“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...
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...
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...
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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...
Regular visitors will notice some streamlining in the EatSanely website (and later this week: a new easy-to-access format for the monthly newsletter). These tools are meant to help you succeed in eating more sanely. This journey, as I often say, usually requires...
Many thousands of entries pop up when you enter “diet” on amazon.com or any search engine. At the very least, this confirms the fact that what works for one person may not work for the next. But if you’re asking yourself how to manage weight and eat more sanely,...
You could say that the opposite of sane eating is food craziness. That certainly describes what we see around us. That is, more and more people struggle with eating disorders and obesity--while at the same time, the foods that worsen things call out to us at every...
How we beat ourselves up for that brownie or pizza slice! Once we’ve lost control or overdone it, forget about self-care and serenity. But research keeps confirming some ancient wisdom when it comes to eating better. Gentleness, being kind to oneself, paves a...
One diet doesn’t fit all, but which one will best fit you? This is a crucial question as you set out to eat more sanely and to manage your weight for good. Today I posted Part II on this subject at Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within). ...
As I prepare to launch my new workbook (the Eat Sanely course in convenient paperback form), I’m focusing on that first crucial step in sane eating: identifying a way of eating that will work for you. And by that I mean—work for you on and on, not just...