Have Patience!
When you lack patience, you feel upset, anxious, tense, irritated, nervous, frustrated, out of control, ill-tempered, rushed, and often ignored. When you have patience, you feel calm, peaceful, tolerant, content, accepting, compassionate, and often relaxed. You choose. read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 18, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Susan McQuillan, M.S., RDN Tags: Anxiety Diet Personality Self-Help focus goals impatience weight control Source Type: news

Trust Yourself
Take responsibility for your actions and trust that you are making the healthiest choices and decisions for yourself under your current circumstances.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 17, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Susan McQuillan, M.S., RDN Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Self-Help anxiety control emotional overeating food addict intuition trust Source Type: news

At Least They're Trying
Soda has been blamed for playing a huge role in the rise of obesity rates among youth and now soda companies are doing something about this. But, will a fancy marketing campaign actually help to improve kids' health?read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 17, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Charlotte N. Markey, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Health marketing Obesity soda Source Type: news

Why Do You Gain Weight When You Exercise?
You begin a rigorous exercise program because it could not hurt to lose a little weight and, as I tell my patients, such exercise can improve many things, including chronic pain. But then you find you are gaining weight. Is it time to raise the white flag and buy that cookies-of-the-month club subscription?read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 14, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mark Borigini, M.D. Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Self-Help chronic pain chronic pain and weight gain chronic pain psychology today exercise and weight gain overcoming pain overcoming pain psychology today Source Type: news

Can We Please Stop Saying Picky Eating Is Normal?
Telling parents that picky eating is a normal stage of development is a message that is ruining our kids' eating habits. It disempowers parents, ties their hands, and produces the very dynamics it's intended to solve. It's also incorrect. So, to all the experts out there: let's stop expecting our kids to eat so poorly, and then, maybe they will stop eating so poorly.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 13, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Dina Rose, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Diet Parenting childhood obesity neophobia sociology Source Type: news

Soylent Bad: America's Toxic Relationship With Food
The Soylent trend represents the worst in American food culture: the tendency to disregard the simple joys of natural culinary delights and sensual living for a bottom-line, work and efficiency-driven lifestyle. Eating should be about pleasure, mindfulness and relationships, not about concerns over wasting time.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 12, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Jean Kim, M.D. Tags: Diet Happiness Health Stress eating fast food food choice foodies soylent Source Type: news

What Not to Say to Someone Trying to Lose Weight
The things you say to a dieter can help or hurt. And, if you're the dieter, your responses can affect your ultimate success. It serves us all to find ways to communicate and support each other’s efforts in good self-care.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 12, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Terese Weinstein Katz, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Source Type: news

Eat Spinach, Lose Weight?
Eating spinach made Popeye strong but adding this spinach extract to your drink may help you curb cravings and lose weight.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 12, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Edward Abramson, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Health Integrative Medicine Source Type: news

The Real Reason We Don't Exercise
People say they don’t exercise because they have no time, but in the same breath talk about how much they want to get healthy and how much they believe exercise is the path to health. It is a puzzling contradiction. Or is it? read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 11, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Sherry Pagoto, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Health Sport and Competition exercise Obesity weight loss Source Type: news

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Tips to Overcome the Disorder
The first way to get ready for the holiday season is to check out your mood today.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 10, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D. Tags: Anxiety Depression Diet Happiness Source Type: news

Steadying the Ups and Downs
Stop going on and off weight-loss diets, and get realistic. Make sensible lifestyle changes and find a partner in weight control to help you stay motivated to reach your goals. Most importantly, accept who you are and who you have the potential to be, and stop trying to reach impossible goals. That's how you'll get into your very best shape and stay there.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 10, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Susan McQuillan, M.S., RDN Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Self-Help healthy body image weight control weight cycling Yo-Yo Dieting Source Type: news

When You're Ready, You'll Get it Right!
Stop going on and off weight-loss diets, and get realistic. Make sensible lifestyle changes and find a partner in weight control to help you stay motivated to reach your goals. Most importantly, accept who you are and who you have the potential to be, and stop trying to reach impossible goals. That's how you'll get into your very best shape and stay there.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 10, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Susan McQuillan, M.S., RDN Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Self-Help healthy body image weight control weight cycling Yo-Yo Dieting Source Type: news

Dieting Ups and Downs: Let's Move On!
Stop going on and off weight-loss diets, and get realistic. Make sensible lifestyle changes and find a partner in weight control to help you stay motivated to reach your goals. Most importantly, accept who you are and who you have the potential to be, and stop trying to reach impossible goals. That's how you'll get into your very best shape and stay there.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 10, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Susan McQuillan, M.S., RDN Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Self-Help healthy body image weight control weight cycling Yo-Yo Dieting Source Type: news

The Gut Microbiome, Anxiety and Depression: 6 Steps to Take
Can the bugs in your intestine help keep anxiety and depression away?read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 8, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc Tags: Anxiety Depression Diet Psychiatry brain candida gaba gut microbiome mood naturopathic medicine probiotics yeast Source Type: news

The Placebo Diet
The paleo diet holds that our bodies are out of sync with modern food, with overweight and many degenerative diseases as a consequence. Though it's scientifically dubious, some say the paleo diet really works. How can that be?read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - November 8, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kirby Farrell, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Self-Help evolutionary psychology food funny history of food philosophy Source Type: news