nutritionist & weight coach
Closing Pandora’s Box (Binge Recovery)
Posted on Apr 27, 2012
What If I Am Not Losing Weight?
Posted on Mar 15, 2012
They Did It Their Way
Posted on Mar 8, 2012
You Can Be The 2%
Posted on Feb 1, 2012
Ode to Bread…by Melanie
Posted on Jan 15, 2012
It’s always clearer when it’s someone else’s life, right? Following are stories of individual clients (or even me) finding ways to manage their struggles with food using behavioral and cognitive techniques. Their specific circumstances may not be your circumstances, but try to identify with the nature of the challenge and their process rather than comparing the details of your...
read moreI love my quiet time in the morning. Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s. That’s: Fear Of Impending Doom. I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Someone once wisely pointed out...
read moreIf I put exercise off, I will undoubtedly find a way to convince myself that I have other things that are way more critical and must take priority – when the truth is I have managed to get most everything done for the last 20 years with some form of exercise in there virtually every day. But that little bit of delay gives my couch potato alter ego too much time to do her work. I am...
read moreI can make exercise something I associate with great feelings like pride, relief, self-respect, youthfulness, or something I associate with dread and guilt – all by when I schedule it. I can spend the day glorying in how proud of myself I am and how glad that it is done. Or, I can spend the next 8 hours dreading it and coming up with 1000 reasons why I can’t fit it...
read moreThe first 10 minutes is always murder – for everyone. My legs feel like lead and I always think I must be coming down with something. I’ve learned not to take it so seriously. “Yeah, this is how I always feel when I first start…interesting. I can’t wait till I am at the other end of this run/walk/class and feel how I predictably self-empowered and proud of myself I feel at the...
read moreThere is an expression they use in 12 Step Programs when encouraging someone to own the consequences of indulging before they actually do it. They say, “Think it through”. They mean, of course, to think through to the predictable negative consequences. But I can use this in a different way. I can think through to that indescribably wonderful feeling I have when I am done with...
read moreIn fact, too tired, too stressed and too busy just can’t count. When would at least one of these things not be true? Interesting to note, but not any more relevant than those circumstances would be to my decision to go to work. Interesting that I didn’t get enough sleep last night. Unfortunate even. But not a reason why I would not show up for my job. Case in point: One of my...
read moreI would weigh about 30 lbs. more than I do now eating what I eat now if I didn’t exercise. I do an average of about 300 exercise calories a day. Do the math. 300 X 365 days, divided by 3500…30 lbs. That is actually easier for me than maintaining the budget for my weight without it. It buys me a bit of indulgence over the weekends that I could not “afford” without it. Before...
read moreOften, if I will just do a token something in the morning, like half my walk or the first segment of an exercise DVD, it is just enough to get me to do some additional little piece later. So by day’s end I end up doing my whole workout. The little piece later doesn’t feel like any big deal either once I did half in the morning.
read moreI have found that working out on Mondays makes a difference for the whole rest of the week. It is like I either got on the exercise track or the couch potato track for the week. So a decision about Monday is often a decision about the whole week. You know, oddly enough, I never say that about a meal. I never say or even think, “I think I will skip dinner today. I can always eat...
read moreIt seems to me that once I accept that I am going to have to do (forever) some things that are hard for me, like exercise regularly or not eat all the donuts I want in general, then the only question to ask myself is, “Do I want it to get harder or easier?” I hold the key to that. Some mornings when it is a particular push to get up tto exercise (usually because I went to bed too late),...
read moreIf I chose to, I can teach myself to argue rationally back. If I listen to my self talk, then I can see how I promise, excuse and rationalize myself out of things. I usually have to do this out of context later though. But, eventually I have taught myself to listen to myself while I am actually doing the rationalizing. I think most of us have issues like this already in our lives where we...
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