People in relationships, and married people especially, gain much more weight over time than singles. The reasons for this are many and complicated. I’ve written about some of these issues during the past two weeks at my Psychology Today blog, “Thin From Within”...
This week I’m happy to introduce you to a new blog I’ve launched at Psychology Today. Called “Thin From Within”, it’s subtitled “how inner conflict keeps people stuck”: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thin-within The Eat Sanely blog will continue to comment on...
Every so often, we scramble to shift how we eat in response to the latest diet news. First we aim to avoid fats as if they add instant pounds. Then we learn we can eat all the fats we want, but they have to be the right kind. First we seek “high carbohydrate living”,...
This time of year I hear lots of worries about the coming warm weather—specifically, about the swimsuits, tank tops, and shorts now called for. Suddenly, women start to fret once again about upper arm flab, the size of the thighs, weight overall. It doesn’t seem to...
“But not all overeating is emotional….” I blogged on March 21. In part I’d reacted to a headline stating “What Are You Hungry For?...It’s Not Food…In Fact, It’s Everything But Food.” While I bristled at that, it did precede some good wisdom in the form of an excerpt...
I’m always combing the media, looking for both the useful and the absurd on food and diet and eating. There’s certainly never a shortage of either. Much of what populates the print and other media is not particularly helpful. But it is possible to glean some...
From time to time, I’m asked about the weight loss “jump-start”. And what is this? When people use this term, they’re usually thinking something like this: “It’s so had to lose weight….I want to go away to some program (or start a severe liquid diet, or something...
I return now to thinking about “food rules” (see January 31, below). These recent guideline sets, like those offered by Michael Pollan and others, aim to help us eat more healthily. And, I would add, to relate to food and eating in a healthier, happier way than is...
Yes, it’s true that I spend hours each week helping people get their weight and eating in check. However, it’s also true that I find it essential to see such issues as much more than individual problems. The world we live in tends to place all the responsibility,...
If you eat to soothe or stuff your feelings, does that make you a food addict? For years, science said “no”, you can’t really be addicted to food, not as you can with alcohol or cigarettes. Now, though, it’s become clear that the massive amounts of sugar, salt,...
(Watch for Emotional Eating Part 4 next week.) Eating sanely means losing weight and keeping it off. This, of course, requires learning to live in a way that maintains healthy weight. Toward that end, knowing just how hard it is to do, I sometime encourage...
While it may be hard to stop, it’s usually not so hard to see “stress eating” in operation. A lot of emotional eating, though, hides in plain sight. You might not always see the connection between what you’re feeling and how you’re eating. If you’re asking the...