Worried you might have anxiety?

Fear is not fun (no kidding, right?!); but fear is a gift. Fear is an emotion that is designed to help us. It basically overrides the thinking part of our brain – the prefrontal cortex – so that we can react quickly. Those reactions fall into 3 categories:...

Meet Fran…

Brushing her teeth at night, Fran stares into the mirror. “When did my face get so freakin’ fat?” “What is wrong with me? Everytime I start a diet, I have high hopes and within a few days (max) my will-power is gone and I’m sucking down...

Emotional Eating 301 – Making changes

So now that we’ve logged our food and identified patterns and themes, we may be ready to start making changes. If so, we’ve come up with a few do’s and don’ts to get you started: DON’T try to change everything all at once. This is what we...

Emotional Eating 201 – What’s next?!

After last week’s blog, you may be thinking “Ok, so now I have this journal with everything I’ve eaten (yikes), where I ate it , when I ate it and how I was feeling when I ate it. Every time I look at it, I’m depressed….so how exactly...

Emotional Eating 101

The beginning of the year is when everyone tends to focus on getting healthy and/or losing weight (at least up until Valentine’s Day!) These goals and resolutions tend to be the ones that repeatedly make our lists year after year. What on earth makes this...