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.

Eating Without Information

May 9, 2019/mhayes

This week I had a session with my client, Lauren. Lauren told me that while she had a good week, one day she ended up going way over her allotted calories.

Just This One Time

April 25, 2019/mhayes

In session this week, my client, Tom, told me that over the weekend he’d eaten an unplanned snack in the middle of the day. Tom, like many of my clients, follows an eating schedule.

Cravings

April 12, 2019/mhagner

Like many dieters, Kim can recall countless instances of falling into the all-or-nothing sugar trap: eating way too much sugar, cutting it out completely, then falling off the wagon and eating way too much again. Repeat.

I Lost Weight…Now What?

March 28, 2019/mhagner

Her weight has mostly stabilized, although she’s still losing about a pound a month right now. She’s not quite sure how much more she’ll lose.