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Surviving Myself: Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges
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 […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 31
Women have agendas about other women’s eating. It seems to go with the territory. This is just my opinion (and maybe is simply a reflection on my insecurity), but: women hate to eat more than other women – hate to […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 30
Never say I am on a diet. If I truly want support, this can be the kiss of death. For some reason, that is just asking for arguments, debate, discussion, whatever. I can’t tell you how many clients I have […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 29
Are you influenced by whom you sit next to? It really influences me to sit next to someone eating healthfully. It will usually shame me into eating well, especially considering my profession. For me, sitting next to someone eating badly […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 28
I can enlist support by mentioning my intentions in advance. One of my clients, while participating in the one month liver cleanse program that I run each January that requires you to be gluten free, mentioned to her friend that […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 27
It’s easy to act like I have no say in the food decisions. Otherwise competent, directive people (including me) can act like they have no say in food decisions. “But, they ordered pizza…” Someone is going to be making the […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 26
Hold is a decision too. One of my clients is a broker, and he uses the expression – “buy, sell or hold”. A decision to be passive is a decision. “No plan” is really a decision not to have a […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 25
It’s my mother-in-law’s fault…I feel totally stressed when she visits. Many of us have someone whom we feel this way around. Hard to just decide to change that dynamic, and hard to just decide that you won’t react that way. […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 24
It’s his fault because…my husband doesn’t like salad. You can tell I am single because my response is, “Good, more for you”. Or, “It’s their fault because…I made salad for myself and my kids ate it”. A happy problem to […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 23
It’s my family’s fault because…there’s no time for me to exercise. One of my clients became totally inspired when, every time she saw a slender friend of hers (the mother of 5 young children), this woman was putting on her […]
read moreMorning Musings: December 22
It’s the universe’s fault because…I didn’t get the payoff I deserve. I had a client once that lost 120 lbs. in the hopes of meeting a guy. When her first two relationships at her new weight bombed, she decided that […]
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