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...
by lisarutledge | Mar 1, 2016 | Cravings, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Mindful Eating, Recipe
I have an amazing recipe I’d like to share with you that has been inspired by my recent social feeds. It contains a secret ingredient that helps squash food cravings and cut down on portions, both of which help with weight management! But first, a little...
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...
by Lisa Rutledge | Jul 20, 2015 | Cravings, Mindful Eating
For better or worse, food cravings are a part of life. Learning how to manage them is important for healthy living and helps us feel more in charge of our eating (rather than feeling like the food is controlling us!). Too many people feel hopeless when it comes to...
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”...
by Lisa Rutledge | Nov 25, 2013 | Cravings, Mindful Eating
I have always been a big advocate that taking pleasure in eating is important for everyone- especially when people are trying to lose weight. At first, some clients find it sounds counter intuitive and they may try embracing the motto eat to live rather than live to...
