Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges

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” »


All I Want For Christmas or Hanukkah Is…

Nov 11, 2012

All I Want For Christmas or Hanukkah Is…

Whatever happened to all the Chrismassy things we used to do that weren’t food?  I remember caroling, the White Gift Lady at church, stringing popcorn and cranberries for the tree, and glasswax.  Oh, and the Advent Calendar.  We kids used […]

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Thanksgiving Self Makeover

Oct 28, 2012

Thanksgiving Self Makeover

Surely you have seen those before and after Thanksgiving menus where that perfectly reasonable “typical Thanksgiving Day menu” turns out to be 8000+ calories?  I had always had that, “Heck, it’s Thanksgiving.  It’s once a year.  I’m just gonna eat […]

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Halloween – Trick Me or Treat Me?

Sep 30, 2012

Halloween – Trick Me or Treat Me?

Halloween, that predictable candy blowout, lends itself to a short but sweet discussion of how fellow compatriots of the weight management wars have been able to successfully navigate this holiday and treat it like what it is…just a day. Let’s […]

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Vacation Mentality

Jul 30, 2012

Vacation Mentality

Used to be that I began the eating-out-of-control part of vacation as soon as I got in the car to drive to the airport, or sometimes even the day before left if I couldn’t hold back the tide.  And, while […]

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Nature’s Appetite Managers

May 24, 2012

Nature’s Appetite Managers

I had spent the greater part of 20 years on the edge of a binge.  I had no idea then how much I was aiding and abetting that process, and had just resigned myself to the fact that that’s just […]

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Closing Pandora’s Box (Binge Recovery)

Apr 27, 2012

Closing Pandora’s Box (Binge Recovery)

I get such a kick out of it when I hear myself say, in explaining some radical over-indulgence, “I ate more than I wanted to”.  Oh, come on, that’s not true.  I ate exactly what I wanted to.  That’s the […]

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