From the category archives:

Emotional Eating

Eating Lessons from Eat, Pray, Love

August 23, 2010

Last week, friend,  colleague and writer Carolyn O’Neil, RD, contacted several “mindful eating expert RDs” (her words) to comment on food lessons that could be learned from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, a story of Gilbert’s search for self that started with an Italian food journey.  What grabbed Carolyn’s attention (and she likely bet grabbed [...]

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Creating Affirmations to Add Positive Self-Talk to Our Lives

August 17, 2010

Today’s post is again by Darla Breckenridge, our psychologist-masters at Green Mountain. It’s a follow-up to last week’s post on turning your bathroom into an affirmation room. Caught in a cycle of negative self-talk and criticism?  Try creating affirmations that allow you to be focused in the present moment, not thinking about the past and [...]

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To Get Unstuck, Step into Possibility

August 16, 2010

“No matter what I’ve tried, nothing changes.” “I have been on a diet most of my life and I’m at my heaviest weight.” Do these thoughts sound familiar?  If so, being stuck is something also familiar.  And the feelings of hopelessness that accompany them. The Power of Possibility Possibility has the power to change all [...]

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It Happened This Week: Diet Show Fatigue, Raw Food Diets & Food Needs

August 13, 2010

Adia Colar told NBC, “Enough with the Diet Shows,” giving a brief look at some of the big problems with shows like the Biggest Loser.  Don’t get me started!  Oh, wait, we’ve already been there.  And there.  And there. That’sfit reviewed the pros and cons of a raw food diet. Bottom line:  It’s only for [...]

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From Bathroom to Affirmation Room: Two Birds with One Stone!

August 10, 2010

Here’s another post from Darla Breckenridge, our psychologist-masters at Green Mountain.  It gives you a peek at her sense of humor…as well as how she can zero in on ways to fit stress management into the most basic parts of our day. A spot you frequently use is waiting to help you remember to breathe [...]

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How Size Acceptance Promotes Health

August 9, 2010

Social rejection may increase inflammation in the body.  Or so is the implication of a small study out of the University of California at Los Angeles that found higher levels of inflammatory markers among test subjects who had undergone simulated social rejection.  Which got me to thinking about social rejection of fat people, many of [...]

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Thought for a Friday

August 6, 2010

This quote showed up on my Facebook stream, sent by Karen C.L. Anderson who has guest posted on A Weight Lifted several times in the past.  I thought it would be a good read for a Friday, especially for the perfectionists among us.  Not naming any names but we know who we are! “I must [...]

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Changing for Me, Not for Others

August 4, 2010

A component of our new Food As Medicine Program at Green Mountain is food sensitivity testing.  We use LEAP (Lifestyle Eating and Performance) MRT (Mediator Release Testing) to assess for food and food-chemical sensitivities.  People experience a wide range of symptoms from food sensitivities, the most common of which are headaches, migraines, IBS, diarrhea, and fibromyalgia.  [...]

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It Happened This Week: Stress, Sweeteners & Salads

July 30, 2010

Stressed and know why but really can’t change the situation?  Try this advice from Melissa at Too Much on Her Plate on how to lower your stress even if you can’t change your life. It’s been a question for a while whether zero-calorie sweeteners actually increase our appetites.  The latest research published in the jounal [...]

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Ode to the Potato Chip

July 19, 2010

The poor maligned potato chip.  It has such a bad reputation yet it’s a food that’s made a big difference in helping me eat healthy. Not just any old potato chip either.  It has to be Lay’s.  I have my standards.

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