Why Do We Make New Year Resolutions? Reading this post means you are among the millions who make New Year resolutions each year. It also means you are among the millions whose resolutions fizzle out well before Valentine’s Day. The dawning of a New Year feels like a blank screen on which to project a […]
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If You Never Overeat Holiday Food… You really do not need to read this. So instead, go do a good deed in your community and then relax. If Holiday Food Does Cause You Weight Gain… I assure you that it really does not have to. With a little shift in your outlook, you can enjoy
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What is Insomnia? Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or both. In simple terms, it is a condition that leaves you distressed by either how much you are sleeping, or the quality of your sleep. Most of us have at one time or another suffered a bout of
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is psychotherapy for helping people get a handle on their problems. It is based on the fact that the interaction of thoughts, actions, and feelings drives our psychological state. In other words, our actions affect our thoughts and emotions, our emotions affect our thoughts and actions,
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Bodylove–The Heart of Lifelong Weight Management Without it, you are locked in a losing battle against yourself. When I was 19 years old and decided I needed to lose weight (boyfriend dumped me), I joined a self-help group that met weekly in a local church basement. One of the first ‘techniques’ they instructed me to
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What do eating disorders and dieting have in common? There are three key similarities between the behavior seen among people with eating disorders and those who are actively dieting. The most obvious overlap is that both groups spend a lot of energy paying attention to what they put in their mouths. Both also tend to
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More diets than sense When you’ve been in the weight (aka diet) field as long as I have, you’ve pretty much seen it all. The Grapefruit Diet, the Beverly Hills Diet, the Blood Type Diet, the Cabbage Diet, Low Carb, High Carb, Sheep Urine, Keto, Ice Baths, Manic Mastication, … the list is endless. Since
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Weight, Diets, & Fake Science If you have ever felt the need to lose weight, chances are you have dieted. And if you have dieted and are reading this blog, chances are you were not pleased with the long-term result of the diet. Over the past century as obesity rates have increased, so has preoccupation
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Why Eating Disorder Myths Feel Like Truth Eating disorders make for sensational media. As a result, a lot is written about them and a whole lot of it is very wrong! Unfortunately, the speed with which social media repeats stories makes them so familiar that they feel true and we accept them as true without
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Recovery—harder than it sounds & easier than you think Whether you are trying to overcome an eating disorder or beat an addiction, the goal of recovery is to leave illness behind. That means no longer engaging in behaviors that are harmful to yourself. Today I want to talk about the difference between relapse and recovery.
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