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The Top 3 Things To Overcome Binge Eating Disorder – B.E.D. Specialist Reveals
What makes someone a specialist? I could tell you how long I’ve worked with people who have eating disorders, or my degrees, research or the books I’ve contributed to, but the heart of the matter is…...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: My Answer To “The Perfect Diet”
There is no answer… Hold your fire! Don’t shoot! Keep reading! Who here has searched high and low for the perfect diet? Or, even if you’ve kicked the diet mentality to the curb, do you still find...
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5 Superfoods You Should Eat Every Day
It’s a cousin to the 5 Foods You Should Never Eat ad that pops up regularly on your computer screen. You know the one I’m talking about, the list of “superfoods” that, if you eat them daily, promise to...
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Support for Lasting Change: Finding A Mutually Beneficial “Sponsor”
Less than a month and I’ll be back to Green Mountain. My return visit seems to have arrived at just the right time – when my support system seems to have totally dried up! When I was in the program...
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What Happened When I Gave Up Alcohol for 30 Days
The summer began with weekends including margaritas made with high-end tequila and fresh squeezed lime juice, homemade mai tai’s, or the latest gin + ginger beer concoction. I also looked forward to...
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Permission Granted to “Be Lazy”
Today in our Mindfulness 101 class here at Green Mountain, a wonderful “Aha!” moment happened. One of the points I make is the difference between medita-TION and medita-TIVE. Meditation is the practice...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: Top Self-Care Accessories of 2015
Welcome to today’s installment of The Binge Eating Diaries! Today, we’re doing a deep dive into something a little shallow… stuff ‘n things! Goods ‘n gadgets! Now, I’m constantly working on bettering...
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Weekend Program: Mindfulness for Women Who Struggle With Weight
“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight,...
View ArticleFitness Video: Yoga Poses You Can Do In A Chair
This video is part of our fitness video series featuring Lori Wright – Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Fitness Lead. Lori has taught for more than 20 years, and is an ACE certified Personal Trainer. She...
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3 Tips to Rise Above Weight Stigma
We live in a society that demonizes weight gain and celebrates weight loss at any cost. No need to look any further than the overt and subliminal messages within social media, television, ads, and...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: Now I Want To Be Strong
Do I want to be strong? You mean strong-willed? So that I don’t overeat? Um, yes. I have been striving for that my ENTIRE life. No? Hmmm… Oh! You mean strong like that Planet Fitness commercial: “I...
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December 3-6: Binge & Emotional Eating Weekend Intensive 2015
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in the United States and is estimated to effect almost 16 million people nationally.* Despite this, most feel uncomfortable talking about...
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My Experience Returning to Green Mountain at Fox Run
I’m writing this on Friday of my first return week to Green Mountain. My initial visit was also just a week, the same week in fact, last year. I wish I could have come back for a longer refresher but...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: A NOTEworthy Form of Self-Care
Do you ever walk into the kitchen and just stand there thinking, “Crap”? I still do this a few times a week, unsure if I should grab everything I can and run like hell before someone catches me… or if...
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Our Mothers, Ourselves: Stopping the Cycle of Body Loathing
As a little girl my mom never talked about her body but she was constantly at war with it. She was on and off diets for as long as I can remember, and I recall her bouts of dieting would be followed by...
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Silence. The Quiet Healer.
I just returned from a week-long teacher training class to prepare for Green Mountain’s upcoming new Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR). Jon Kabat-Zinn created the MBSR program in 1979...
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Speaking from Experience: Upcoming Binge & Emotional Eating Webinars
How often do you actually get to learn from someone who gets it? Often speakers and “experts” are well versed in one side of a situation – in our context: treatment, whereas they haven’t been in your...
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Renewing My Mindful Eating Action Plan
Back from the bubble. I don’t like it out here! I want to go back into the Green Mountain womb where all I have to do is concentrate on me – my health, happiness and well-being; where all I have to...
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A Thought: When Did We Start Taking Exercising So Seriously?
As children, playing was the exercise of choice. I remember Mom would call me in for dinner but I was too busy to stop my game of Star Wars (I was Princess Leah, after all). Sledding, climbing trees,...
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The Binge Eating Diaries: Foods, Moods, and ‘Tudes
For me, three things happen after a binge or a bout of emotional overeating. Number one: The diet mentality that I thought I’d kicked to the curb swoops in for a bitch slap… “You ruined it! All the...
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