While there is shockingly little conclusive research about “emotional eating” (i.e. eating over feelings), one thing we know is that dieters tend to eat their feelings, and non-dieters tend to not-eat their feelings. In other words, we have reason to believe that dieting in and of itself encourages emotional eating (which makes perfect sense for a variety of reasons, some of which I described in […]

Skip to content NAME THE FEELING Of all the concerns I hear about food, eating, and weight, emotional overeating clamors the most often for the most attention. Not everyone who struggles with food and weight struggles with emotion-driven overeating    Many, many people, do, though, for a host of reasons.  I’m exploring here one practice that […]

Balanced Healthy Eating   Have you had a moment of panic about your weight since Christmas?Have you denied yourself food in an effort to reduce your weight? Many people rinse and repeat their health goals every January (to get healthy and lose weight) and force themselves back onto a new or old diet because they’re still […]

Breakthroughs in dieting  KPCW Source link

Happy Mother’s Day! It’s been a long time since we posted some of Shou-Ching’s photo art. As a reminder, she likes to pair interesting photos she’s taken with apposite quotations; a collection of her art can be found on this page. For today, we have a special Mother’s Day edition — two pieces of art, […]

As we talk about private coaching this week (I am opening up a handful of spots!), I want to spell out who this is for, as I know some of you are wondering if it’s right for you + if we’re the right fit. I would love love to work with you if… You’re a woman who’s […]

Most of my clients think that emotional eating is a curse. That it’s an unfortunate defect they’ve been blighted with, and they were dealt a bad hand in life when it comes to food and weight. “Poor me! I’m sick of this! Will this food problem ever not torment me?!” Or something along those lines. […]

Skip to content Holidays – the Best Gift is to Feel Good About Yourself! While the holidays can be fun, we all know that they can disrupt our good  habits and leave us feeling not so good in January and beyond.   I’m thinking not good physically, perhaps, but at least as important, not good about […]

** POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING ** When a new client comes to me with an eating disorder, I always request that they change their language and stop referring to ‘their’ eating disorder as ‘mine’. It becomes ‘the‘ eating disorder, and ‘that‘ mean voice. I love working with Eating Disorders. I know not many in the health […]

Katie Price advert banned for ‘promoting irresponsible dieting’  Metro.co.uk Source link

German edition of Perfect Health Diet on sale now! Shou-Ching and I are delighted to announce that the long-awaited German edition of Perfect Health Diet will be released on April 11, and is now available for purchase! Here is the cover: Buy from Amazon.de: We’re very grateful to Thieme Haug for creating such a beautiful […]

I had a session with a client yesterday, and we were talking about how she’s feeling with a new guy she’s dating. “I just wish I wasn’t so anxious waiting for him to text me back,” she said. “I wish I wasn’t like this.” Hi, ?????, oh boy can I relate to this. For years… […]