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Is It Really Self-Sabotage? Or is it just Self-Care?

Is It Really Self-Sabotage? Or is it just Self-Care?

by lisarutledge | Dec 3, 2020 | Cravings, Emotional Eating, Relationship with Food

Have you ever felt that you were sabotaging your own efforts to eat well or diet? Perhaps you have been told that you “self-sabotage” or get in your own way when trying to lose weight or adopt a new healthy lifestyle. I hear this concept of self-sabotage a lot from...
Mindful Eating Series with The Grounded Therapist (#2)

Mindful Eating Series with The Grounded Therapist (#2)

by lisarutledge | Feb 20, 2016 | Cravings, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Mindful Eating, Relationship with Food

Mindful Eating can be helpful in so many different aspects of healthy eating: it can help naturally reduce portion sizes (if you tend to over eat due to emotions or mindlessness), it can help reduce emotions that can lead to eating when not hungry and improve...
Eating In Secret and Other Side Effects of Dieting.

Eating In Secret and Other Side Effects of Dieting.

by Lisa Rutledge | Jun 17, 2015 | Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Mindful Eating, Relationship with Food

Originally written in June 2015. Updated May 2020 I wrote this blog a while ago, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I believe it is more relevant than ever. Sadly, rather than embrace an all foods fit mentality in this time of uncertainty, diet culture instead is...

Temptations and the unreliability of willpower

by Lisa Rutledge | Apr 16, 2015 | Cravings, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Mindful Eating

Recent research has found that avoiding temptation works better than relying only on willpower when faced with temptation. (You can see the original article here: Restricting Temptations: Neural Mechanisms of Precommitment) The idea of avoiding “tempting”...

Hungry for the truth?

by Lisa Rutledge | Nov 5, 2009 | Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Mindful Eating, Relationship with Food

Eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. These guidelines may be easy to understand but are definitely harder to follow. The idea of “eating mindfully” is a new trend in the weight management world. The concept draws on our innate ability to...

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