This past Friday, felt like a perfect day to binge. And honestly I could easily have justified a binge at that moment... it was a perfect storm and a day when it would have felt easy to say "fuck it, I'll do better ... Read More
Sensual pleasure beats emotional eating and food addiction…hands down
If you are sick of the usual food and exercise related advice to heal emotional eating and food addiction, I don't blame you. Real relief has little do to with managing food or a new exercise regime. It has to do with ... Read More
The Real Reason People Don’t Stay The Course (When trying to lose weight or stop binge-eating)
There is something you may not have given much thought to, when you're trying to change your weight, change your body, change your thoughts and relationship WITH your body... as you begin to move towards these kinds of ... Read More
Are You Keeping Your Promises To Yourself- Another Kind of Weight
So one of the things I typically think about a lot is the whole notion of keeping promises. I use the phrase "keeping promises to yourself" a lot with my clients and prospective clients and women in my classes. It definitely ... Read More
Transition From Binge-Eating Gently Without Diets or Deprivation
Although not everyone I work with has significant weight to lose, many of my clients struggle with binge-eating. This is usually what people describe as feeling "out of control" with food.. episodes of feeling like you can't ... Read More
Let Go Of Extra Weight That Isn’t “Yours”! Plus Bonus**
If you agree with my belief that empathic or sensitive women...those who more easily pick up the emotional energies, feelings and thoughts of those around them, are also likely to overeat or use food or weight to try to ... Read More
Two Styles of Making Peace With Food and Eating
The women I work with around losing weight, changing the way they eat and learning to love and honor their bodies in reliable daily ways (The Daily Essentials) tend to fall in one of two categories when it comes to ... Read More
Is This Your Mother? Critical Mothers and Overweight Daughters
I have a confession. I sometimes watch reality television. Recently I watched an episode of a show called "The Shahs of Sunset". As in many "reality" shows, there's no real premise. This one is about 5 or 6 attractive and ... Read More
The Biggest Success Stories? Not Always Who I Think
I've learned to recognize the clients who will succeed and overcome emotional eating or weight issues.. As with most things..words are cheap, and action is everything. Before I interview a prospective client to see if they ... Read More
How Perfectionism and Not Indulging in True Desires Drive Emotional and Compulsive Eating
Not indulging in true desires and pleasure makes you vulnerable to emotional eating, compulsive eating and mindless eating..there's a craving but it's not for food. Recently I've noticed...... actually that's a lie.. for ... Read More
