Archive for the ‘Weight Loss’ Category
SOME WELL KNOWN DIET PLANS
Diets in most books and magazines advocate energy restriction. Some, such as ‘The Complete F-Plan Diet’ and The Pritikin Program’, are based on credible information, incorporating a high-carbohydrate/fibre, low-fat eating plan, although they tend to be extreme and may be difficult to sustain for a lifetime. Less reasonable but readily available diets that either exclude [...]
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT FOR BULIMIA: STAGE TWO AND STAGE THREE
Stage two
During the second phase, we continue to work on developing regular eating habits. We also begin to change the makeup of her diet.
As we have seen, people with eating disorders often adopt rigid rules about what can and can’t be eaten. They create a list of “forbidden foods”-fattening or sweet foods they want but [...]
WIN THE FAT WAR: A TAPE RECORDER TOOK HER FROM BOTTOM TO TOP
Beth Linden remembers meeting her little daughter’s new friend as if it were yesterday. “She looked at my daughter and said, ‘I didn’t know your mommy was fat,’” the 39-year-old Phoenix resident
It was the worst—and, as it turned out, the best—moment of her life.
Devastated by the remark, Beth—then age 30 and 240 pounds—took out a [...]