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13 Strategies to Avoid "Bad Luck" with Holiday Eating
Sally Myers, RD, CPT
If you struggle to avoid high-calorie holiday fare, these tips are for you. . . .
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What You Need to Know About Transfer Addiction
Katie Jay
The tragedy of addiction is that the substance (or behavior) that soothes you also harms you. If you don't want that substance or behavior to "own" your life, you have to let go. Here's where to start. . . .
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How a Thankful Heart Will Save You
Katie Jay
 Have you ever felt like you were in a churning sea of challenges? Getting tossed around by events that you felt powerless to control? Did you feel so discouraged you sought comfort in food or other compulsive behaviors? . . .
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How to Defeat Your Dark Side Without a Fight
Katie Jay
 Once inside the cave, despite his true desire to resist the dark
side, Luke draws his light saber. He is unable to resist the
temptation to engage his enemy in battle. Likewise, are you battling food temptations? . . .
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How to Save Yourself
Katie Jay
 Have you ever felt like you were in a churning sea of challenges? Getting tossed around by events that you felt powerless to control? Did you feel so discouraged you sought comfort in food or other compulsive behaviors? What else could you have done? . . .
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The Mourning After
Katie Jay
 Weight loss surgery is the beginning of many losses -- ultimately for the good. But it's big adjustment, until you realize a new day has dawned. . . .
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How to Know if You Are Nutrient Deficient
Katie Jay
 Every time I speak to a group of WLS patients, I encounter at least one person who looks almost desperate. They talk about frustrating or frightening symptoms, that I know could mean nutritional deficiencies. . . .
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Who Will You Be?
Katie Jay
 After WLS you change so quickly, it's hard to hang onto your self image. You don't look like you used to look, you can do different things, you feel different, and people treat you differently (at least some of them). So, who are you? Do you know? Maybe the better question is who will you be? . . .
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Are You Drowning?
Katie Jay
 Sometimes, no matter how much we don't want to, we have to shine the light of reality on the behaviors that have an impact on our weight. The time to do this is before we have a significant weight regain. . . .
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Is Your Brain Making You Eat?
Katie Jay
According to Dave Krueger, MD, Professional Coach, repetition of behavior is comforting because it's secure and familiar, and we like to know what to expect. He says we substitute familiarity for happiness. Does that describe you? . . .
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How Much Weight Loss Is Enough?
Katie Jay
 A common attitude for many weight loss surgery patients is: "My surgeon said I should weigh 150 pounds, but I want to weigh 135 -- the weight I was when I graduated from high school." Have you chosen a goal weight? Is it realistic? Should you even have a goal weight? . . .
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Are you obsessing about food?
Katie Jay
I am working with a coaching client who had put on about 30 extra pounds since reaching her weight-loss-surgery goal. To tackle her weight-gain proble . . .
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My Body Is a Wonderland
Katie Jay
 The physical activity I can do now is a constant reminder that I am not the woman I used to be -- I am 187 pounds lighter for one thing. And my self perceptions have changed along with my body. . . .
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Obesity. Is it an Eating Disorder?
Like most things, obesity is a complex phenomenon about which it is dangerous to generalize. What is true for one person is not necessarily true for the next. . . .
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Take Responsibility: Learn to Interpret Your Iron Lab Results
Katie Jay
Mike is anemic, feeling exhausted and lethargic. And he feels dizzy -- but he's also confused! His general practitioner told him his iron levels were good when he got his most recent lab results back. So what happened? How could he have avoided this now critical medical situation? . . .
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