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Eat Mindfully, Stop Yo-Yo Dieting
Why Eat Mindfully? If you’ve ever reached for a handful of popcorn while watching Netflix or had so much pizza you thought you might explode, it’s likely you were overeating mindlessly. This means you were reaching for food for reasons other than hunger. ...
Mindful Eating: The Instinctive Eating Cycle
What Is Instinctive Eating? When you eat instinctively, you respond to your body’s needs for fuel and nourishment. This is in contrast to overeating, when you eat due to habits or triggers, and restrictive eating, where you eat according to the rules of...
Mindful Eating and Restrictive Eating: Letting Go of Rigid Control
What Is Restrictive Eating? Restrictive eating means you rigidly control your food and your eating activity. You may be in a restrictive eating cycle if you: Are preoccupied with food and your weight See food as good or bad See yourself as good or...
Mindful Eating and Overeating: Why Do I Eat Too Much?
What Is Overeating? Overeating means eating more food than what your body needs. This cycle can occur when you’re eating in response to physical, environmental, or emotional cues. You may be in an overeating cycle if you: Eat due to external and...
Mindful Eating: What’s Your Eating Style?
What’s your eating style? Have you even considered whether you have one? Eating mindfully is a powerful practice that can potentially change your life and your health. It’s a way of being present with your food and cultivating awareness about the why, when,...
What is Mindful Eating and How is it Beneficial?
What is Mindful Eating? Mindful eating is a way of being fully present with your food. It’s not limited to just those moments while you are eating, though. It includes everything that happens around your food, including selecting what to eat, preparing it, the...
Carbs and Health: Are We Allowed To Eat Bread?
Last night some of my closest girl friends in Dubai organized an amazing birthday party on the beach for one of our friends. Everyone brought a dish, so we had plenty of food. And since all the women except me were Turkish, we had the best spread of mezzes....
Optimism and Aging Gracefully
Recent research shows that higher optimism levels are associated with "longer life span and greater likelihood of achieving exceptional longevity". So, how you feel about aging can affect how well you age, chronic conditions you may pick up on the way and how long you...
Are Sports Drinks More Hydrating Than Water?
My school-aged son is heading a field trip tomorrow. It is warming up here in Dubai, and parents are discussing what to pack for their children to sustain them through lots of activity and warm weather. One mom asked if we should pack anything else other than water...
Advice Networks or Social Networks?
My business coach, who is leading my mastermind, posted a really important point yesterday that got me thinking... Her warning against taking business advice from Facebook groups was so on point that I could literally take her words and replace "business" with...
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