Emotional Eating: Understanding Your Emotional Style

April 30, 2012

Emotional eating can lead to yucky feelings or negative emotions which just seem to imbue our lives. But by training our brains through neuroplasticity, understanding our emotional style and getting support to break out of isolation, there is hope for deep, meaningful change and beginning to live life instead of just “weighting”. Happily, I discovered [...]

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Feeling Good about Ourselves: Does Dove’s Ad Makeover Do It For You?

April 27, 2012

Dove is at it again. Their campaigns in recent years have taken on women’s issues with the media and body image, and they’ve made quite a splash doing it.  What do you think of this most recent one? Does it have the power to make you feel more beautiful? What do you think about Dove’s [...]

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Healthy Recipe Thursday: Baked Spinach Meatballs

April 26, 2012

Not a fan of spinach?  No worries.  You may not even taste it in this dish.  Which, btw, features one of my favs — meatballs.  They’re just so yummy. Sometimes I gently fry them in canola oil, sometimes I bake them.  It doesn’t really matter taste-wise as I always drop them into a bubbling pot [...]

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Greek Yogurt: Is It Better?

April 25, 2012

Greek yogurt has been all the rage lately and many people are fired up about the potential health benefits of a higher protein, lower carb yogurt that has more calcium than conventional yogurt.  However, one of the down-sides to Greek yogurt, that I recently heard discussed on Vermont Public Radio, was the fact that compared to [...]

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Emotional Eating: Is It Possible to Not Hate It?

April 23, 2012

If you are looking to stop emotional eating the process of learning to understand it can be challenging and  frustrating.  But by exploring rather than ignoring you can start to look at  your emotional eating. Perhaps  you can begin to be less mad at your eating and even start to appreciate this pattern as a [...]

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The Green Mountain Guide to Healthy Eating: The Plate Model

April 20, 2012

There are thousands of books, websites and TV shows on how to eat healthier. We are constantly barraged with complicated schemes and conflicting information about the best ways to lose weight, from counting calories and monitoring our sugar intake to eliminating food groups and calculating points. We can’t even check out at the grocery store [...]

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Overcoming Binge Eating: One Woman’s Story

April 19, 2012

We are pleased to present a new blog series by Green Mountain alum Jacki Monaco on her experience with binge eating disorder. We hope you’ll follow Jacki as she shares the discoveries she’s made on her journey to health and happiness. It’s been nine months since my mother drove a very scared, unhealthy, depressed version [...]

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Will a Gluten-Free Diet Help You Lose Weight?

April 18, 2012

If you go by what pop star Miley Cyrus says, the answer to the question in the title of this post is a resounding yes! Miley has been the focus of media attention because of her recent weight loss, and last week ‘fessed up to eliminating gluten because of an “allergy” (gluten isn’t technically an [...]

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Emotional Eating: Questions to Ask When The Urge Hits

April 16, 2012

When you are looking for help to stop emotional eating, realize you can respond to upset or distress by mindlessly eating.  Or the eating can become habituated without you realizing it. If you find yourself sitting in your favorite chair with the remote and you are prompted to get the food, hungry or not, it’s [...]

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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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