Reminding me I'm fat, shaming me, didn't scare me into thinness -- it locked me in a closet with my emotions and a secret stash of food.
A BMI calculator on a website for teen girls? Seventeen apparently thought it was a good idea. The magazine for adolescent girls featured a calculator...
Let's stop tearing each other down and instead, educate each other on how to treat our bodies and ourselves with the utmost compassion and respect.
Permanent weight loss is a holistic event. Permanent weight loss is a mind-changing, life-changing event. You can lose weight, but you will find it again and again until you are ready for permanent change.
Every year I used to lose the same 10 or 15 pounds every summer, only to gain them back by Thanksgiving. One year I wondered if it was the cookies. My husband said, "Duh." On a whim I made him a bet: I would only bake the cookies, not wear them on my hips.
I want to give these girls something I never knew, which was that your body does not define who you are as a person
Involving the whole family in making healthy food and lifestyle choices, instead of singling out the overweight child, can greatly increase the likelihood of success.
Should you get the flu vaccine? Maybe you've been called a Cougar and are pondering Botox (Kathie Lee's looks pretty good). How about the life-lengthening benefits of drinking wine?
I'll never forget when a friend of mine on Weight Watchers told me she was counting wine as her fruit points. "Wine is made of grapes," she said, trying to justify her decision, "So why not?"
I find that amongst those who do not believe obesity is a serious health problem, there are a few common misunderstandings and errors in logic.
Gentlemen: You are role models for your children. Like it or not, you are playing follow the leader -- and you are the leader (or one of them). Lead toward health, your children will follow you there. Lead elsewhere, they will follow you elsewhere. They will do as you do.
We routinely squander and neglect something we would hate to have taken from us, and would surely fight to prevent someone taking from our loved ones. It's certainly wisdom, it's just not yet conventional to acknowledge that health is wealth. Making it conventional is up to us.
There are a host of new studies that show that as your weight goes up, the actual size and function of your brain goes down. It appears that if you get serious about being healthy, you can reverse the brain damage. But now is the time to start.
At the beginning of each year, I hear men and women groaning about their holiday overeating, and comparing the benefits of various diets. And January blogs and newspapers are full of endless diet advice. But what if diets are the problem?
My girls were 13, 11 and 7 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Running gave me the physical and mental fortitude to deal with my operations, treatment and emotional stress.
How do you know that you’ve found your "Feel Great Weight?" The other day, I posed this question to my Twitter followers. Here are some of th...
You know the gulf. It's the five, 10 or 50 (fill in the number) pound gulf between where you are and where you want to be.
Do you consistently and painfully struggle with weight fluctuations? We have seen many a celebrity look trim and strong in movies and then heavy and l...
The Columbia University researchers presented findings at a recent American Heart Association conference that showed the heavier the mothers and children were, the more likely they were to misjudge their weight.
How often have you noticed that formerly normal-weight people have gradually gained weight throughout the years? Or dieters who have lost a significant amount of weight and then gained it back quickly?
On a constant quest to count calories as a means to control, we deny our body's ability to alert us to what it really needs.
Most of us are so bound up in other distractions that we've forgotten how to tune into our body's most vital signals supporting our optimal health.
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.
The key to losing weight isn't dieting; it is learning how to be the weight you want to be permanently.
