Green Mountain at Fox Run can help you reach a healthy weight and stay there… when boot camps can’t. Here’s why:   Humiliation and criticism don’t work as motivating tactics.  The underlying emotional stressors that contribute to and cause weight gain must be addressed. Focusing on body and mind is necessary for healthy, permanent weight loss. Extreme measures produce quick results […] read more »

Exploring Mindful Eating: When Are We Really Hungry for Food? What’s the first step in mindful eating (also called intuitive eating)? Wait to feel physically hungry before eating. Sounds simple, but at first it may be hard. That’s because either due to dieting or chaotic patterns of eating, people often ignore physical hunger cues or eat when they are not […] read more »

Are you addicted to food? As the subject gets more attention from the media and health professionals alike, many individuals self-diagnose themselves as food addicts. Just what is food addiction, and are you truly addicted to food? Defining Food Addiction In theory, we’re all addicted to food in a serious way. We can’t live without it. But the term “food […] read more »

“People don’t fail diets, diets fail people.” Based on 40 years of working with women to reach their healthy weights, we don’t think it could be said any better. Diets simply don’t work. Worse yet, they usually have the exact opposite effect you’re seeking.  In the long run, most people end up gaining weight instead of losing it. To mark […] read more »

When we think carbohydrate-rich, we don’t generally think of watermelon, carrots, beets, peaches, cherries, and the like. But according to some popular diet books, those foods are off limits if we want to reach a healthy weight. In truth, however, many of us (specifically the diet traumatized, who may be the greater percentage of people who try these diets) only […] read more »

A new buzzword in the health industry, clean eating seems to many of us like just another diet that classifies foods as “good” or “bad.” To the diet-weary among us, the words conjure up images of organic carrots, mung beans and plain brown rice. Many of us wonder if it’s just another weight-loss diet fad that will go out of […] read more »

Is a morning without orange juice and coffee unthinkable? Can you eat just one cookie, or do they keep calling from the cupboard until they’re all gone? Do you sometimes feel an overwhelming urge to crunch that only chips, not apples, will satisfy? For most of us, forgoing favorite foods at certain times is not only unthinkable, it seems beyond […] read more »

Reasons Why Diets Take the Joy Out of Eating Diets don’t work because we: Study the “allowed” foods list. Most of our favorite foods aren’t included. We remove them from our homes. Develop a menu based on the allowed foods, featuring the healthiest choices, even if we hate them. Go shopping, spending extra hours searching for unfamiliar foods and making […] read more »

So your neighbor, office mate, best friend, whoever just lost 10 pounds in only two weeks following the latest in high protein low carbohydrate diets. And now you’re thinking you should give it a go — have even started the search for high protein low carbohydrate recipes? True, high protein low carb diets seem to be leading many people to […] read more »

If we had to pick one trend in healthy eating that seems to be showing up almost everywhere we look, it would be gluten-free eating. From popular books, magazines and websites to grocery-store shelves and restaurant menus, it seems everyone is jumping on the gluten-free bandwagon. If we had to choose a reason, it would be the notion that cutting […] read more »