Self Compassion Diet

Breast cancer awareness month may have come and almost gone, but there's good reason every season to stay aware and take good care, especially 'round meal-time, says Chef Chuck White, Sheryl Crow's private chef and co-author of the New York Times bestselling cookbook,"If It Makes You Healthy."

On a wise professor's advice to pursue her passion for self-compassion and make the world a better place, Kristin Neff took a leap of faith.

If you're afraid that Oprah's mindful-eating coach, Geneen Roth, has moved on since "The Oprah Show" came to an end, rest assured. The best-selling anti-diet book writer who inspired Oprah to stop dieting is not abandoning food issues for money problems as some fans fear.

"Muffin top" may have recently entered the Oxford English Dictionary, but that doesn't mean English-speaking dieters are any more eager to embrace this figure of speech to describe their figure.

Bullying yourself slim may make for good TV drama, but if you're serious about slimming down, the bully shape-up strategy is nothing but bad news.