Overeating Help

Many of us say “good-bye” to healthy eating on Thanksgiving. This was my pattern for years. I’d spend Halloween through New Year’s Day vowing to be “good,” only to overeat again and again. Then I’d have to face the shame and self-loathing that accompanied my self-destructive habits.
The holidays are fun and celebratory – this includes [...]

When we overeat, use food for comfort (emotional eating), or binge, we reach a point where we’d like to change our behavior. Often, our disgust is what motivates us to change. We feel fed up with our behavior – the overeating, the weight gain, the food binges. “Enough!” we say, and we embark on a [...]

After you’ve binged on sugar or food, you usually feel terrible:   bloated, overly full, gassy, and irritable. You may have a headache; feel a sugar rush or buzz, be wired or alternatively tired. You will probably have strong sugar cravings (learn to control sugar cravings) later that day or the next.
How can you love, nurture [...]

While we have good intentions for the holidays, the overwhelm that accompanies lots of activity and to-dos can cause us to slip into bad habits:   overeating, overspending, and taking on too much.  But you can enjoy the holiday season without gaining weight, going into debt, or feeling frazzled. In the following exclusive articles, I show [...]

One of the ways we nurture ourselves is by offering ourselves the compassion, forgiveness and tenderness that we offer other people. We can do this by talking to ourselves with a warm, nurturing inner voice.
It took me many years to transform my inner talk, and even now, sometimes I flounder. Initially, my own voice was [...]

Learning to nurture ourselves sometimes entails picking ourselves up after a fall. When we slip up, fail, or creep back into bad habits, it's easy to become discouraged. We can lose our focus, where one mistake turns into several, causing a negative spiral that becomes harder and harder to break.
The quickest way to keep [...]

If you overeat, dislike your body, or believe that losing weight will make you happy, I know how you feel. It’s taken me years to forge a healthy relationship with food and my body. Today, I eat a whole foods diet – most of the time. I feel good about my food choices.  I no [...]