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Emotional Eating

Healthy Weight Loss Lessons Learned at Green Mountain

August 31, 2010

Today’s post is by Rebecca Scritchfield, RD, a dynamic young RD who we had the pleasure of meeting and working with last week at Green Mountain.  This is just one of her posts she wrote on her blog Balanced Health and Nutrition about her experience here.  Be sure to scroll down to watch one of [...]

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Pondering Emotional Eating

April 21, 2010

Last week in one of our brainstorming sessions I got the question, “what do you do with long-term emotional triggers that send you to food.”  During the week many discussions were had regarding short-term coping mechanisms for dealing with emotions that lead us to eat.  Her question seemed to imply that most triggers to eat are occasional and unexpected, [...]

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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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Winding Down, Without Food

March 3, 2010

Finish all tasks on daily to do list – check.  Wrap up a hectic work day – check.  Pick up around the house – check.  Deal with kids, bills, making dinner, pets, etc….  – check.  Now it’s “me time” and it’s going to be me and food.  How often do we go to food to [...]

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I Cook Healthy Foods, I Just Eat Too Much

February 24, 2010

If I had a nickel for every time I heard this concern, I’d have a lot of nickels!  I work with so many women who understand the basics of nutrition; some even have an advanced understanding of nutrition, but all still struggle with health and weight loss.  Why is it that knowing what foods are good [...]

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Diet Tools – Don’t Be One

February 3, 2010

We had a pretty good discussion in class today about “diet tools.”  Diet tools are anything that we use to rigidly control our eating. They usually reinforce feelings of restriction and deprivation.  Common examples are food scales, obsessive food journaling, the bathroom scale, measuring cups and measuring spoons, etc.  Another less obvious “diet tool” may [...]

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It Happened This Week: Family Tension, Emotional Eating & Heartbreaking News about Little Girls

November 27, 2009

Tara Parker-Pope wowed  us again this week with a great article in the New York Times on family criticisms about what we choose to eat and how much. A great read for anyone anticipating a lot of family gatherings in the coming weeks. As we enter the holidays, here’s more support for mindful eating as [...]

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Why Are We Trying to Look Like Someone Else?

November 3, 2009

Many of you are too young to remember Art Linkletter and his tv show “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”  The word “darndest” alone tells us this show was a long time ago!   But I digress. The show was all about kids saying things that their parents would be horrified to hear come out of [...]

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Reader Question: How Do I Stay Focused on My Goal?

October 19, 2009

This post marks the beginning of a new feature on A Weight Lifted that we hope you’ll be excited about.  We’re inviting questions from readers which various staff members of our healthy weight loss program will answer. As a quick review, our focus at Green Mountain is on normal eating, trying to help women stop [...]

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