Weight loss is a process. In my book Foodaholic: The Seven Stages to Permanent Weight Loss, I have identified what I think are the psychological stages one must go through, not only to lose weight but to keep it off. I have done for weight loss what Elizabeth Kubler-Ross did...

I eat fast. I admit it. There is anxiety associated with eating if you have a weight problem and sometimes you just want to get the eating over with so you can reduce that anxiety. It's stress, and guilt, and fear all rolled into one strange feeling when sitting down,...

It's just a few days before the Academy Awards and there is Oscars fever here in Los Angeles. The limos are being washed, hairdressers are booked and seamstresses are up all night doing those final fittings for the Hollywood elite.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to go to the Roger...

Ever open and close the refrigerator looking for something? I found myself doing this the other day. Went in, opened, looked around, didn't see anything good, left the room. Came back 10 minutes later, opened, looked around, nothing good had magically appeared in there since the last time I opened...

Set in the Dust Bowl during the depression, The Rainmaker tackles timeless themes of love, passion, faith and magic. The play premiered on Broadway in 1954 and was then made into a feature film in 1956 starring Katharine Hepburn, as Lizzie, and Burt Lancaster, as Starbuck.

Henry Jaglom and...

It's time for those New Year's resolutions again. The number one resolution people make is -- you guessed it -- to lose weight. Yet based on what we know about us (Americans), we are actually gaining weight. Right now 69 percent of us are overweight. Within...

Many years ago, when I was at my heaviest, I joined a "diet" program that promised you could eat anything you wanted and be thin. All you had to do was repeat certain affirmations, go to the weekly class, listen to the hypnosis tapes and voila, you would be thin....

A recent study out of The Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University discovered that if you ask kids to choose between apple slices or French fries with their lunch, and you ask them "What would Batman eat?" they will choose the apple slices over the fries 45.5...

Is weight loss psychological? Is it something that a shrink can help you with or not? Have you tried hard to lose weight on diet programs and not been successful? Do you know why that is?

I believe that weight loss is complicated, individual and has many facets. It...

Henry Jaglom's new film Just 45 Minutes From Broadway is a quirky family dramedy with some great performances by its talented ensemble cast. Jaglom wrote it first as a play that ran for a full year at The Edgemar Center Theater in Santa Monica. I saw the play, twice, and...

I used to be 50 pounds heavier than I am now. That was 21 years ago and I have maintained this weight loss for all those years. During that time I have learned quite a few tricks that I share in my book Foodaholic, and I teach the...

Ever wonder just how fat, or thin, you are compared to the rest of the world? Well now, thanks to research compiled by a global team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, you can find out. If you click on this link you...

For those of us who use food as a drug, there are a variety of feelings that will lead us to the food. Any feeling that makes us uncomfortable has the potential to lead us to eat, even when we are not hungry, just to take the edge off the...

Love Struck is a series of seven one-act plays, written by Dale Griffiths Stamos, directed by Maggie Grant and produced by Three Roses Players and Venice Sky Productions. It's currently playing at the Beverly Hills Playhouse through May 27th.

The production starts out with Amanda Split, starring Ryan Cross,...

I thought this story was an April Fool's joke, except it was way past April 1. It's no joke. Women, namely brides before their weddings, are using a feeding tube for 10 days to lose weight. Yes, that's right, the kind of feeding tube they give patients who...

Hi, I'm Irene and I'm a foodaholic. By that, I mean that I have trouble controlling myself around certain foods. Those foods are the high-fat/high-salt/high-sugar foods, also referred to as highly palatable foods. I used to think I was just weak-willed, meant to be fat, had no self-control or self-discipline...

If you eat when you're bored, you are not alone. Eating for fun, for pleasure, for something to do, to procrastinate doing something you really don't want to do, to reward yourself for a job well done, are all reasons many people eat. None of them have to do with...

Claire Chafee's comedy, Why We Have a Body has just opened at The Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica. Chafee's play originally opened in San Francisco in 1993 and enjoyed a long run. It is especially timely now with the current political climate bringing gay marriage and women's...

This is my ongoing series on people who have lost weight successfully and are keeping it off. The fascinating thing about this is that even though all the people I have worked with over the years, have interviewed for my book Foodaholic: The Seven Stages to Permanent Weight...

What do we mean when we say we're a "foodaholic"? It's confusing because, of course, we're all addicted to food since we need to eat to live. Essentially, we are all food addicts.

When we talk about being a true "foodaholic," or food addict, what we are really saying...