Featured: When is a Calorie Not Just a Calorie?

Aug 29, 2011

I was brought up in the tradition of calorie counting, and as a result, once I had learned how to know what I was spending, despite some serious eating issues – both behavioral and nutritional...

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Surviving Myself: Strategies for the BBQ-Challenged

Aug 29, 2011

Just when you had convinced yourself that you are the only one on the planet earth who ever had to work this hard at this…here are a few tried and true deliberate Labor Day BBQ strategies courtesy...

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Morning Musings: September 5, 2011

A calorie is not a calorie to me when…this food tells my brain to tell me to eat more.  Eating foods that quickly turn to sugar (whether obviously sugar choices like cookies, or the more...

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Morning Musings: September 4, 2011

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I have actually physically hardwired the neural pathways in my brain to associate that food with relief.  I am literally releasing chemicals...

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Morning Musings: September 3, 2011

A calorie is not just a calorie to me when…I eat out of tiredness, anger, frustration, stress, boredom, sadness, loneliness (you fill in the adjective).  To begin with, I justify foods...

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