Don't wait after a workout to eat. To help your muscles recover and be ready for your next productive workout, implement the strategy of eating protein and carbohydrates after your workout.

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I am recovered from anorexia and bulimia. "Recovered," as in, I no longer have an eating disorder. (Period.) Instead, I have a life filled with joy an...

Thinking that you will be happy when you get thin is a slippery slope. Once you reach your goal weight you don't suddenly attain a state of happy that stays put as long as you weigh that number.

I am quite certain that given the opportunity, my dog Cody would eat until she couldn't eat anymore and would be obese. She does not practice mindful eating. Does your dog?

Without starving yourself, without diet pills or gimmicks, even without exercise, it is possible to have thinner, smoother thighs in three weeks.

Compulsive overeaters eat way past the point of full. Some I have worked with have consumed up to 60,000 calories in one day.

The truth is: A kid can eat a standard-issue hot dog without it throwing his whole life off balance. An unwashed grape is not a crime against humanity.

If a woman stays at her 25 year old wedding day weight of 130 pounds until she is 50, she is pleased with herself. However, should she be?

It's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

Gratitude is hardest to come by when my mood is sour. Ironically, that's exactly the time when looking at what I have rather than focusing on what I lack is the most important.

A recent study has confirmed what I have been teaching for a long time. A calorie is a calorie and the only way to lose weight is to take in less calories then you burn. The end.

Food is a big part of the "what my body looks like" pie, so it's great if you are exercising but if you really want to help yourself out dial in your eating life.

For the many of us, saying "no" means risking the discontent, anger, or judgment of others. We learned to say "yes" to avoid the guilt or negative consequence of saying "no."

Know and count the calories. You can include chocolate in your daily diet if you plan for those calories. If you get 1,300 calories a day and 160 of them are chocolate, you should still be fine.

It appears we contemporary Americans may have switched the interpretation of "pursuit of happiness" to "pursuit of pleasure."

Mr. Ee, 30, worked at an Internet company in SoHo, and had been competing with a colleague to see who could lose more weight. But they had both stoppe...

Throughout history, people have been looking for some kind of magic that will allow one to eat and live as one pleases, but still look emaciatedly gor...

Eating is physiologically inevitable, but mindfulness isn't. Associating eating with mindfulness, one meal at a time, can help us not only manage weight but also to nourish and enrich the mind.

Despite the fact that men and women seem to struggle with weight in fairly equal numbers as adults, women do tend to put weight on in their butts, vs. their stomachs.

Called intermittent fasting, this rather stark approach to weight control appears to be supported by science, not to mention various religious and cul...

An Experiential Calorie is a unit of awareness, a unit of conscious presence, a unit of meaning. The job of an Experiential Calorie is to enrich your Mind. Take a moment to count the latter.

Often, chronic dieting or the development of an eating disorder is a mask for feelings in your life over which you sense you have no control; depression, anxiety, or loss. Your body becomes a battleground.

An intent can be anything you want to change or achieve in your life or in the world in which you live -- it can be personal, social, or global, or all three.