Healthy Lifestyle

Holiday traditions that do not involve food can help us get resist temptation and provide a different kind of “fullness” this holiday season.

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Pregnancy was the first time in my life I decided to unabashedly throw caution to the wind and not care about calories or food choices. And then the babies were here. Exhaustion from sleep-deprivation and very limited time for self-care all too often led to regular indulgences in the momentary comfort of baked goods and confections. I ended up a stay-at-home mom, over 40 both in age and weight.

The lecture touches on food industry public co-branding initiatives via partnerships that serve as “high gloss brand polish.” This polishing conveys undeserved positive emotional associations to food industry brands that can be used to silence or soften criticisms, provide ammunition for fighting health positive, industry negative legislation, and promote compromised, watered-down, health messaging.

I often recommend Geneen Roth’s 1992 book, When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy. In it, she illustrates through personal and reported anecdotes how dieting and emotional eating sometime substitute for emotional intimacy. This book helps people break destructive, self-perpetuating patterns and learn to satisfy all the hungers – physical and emotional – that make us human. Here is Geneen discussing her latest book, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything.

In his book, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, Brian Wansink, the Director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, uses fun and fiendishly clever experiments – like the “bottomless soup bowl” – to reveal the hidden dynamics behind our dietary habits. Here’s an experiment he conducted with chicken wings on CNN.

When we eat any form of carbohydrate (be it candy, bread, rice, fruit, or vegetables), it undergoes a complicated metabolic and hormonal process inside our body. So, when they eat a “typical diet” with carbohydrates incorporated, even when eating low-fat and low-calorie, they may not lose weight due to their intolerance to carbohydrates.

Based on more than 20 years of experience successfully counseling dieters in her practice, psychologist Dr. Judith Beck wrote the book, The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person, to help individuals change their eating behaviors by training their brains to “think like a thin person.” In addition, it can provide helpful mental and emotional tools to enable you to stick with a change in your eating habits and relationship to food, (as is essential for the JumpstartMD program) lose weight and keep it off forever. Here’s an interview with Dr. Beck on CNN.

Ever consider your relationship with food when wanting to permanently sustain your weight loss? A new relationship with food can help your waistline! The way you think about food and how you act around it can help you both loose and maintain your losses. Consider these four R’s when deciding to change your relationship with food.