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Abstinence and moderation – the paradox to heal overeating

by Karly on September 2, 2010

in Blog, Overeating Help, Sugar Addiction

When you have a lot of rigidity (food rules) about how you eat, you create a very narrow space where you can succeed. You feel like you’re walking a tightrope, where every step is super important. When you fall off the rope – or the wagon – you feel guilty, like a [...]

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Soothe your sensitivity instead of emotional eating

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One of the ironies of healing our emotional eating is that consciously trying to eat differently – like not eating sugar or eating more mindfully – is overarousing. It’s stimulating and can cause anxiety. We have all this pent up energy from trying to be “good” while feeling terrified of slipping. It’s like walking a [...]

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Free coaching call on compassionate weight loss

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If you dream of a healthy, fit body, but can’t seem to do the day to day behaviors that create that body, I’m about to share the secrets to turn your intention into reality.
If you’re caught in yo-yo dieting, if you lose weight only to sabotage yourself and gain it back, if you’ve been trying [...]

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Geneen Roth: 5 Reasons to Read Women, Food & God

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I love Geneen Roth’s work. When I was first diving into my “food stuff,” her books were a lifeline that enabled me to unhook from food and weight pain.
Geneen’s latest book, Women, Food and God, is brilliant. That’s what I’ve heard from everyone who’s read it. (It’s on my reading list, too.) Many women in [...]

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How to Lose Weight Without Dieting

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Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Heal Overeating: Untangled, a series of audio sessions and more (tools, visualizations, exercises) to help you create the relationship that you want with food and your body.
I talk a lot about how diets don’t work – and here’s why.
You must love yourself unconditionally in order to heal [...]

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Heal Overeating program unveiled in free call May 26

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You know what it feels like to overeat, binge, or use food to soothe yourself – and how you criticize yourself afterwards.
How might a day like this feel instead:

You wake up tomorrow morning excited about what the day will bring, at peace, trusting and knowing that you can handle whatever comes your way – including [...]

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Why Willpower and Dieting Don’t Heal Overeating

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Most diet, weight loss, and nutrition books have honest, practical advice on how to eat less, move more, and lose weight. You read them and think, “Great. Now I know what to do. I have the knowledge to change my patterns.”
And then you get stuck.
You sabotage yourself.
And so you apply more will power. You read [...]

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Overeating Help audio blog: ‘Trust in the growth you may not see’

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For women ready to break the cycle of emotional overeating, and as a build-up to the release of the Heal Overeating support program, I share another audio blog here.
I begin with an inquiry into growth, and trusting what you can’t see. A Rocky Mountain snowstorm presents a challenging contrast to the prior week’s 70 degrees, [...]

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Overeating help audio blog: Are you okay with being needy?

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In preparing to release the Heal Overeating support program, I share another audio blog today. It’s something that prompted surprisingly strong feelings.
A magazine article expressed the notion that we shouldn’t need, consciously or not. While the topic concerned electricity, I find parallels to the chatter that goes on in our heads about minimizing all [...]

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Overeating help audio blog: those “I can’t handle this” moments

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This post, in an audio blog series tied to the Heal Overeating support program, explores some emotional ground for me.
Topics include how to respond when we tell ourselves, in a moment of crisis, “I can’t handle this,” or “I’m not handling this,” or “I don’t know what to do”. Let’s explore how we work [...]

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End binge eating explored in Overeating Audio Blog

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How do you break a long standing pattern of overeating, binge eating or emotional eating? This is what we’ll be exploring in our year long Heal Overeating program, which launches this spring.
In the meantime, listen to my audio blog where I talk about the experiments that I’m conducting on myself to heal a lifetime pattern [...]

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Overeating help audio blog: ‘establish emotional buffers’

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The Heal Overeating support program continues to unfold this spring. Part of my effort includes periodic posts here in an audio format, sharing with you my research and results as they happen.
Topics include David Kessler’s “The End of Overeating”, challenges for highly sensitive people, the social acceptability of soothing with food, shopping with [...]

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Overeating help audio blog: ‘Removing barriers to love’

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After settling questions about whether I could really commit to finishing a Heal Overeating program this year, at last I’ve begun in earnest.
Look for an update to the program’s description here coming soon, plus a letter to be sent to the waiting list that’s been awfully patient. But first, here’s where I’m at right [...]

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That darn can of raisins: a February binge

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What do you do when you’re stuck in a cycle of bingeing or overeating? When you’re knee deep in sugar or food and you can’t find your way out? These questions may be your story – where you find yourself today. These questions are where I find myself, too.
These questions arrived at my own [...]

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How to choose: Sugar Addiction vs. Heal Overeating

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Overeating, sugar addiction, and a negative body image are often intertwined. Because of the way they intersect, it can be challenging to disentangle yourself.
So where do you start? Which problem do you tackle first? I’ve received several emails from women asking me this very question. They want to know, “Do I do the Sugar Cravings [...]

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