Surprising Factors Affecting Eating and Weight Gain
For those of you who are down on yourselves
because you can’t lose weight, please realize the complexity of the issue. Forget will
power and self-discipline, calories in and energy out. The truth is, many factors affect our eating and size.
Out
of body experiences by Julie Deardorff (Sarasota
Herald Tribune, Health and Fitness, 10/30/12) provides the lowdown on how our
weight is affected by environment. I guarantee that on your own you’d never
have imagined that some of these factors would impact your weight, so three
cheers for scientific studies.
Pregnant women who breathe high levels of dies...
Source: Normal Eating - January 11, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
Better Ways to Manage Anxiety Than Eating
On the whole, disregulated eaters
are people with high anxiety. In fact, I’d guess that many of you would qualify
for the diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Anxiety is manageable,
however, so here are some ways to chill you out rather than eat. None of them
will come as a surprise, so consider them just a simple reminder.
Although you might think of
exercise as an activity that jazzes you up, it’s actually a great way to calm
yourself down. According to Sweating away
all that anxiety (Sarasota Herald
Tribune, Health and Fitness, 10/30/12), “Studies published by the American
Psychological Associati...
Source: Normal Eating - January 7, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
Better to Have Friends or Family?
Ever think about whether you’d be
friends with the members of your family of origin if they weren’t related to
you? I bet many of you would shout a resounding negative on that, while others
might want to say it but feel guilty. An important question: Do your blood bonds
really serve you as well as you yearn to think they do?
We’re raised to believe that family
is everything. Hearing this adage from relatives, religion, and society all our
lives, we accept it as truth. There’s a valid reason that we’re programmed to
value our family of origin: without it, as children, we’d be alone and unable
to sur...
Source: Normal Eating - January 4, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
No More New Year's Resolutions, Please!
If you wish to reach your goals
(who doesn’t?), don’t get seduced into making New Year’s resolutions. Why?
Because research says resolutions don’t work. Paradoxically, by not making them, you may be more likely to achieve and maintain your
goals.
According to The New Year’s Resolutions That Won’t Fail You by Oliver Burkeman
(NEWSWEEK, 12/24/12), “psychological research increasingly suggests that
‘repeating affirmations’ makes people with low self-esteem feel worse; that
visualizing your ambitions can make you less motivated to achieve them, [and]
that goal setting can backfire.” Positive mess...
Source: Normal Eating - December 31, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
