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 try to identify with the nature of the challenge and their process rather than comparing the details of your life. Continue reading “Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges” »


When is a Calorie Not Just a Calorie? The Biochemistry

Aug 29, 2011

I was brought up in the tradition of calorie counting, and as a result, once I understood what I was spending and despite some serious eating issues – both behavioral and nutritional – never again gained my weight back. So, naturally […]

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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 of my clients, […]

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You Can Have Your Cake And Not Wear It Too!

Aug 3, 2011

One of the things it is easy to get stuck behind in the quest for successful weight management is the delusion that I have to be perfect, deny myself every food pleasure or I may as well not bother.  “I’m just […]

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Willpower-Free Zone

Jun 5, 2011

Rather than depending on that fickle willpower, hoping that “your head will be in the right place,” why not try some of these strategies (painstakingly developed) by some seasoned veterans of the weight management wars to handle some of their […]

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Environmental Control Picks Up Where Willpower Leaves Off

Jun 5, 2011

All my life I’ve wanted someone to tell me how to generate willpower and how to sustain motivation.  I wish I could tell you, but I still don’t know the answer to that question, although I’ve been managing my weight […]

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Exercise – The Real Magic Bullet

Apr 24, 2011

Probably the only reason I finally got started exercising regularly was because of Smokenders.  Oh, I had been “intending” to exercise since my early 20’s (and I had 3 expired health club memberships to prove it).  My third time back […]

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