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Mar 23 2016

Resentment is a red flag emotion

by Marilyn McKenna

Resentment is like a clichéd country western song, “I been wronged.” That is, somebody or something has crossed a line and you’re left feeling battered and bruised. Depending on the particulars of the situation, you experience feelings anywhere from miffed to downright furious. We’ve all experienced it: a girlfriend once again overlooks your birthday, though you always […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Anger, Emotional Eating, Hopelessness, Powerlessness, Resentment

Mar 21 2016

PODCAST: “Phases of Eating Psychology” Naked Broad View Interview with Elisa Jordan, EPISODE 11

by Marilyn McKenna

There’s a method to our madness … with food, anyway.  In part two of our interview with yoga instructor and eating psychology coach Elisa Jordan we break down the 11 phases of eating psychology. Each stage can be beneficial, but it’s easy to get stuck in one phase at the expense of balance. Listen in […]

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Yoga

Feb 2 2016

The 2 ways exercise makes weight loss not just possible, but permanent (and it’s not what you think!)

by Marilyn McKenna

    We’re all obsessed with the number of calories we burn during our workouts. Every cardio machine at the gym has a calorie counter on it (never mind that they’re wildly inaccurate). All the popular weight loss apps have an exercise component that will “credit” your workout and magically award you more calories to […]

Filed Under: Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Calorie Burn, Cardio, Competitive Bodybuilding, Emotional Eating, Heart Rate Monitor, Nutrition for Athletes, Running, Yoga

Dec 28 2015

The 3 ways your emotions screw up your diet

by Marilyn McKenna

Not all emotional eating is what we think of as “emotional eating.” What do I mean by that? You’d think that when I weighed 265 pounds and overate nearly every day, I was an “emotional eater.” And yes, I ate when I was frustrated or when I was sad, even when I was bored. That’s […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Emotional Eating, Food Addiction, Food Addiction Quiz, Food Addiction Recovery

Oct 30 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter 10 “The Price of Change: What Price Will You Pay?”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 166– 168 of Eat Like It Matters: This may sound harsh. Certainly it’s a big ol’ serving of tough love with no holds barred. And the last thing I’m gonna say before I launch into it is that I made every one of these mistakes, to the nth degree, for decades. So the tough love […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Emotional Eating, Price Of Change, Weight Loss

Oct 15 2015

Let’s take happiness seriously

by Marilyn McKenna

As a confirmed curmudgeon (seriously, even when I was a much younger woman), I’ve always assumed that happy people were just jolly types who went along untouched by the daily drudgery that served as confirmation to me that life was made up of to-do lists, responsibilities, bills and other people’s agendas to fulfill. And back […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Anxiety, Choose Joy, Emotional Eating, Happiness, Mantra, Mindful Eating, The Happiness Project, White Chocolate Eggnog Truffles

Sep 17 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Four “Digging Out of Emotional Eating and Reclaiming Ourselves”

by Marilyn McKenna

When I look at this book in its entirety, it strikes me how every single strategy I’ve learned—really, every single point I make— is about putting yourself first. When you put yourself first you have high standards for yourself and your life. You expect to be happy and to have satisfying relationships with your family […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Emotional Eating, Put Yourself First, Reclaiming Ourselves

Sep 8 2015

Book Excerpt: Chapter Three “The Root of Emotional Eating”

by Marilyn McKenna

From pages 48 – 49 … While I disengaged from my physical body and pretended not to notice the damage I did to myself over and over again with food, the most destructive manifestation of my denial was the detachment I felt from my conflicted misery in my role as wife and mom. It’s extremely […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Book Excerpt, Eat Like It Matters, Emotional Eating

Aug 13 2015

Podcast: Is it possible to find success out of failure?

by Marilyn McKenna

  This isn’t some pollyanna, feel-good talk about how to find success after having failed at something. In this podcast I delve into what it means to feel like a personal failure. After years of feeling like I was nothing but a disappointment, and after a devastating rock bottom experience, I heard a small but […]

Filed Under: Podcasts, Weight Loss Tagged With: Childhood Obesity, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Eating, Podcast

Jul 11 2015

Go ahead, take the summer off!

by Marilyn McKenna

“Go ahead, take the summer off!” Don’t you wish somebody would say that to you??? Like maybe your boss? No such luck, I’m afraid. And I couldn’t in good conscience advise you to take the summer off from healthy eating and exercise. After all, we’re coming up on the halfway mark for the “100 days […]

Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: Emotional Eating, Negative Self Talk, Newsletter

Mar 23 2015

What we can learn from our inner 12-year-old

by Marilyn McKenna

From our adult vantage point we look back on our twelve year-old selves and think we had it made: no job, no bills, no responsibilities. We could sleep in on the weekends and take off on our bikes and hang out with our friends for hours. Sounds like our idea of heaven now, right? But […]

Filed Under: Healthy Families, Weight Loss Tagged With: Emotional Abuse, Emotional Eating, Inner 12-Year-Old, Obesity

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