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- Weight Loss Surgery and Emotional Eating - Tips for Breaking the Emotional Overeating Cycle - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryWeight loss surgery patients are often surprised to find old habits with food creeping back into their lives. While the path back to emotional over-eating can be somewhat different depending on what weight loss surgery procedure you had, here's the hard truth: habits related to food, especially ...
Views: 1184 - Getting What You Want and Need: More Tips On Asking - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThere is a big difference between knowing what you want and asking for it. There is also an important distinction between asking and hinting. Unfortunately, many of us were raised in a culture that encouraged us to be less than direct about what it is we’d like to occur. I talk with many women ...
Views: 1177 - Are Weight and Food Struggles Interfering With Your Professional Success? - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryStruggles with emotional eating, overeating, and weight take a tremendous amount of energy. For women business owners and professionals, these struggles can also take a major toll on their success. * A prospective client (and business owner) tells me she is avoiding public speaking ...
Views: 1176(1 vote) - Avoiding Emotional Over Eating And Minimizing Stress: Practice Saying "No" - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryBeing stressed, overwhelmed and over-tired is one of the primary causes of over eating. When we are worn out, we are much less able to resist temptation and much more likely to try to sooth or revive ourselves by over eating. My tip for minimizing stress-related emotional over eating: learn ...
Views: 1174 - Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Be In Your Body - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryWhen you are under stress and feeling like you have too much on your plate, identifying how to start making a change can feel daunting. Whether its stress related to work, finances, the holidays, or the people in your life, just thinking about it can leave your brain feeling so full that it’s ...
Views: 1171 - How To Implement All Those "Best Life" Tips - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThere are so many good tips and tools and strategies that can help us live a fuller, more authentic and meaningful life. Tips that can lower our stress, help us lose weight, prevent overwhelm and improve our relationships. But learning about these tools and ideas and strategies just isn’t ...
Views: 1141(1 vote) - Could Playing More Help You Eat and Stress Less? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryEmotional eating is a signal that life is out of balance. Emotional eating and overeating happen when we use food to try to help us manage our feelings. The triggers for emotional eating vary–we might eat to cope with loneliness, unhappiness, stress or boredom. Sometimes we eat for ...
Views: 1137 - Are You Dreaming Big? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreerySo many people have wonderful dreams that are buried just beneath the surface--a book they'd love to write, a business venture they'd like to pursue, a race they'd like to sign up for, or a trip they want to take. If only. If only they had: more time, more motivation, more get-up-and-go. ...
Views: 1136 - Is Perfectionism Sabotaging Your Weight Loss? - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryIs perfectionism sabotaging your weight loss or your relationship with food? It might be. Trying to get it "perfect" can actually make emotional eating much worse--not to mention the negative impact it has on self esteem. Here are some "symptoms" of perfectionistic thinking: Do you wake ...
Views: 1134 - Emotional Eating and Coping With Overwhelm - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryOverwhelm is something that we can’t always avoid, and it can be a major trigger for emotional eating, overeating, or bingeing. While it’s great to have strategies for staying out of overwhelm, sometimes–no matter how skilled or proactive or positive we are–overwhelm just plain happens. A ...
Views: 1127 - The Number One Weight Loss Mistake - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThe number one weight loss mistake that dieters and emotional overeaters make has nothing to do with food--but it flavors everything. The number one mistake people make when they are trying to gain control of emotional overeating is that they get mad at themselves and beat themselves up ...
Views: 1120 - What Is A Breakthrough With Food and Weight Anyway? - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryIf you are like many women who’ve spent a lifetime (or what feels like one) struggling with weight and overeating, words like “breakthrough” may sound like unrealistic hype. For many women who are worn out with food and weight struggles, a breakthrough may feel impossible. Why? Their current ...
Views: 1103(3 votes) - Emotional Eating: Creating Changes That Last - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryI’ve spent a lot of time in airports lately. That means that I’ve spent a lot of time at the news stand, scanning the covers of magazines, looking for some nice relaxing reading material. In my browsing, I’ve been struck by how magazine articles emphasize making changes or starting something ...
Views: 1095 - Life Coaching 101: 3 Steps To Moving Forward and Getting Where You Really Want To Go - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryAs a Life Coach, I help people get where they want to go and do what they’ve always dreamed of doing. Over and over again I've seen people achieve tremendous goals and create enormous change—the kind of progress that tends to make other people say, "Oh, I could never do ...
Views: 1034 - Weight Loss That Lasts--The Importance Of Maintenance - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThe most consistently neglected part of the weight loss process is the phase of “maintenance.” Without solidifying our ability to maintain, our chances of creating lasting change in our relationship with food or enduring weight loss are slim. Change is not a one shot deal. Just as quitting ...
Views: 958 - How To Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThere is a tricky balance between being kind and compassionate and not-too-hard-on ourselves and digging deep and forging ahead when that is the only way to get the job done. There are times when we have to do just that. When if we don't stand up tall and brave we lose. Times when we need ...
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