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I Feel Good! Taking a Different Approach to Weight Loss
I feel good. Go figure. I mean, really, I didn’t expect to feel so good. When I enrolled in Green Mountain’s program, I expected to find a new diet, a new miracle cure or some secret equation to help...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: Emotional and Binge Eating Intensive Workshop 2014
It’s about 1:00 pm when I pull into Green Mountain. It’s the third time in four years that I’ve made my way up Fox Lane, heading toward the place that would, did, and still is changing my life. The sky...
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Holiday Musings: Learning from Overindulgence
Beth is back with a story that many of us might relate to, especially during this time of year. I got drunk. Not “slightly inebriated” or “in my cups” but “three sheets to the wind”. Well, maybe only...
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Before You Start That Weight Loss Diet: The Slim Chance Awards 2015
Feeling a little, shall we say, over-sated after the holidays? Or are you just tired of struggling with what you believe is excess weight, and look at the new year as a time to begin again? If so,...
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Weight Loss Diet Schemes Don’t Work! Especially These
So we’re getting it a little backwards, announcing the winners of the Slim Chance Awards 2015 last Friday before we announce the nominees today. Hey, you gotta find your fun somewhere and with a...
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6 Ways Yoga Can Help You Achieve a Healthy Weight
When I began my yoga journey seven years ago, I must admit that I had these fantasies of looking “like a yoga instructor.” You know – the ones with the slim bodies and long arms and legs that seem to...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: To Eat… or Sleep? That Was The Question
Jacki’s back with a few good questions. And answers to boot. To eat or sleep? …That was the question. It was my night off with my partner and we had made glorious plans to watch movies, savor our...
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Why is Weight Watchers Covered by Health Insurance?
I recently found out that health insurance covers Weight Watchers. What the…? ‘Health’ insurance covers a diet?! Diets have very little to do with health and so it’s the message that this sends that...
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Webinar: Neuroscience of Change – Why We Fall Off Diets
As the new year unfolds, a familiar situation is repeating itself once again. People who resolved to start eating healthier – whether for weight loss or not (although it most often is) — start...
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Healthy Weight Week 2015 Starts Monday!
Hang on to your hats, folks. It’s Healthy Weight Week next week! Okay, maybe we’re a little more excited than you are at this point. But we’ve been working on this for a while now and are excited with...
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How to Support Women Who Struggle with Eating and Weight
Today marks the beginning of Healthy Weight Week 2015. The week when many people realize those New Year’s diets are destined for failure, or already have failed. Notice we say the diets have failed,...
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10 Healthy Eating Exercises That Can Really Make a Difference
Continuing our Healthy Weight Week posts this week, today’s post talks about a key strategy for achieving and maintaining your healthy weight — mindful eating. It’s about learning to listen and then...
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Healthy Weight Week: Think Evolve, Not Solve to End Eating and Weight Struggles
Some of us just know how to diet. Even though we fall off diets time and again, we don’t know what else to do. Maybe Healthy Weight Week is the time to start trying something new? It was a cold morning...
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Healthy Weight Week: Try the Media Diet!
Diet Industry Insanity While standing in the supermarket line waiting to check out, I see rows of magazines promising rapid weight loss – and all of them are aimed at women. To quote social activist...
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Healthy Weight Week: The 2015 Healthy Body Image Hero
Each year, we select a body image hero, someone who has taken a stand during the year or over the years, to make a difference in the way that women think about their bodies. Last year we honored...
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Healthy Weight Week: 5 Ways to Move Past Body Hatred
We couldn’t have a Healthy Weight Week without discussing body image. We hope you’ll find our approach of Body Neutrality℠ helpful. Body weight obsession is a national pastime in this country –...
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The Back-and-Forth of Achieving a Healthy Weight
We recently saw a meme on Facebook from OMG Paradise that said “An optimist is someone who realizes that a taking a step backwards after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a...
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Tess Holliday: Model And Body Image Activist Says #EffYourBeautyStandards
Our Body Image Idol of the Week History is in the making in the fashion industry. Fashion model Tess Holliday is the first woman of her size to land a contract with a major modeling agency, MiLK...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: Stop Waiting for Cheat Days
Have you ever thought of food like you do about saving money – eat less now so you can have more or something richer later? Jacki shares how that thinking can lead to an overdrawn account. Our Bodies...
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Journaling for Change: Finding Success One Blog at a Time
Journaling is not my thing. I like to write and I’ve been lucky enough to find outlet for my writing but I don’t particularly like journaling. I tried it once and it didn’t go well. I was pregnant. I...
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