shop, you’re going to end up with a haircut. Where we hang out and with whom has been shown in scientific studies to affect our health, even our weight. If…
Read MoreDo you feel lost on your weight & wellness path?
Could you use a map? Dear fellow traveler on the weight & wellness path, Sometimes we feel lost along the way. We don’t know what to do. Or we know what to do but just don’t or can’t do it. Or we don’t know why we eat the way we eat. Or we know why…
Read MoreStructure Produces Freedom
It seems that every week has a theme in working with weight loss. Last week that theme was resistance. In talking about food and what to eat, I suggested to write down your meals the day before so you know exactly what you are going to eat the next day. This way, there is structure…
Read MoreI Want Freedom!
“I want freedom to eat sugar, but when I eat it I’m not free at all. It takes over and I can’t stop!” A patient said this to me once and spoke for so many people. With Thursday being July 4th, freedom is a fitting topic to focus on. When it comes to food and eating, some of…
Read MoreHelp Another, Help Yourself
Sometimes we know what to do but we just can’t do it. Then the light bulb goes off and we are able to do the thing we couldn’t get ourselves to do. The other day, a woman who had been feeling a bit stuck in her ability to change her behavior shared an inspiring story.…
Read MoreCan we ever make sense of the scale?
One day a woman told me that she and her friend went to Boston on a Friday night and ate dessert and the next morning when they went to Weight Watchers, she had lost 4 pounds. She felt she had gotten away with eating the dessert. And like many people, she felt that the scale…
Read MoreJudging vs. Judgement
When it comes to food, eating and weight there seems to be a lot of judging going on. Are people judging you for eating or not eating certain foods? Are you judging others? This type of energy just leaves us feeling badly, which can leave us vulnerable to comforting ourselves with food. So what is…
Read MoreAre you too busy driving to get gas?
One day, someone asked me this and I thought it was a great question. Of course, she meant it to be figuratively and not literally. (Although admittedly in the past, when I was more human doing than human being, I often would literally run out of gas. It happened one day on the coldest night of…
Read MoreI have lost weight, why can’t I accept my body?
There are two aspects to weight loss. The physical piece; involving tracking, moving, prepping and planning. And the emotional piece, which is far more complex. We know how we may feel about our body when it is heavy and most people can relate to not feeling good or looking good. But what happens with our…
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