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Free Kindle EBooks: Toolbox Offers for Fresh Spring Starts
Here's an offer straight from the March 2013 Eat Sanely newsletter: Start your spring fresh with a Free Kindle Ebook : The Eat Sanely workbook is your toolbox for changing how you eat—and sticking with it. Send your email address to drkatz@eatsanely.com. The first...
A WEIGHT LOSS TOOLBOX
How do you lose weight?.....Keep it off?.....Learn to like eating better? There’s no shortage of books prescribing how to lose weight. Whatever ends up working, though, most people need a “toolbox” to keep themselves on a helpful plan, to stick with changes, and,...
Avoiding Emotional Overeating When Your Kids Are Driving You Crazy….
I recently found this post on the LiveInNanny blog. Its author echoes many of the points often made here, but with a specific focus on the overeating that follows frustrating times with kids. I hope some of you find it helpful!...
Leaving the Kingdom of Sweets
My New Year's blogpost at Psychology Today helps us consider how to Leave the Kingdom of Sweets behind, post-holidays. It also proposes that we integrate some of this "leaving behind" into the New Year in whatever way works best for us. Click here to read the entire...
STAND UP TO KEEP WEIGHT DOWN
I'm reprinting here an earlier blog, in response to headlines I read yesterday from Gretchen Reynolds of the New York Times (see her article at times.com/2012/10/17/get-up-get-out-dont-sit/): "You May Want to Stand Up For This: Sitting is Bad", and "Get Up. Get Out....
Dieters! One Size Doesn’t Fit All on Psychology Today
"Dieters! One Size Doesn't Fit All", a collection of related essays, appears at Psychology Today: http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections To read Dr. Katz' contribution, "If One Size Doesn't Fit All....What Fits You?", click...
NEW THOUGHTS ON MODERATION
Here are some interesting new thoughts on moderation--Dr. Katz was recently interviewed for this article in the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/why-the-tyranny-of-everything-in-moderation-sets-us-up-to-fail/article4527973/ Also, for more on...
SlimKicker Interview
I was recently interviewed by SlimKicker, a diet and fitness app that helps you easily track calories and keep up your motivation to for eating sanely and managing weight for good. Apps like this can become helpful friends on our journeys toward change. Also, your...
Who Can Eat Just One? More thoughts on sugar addiction
“Your Brain on Food” warns one caption. “Can Some Foods Hijack the Brain?” asks another. Now that science finds similar pathways lighting the brain whether it’s on sugar or cocaine, many overeaters feel validated. They’ve known this “hijacking” for years. ...
It Takes a Village—or a Buddy, Coach, or Team: Using others to get slim
A version of this article appeared at http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within We take for granted that other people influence our health, for better and for worse. Think about it: we know that we share germs, and that we stress each other out. We know that...
SUGAR IN MODERATION? But how?
From http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within, by Terese Weinstein Katz, Ph.D. As the bad news on sugar grows ever more grim, we may find ourselves overwhelmed—worried, yes, but not sure just what to do. Solid science now labels sugar a toxin, an addictive...
SUGAR: Eating Sanely with a Sweet Tooth (Reprint)
I reprint here a blog from 7/8/10, as a companion to the above entry on how to deal with the new findings on sugar....this was originally posted as SUGAR: Eating with a Sweet Tooth (Part 2). Sweets top the food pyramid—they sit on that tiny “eat sparingly” point. ...