Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

Many people struggle with body image, believing they need to have a โ€œbetterโ€ body before they feel good about themselves. It is possible to feel better about your body while youโ€™re in the process of improving your health or losing weight.   The Buddha says, โ€œCherish your body. It is yours this one time only.โ€ Many people yearn to have a …

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3 Tips To Accept Yourself – Fast!

I’m puppy-sitting a very adorable dog named Rosey (and yes, that’s the way her name is spelled – some people have told me that it’s spelled wrong but this is the way her “people” spell her name). A rose by any other name, right?  Well, Rosey can teach all of us about self-acceptance.   How? For one thing, Rosey does …

Such A Pretty Face

Can you relate to Willow?  Sheโ€™s in her late 20s, very personable, smart, creative โ€“ just a truly nice person, and she has struggled with her weight since high school. People always tell her she has โ€œsuch a pretty faceโ€ and if she just lost weight, sheโ€™d be fighting off the guys.  Her grandmother said, โ€œIf you lost weight, men …

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 Happiness Can Sabotage Your Diet

Do you think you’ll be happier when you lose weight?  Today Iโ€™m going to tell you why happiness can sabotage your diet.  Yes, happiness. A few years ago, a Special K commercial asked viewers, โ€œWhat will you gain when you lose?โ€ Now, let me be clear:  I fundamentally oppose the idea that you can gain happiness by losing weight, because …

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 …

Crack The Code Of Emotional Eating

What do I mean by “cracking the code” of emotional eating? Lots of people have said to me, I have no idea what Iโ€™m feeling or whatโ€™s going on inside.  I know itโ€™s something  emotional but Iโ€™m so mad and upset at myself for eating, I donโ€™t have a clue as to whatโ€™s actually going on.โ€ Or they say, itโ€™s …