The best diet is one that you’ll stick with….but how you do that can pose a challenge.
The Best Diet is the One You’ll Stick With
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“Thin From Within”
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.
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.
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.
Counting More Than Calories: Factoring in months and years
Those who avoid holiday weight gain appreciate that “change is a process” that takes time.
Sugar News, Sugar Blues
Those of us concerned with diet, health, weight, eating disorders, and addiction follow what I call “Sugar News” with great interest. Today, binger eaters or self-identified “food addicts” benefit most from the news.
“Food is a Wonderful Place to Hide”
I reprint here the most recent post from my Psychology Today "Thin From Within" blog: In a true sign of our times, binge eaters have shown up significantly in the pages of several novels I’ve read this year. In one fine example, The Middlesteins, by Jami Attenberg,...