Accept
Your Wonderful Self
Challenge unrealistic messages and disparaging attitudes,
and start practicing some self-love. The irony is that healthy
self and size acceptance is key to achieving your natural,
healthy weight, too.
Achieving
Weight Loss Success By Changing Negative Self Talk
How do we hold on to our determination to get healthier?
Read this FitBriefing for a short course in motivation.
Before
& After: A New Look at New Year's Resolutions
For many of us, the holidays are a time of abundant food,
which leaves us resolving to clean up our act in the New
Year. Consider a different way to approach your new year.
Beyond
the Scale
Did you weigh yourself today? Were you happy with
the number? Uh...did we hear a resounding 'no?' Here's an
idea: Get rid of the scale. Read our FitBriefing
for better ideas on how to keep yourself going with your
healthy lifestyle.
Binge
Eating Disorders:
Information on Eating Disorders to Help You Stop Binge Eating
Almost one-third of women who seek treatment to lose weight
have binge eating disorder. Yet this eating disorder is
much less recognized than bulimia or anorexia.
Binge
Eating & the College Woman
Studies show many binge eating college students appear to
be at a healthy weight. So how do we know if we –
or our college age daughters (and sons) – struggle
with binge eating?
Creating
Successful Lifestyle Change – Are You Ready for Change?
Are you ready for change? If you are, the key question is
where to begin? You can only begin where you are. Read this
FitBriefing to learn about the different stages
of change, to help make any effort to change successful.
Exploring
Mindful Eating
Do you know when you’re really hungry for food? Many
of us confuse emotional hunger with a need for food. Read
this FitBriefing to learn more about internal cues
for eating that can guide what, when and how much we eat
for a healthy weight.
Feeding
Our Daughters Well
What did you learn about healthy eating from your mom? Is
it something you want to pass on to your daughter (or son)?
Read more to find out how we can help make sure our children
don't struggle with weight as adults. It's a worthwhile
read for any woman who wants to help the young children
in her life.
Getting
the Support We Need
What answer are we looking for when we ask,
"Do I look fat?" Will the answer we get help, or will we
even believe it? This month's FitBriefing helps
us become clear about what we need, and then how to enlist
support that can truly help us keep moving forward in our
healthy lifestyle efforts.
Healthy Holiday Eating Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain
Take our quiz to see how vulnerable you are to holiday food abundance. If you’re up there, we’ve got steps and strategies to help you sail through the holidays, enjoying foods you love and feeling great.
Holiday
Eating: Party Hearty-Without Putting on Pounds!
Does holiday stress send you straight to the Christmas
cookies or Hanukkah chocolate? Do holiday parties -- and
all the great food -- raise your worry level even higher?
Try this sensible advice for having fun and staying fit
during the holidays.
Holiday
Eating Without Overeating: Eating the Best,
Leaving the Rest
The carbohydrate-anxious among us might
wonder what planet they can escape to in order to avoid
the holiday tradition of seeming non-stop, carbohydrate-rich
eating. Try these tips to truly enjoy the delights of this
wonderful season.
How
Negative Body Image Affects Your Weight…and Life
Could a negative body image be one of the main reasons you
keep struggling with your weight? The surprising answer
is yes. Read this FitBriefing for more insight into this
all-too-common problem.
Improving
Body Image for Healthy Weight Loss Success: Loving Our Bodies
You stand before a mirror, with or without clothing. Where
do your thoughts go? Chances are, not to a good place.
Yet those very thoughts can have a have a major impact
on how successful you are at reaching your health goals.
Read more to learn more about changing negative thoughts
into supportive ones.
Is
Perfectionist Thinking Supporting or Sabotaging Your Success
for Healthy Weight Loss and Lifestyle Change?
Are you a perfectionist? That can be a good thing...
or one that creates obstacles on the road to a fitter
you.
Is
the Diet Mentality Making You Fat?
Are you a victim of the diet mentality? If you've struggled
with food, eating, weight and body image, you can probably
count yourself in.
Lose
the Dead Weight
Get rid of the dead weight you might be carrying around
(it's not what you might think)...
Mindful
Eating: Eating What We Want & Loving the Result
When is a hot fudge sundae a better choice than an apple?
When you're eating mindfully, you'll know. If you're not
sure, find the answer in this FitBriefing.
Mindfulness
Through Meditation: Practicing Balance & Peace
Learn how to make mindfulness a habit and enjoy the peace
and balance it brings to your life.
Overcoming
Emotional Eating, Compulsive Eating and Binge Eating
Did you know that emotional eating, compulsive eating and
binge eating are often protective mechanisms, developed
to help us cope, and that compassionately understanding
their purpose is a valuable, even essential, step in recovery?
Polycystic
Ovarian Syndrome (PCO or PCOS):
Definition, Diagnosis & Management
Do you
have irregular menstrual periods, sometimes missing cycles
and/or experiencing excessive bleeding, while also struggling
with excess abdominal fat? If so, you might be one of the
estimated 70% of women with irregular menstrual cycles who
have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn healthy lifestyle
tips on managing this problem.
Staying
Mindful During the Holidays
Calm eating and weight worries and enjoy the holidays!
Stopping
Emotional Eating
Is emotional eating taking a toll on your efforts to improve
your health and fitness? Or is it your attitudes about emotional
eating that are causing the problem? Take this simple quiz
to gauge your emotional eating attitudes.
Stopping
Emotional Eating: Finding the Help We Need
In the middle of our busy lives, stopping to take the time
to explore what we're feeling may seem almost indulgent.
But it can make the difference in managing emotional eating,
by helping us identify what we need and figure out how to
get it, whether from ourselves or others.
Stopping
the Negative Self-Talk: "I Feel Fat"
How many times have you uttered the words ‘I feel
fat?' Go behind ‘fat feelings' to address
what's really going on and move further in the journey
to self and size acceptance and living the life you want.
Stress
a Little Less
Check for signs of negative stress
in your life...and what to do about them.
Stress,
Cortisol and Weight Gain:
Is Stress Sabotaging Your Weight & Health?
Do yourself a favor – break out of the mold! Even though
surveys show going on a diet tops the list of New Year’s
resolutions, before you once again join the ranks of dieters,
think about this: Frequent dieting causes stress...and that
may lead to even more pounds and create health risks all
by itself.
Stress
Eating: When Emotional Eating Hurts
Does the first sign of trouble send you straight to the
cookie jar? Does a long, boring evening inspire freezer
fantasies? Have you ever found yourself halfway through
a bag of chips before you really grasped the fact that you
were eating? If so, the strategies in this FitBriefing
can help you begin to break the habit of eating in response
to stress.
10
Tips to Guarantee Holiday Weight Gain
The annual holiday food fight is about to begin, where conflicted
women face down rich-food eating traditions. Enjoy our twist
on the subject -- "10 Tips to Make Sure You Gain Weight
during the Holidays." We hope this tongue-in-cheek
advice emphasizes exactly what not to do to enjoy healthy,
happy holidays.
Weight
Loss Information: Coping with People at Home
Make sure your gatherings stay fun by educating those around
you how to support you in your health and healthy weight
efforts. And educate yourself in how to deal with those
who just can't understand what real support is.
Weight Loss Tips: Asking for Support
We wrote this "letter to home" over 30 years ago to help women get the support they need from their loved ones. Copy and hand it out to those you need support from in your journey to achieving your health and healthy weight goals.
When
Non-Dieting Doesn't Seem to Work
Working
hard to listen to your internal cues and eat only when
you're
hungry? So why are you still struggling to reach your healthy,
natural weight? For clues, read this FitBriefing.
