Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges

It’s always clearer when it’s someone else’s life, right?

Following are stories of individual clients (or even me) finding ways to manage their struggles with food using behavioral and cognitive techniques.  Their specific circumstances may not be your circumstances, but try to identify with the nature of the challenge and their process rather than comparing the details of your life. Continue reading “Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges” »


Co-op Rescue

Oct 9, 2015

I hate to waste food. Any food apparently. So rather than allowing myself to be sabotaged by overbuying snack foods from the snack aisle at Costco, I can instead use it to my advantage by over buying/preparing veggies. This comes […]

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Willpower Is Not A Prerequisite

Oct 9, 2015

“This should be the worst thing that anyone can ever say about you (that you have no willpower where food is concerned),” a wise and compassionate therapist once said to me as I mentally and emotionally tortured myself for caving […]

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Tips Are Not Enough

Oct 9, 2015

I find it so frustrating when book after book and article after article provides simply a list of tips for weight loss as if what is standing in the way of my success is lack of knowledge, creativity or resourcefulness. […]

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Summer Structure – Something Out Of Nothing!

Jul 16, 2015

As much as my clients look forward to summer for the anticipated relief from the grinding routine of getting their kids everywhere they need to be (illusion though this often turns out to be!), this very lack of structure poses […]

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Strategies for the Vegetable Challenged

Apr 24, 2015

In virtually every initial call I have with a client when they are desperately seeking help to keep the weight off for good this time, they will usually attribute their weight to one of three issues: lack of portion control […]

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Gut Bugs and Extra Pounds? Seriously?!

Apr 12, 2015

There is a whole second universe of little critters living within your gastrointestinal tract, trillions of tiny microbes that outnumber your cells 150:1 with up to 300 times more DNA than you have in your own body, an invisible organ […]

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