Why do you turn to food when you are upset with your spouse, frustrated by bills or anxious about an upcoming event? Food and emotions seem to be two unrelated things but as most people discover food has the ability to calm a bad mood and dampen an unpleasant emotion; it is similar to a [...]
Brian Wansink has a fascinating job, he spends his days studying food psychology and consumer behavior (i.e. what makes us eat the way and the amount we eat). I love this topic and recommend you take a look at his book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. Through his research he has uncovered some very [...]
Does your hand put food in your mouth without any conscious thought? Do you eat in front of your computer, television, or while on the phone? Do you have trouble recalling what exactly you ate? Then you might be a Zombie Eater. Zombie Eaters eat mindlessly, paying little if no attention to what they [...]
Joy Bauer is a registered dietitian and has been seen on The Today Show and The View. I have had the pleasure of seeing her segments and find her to be clear and sensible when it comes to dishing out diet tips and advice.
She recently had an article on her [...]
I was introduced to a technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) about a year ago as a tool to overcome barriers to success, little did I know at the time that the positive effects of this science could also be applied to overcoming emotional eating.
I think it is human nature to dismiss solutions that seem [...]
I wanted to let you know that over at The Fit Shack JoLynn Braley has been running a series called 31 Days to Loving Yourself Thin. It is based on the work of an author named Louise Hay who writes about how loving yourself can lead to many types of healing (health, financial, [...]
