How To Deal With Weighty Expectations

Lowering your expectations can help you lose weight. ย How? Consider the example of Robert. ย  Heย really wanted to go to grad school, but the idea of the interview process filled him with anxiety. ย  Robertย found statistics surveys showing a bias against overweight people, and was convinced that his weight prevented him from being accepted into a program. He kept saying …

How To Avoid Diet Failure

Today Iโ€™m going to talk about how fear of failure can keep you stuck on a never-ending cycle of dieting. When you challenge and work through this conflict about failure, you canโ€™t fail to lose. Letโ€™s talk about failure. Imagine two people โ€“ letโ€™s call them Darren and Darcy, who both put in a job application at some company, and …

Think It’s Bad To Eat Pizza?

Do you think pizza is bad? ย Do you feel guilty if you eat pizza or other forbidden foods? ย If so, I’d like to to tell you about a friend of mine, Amy, who’s been on a lot of diets. I mean, a lot. Every diet from cabbage soup to South Beach to Cookie to Paleo.ย  She just told me she’d …