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Get a Healthy Body

10 Ways to Get a Healthy Body Now

1. Eat mostly minimally processed and whole foods. This means choosing to actually eat a piece of chicken and broccoli that you get from the store rather than picking up a chicken and broccoli Lean Cuisine and having it pass for dinner. You want your food to have as few ingredients as possible. A steak

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calorie counting to binge eating

Friday Q&A– I went from calorie counting to binge eating

This question comes from Elizabeth in New York City. Q:  I went on a diet last summer. I lost 40 pounds from June to November by eating exactly 1200 calories each day and running on the treadmill for 45 minutes every morning. Starting around Thanksgiving, I lost it all. I started bingeing at the Thanksgiving

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about if you weren't thinking about food

What would you be thinking about if you weren’t thinking about food?

Have you ever thought about all the real estate in your brain obsessing over food takes? What kinds of things would you have room to think about, what kinds of things could you do if food, dieting, and body image had less of a hold? Some people use food to fill chronic emptiness. Others eat

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good thing becomes a bad thing

Compulsive Exercise–When too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing

So many people come into my office not just dealing with compulsive eating issues, but with compulsive exercise issues. But how do you know when exercise is compulsive rather than just healthy? Ask yourself these questions: 1.)Do you get upset or anxious if you can’t exercise every single day? 2.)Do you forgo social invitations in

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