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MORE ON CHANGES, BIG AND SMALL
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This ancient Chinese proverb came to mind with my last blogpost. For real changes in diet and exercise don’t come easily. A single step won’t transform your routines, but that single step can certain open...
MOVE MORE, EAT BETTER: Help for Building Those Healthy Habits
Recently posted at http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within: Move more, eat better: these goals top any weight watcher’s goal list. In fact, they top anyone’s health improvement list, no matter their size or weight. While lifestyle advice churns out...
HELPING KIDS EAT HEALTHILY–AND WITHOUT FEAR
I was again interviewed by the London Sunday Times, this time about helping to foster healthy attitudes in kids about eating and weight--and about not fostering fear and worry. This is a complicated issue in our times. Here is the link to the article, "But If I Eat...
Cutting Calories, Skipping Meals.… and the Binge Eater
I'm reprinting here a verion of "Must Calorie-Cutting Lead to Binging", from my Psychology Today blog (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within) You can find several previous blogs dealing with binging under "addictions", "Thin From Within", and "emotional...
How Much Weight Can You Really Lose?….And what can you do?
Here is a recent post from my Psychology Today blog (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within) These recent studies confirm the wisdom of a sane eating approach.... Just as we all start resolving to lose, we’re hit with the news that it may never work. If...
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS THAT STICK….AND TEN SMALL CHANGES THAT COUNT
It’s a fresh start….it feels great….but I’m afraid I won’t keep it up…. I’ve heard these words, or something like them, a lot this week. So, I start this new year with thoughts on our resolutions to eat well, lose weight, or otherwise improve our diet habits. New...
MORE ON KIDS AND WEIGHT
A version of "Talking to Kids About Weight" appeared on the Psychology Today blog Thin From Within (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within) One commentor sent information on a DVD, tip cards, discussion strategies, etc. available for parents to talk to...
TALKING TO KIDS ABOUT WEIGHT
“But it’s so yummy, mummy…” begins an article by Eleanor Mills on the daunting task of steering kids toward healthy food and weight. Mills explores, in the London Sunday Times and on her Fat Kittens blog (http://www.fattkittens.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/), how best to...
THE JOYS OF JUST MAINTAINING
I reprint a post here that suits the season.... As a therapist, you tend to see less joy and fun this time of year than worry and strain. Yes, it’s a biased outlook, but the stresses of the season are certainly real. People trying to keep their health and weight in...
WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY Part 2: Paving the Way for Long-Term Success
Paying attention. Learning to choose wisely. Planning. Coping with stress. Not eating when sad or mad or lonely. Exercising. Picking yourself up after slipping. Sticking with it. It sounds like a plan for weight loss, right? It’s also how to avoid gaining weight, and...
Why You Should Cook More to Weigh Less
Look for Dr. Katz' articles, and more on staying fit, at http://www.hivehealthmedia.com Check out the front page, guest posts, and weight loss entries.
DIET: You’ve Got to Exercise the Willpower Muscle, Too
More thoughts on self-control (see 9/9/11 post).... Willpower. The word resurfaces from time to time in the ocean of diet advice around us. We’re likely to feel its tug again soon, as an important new book calls willpower a muscle. That is, you can strengthen it...