Ideas about nutrition and dieting are a common topic of conversation in my life. Once people find out what I do for a living, they often want to tell me about their struggles with diet, food, and their weight. I try not to miss a chance to “carry the message” that there’s an alternative to […]
[Guest Blog] “It Worked Before…” by Aaron Flores, RDN
It’s something I hear all the time as people come into my office or talk to me about losing weight. They say, “Well I just need to go back to what I was doing a couple of years ago, it worked before…” There are, of course variations on the theme. Maybe someone will say, “I […]
My Lunch with “The Girls”
This week I had the pleasure of having lunch and a reunion with 5 friends from high school. To give you an idea of our age, we graduated in 1966. We were eating in a relatively new restaurant several of us wanted to try. The owner is the son of a friend of one of […]
Weight Watchers or “Self-Compassion” – Guest Blog Post by Jean Fain
Weight Watchers or “Self Compassion”? This was originally published in the CommonHealth Blog of WBUR, Boston’s NPR radio station. This article is in response to the death in April of Jean Nidetch, the founder of Weight Watchers. This article was written by my friend and colleague, Jean Fain, author of The Self Compassion Diet . As […]
Knowing When You are Hungry
Knowing When You are Hungry How do you know when you are hungry, physically hungry? For some people, the answer is obvious. For others, it’s a dilemma because they are so far removed from their physical sensations or so used to ignoring them, that they really don’t know the answer. If you have been dieting […]
