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I am a recovered food addict. I'll help anyone I can.
I lost 140 pounds after 25 years of miserable obesity and weight control failure, and I've kept it off for 30 years. My work as a mental health counselor and behavior therapist with addicted people led me to insights and practices that helped me finally solve my weight and food addiction problem. It's been work, but no…
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After 25 years of failed diets, I lost 140 pounds and have kept it off 30 years. You can succeed too
After years of dieting failure, I had become convinced I was born to be fat. But none of us was made to be fat. Not me. Not you. We were made to be healthy and fit. We can change. In my early 30’s I had been trying to get control of my weight on and off for 25 years, with my first doctors diet at 7 years old. After 25…
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How often do you dine out? For lunch? For dinner?
I have dinner in a restaurant no more than twice a week. It's just too caloric and stressful to try to eat reasonably in restaurants in order to manage weight. And I never "do lunch" at better restaurants. They are caloric nuclear bombs. I'll have a hot dog at BK or a hamburger at McD's, but no more than twice a week. A…
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Question: How much weight do you want to lose?
Many of my younger clients use myfitnesspal to track their caloric consumption. Most need to lose between 50 and 200 pounds. My sense is that most commenters here do not fit that profile. For those who don't mind talking about it, what is your goal?
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Do you use "Mind Control" to get motivated?
Many people use self-hypnotic and CBT techniques, like visualization and self-talk, what I call Therapeutic Psychogenics, to create motivation and actualization of dreams and goals. Do you? If so, what techniques do you practice?
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Finding The Perfect Weight Loss Lunch
A Whopper, fries and a Coke can be 1500 calories. My BLT shown below is only 250. What's your perfect weight loss lunch? How many calories in it?
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What are your best food products you use to keep your calories low?
My favorite calorie-reducing foods are Egg Beaters, I Can't believe It's not Butter spray, Brummel and Brown spread and Hellman's Reduced Fat Mayo, to name a few. Foods that help me maintain savor and satiety have been so helpful in giving me the ability to maintain my 140 pound weight loss for 30 years.
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I lost 140 pounds and have kept it off 30 years. I'll help you if I can.
I was overweight when I was young and yo-yo dieted for 25 years. At age 33, I found a solution in the field of addictions counseling, seeing my impossible habits as an addiction, lost 140 pounds and have maintained my ideal weight for over 30 years. I'll help anyone who asks, and would be happy to respond to replies here…
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"Fasting" as a CBT tool.
"Active Fasting" is a CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) reframing tool of "Therapeutic Psychogenics" that changes how we experience abstinence of eating and compulsive overeating between the planned meals of a structured habit pattern of eating. With active fasting, we think of the period of abstinence as an important…
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I lost 140 pounds and have kept it off for 30 years. I'll help you if I can.
I lost 140 pounds after 25 years of miserable obesity and weight control failure, and I've kept it off for 30 years. My work as a mental health counselor and behavior therapist with addicted people led me to insights and practices that helped me finally solve my weight problem. It's been no problem maintaining my success…
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I lost 140 pounds. Here are the Before and after Pics!
