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...
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", 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...
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...
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...
“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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
“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...
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...
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...