Mindful Eating
Treat or Treat! Embracing Halloween Candy
Halloween! A festive event of costumes, community, and candy. While one may think that the scariest part of Halloween is people showing up on your doorstep uninvited, for too many people, the ultimate fright is the influx of candy into their households. They worry about how to control how much candy their children eat, about…
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Why Noom is the Worst Diet Trend of 2021
Let’s be real: all diets are awful. Intentional restriction is unhealthy for the body, mind and spirit. A life spent fixated on food rules and self-criticism is a small life. Dieting is associated with a whole host of negative psychological and physical health outcomes including eating disorders and disordered eating, body image dissatisfaction, and weight…
Read MoreThe Body Image Revolution: Our Interview with Stella Boonshoft
Two years ago, Stella Boonshoft posted a photograph online that started a national conversation about body image. In the third installment of our Fat Shame series, Kim Buesser sat down with Stella to see what she’s been up to since a picture in her underwear made her an overnight celebrity. Read on for Stella’s thoughts…
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Why I’m Resolving NOT To Diet in 2018
On New Years Eve 2009, I made a resolution that I had made countless times before: lose weight. It was a ritual that I went through nearly every year, beating myself up for having gained weight and determined to have a fresh, clean, and thinner start to the New Year. Little did I know what…
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You haven’t failed your diet. Your diet has failed you.
We live in a world where we are taught that our value is in being small, that we aren’t good enough as we currently are, and that we must abide by the demands of diet-culture. But it doesn’t need to be this way. It’s time to wake up from these distorted ways of thinking about…
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3 Tips for a Mindful Halloween (Including How to Avoid Bingeing!)
Halloween is here! Let’s leave the scare-factor to the horror films, not the candy. The holiday season is about to officially begin, and the first celebration is Halloween. Halloween is an exciting and spooky holiday that so many of us enjoyed as children. But, as with most things in this world, diet culture has ruined…
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How To Care For Yourself After A Binge
Your head feels fuzzy and your stomach feels like it’s about to burst. The cabinets are strewn open, and the wrappers surround you like a halo. The shame and guilt builds inside of your chest, and the panic about how to fix it send your brain into a tizzy. You’ve binged. You probably want to…
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5 Tips For a Body-Positive End of Summer
We’ve officially reached August, which means we are in the final stretch of summer. I don’t know about you, but while I’m trying to be mindful and enjoy where we are right now, I also can’t wait for a blast of cool Autumn air! The heat has been brutal here in NYC! But we’ve still…
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3 Myths About Mindful Eating (And Why You Shouldn’t Believe Them)
Mindful eating has the power to transform your relationship with food. I’ve seen first hand how peace and freedom can become available to us when we shift our beliefs and assumptions about food and our bodies and embrace a more compassionate approach to our own health and wellbeing. But that doesn’t mean that everything out there labeled “mindful…
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My Four Favorite F-Words for Fall
Fall is officially here and I’m welcoming it in with open arms. I love fall–the pumpkin and apple picking, the refreshing cooler air, and cozying up with a pumpkin-spiced latte (which I guess, according to Martha Stewart, makes me “a basic b*tch.”). I saw this post on Instagram from @fulcandles (whose account is hysterical btw) and it got me thinking…
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