The season is upon us, and I always have mixed feelings about the holidays and gift buying. I think it’s the urgency to get the right thing, the best thing, the popular/trendy “most wanted” thing. It’s a lot of pressure. For the last several years, I’ve chosen not to get on board with the seasonal…
It starts with Halloween, doesn’t it? The sway and bend to only-this-time-of-the-year treats? Have you noticed that all things pumpkin spice show up earlier and earlier every year? Now, I have a thought: What if we could change the mindset on these treats from a “fixed mindset” to a “growth mindset”? You may or may…
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] What kind of change comes from hating yourself? What at first can seem like good motivation, can soon spin off into a diatribe of self-deprecation–a spiral of good-bad, love-hate inner muddling. Consider the diet. No one starts a diet thinking: “Everything is going so well! Wow, am I looking…
With the ringing in of the New Year, many people are also reigning in the eating. Going on a diet in January is de rigeur. Did you know that dieting is a $60 billion industry? If dieting really worked, why are they making so much moolah? The fact is that dieting absolutely does not work….
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Dear Dr. Sibel, I just started making changes with food. I never want to diet again, and I’d like to eat intuitively and mindfully, but I’m having a lot of trouble figuring out if I’m really hungry or not. I’ve been on and off so many diets that I’m…
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] The Real Food Real Beauty group that I facilitate was working on mindful eating and we were talking about taking time for mindful eating experiences at meals. Not as easy as it sounds, as many of you know. Distractions abound, and it’s easy to forget that you want to…
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] When I was 12, I went on Weight Watchers for the first time. I lost weight, but that didn’t solve my problem. My problem wasn’t laziness, or lack of willpower. My problem was, and still is, emotional eating. I stay still, because I believe that I may never fully…
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] What is it that keeps you from feeling beautiful? What is it that makes you feel beautiful? What is beauty, exactly? When you see the face of someone you love, how do you feel inside? When you admire a work of art or a piece of music, how do…
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] “I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.” …
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Unfortunately, one of the things that sets the stage for shame is holiday eating. Often, there’s a feeling of having been really “bad” or over-indulgent with food choices. That can quickly turn into an inner-critic frenzy, with headlines such as: “You’re a disgusting pig.” “Did you really need that…