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Book & Newsletters: Cabin Fever – Day Two! (February 2014)

Oct 29, 2015

“Man oh man, I don’t know about you but do snow days ever bring out my inner foodie. For a thousand different reasons…my history, my associations, boredom, procrastination, lack of structure, simply being locked in the same building as the kitchen. Am I the only one who ends up being preoccupied with when the next legitimate mealtime is? I am a fairly seasoned veteran of weight management and I can still find it challenging.

Here is when I truly discover that my freezer is not Siberia, the place where I banish all tempting foods as if I will never take them back out, as if my microwave doesn’t cancel out the benefit of freezing anything. Plus, turns out I like frozen cookies!”…Ordering In?…A Hedonist’s Guide To Healthy Vacations…

Book & Newsletters: My Last New Years Weight Loss Resolution…Ever! (January 2014)

Oct 29, 2015

“Much like the plant in the show Little Shop of Horrors, my internal cookie monster is ignited, not tamed, by holiday goodies. As my internal voice of moderation is overwhelmed by its evil twin who whispers, “feeeed me”, I make one more promise to myself that on New Year’s Day I will start a diet program that will magically fix me. A program that will take over all responsibility for my eating habits…and my waistline. I entertain happy visions of being within the benevolent aura of this magical program, believing that once it works its miracle, the sheer joy of being skinny will keep me skinny forever!”…Fabulous Paleo Recipe Website…

Book & Newsletters: Under The Influence of Saboteurs…Or Not! (Holidays 2013)

Oct 29, 2015

“I spent years creating an extraordinarily undermining food history with most of my long time friends. They still enjoy regaling their friends with stories of my gluttony and the extremes I would go to to balance off the damage. For me, the fun was the food. If we happened to do something else while eating, like talk to each other, well that was a bonus, but definitely secondary.”…January 2014 Detox…Busted Metabolism Seminar

Book & Newsletters: Halloween – Trick Me or Treat Me? (October 2013)

Oct 29, 2015

“Halloween, that predictable candy blowout, lends itself to a short but sweet discussion of how fellow compatriots of the weight management wars have been able to successfully navigate this holiday and treat it like what it is…just a day.

Let’s first dispose of that unnecessarily miserly and Spartan attitude about weight management that I must learn to deny myself all pleasure to succeed at sustaining my target weight. Not only not true, but an empty threat that only serves to make me want to abandon the idea of this grim and impossible purgatory and start on miniature KitKats this very minute.”…Hmmm…Oreos or Cocaine?…The Anti-Anxiety Food Solution

Book & Newsletters: Back To School – New Year, New Structure (September 2013)

Oct 29, 2015

“Lord knows, with all the traveling sports teams, Hebrew classes, volunteer organizations, Scouts, SAT tutors, music lessons, dance recitals, school plays, etc., it is akin to creating the schedule for the Port Authority. And if you can manage that (and you all do) it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to apply that skill to structuring your own food and exercise plans. Do you realize how good you already are at this?”…I’m Tired and Wired and Can’t Lose Weight, Help!…The Immune System Recovery Program…

Book & Newsletters: The January Jump Start Is Over. Now What? (January 2013)

Oct 29, 2015

“It’s not that a weight loss program couldn’t provide me with a great running start. It often did. It was only when I was suckered into the promise that there is a magic fix, that I would be a changed individual by the mere fact that I was now a thinner individual that I got myself into trouble – no relearning of habits required, no figuring out how to come back from a fall, no contingency plans for when I didn’t follow their plan. Get real. Skinny is not a destination.”…You Can’t Fool Mother Nature – Building Bones, Not Clogged Arteries…Honey, We’re Saving Our Kids…

Book & Newsletters: All I Want For Christmas Or Haunkah Is…(December 2013)

Oct 29, 2015

“Fast forward forty (OK, fifty) or so years and there’s the Christmas not so long ago that I vaguely heard my sister comment from the kitchen that it was so nice to finally see me relaxing as I dozed in the recliner. Truthfully? I was in a Pecan Sandie induced sugar coma”…Hungry For Change? DVD…January Dump The Junk Detox Groups

Surviving Myself: Holiday Mood Swings?

Oct 22, 2015

Ever had stress or depression all but ruin your holiday season? I know I have, and my dear friend and I had a good laugh when her adult daughter confessed that she absolutely dreaded Christmas when she was a little […]

Surviving Myself: Co-op Rescue

Oct 9, 2015

I hate to waste food. Any food apparently. So rather than allowing myself to be sabotaged by overbuying snack foods from the snack aisle at Costco, I can instead use it to my advantage by over buying/preparing veggies. This comes […]

Surviving Myself: Willpower Is Not A Prerequisite

Oct 9, 2015

“This should be the worst thing that anyone can ever say about you (that you have no willpower where food is concerned),” a wise and compassionate therapist once said to me as I mentally and emotionally tortured myself for caving […]