Uncategorized How To Be Bigger Than Your Cravings Having a strong craving and feeling powerless to do anything about it is awful. You feel defeated, weak, and out of control. There…
Uncategorized Why Weight Loss is a Bad New Year’s Resolution The New Year naturally gets us thinking about how we want things to be different. We think about what didn’t go so well in the last…
Uncategorized 3 Steps to a Stress-free Holiday Season Holidays are typically stressful everyone. Even if you boycotted the holidays, you’d still have to contend with the traffic,…
Uncategorized How to Avoid the " Holiday Blues " in 3 Simple Steps It seems strange that so many people feel depressed during the holidays, when it’s a time is a time when we’re supposed to feel joyful.…
Uncategorized Pre-Party Jitters? How to Squash Social Anxiety This Holiday Season If you’re anything like me, you get a little nervous to go out and socialize. Parties are supposed to be fun, but if you suffer from…
Uncategorized How to Overcome Shame Did you ever read Judy Blume Books as a kid? They were my favorite! Books like: Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. Blubber Deenie…
Uncategorized 5 Tasty Tips for a Healthy BBQ Season Summertime is awesome. The weather is gorgeous (even if it’s not sunny) and there always seems to be more time to be with family…
Uncategorized The Convenience Factor In a classic food psychology book harshly titled Obese Humans and Rats, researchers Stanley Schachter and his team determined…
Uncategorized Do Baggy Clothes Cause Weight Gain? In his book Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink relays a story about a particular Midwestern jail, where the sheriff noticed an interesting…
Uncategorized It’s Thinner in Paris Most people, dieters and non-dieters alike, are aware of the fact that the French seem to have more of a handle on their weight than…
Uncategorized Even the Food Experts Get Fooled During a “wrap party” for 20/20 who shot an episode on food consumption, Brian Wansink (author of Mindless Eating) and other researchers…
Uncategorized Label Love We all know people (or we are those people) with fierce label loyalty. You simply won’t drink Pepsi if there is no Coke available.…
Uncategorized Eating with your Eyes Closed We are creatures of habit…and suggestion. Often the mere mention that something is “delicious” is enough to prepare our minds…
Uncategorized How is a Comfort Food Born? “Past associations are the most common reason a food becomes a comfort food. Some of these associations can be linked to specific…
Uncategorized The Boob Tube Factor Most of us inherently know that people who watch a lot of television are more likely to be overweight, but how bad is it? Well according…
Uncategorized How Comforting is your Food? We all have our own individual take on the best comfort food, based on our own personal history as well as our physiology. With that…
Uncategorized The Perils of Speed Eating As we begin to bring more awareness to the moment, the exact moment, when we reach for food, we also begin to notice how quickly we…
Uncategorized The Nose Knows The scent of food can often be more powerful than the food itself. The smell of bacon? Heaven. Or how about an apple pie? Or a turkey…
Uncategorized Fine North Dakota Wine? The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois looks and feels just like a restaurant. That…
Uncategorized Stale Popcorn Anybody? In a study performed by Brian Wansink (author of Mindless Eating) and his graduate students, he proves that the larger the container…
Uncategorized Which is Better: White or Wheat Bread? From the savory cereals to dusty pancakes and delicious pastas, grains and their flour derivatives have always been a mainstay…
Uncategorized Yesterday I Did Something Scary Yesterday I did something kind of scary. I invited 6 incredible women friends over to help me read through the manuscript of my…
Uncategorized Eating 101 – How the Awareness Begins In an excerpt from Brian Wansink’s book Mindless Eating, the author retells a conversation with a friend: Over coffee a new friend…
Uncategorized Early Eating Habits that Shape you Today None of us choose to be fat. As a child, we don’t say, “I want to grow up and be large, Mommy!” It happens, often subtly and slowly.…
Uncategorized 5 Telltale Signs that You May Suffer from Food Addiction Holidays like Christmas, New Year’s, Valentines Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving are usually challenging…
