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” »


Mind Games

Feb 17, 2011

One of my favorite cartoons of all time was a Ziggy comic where he’s looking at himself in a mirror, and the caption reads, “Well, what’s it going to be today?  Are you with me or against me?”  That’s the […]

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Record Keeping – An Exercise in Understanding, not Judgment

Jan 23, 2011

I never would have learned the value of keeping a food diary if it had been left up to me. Really, my hand was forced.  Thank goodness, since it has proved to be a surprisingly significant tool in helping me […]

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Ode to Bread…by Melanie

Jan 15, 2011

Dear Bread Basket, Despite spotting you at your usual hangouts, I have been avoiding you and I thought I owed you an explanation. I just don’t think you are good for me anymore. You see, the problem is, I find […]

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Catch The Wave

May 31, 2010

It took me awhile to figure out that there never was anything magical about a particular food plan, bizarre diet, balls behind my ears or even medication that made me successful at losing weight the many times I had been […]

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Stop Dieting And Act As If…

May 17, 2010

The January Jump Start is over.  What now? 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 […]

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Food Addiction For The Non-Addictive?

May 8, 2010

Although Overeaters Anonymous got the no white flour and sugar thing right some fifty-four years ago, major health experts are now acknowledging and writing about the addictiveness of certain foods. Real biochemistry. Not just you-like-it-so-much-you-can’t-stop, but real organic brain changes. […]

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