I get so frustrated sometimes, because it really is easy to avoid food that is bad for me.  All I have to do is read the label.  But like others, it’s easy for me to get pulled in by trigger words that make me think that this food will be just fine, and the label [...]

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Newsmaxhealth.com WEEKLY TIP: Bad Diets Fuel Drug, Alcohol AddictionThursday, July 1, 2010 12:12 PM Addiction is rampant in our society. From alcohol to gambling, millions of Americans — from celebrities to the guy next door — are victims to some form of addiction. No one appears safe.  In the past, scientists didn’t understand how the [...]

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I just spent the weekend with some wonderful guys who support me and accept me just the way I am.  They represent a wide range of heights, weights, and body types and spending the weekend with them in the middle of nowhere West Virginia eating healthy food, breathing fresh air and connecting with them taught [...]

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I appear to have hit a plateua.  For the last 4 Mondays I have weighed approximately the same amount (within 1 1/2 pound either up or down), so I am running about 257.2 – 259.2.  Needless to say when I got on the scale today I completely freaked out and would have eaten it for [...]

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I bought a book today,  “Savor, Mindful Eating, Mindful Life” by Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung.  Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee.  Dr. Cheung is Director of Health Promotion and Communication at Harvard. So often my posts have been about bad diet programs and products that [...]

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Everything I need to know I learned from a Healthy Diet:  Don’t take everything, take just enough – I don’t have to have all the toys, all the gadgets, all the friends, all the attention, all the assignments, all the responsibility, all the drama or all the potato salad.  I just have to have enough [...]

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Yesterday someone said to me “I really enjoy your blog, but I stopped reading it because you don’t have the same food issues as me.” Really? I’m a compulsive overeater – so I have the eating disorder covered.  I’m addicted to carbs, so the whole addiction thing is pretty much covered.  I have/had a Vitamin [...]

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There was a great article on Health.com today about “8 Salads that Satisfy”.  Of the eight, only one has more than 400 calories per serving (404 on the Grilled Vegetables with Lentils) and they all look delicious.  http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20346776_1,00.html I was talking to a co-worker in the break room today and she was telling me about [...]

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Today in my psychology class we got into an extended online discussion about compulsive overeating.  It started out as a relatively benign discussion about evolutionary psychology and some how descended into a free for all about compulsive overeating being a sign of maladaptive behavior being genetically passed on and since maladaptive taits inevitably lead to [...]

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