Body & Mind

Test Your Health IQ!

October 31, 2012 · 0 comments

How much do you know about your Health? Take the Quiz! 1. True or False: Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women of all ages. 2. True or False: It takes two minutes for blood to cycle through your body. 3. True or False: To maintain your

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Mind Over Platter

October 31, 2012 · 0 comments

Over the last 30 years, obesity rates have sky rocketed. This jump in obesity may not only be due to what we are eating now, but how much more we are eating now versus 30 years ago. In their book The 9-Inch“Diet”: Exposing The Big Conspiracy in America, Alex Bogusky

Healthy Halloween Tips

October 27, 2012 · 0 comments

Healthy Halloween Tips Here comes Halloween!  You have worked hard all year to help your children maintain a healthy, well-balanced diet and this much anticipated one day of the year can easily sabotage your mission.  Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years and is steadily on

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Mind Matters: Mindful Eating

October 26, 2012 · 0 comments

Is Mindful Eating a Habit for You? Have you ever eaten something and not remembered eating it? And the only evidence that you ate anything at all is an empty wrapper or an empty plate? One of the important habits for WLS post-ops to practice is mindful eating. Mindful eating

This Is My Body, Deal With It!

October 24, 2012 · 0 comments

. "WARNING: Picture might be considered obscene because subject is not thin. And we all know that only skinny people can show their stomachs and celebrate themselves. Well I'm not going to stand for that. This is my body. Not yours. MINE. Meaning the choices I make about it, are

Are You A Food Addict?

October 24, 2012 · 0 comments

We asked OH Members...Are You A Food Addict? OH Members who answered yes, remember the moments when they finally accepted that they were addicted to food: I realized I was literally only looking forward to meal times. I would wake up and wonder, “Hmm, I think I’ll get chicken nuggets

Be Free

October 23, 2012 · 0 comments

Be Free by Jessica M. Williams I felt dead in my body, emotionless in my mind. Like I had nothing worth leaving behind. My body was a prison, my life was a joke. I lived by the promise of death, told myself “tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll take my last breath.” Afraid

Weight Loss: The Integration of Mind and Body

October 22, 2012 · 0 comments

Weight Loss: The Integration of Mind and Body Many people believe that they know what a healthy diet for losing or maintaining weight loss looks like. As a clinical psychologist who has worked with bariatric surgery patients for six years (I have done more than 1,100 pre-surgical evaluations for bariatric

Mind Matters: Emotional Abuse

October 21, 2012 · 0 comments

Mind Matters:  Emotional Abuse There are many types of abuse. Sexual abuse is horrendous and apparent that it occurred. Another type of abuse that is also horrendous, but less obvious, is emotional abuse. Because relationships exist on a spectrum, it can be hard to tell when a behavior crosses the

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Goal Of The Month: Dance Like No One’s Watching!

October 17, 2012 · 0 comments

Goal Of The Month:  I want to dance like no one’s watching! Many of you have heard this famous inspirational quote:  “Dance like no one’s watching, sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ll never get hurt, and … Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.” October’s OH goal of the