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Healthy Eating

Foodie Friday Video: Healthy Snack Ideas that Satisfy

April 13, 2012

One key to managing hunger and disordered eating is to have a few ideas for healthy snacks. Letting yourself get too hungry is a major trap if you’re aiming to become a normal eater. Once you get too hungry, eating rich processed foods (a bag of chips is pretty easy to grab and go, after [...]

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Healthy Eating Book Review & Giveaway: But I Deserve This Chocolate

April 12, 2012

Alum Jill C reviews “But I Deserve This Chocolate,” a book on the excuses we make that prevent us from living a healthy life. We’ll be giving away one copy on Friday, April 20, through random drawing, which you can enter by leaving a VALID e-mail address and telling us why you want the book [...]

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Easy Salad Dressing Recipe: Green Mountain Tamari Ginger

April 11, 2012

Once again we’ve had a myriad of requests for another of our easy salad dressing recipes at Green Mountain at Fox Run.  We like making our own salad dressings, versus buying pre-made, as it allows our chefs to work with some of the healthier sources of unsaturated fats.  Chef David Smith whips up this Tamari Ginger Dressing at Green Mountain and [...]

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Emotional Eating: Understanding Feelings

April 9, 2012

Emotional eating is a way to disconnect from our feelings.  Very often it isn’t a specific feeling we are afraid of, but just afraid to feel any feeling. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, our women’s healthy weight retreat, we know that women often don’t know where to begin to understand the feelings that [...]

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The Last Supper Effect – Do You Suffer From It?

April 4, 2012

Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we often talk about common thinking errors people struggle with that set the stage for eating when not hungry, bingeing, overeating, or even eating foods we don’t like (or aren’t in the mood for).  One such thinking error is the “Last Supper Effect,” essentially, eat it all now since you won’t have it [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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Healthy Eating, Deprivation & the Right Choice

March 23, 2012

It’s a debate that’s gone on since the beginning of “non-diet.”  The question of whether people respond best to a structured approach to eating that helps get their bodies back into balance so they can better sense their internal cues to guide them in healthy behaviors, or whether “permission to eat everything and anything and [...]

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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 [...]

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Carrot Bisque

March 21, 2012

With our new culinary team in place at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we’ve been getting lots of request for recipes.  Although we are moving out of the time of year for soup recipes, since yesterday marked the beginning of spring, we’ve had so many request for this recipe, I had to post it.  So [...]

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