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Making Peace with Food

September 1, 2010

Last week I posted on food addiction.  My suggestion was to attempt to find ways to eat certain foods in moderation before writing them off completely.  As I wrote last week: “I encourage people to play around with combinations first before throwing in the towel and assuming you can’t eat something because they are addicted to [...]

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It Happened This Week: Jillian Michaels’ Yoga Credentials and Jenny Craig for Men

May 21, 2010

That’s Fit wonders whether celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels knows anything about yoga and fact checks the claim that her new yoga DVD can make make you lose five pounds a week. Jan Shepherd offers an insightful look into what triggers a binge. Consumer Reports goes nuts for nuts. Dineen at Eat Without Guilt weighs in [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Strategies for Indulgence

May 6, 2010

Happy International No Diet Day, everyone!  Started in 1992 by Mary Evans Young, the director of Diet Breakers in the U.K., this holiday seeks to do what we at Green Mountain at Fox Run try to do on a daily basis: help people practice permission in regards to food consumption, and let go of diet mentality.  [...]

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Mindfully Fooling a Sweet Tooth

April 2, 2010

When I first started cooking at Green Mountain at Fox Run in 2006, I had just left a job at a southern Vermont inn that involved making pastry.  Tea cookies, desserts, breads, cinnamon buns, doughnuts, coffee cakes, you name it.  When you’re in a job like that, it’s hard to avoid quality control duty eating [...]

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Binge Eating, Body Image, FitBloggin’ & Health At Every Size

March 12, 2010

I returned from the first ever conference of the Binge Eating Disorder Association all fired up…again…about the value of the tenets of Health at Every Size as guiding principles in helping our society overcome the current epidemic of body dissatisfaction and related disorder eating/eating disorders.  Research continues to point to how changing our thinking to [...]

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Does Perceived Deprivation Cause You to Overeat?

January 13, 2010

Robyn Priebe, RD, Green Mountain’s director of nutrition, is back with some thoughts on deprivation.  It’s a subject we talk a lot about at Green Mountain and on A Weight Lifted.  Sometimes it takes a while to really understand the significant impact it can have on our eating. How will giving myself permission to eat [...]

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National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

February 23, 2009

On A Weight Lifted, we often blog about women who struggle with body image, binge eating, emotional eating, and unhealthy dieting – all issues which relate to more serious and sometime life-threatening eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we -as a society – could prevent more people from undergoing the [...]

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Healthy Recipe: Lemon Avocado Mousse

January 22, 2009

Today's healthy recipe is a refreshing, palate-pleasing appetizer spread from the California Avocado website. A surprisingly complete food, avocados contain fourteen minerals to stimulate growth, including iron and copper for your blood. The sodium and potassium in avocados keeps your body chemically balanced, and their low sugar content and absence of starch make them an [...]

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Weighing In: How to Improve Young Girls' Body Image

September 15, 2008

Over the weekend, a relative’s daughter lamented that ‘she looked fat.’ Having just started first grade, and in reality being very slim, my young relative demonstrates how insidious the fear of fat can be.  Her mother has weight issues, but is careful not to share her frustration, comment on body sizes, or limit foods but [...]

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