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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: Understanding Feelings

April 9, 2012

Emotional eating is a way to disconnect from our feelings.  Very often it isn’t a specific feeling we are afraid of, but just afraid to feel any feeling. Here at Green Mountain at Fox Run, our women’s healthy weight retreat, we know that women often don’t know where to begin to understand the feelings that [...]

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Compassionate listening-a gift to yourself and others

December 12, 2011

Compassion for those around us and for ourselves can  decrease stress during the holidays. At Green Mountain at Fox Run,  our healthy weight loss retreat in Vermont, we have been talking about how self compassion can decrease depression and negative self talk and increase communication in relationships. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. wrote an article on her blog [...]

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Random Acts of Kindness to Yourself

November 21, 2011

Now I am not saying you should ignore acts of kindness to others, but hey, what about yourself? Let’s use this week of Thanksgiving to give ourselves a little kindness.  Kindness in an unexpected, random way will feel like a surprise to your inner child and help you add balance to your life during the [...]

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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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Feeling Fat? Visualize Your Way To Healthy Thinking

May 23, 2011

Visualization is a powerful tool to make change happen.  Many women have a picture in their mind of how they want their body to look.  This picture almost always includes weight loss. Their self talk is critcal, demoralizing and can include self hate.   “If only I could  think myself thin rather than obsessing about food [...]

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Binge Eating On Friday Night: At Least I Am Not Alone

May 16, 2011

In discussions with women who come to Green Mountain at Fox Run, I frequently hear stories about the out-of-control urge binge eaters sometimes have to prepare for binges as the end of the week approaches. The excitement, the planning, the shopping around for just the right foods.  And then wishing they weren’t dealing with  food [...]

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Singing at the top of your lungs

May 2, 2011

The songbirds woke me up this morning.  Oh, what a sweet sound. Having a funky day? Feeling blue, down and depressed? Singing can change your emotional state.  For some people it is easier to break into song than it is to create positive self talk.   Even if you don’t like your voice or are [...]

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Burnt Out? Is It Possible To Recharge?

April 18, 2011

You probably have already learned what can happen when you unselfishly take on everything that comes your way and keep doing for all those around you. It’s called “burnout.” Burnout happens when there’s a lack of reciprocity. All giving, no receiving. Burnout can lead us  to use food to fill ourselves up and cope with [...]

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Why! Why! Don’t I Ever Lose Weight?

April 4, 2011

Stress over weight worries seem to accumulate into more stress, like a snowball rolling down a hill. An increase in stress can frequently turn into ‘WHY’ questions: Why have I gained so much weight in the last month? Why did she ask me to do that? Why do I feel like I should just do [...]

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