Women-Weight-Wellness Newsletter from Green Mountain at Fox Run

7 Steps to a Better Body Image

Try these seven steps to improve your body image. Focus on one step at a time, taking only one a day. In just a week, you can find yourself in a better place.

Achieving Weight Loss Success By Changing Negative Self Talk

We've all been there before. One day we feel like we can do anything – and we resolve to try. But a few days or weeks later, we wonder how we can get up the desire to even get out of bed. Well, maybe it's not that bad...but when it comes to keeping up with healthy eating and physical activity, perhaps it is.

Are You Addicted to Food?

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?

Asking for Support: A Letter to Your Loved Ones

We wrote the following letter over 30 years ago, and in the time since then, thousands of women have given it to their loves ones to educate them about how they can truly help them achieve their health and healthy weight goals. We hope it helps you do the same.

Binge Eating Disorder Program - Information and Treatment to Stop Binge Eating

Almost 1/3 of women who seek treatment to lose weight have binge eating disorder. Yet this eating disorder -- perhaps the most common of the eating disorders - is much less recognized than the eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia.

Do Your Expectations Sabotage Your Success at Achieving & Maintaining a Healthy Weight?

When women talk about their biggest obstacles to successful weight and health management, we often hear about hurdles like not enough time or knowledge to prepare healthy meals. Or frequent social occasions that involve food. Or hectic schedules, or stress in their lives, or transitions they're currently going through. The list goes on. But if you're like many of us, it's really none of these. Instead, our biggest obstacle is unrealistic expectations.

Emotional Eating: Getting the Support We Need

Julie thought she did most things ‘right' when it came to eating and exercise. She chose healthy foods most of the time, thought she ate only when hungry most of the time, and got the recommended amount and kind of physical activity. So she was dumbfounded that her weight continued to fluctuate up and down the scale?

Emotions and Food

How did we get so afraid of feelings? After all, emotions, including the so-called negative ones, are a natural part of being human. Everyone experiences them - each and every day. Yet some people cope with difficult emotions by repressing them. It becomes an automatic habit to sweep unpleasant feelings under the rug and to stop consciously noticing what the body is feeling. Emotional eating can in part be the consequence of not allowing feelings to flow naturally.

Getting the Support We Need

Staying healthy isn't just about eating right or physical activity. It’s also about openly enlisting the support we need to help with weight loss.

In other words, the classic question, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" isn't doing us any good. Instead, it feeds a negative cycle that often starts in our own minds. How do we combat this negative cycle?

Holiday Hassle or Mindful Moments? Ways to Reduce Stress during the Holidays

Is it possible that more minutes are crammed into a day in November and December? Or is it just that we expect the days to expand because our list of things to do are impossibly long? Learn these time management tricks of the trade to put the ease back into season.

How to Stop the Binge Eating & Emotional Eating Cycle: Self-Care Strategies

As stress increases, self care decreases and you are more vulnerable to binge eating and emotional or compulsive eating. However, there are many self-care strategies you can use before, during and even after an emotional eating episode to reduce the chances of it happening again.

Negative Thinking and Weight: Why Your Negative Self Talk Prevents Weight Loss Success

Try the proven technique of thought stopping to end persistent negative thoughts about yourself, which can decrease self esteem and lead to feelings of hopelessness, doubt and discouragement.

Perfectionism: Its Joys and Perils

Green Mountain at Fox Run is pleased to once again feature a newsletter by Annette Colby, PhD, RD, LD, a nutrition counselor located in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Colby specializes in working with people with disordered eating, chronic dieting, compulsive overeating, binge eating and weight and body issues. She has dedicated her professional life to empowering individuals with new vision and innovative healing strategies.

Stopping Emotional Eating

Is stopping emotional eating one of your biggest challenges to health and fitness? Or is it your attitude about emotional eating (often the result of dieting) that is causing problems? Take this simple quiz to gauge your emotional eating attitudes.

Stopping the Negative Self Talk: I Feel Fat

So who's never said anything like this before?

I feel so fat.
My thighs are disgusting.
My stomach sticks out.
My butt is too big.
I feel huge.

Stress a Little Less

We can't avoid stress. Nor do we always want to -- sometimes it does produce positive results, such as resolve to get something done. But too often it creates more problems than it solves.

Stress Eating: When Emotional Eating Hurts

Recognizing Stress Eating Characteristics

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