I got out my copy of Intuitive Eating so that I could write this blog today and realized that I would be repeating some of what I said in my previous post. But that’s OK, I think that “food police” and guilt about food and eating are so common among people working on achieving a [...]
Guilty: having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong.
Guilt: a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some real or imagined offense, crime, wrong, etc.
Too many people I talk to about weight loss, food, body issues, disordered eating feel “guilt” after eating. Perhaps some foods don’t induce guilt (broccoli and cabbage tend to be “guiltless” as [...]
Many, if not most of us are “emotional eaters.” By that I mean that we eat in response to feelings rather than in response to biological hunger. We eat when we’re happy (wedding cake anyone?) We eat to soothe after a stressful day. We search for a snack when we’re bored at work. For many [...]
The second principle of Intuitive Eating put forth by Tribole and Resch is “Honor your Hunger.” Here’s their introduction to the principle: ”Keep your body fed biologically with adequate energy and carbohydrates. Otherwise, you can trigger a primal drive to overeat. Once you reach the moment of excessive hunger, all intentions of moderate, conscious eating [...]
People often ask me, “What do I need to do to eat a healthy diet?” I have a hard time answering this question because it seems so simple, but it’s not. We live in a society that’s filled with loads of bad, useless and even harmful information about food. Where do I begin to answer [...]
I used to hate going to the gym, now I just don’t like it very much. There’s always that one smelly guy, there’s the twenty year old texting in front of the free weights, and that “cougar” woman wearing way too much perfume (even if she were at a night club). But weight lifting transforms [...]
There are a few times over the course of our lives that we tend to gain weight. Most kids get a little chubby before hitting puberty. Some people get the “freshman ten” (or fifteen or twenty) when they leave home for the first time. Many people gain weight when they get married. Women naturally [...]
I think sometimes we hang onto things because they’re “supposed” to motivate us or remind us how things “should” be. The problem, at least for me, is that sometimes these “shoulds” and “oughts” and “inspirations” are not motivational. Here are a list of things that may be motivational, but may just be subtle saboteurs. Remember, [...]
I had plans to go for a 4 mile run this morning. The weather is perfect, a little slushy maybe, but lovely all the same. I got plenty of sleep last night and then when I woke up, I tried to swallow and noticed a roaring pain in the back of my throat. When I [...]
The only thing wackier than the content in many women’s magazines are the advertisements. While on the treadclimber at the gym this morning, I came across a doozy. At first it seems rather innocuous. It’s not telling you to DIET, I mean, we all know that’s a load of malarkey at this point, right? It’s [...]