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Weighing In

Starting the New Year Diet-Free

December 30, 2011

How many times have you vowed to lose weight in January, but only ended up weighing more by February or March? What you thought you should be doing to lose weight – restricting your eating and starting a punishing workout regimen — only led to increased binge eating and yo-yo dieting. Often, when a diet [...]

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Is Concern over Fat More about Esthetics than Health?

November 8, 2011

To many of us, the title of this post is a bit of a duh.  When it comes down to it, for many, many people, the struggle of weight is primarily focused on how we look.  Thin remains in.  Following is a post I wrote for Real Deal Girls a while ago but for some [...]

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Is the War on Obesity Worth Fighting?

October 25, 2011

Today’s post is written by Marci Anderson, RD, a registered dietitian in the Boston area who works exclusively with people who struggle with eating disorders, body image and weight concerns, as well as emotional and compulsive eating.  The post details her thoughts after listening to a debate of the same name as this post at [...]

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Confront Your Own Biases about Weight

September 30, 2011

Today we wrap up the first-ever Weight Stigma Awareness Week by asking you to observe the official call to action, which is to observe our own weight biases and assess whether we may be contributing to weight stigma knowingly or unknowingly. Do you judge others by their size and whether or how their food intake, [...]

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Self Talk Tips to Fight Weight Stigma

September 29, 2011

We’re continuing our series for Weight Stigma Awareness Week with this video by Darla on one more way to practice self compassion.  On Tuesday Darla recommended noticing if you would talk to a friend the same way you talk negatively to yourself. Today Darla suggests stopping negative self talk by visualizing how you would talk [...]

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Fight Weight Stigma with Pleasure

September 28, 2011

In our classes at our retreat that explores issues surrounding weight loss for women, we talk a lot about connecting the mind and body.  It’s one of the best ways to bring yourself back into the moment to understand what kind of nourishment your body really craves when you want to turn to food for [...]

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Fight Weight Stigma with Self Compassion

September 27, 2011

To kick off Weight Stigma Awareness Week, Darla discussed yesterday here on A Weight Lifted how important it is to be aware of body negativity and criticism.  Before we can make behavioral changes, we must first notice negative self talk and observe how hurtful it is.  Today, she shares a tip about self compassion.  When [...]

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Fighting Weight Stigma with Body Positivity

September 26, 2011

Today marks the first day of National Weight Stigma Awareness Week, an effort sponsored by the Binge Eating Disorder Association to build awareness of what weight stigma is, the harmful effects it can have on people of all ages in all environments, and what can be done to stop it.  The theme of this inaugural [...]

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It Happened This Week: Superstars, the Cockroach Effect, & We’re Back!

September 23, 2011

We’re back on WordPress and life is good.  Well, sorta.  We’ve got a lot of cleaning up to do of “stuff” that occurred during the transfer, but we’re definitely headed in the right direction. Speaking of headed in the right direction, here are some great things we’ve seen come across the web this week that [...]

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Happy Labor Day!

September 5, 2011

Happy Labor Day to all our friends in the U.S.  In honor of this day, we’re not laboring on the blog.  But business is as usual at Green Mountain. Have a wonderful day whether you’re working or not!

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