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 »

Why is it that some people need to move? They seem to have this little voice within telling their bodies to get out there and walk or swim or bike. Why is it that others have to battle themselves everyday to exercise? They seem to have a little devil on their shoulder telling them that there’s something else more important […] 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 »

The signs usually appear slowly, and at first, may be so minute that you dismiss them… your pants might feel a little tighter than usual or you seem to have outgrown your favorite bra. With trepidation, you weigh yourself or something else confirms it – you’ve gained weight again. Though you promised yourself you wouldn’t let it happen, somehow it […] 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 »

I hate my body….I feel defeated…Why try to take care of myself?…I eat for comfort…I eat too much and don’t have the energy to go for a walk. Who has uttered these words before, then gotten caught up in the behaviors they spawn? Maybe the better question is who hasn’t? When we look at it this way, it’s easy to […] read more »

When we have talked negatively to ourselves for years, decades even, being body positive all of a sudden or accepting our body “as is” feels phony, far-fetched, or like it’s settling. In addition, our culture supports women fixating on what’s “wrong” with our appearance… our weight, our wrinkles, our waves… there are diets, creams and straightening irons to fix all […] read more »

While January is the month that screams ‘time to lose weight’ for many Americans, the drive to lose weight plagues us throughout the year. Spending more than $33 billion a year on diet books, diet foods, diet programs and other schemes “guaranteed” to take the weight off for good, Americans are being misled by the millions. The truth is, when […] read more »

A love affair with food sounds like a recipe for weight struggles. Yet our chefs at Green Mountain both have lost a significant amount of weight after taking over the helm of our culinary services.They haven’t given up a thing to do that, either. Instead, they’ve done it the Green Mountain way – learning how to eat the food they […] read more »

  “Size-acceptance means focusing on the things you like about yourself while working to modify what needs change.” If we let ourselves, we may start to believe that magazine cover girls (whose photos are air-brushed and trimmed in, mind you!) are the norm and that the rest of us are somehow deeply flawed. What we get then is the soundtrack […] read more »