From the category archives:

Emotional Eating

Where Successful Weight Management Starts

April 3, 2012

Successful weight management starts with befriending yourself — body and mind.  That’s the focus of two special weeks at Green Mountain later this month.  They will feature special guest Elesa Commerse, founder of National Meditation Month and co-founder and director of Touching Earth, a Chicago-based mindfulness learning center.  The subject is one that Green Mountain [...]

Read the full article →

Emotional Eating in Four Parts

April 2, 2012

Emotional eating is  complex and ever changing.   The next 4 blogs will help you explore emotional eating in your life. At Green Mountain women talk about emotional eating as something in their lives that they can’t control.  In fact their eating overtakes them; they feel hopeless and discouraged. Wishing and wishing it wasn’t happening. [...]

Read the full article →

Binge and Breath

March 26, 2012

Binging or mindlessly eating leads us to self loathing and not tasting our food in the moment. The more mindless we are, the more shallowly we breathe. At Green Mountain we practice remembering to breathe by taking 3 deep breaths every time we go to the bathroom. In this way we can add breathing deeply [...]

Read the full article →

What Spring Brings

March 22, 2012

I can’t let this week go by without commenting on the absolutely gorgeous weather we’re having in Vermont.  Temperatures ranging in the high 60s, low 70s, sunny, clear skies, the snow is melting, the streams are running.  It’s just beautiful. Spring has truly brought with it all that it’s famous for — warm weather, feeling [...]

Read the full article →

How to Stop the Binge Eating & Emotional Overeating Cycle: Before, During and After the Storm

March 19, 2012

After Hurricane Irene struck Vermont last August, I blogged about the number of similarities I noticed between binge eating and how we feel before, during and after a storm. In talking to many of the women at Green Mountain, I can say that the comparison of a storm to the binge eating and emotional overeating [...]

Read the full article →

Mindful Eating for Emotional Eating

March 14, 2012

Emotional eating is a hot topic at Green Mountain.  We speak about it frequently.  It can be triggered unexpectedly for no obvious reason or it can be in reaction to wanting to manage a difficult situation. In the class “Understanding Emotions That Can Lead You To Eat” we discuss the thorny problem of identifying emotions.  [...]

Read the full article →

Taxing Saturated Fat

March 12, 2012

Although this is old news that Denmark initiated a tax on saturated fat (back in 2011), I’m just wondering how this is panning out for them.  Foods that have a saturated fat content of more than 2.3% qualify for this additional tax.  This increases the price of butter, meat, chips, cheese, oils, etc…   Also, around the [...]

Read the full article →

Binge Eating:The Conference

March 5, 2012

This weekend we were privileged to take part in the Binge Eating Disorder Association’s 2012 National Conference Revolution Ahead: Illuminating the Path to Freedom from BED, Emotional Overeating, & Weight Stigma. This is the third annual conference exploring the issues surrounding treatment of binge eating. This conference offered the hope of springtime for many who [...]

Read the full article →

Gratitude: Make It Happen In Your Life

February 27, 2012

Can you imagine starting out your day with a thank you? Imagine connecting with your Green Mountain wins…small successes that you count, notice and hold on to. Imagine starting a sentence with I am thankful____________. Gratitude and appreciation are ways to increase your positive self talk and by definition, decrease your negative self talk. The [...]

Read the full article →

National Eating Disorder Awareness Next Week & Sunshine

February 20, 2012

It is a beautiful sunny day as I start writing my blog and I am feeling gratitude for how the sparkly light energizes me. I realize that sunshine offers the threads of hope and possibility after the gloom of gray days. Next week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDAW). We at Green Mountain want [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →