Month: December 2022
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Feeling fat…?
If you are feeling a bit bloated and sluggish after a few days of filling your belly with holiday foods, you are probably not alone. Enjoying delicious foods during holidays is common in all cultures and traditions – food brings us pleasure and comfort and allowing ourselves to experience this pleasure is also part of…
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Holidays and Boundaries
Wintertime with all the family holidays and other social gatherings is very likely to increase our exposure to the diet-talk, fat phobic comments and even personal attacks, if you happen to be the “fat” one. Of course, all of this comes wrapped up in the sickly cheerful paper of “concern for your health”. Sometimes we…
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Find Your “New Normal”
What is “normal” anyway? Sometimes we seem to use certain words without thinking much about their meaning. Normal can be defined using statistics by a bell-shaped curve of “normal” distribution. Whatever falls within the middle of that curve, where most individuals exhibit a given characteristics, we often call “normal” or “average”. But are the areas…
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How do I stop this?!
I have spoken to many women over the years, who are convinced they are addicted to sugar, chocolate, salty snacks or whatever else. They claim that they simply cannot stop bingeing on these food items, and they cannot have them at home or else they eat everything in one shameful eating session. Everyone always wants…
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It’s OK not to be OK
As I am battling a nasty cold, I would like to remind you (and myself) that it is OK not to be OK. Whether we are talking about physical health, emotional difficulties, or mental struggles – it does not matter. We are human beings with our perfect imperfections. We deserve to take our space and…
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