We work hard to lose weight and live a healthier life. We lose pounds, have excess skin removed yet despite the physical transformation and less weight to carry around, many still let pieces of emotional baggage weigh them down. No doubt, years of living affected by obesity rack up quite
"Be careful how you talk to yourself because you are listening." -Lisa M. Hayes Weird question: Would you ever knowingly poison yourself? I am betting your answer would be no! Yet, how many times a day do you talk to yourself in a way that diminishes your value or undermines
Transfer Addiction After WLS: Addiction is like a whack-a-mole game: just as you clobber one, another one seems to pop up! If you struggled with food addiction prior to WLS, than you are at greater risk of developing a substitute, or transfer addiction after WLS, because addiction is the ultimate
I got on the scale this week after noticing that my clothes were feeling (and looking) tighter than I am comfortable with, and realized that I had slid right past my safety zone into new (or more truthfully, old) territory. I've been traveling a lot for work, and as a
We’re happy to introduce Angela Taylor, LCSW as a speaker for the 2014 ObesityHelp Conference! Workshop Session: I Am Changing…And I Am Perfect As I Am! It can be a challenge finding the balance between motivation to change and acceptance of where you are. It is easy to become self-critical rather than
We’re happy to introduce Diana as the 2014 ObesityHelp Conference Emcee! Our attendees fell in love with Diana at #OH2013, where she led two breakout sessions, one on Relationships and the other on Complacency. We particularly loved her direct and honest approach, sense of humor and how she made everyone
Our obese bodies are a symbol of many things...more than anything it's a sign we wear around our waist saying this how we deal with stress, anxiety and depression... 20lbs to cope with not being able to find a job, +30lbs because you don't know how to deal with your
Losing weight is one thing; keeping it off quite another. Most of the people I talk to during their pre-surgical psychological evaluations have lost weight at different times in their lives. If there were such a thing as a Lifetime Yo-Yo Diet Club, lots of people would be honorary members.
Slow and Steady How many times have you said to yourself ‘today is the day I’m going to change my life’ or ‘today is the day I’m going to get healthy’? For most people, they have the best intentions but have a hard time actually making the changes last. So
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