This is the season for weight loss backtracking: lots of tempting food, everywhere. Stress, family pressures, too much to do. More alcohol, less sleep. Routines out of whack. Keeping the backtrack to a minimum brings rewards, however. Here are links and resources for minimizing holiday weight damage.
Those who avoid holiday weight gain appreciate that “change is a process” that takes time.
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.
Bringing your own lunch can boost weight loss and nutrition. Here’s how to build the habit into your life for good.
As we say farewell to summer and return to fall routines, know that this is a potent time for planting the seeds of new eating habits. For a variety of reasons, fall resolutions can work better than those made on January 1. This means better chances of weight loss success and improved fitness. What’s more, planting now means habits can take root by the holiday season, maybe saving you from inevitable weight gain then.
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,...
I offer here a revision of the 2011 post “Cooking to Eat More Sanely”, with an updated resource list. Preparing our own food helps weight and sane eating in countless ways that are worth revisiting…. It would certainly be great to adopt all those habits that lead to...
From time to time Eat Sanely highlights the ways that home cooking helps our health, our weight, our "eating sanity" overall. The following link came to my attention recently: "30 of the Best Blogs with Healthy Breakfast Recipes for the Whole Family". Starting...
My recent post at Psychology Today looks at helpful new releases--books, articles, columns--for those aiming to eat more sanely. If weight loss or food addiction concerns you, check these out:...
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,...
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....