Wednesday Sabotage – September 11, 2019

September 11, 2019/mhayes

I can’t believe I gave in to that craving. I can’t do this. I should give up. Response: Learning to lose weight and keep it off is a process and takes time.

Two Minutes Versus Sixteen Hours

August 23, 2019/mhayes

Jen realized that she was sacrificing around 16 hours of feeling good for a maximum of two minutes of enjoying a taste – not a trade she wanted to make!

Changes

August 9, 2019/mhayes

Lori told me that two nights ago she had a big work dinner and she was still feeling proud of how well she stuck to her plan. It was at a Mediterranean restaurant, and like all her work dinners, it included a lot of food.

Play it Forward

July 26, 2019/mhayes

Usually when dieters are faced with eating something they want to eat, in that moment they’re thinking about how good it will taste and how deprived they’ll feel if they can’t have it, rather than looking at what will happen once the food is gone.

Think Thin Thursday – July 25, 2019

July 25, 2019/mhayes

It’s important to build other means of comfort and stress-relief into your life so you have other things to turn to besides food.

Monday Motivation – July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019/hgrossman

it’s important to compare the disadvantages to the advantages of losing weight – better health, improved self-confidence, increased mobility, better quality of life. Focus on the advantages.

Progress Not Perfection

July 5, 2019/mhayes

For the last few weeks, my client, Jenna, has been working hard on overcoming emotional eating.

Off-Track Mentality

June 21, 2019/mhayes

My client, Scott, has had a really hard two weeks.  He’s been dealing with a lot of stress at work and his eating has definitely suffered. He’s struggled to track his calories (something he was fairly easily getting himself to do before) and was feeling too worn out to get himself to prepare healthy dinners at night, and consequently fell back into old habits of ordering takeout.

Plan Extra Calories!

June 7, 2019/mhayes

Liz realized that a lot of the time she wasn’t planning her extra calories in advance, which ultimately meant she didn’t have as strong a plan for weekends as she did for weekdays.

Premium Experience Eating

May 23, 2019/mhayes

When Kate started working on the skill of eating slowly and mindfully, for the first time in a very long time she told me she realized that not all food tasted as good as it looked or tasted as good as she thought it would taste.