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WELCOME TO THE NEW 2021 BLOG SERIES!
I am thrilled to restart my Eat Sanely blog and to introduce the new edition of my workbook Eat Sanely: Toward a Healthy Relationship with Food and a Good Enough Weight. If we’ve not met before, let me introduce myself. I am Terese Weinstein Katz, psychologist,...
Psychotherapy, Growth and Healing: Expanding Frontiers
Updating a website, reorganizing certain aspects of my practice as a therapist, has had me thinking a lot about therapy itself: how it helps and guides, transforms suffering, improves lives. I’ve also been thinking a lot about where some of what I’ll call “expanding frontiers” have shown us where therapy can fall short, as well….and how certain aspects of therapy have been evolving in response.
WHY CAN’T I KEEP IT UP??….As New Year’s Changes Fall Apart
Right about now, many people see their New Year’s fresh starts lagging. What seemed so clear and empowering in January—tracking food, using that new diet app, returning to the gym—somehow feels harder. Maybe you note less consistency, forgetting, or life stresses...
CHANGE HOW YOU EAT THIS YEAR FOR GOOD: Not With Another Diet
The January diet ads pop and shout from everywhere: the internet, magazine racks, grocery store signs and beyond. They lure us, once again, to weight loss schemes following weeks of holiday overeating. This year, at least one major media source calls on the fact...
Holidays – the Best Gift is to Feel Good About Yourself!
While the holidays can be fun, we all know that they can disrupt our good habits and leave us feeling not so good in January and beyond. I'm thinking not good physically, perhaps, but at least as important, not good about ourselves. Eat Sanely offers ideas for...
NAME THE FEELING
Of all the concerns I hear about food, eating, and weight, emotional overeating clamors the most often for the most attention. Not everyone who struggles with food and weight struggles with emotion-driven overeating Many, many people, do, though, for a host of...
WHY “SANE”??
I’m reflecting today on the choice of the word “sane” in working toward healthier attitudes toward eating and weight. Why “sane”? This term rarely pops up, in fact, if you search diet or eating topics. The word seemed right when I first started writing about what I...
Weighing in on Eating Out
Eating at restaurants can challenge your weight loss efforts–here’s help!
Women’s Health Articles
Find links here to diet articles in Women’s Health magazine that quote Dr. Terese Weinstein Katz.
The Best Diet is the One You’ll Stick With
The best diet is one that you’ll stick with….but how you do that can pose a challenge.
What Not to Say to Someone Trying to Lose Weight: And how to respond when said to you….
The things you say to a dieter can help or hurt. And, if you’re the dieter, your responses can affect your ultimate success. It serves us all to find ways to communicate and support each other’s efforts in good self-care.
Talking to Kids About Food
What Should Children Eat? In our heightened concern with healthy food and eating practices, looking at how our children relate to food makes sense. What encourages better choices, what instills too much fear?