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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?
Weight Loss Surgery and Sane Eating: Can they coexist?
Weight loss surgery is often seen as an “easy way out”, or a short-term “band-aid” that only masks deeper problems. On the other side, beliefs persist that surgery can solve problems all by itself. In short, the idea of surgery as a drastic solution seesaws with the idea that it’s a lazy solution. The reality is way more complex than this.
HEADLINES POINT TO SANE EATING
Even with all the media focus on diet and weight, it’s not often that two significant stories appear in the same week. This week both the New York Times and the Today Show highlighted different findings that fine-tune our understanding. And both of them, in the end, point to key Eat Sanely messages.
EAT SANELY FALL RESOLUTIONS
Fall, and Back-to-School time, lend themselves to resolutions. This is a time of transition, often with a recommitment to routine. It’s a season, too, that lacks the pressure that charges New Year’s Day. Resolutions to change specific, sometimes small, habits are those most likely to succeed, in any season. This fall, I’m thinking specifically of “Eat More Sanely” targets. Such targets surely bolster those aimed at diet. Attitude, self-care, and behavioral goals emerge here—and any one will render the desired weight and fitness goals more likely to happen, and more likely to stick.
Sane Eating in the News: And How to Use the Info….
Lately, better news has been emerging about American eating habits. Here’s how to use the new for your own benefit.
Be Kind to Yourself: It’s Better for Your Diet
Being kind to yourself, not punitive, actually helps you to make changes more easily.
Weighing in on “Weighing In”
It’s a common question, with an answer that has shifted over time: “How often should I weigh myself?”
Addictive Foods: Eat More, Want More….Eat Less, Enjoy More?
Read this recent post on my "Thin From Within" blog at Psychology Today! http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within/201403/addictive-foods
How Can a Diet Book Help You Lose Weight?
Thousands of new diet books flood the New Years markets. A book can help you to lose weight and stay fit—but never in the ways you might expect. This article explores how.
TOOLS, IDEAS, AND INSPIRATION: Eat More Sanely in 2014
Just as surely as December brings candy and and egg nog, January brings weight loss plans. Here’s how to focus on some changes that can last.
Holiday Damage Control: It’s That Time Again
This is the season for weight loss backtracking: lots of tempting food, everywhere. Stress, family pressures, too much to do. More alcohol, less sleep. Routines out of whack. Keeping the backtrack to a minimum brings rewards, however. Here are links and resources for minimizing holiday weight damage.