Do you struggle with emotional eating? Have you gone on diet after diet and struggled to achieve your goal or make changes? Do you feel like food and weight rule […]
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Stop Eating Your Feelings This Holiday Season! End Emotional Eating
The holidays are fertile ground for emotional eating. There are several reasons for this. Stress- we often feel more stress during the holidays due to increased social activities, lack of […]
Using Intuitive Eating Skills to Stop Compulsive Eating
Intuitive Eating is the nemesis of compulsive eating. Intuitive Eating is a book and program developed by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD and Elyse Resch, MS, RD, FADA. Intuitive Eating focuses […]
Why Willpower Won’t End Overeating
We often try to rely on willpower to stop overeating. We see lack of willpower as the biggest barrier to change. We end up thinking we are lazy, stupid and […]
I Don’t Look Like I’ve Had A Baby
In my last post, I discussed how I quickly got back to my pre-pregnancy shape. My reality is that my body rebounded very quickly. What I realized in the process […]
Body After Baby
I recently had a baby. Everyone who knows that and even strangers who see me with my baby consistently comment that I don’t look like I’ve had a baby. It’s […]
Body Shame- How To Heal Your Inner Critic
By: Lindsay Melka, LPC Self-criticism, self-comparison and shame are part of being human. Early in life, we learn to compare and contrast ourselves to everything and everyone. The emotion of […]
Weight Loss and The Biggest Loser Mentality
With all of the recent PR around the weight loss and weight gain struggle of former Biggest Loser contestants, it has sparked a lot of emotion for people who struggle […]
The Struggle of Mindless Eating
Mindful and mindless eating are terms that get thrown around quite a bit lately. What does it mean to engage in mindless eating? The answer I hear to this regularly […]
Getting To The WHY Of Weight Gain Before The HOW To Lose Weight
You are trying to lose weight and you keep coming up against barrier after barrier. So often, a client will come to see me wanting to lose weight and want […]
Michelle Lewis has been working in the mental health field since 2001. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Weber State University and a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Utah. She is passionate about helping others achieve their goals.