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overcoming overeating

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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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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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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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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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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Habit-Based Eating

September 15, 2010

One of the classes we teach at Green Mountain focuses on the various types of food cravings people have: physical cravings, those due to food exposure, and habit-based cravings.  Wanting to eat out of habit it usually a response to an event, location, activity, time of day, or routine of some sort.  Some common examples are [...]

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Ode to the Potato Chip

July 19, 2010

The poor maligned potato chip.  It has such a bad reputation yet it’s a food that’s made a big difference in helping me eat healthy. Not just any old potato chip either.  It has to be Lay’s.  I have my standards. Anyone who knows me these days knows I’m all about eating healthy.  Our Food [...]

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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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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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