Blog Emotions That Cause Weight Gain When people talk about the emotional causes of weight gain, they usually center on stress. And while that’s a big one, there are…
Blog How To Be Bigger Than Your Cravings Having a strong craving and feeling powerless to do anything about it is awful. You feel defeated, weak, and out of control. There…
Blog Why Weight Loss is a Bad New Year’s Resolution The New Year naturally gets us thinking about how we want things to be different. We think about what didn’t go so well in the last…
Blog 3 Steps to a Stress-free Holiday Season Holidays are typically stressful everyone. Even if you boycotted the holidays, you’d still have to contend with the traffic,…
Blog How to Avoid the " Holiday Blues " in 3 Simple Steps It seems strange that so many people feel depressed during the holidays, when it’s a time is a time when we’re supposed to feel joyful.…
Blog Pre-Party Jitters? How to Squash Social Anxiety This Holiday Season If you’re anything like me, you get a little nervous to go out and socialize. Parties are supposed to be fun, but if you suffer from…
Blog How to Overcome Shame Did you ever read Judy Blume Books as a kid? They were my favorite! Books like: Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. Blubber Deenie…
Blog Eating disorder Emotional eater Resolve to Stop Resolving Tricia Tricia Nelson Weight loss Weight loss resolutions Resolve to Stop Resolving Dear Tricia: …
Blog Eating disorder Emotional eater Party Portion Podcasts Tricia Tricia Nelson Watching out for “Party” Portion! Dear Tricia: As far as eating the right foods and portion sizes, I do well at home during the week. But whenever there is a social…
Blog Compulsive Eaters Eating disorder Emotional eater Tricia Tricia Nelson When the Funhouse Mirror Isn’t so Fun Dear Tricia: My whole life I have felt fat. I am actually a normal weight, but I don’t feel like it. I have always felt bigger than…
Blog Eating disorder Emotional eater Tricia Tricia Nelson How to Avoid Eating when bad news strike? Dear Tricia, with all this news about our economy and unstable stock market, job losses and foreclosures, I feel depressed about…
Blog 5 Tasty Tips for a Healthy BBQ Season Summertime is awesome. The weather is gorgeous (even if it’s not sunny) and there always seems to be more time to be with family…
Blog Eating disorder Overweight Child Parent of An Overweight Child Tricia Tricia Nelson Are You the Parent of An Overweight Child? This is for all the mothers in the world who have kids with weight issues. Dear Tricia, My child is overweight and I'm extremely…
Blog The Convenience Factor In a classic food psychology book harshly titled Obese Humans and Rats, researchers Stanley Schachter and his team determined…
Blog Eating disorder Emotional eater Tricia Tricia Nelson Do You Eat to Quiet Your Mind? “Dear Tricia, I'm an emotional eater. I'm convinced my situation would improve if only my head wasn't spinning a hundred miles…
Blog Do Baggy Clothes Cause Weight Gain? In his book Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink relays a story about a particular Midwestern jail, where the sheriff noticed an interesting…
Blog It’s Thinner in Paris Most people, dieters and non-dieters alike, are aware of the fact that the French seem to have more of a handle on their weight than…
Blog Bulimia Bulimia symptoms Eating disorder Tricia Tricia Nelson Do You Live the Double Life of a Bulimic? Dear Tricia, I'm a 43-year old woman with an eating disorder. I've been bulimic for 25 years now, starting when I was 18. I went…
Blog Even the Food Experts Get Fooled During a “wrap party” for 20/20 who shot an episode on food consumption, Brian Wansink (author of Mindless Eating) and other researchers…
Blog Label Love We all know people (or we are those people) with fierce label loyalty. You simply won’t drink Pepsi if there is no Coke available.…
Blog Sabotaging Success Why are family and friends sabotaging your success? Dear Tricia, I've been doing my best to treat myself with care over the past several months. I've noticed; however, that a few of…
Blog Eating with your Eyes Closed We are creatures of habit…and suggestion. Often the mere mention that something is “delicious” is enough to prepare our minds…
Blog How is a Comfort Food Born? “Past associations are the most common reason a food becomes a comfort food. Some of these associations can be linked to specific…
Blog The Boob Tube Factor Most of us inherently know that people who watch a lot of television are more likely to be overweight, but how bad is it? Well according…
Blog How Comforting is your Food? We all have our own individual take on the best comfort food, based on our own personal history as well as our physiology. With that…
