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Diet

The Best Diet Is the One You'll Stick With

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on April 10, 2015

This bottom line seems to emerge whenever diets are compared over longer periods: there are no magic bullets, and the best diet is the one you’ll stick with. What will you stick with, though? That question itself can be hard to answer.

This bottom line seems to emerge whenever diets are compared over longer periods: there are no magic bullets, and the best diet is the one you’ll stick with. What will you stick with, though? That question itself can be hard to answer.

Do you encourage or freak out if your normal weight teen wants to diet? When it comes to the thin-line of adolescent girls' "not quite" eating disorders, parents face new challenges—even when childhood eating issues have been minimal or non-existent before.

Diet

What Not to Say to Someone Trying to Lose Weight

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on November 12, 2014

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.

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.

What Should Children Eat? Asks this year’s Food Issue of the New York Times Sunday magazine. The issue explores how to get kids to eat more adventurously, what kids around the world eat for breakfast (not always sweetened cereal....), and more. Continue the discussion here by pondering what encourages better choices, what instills too much fear?

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Weight Loss Surgery and Sane Eating: Can they coexist?

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on September 12, 2014

How does weight loss surgery mesh--or not--with the goal of eating sanely? This question triggers strong reactions—it's an "easy way out” or a “band-aid”. Or, on the other side, it's an effortless solution. The idea of surgery as a drastic solution seesaws with the idea that it's a lazy solution. Neither idea is true, or helpful.

How does weight loss surgery mesh--or not--with the goal of eating sanely? This question triggers strong reactions—it's an "easy way out” or a “band-aid”. Or, on the other side, it's an effortless solution. The idea of surgery as a drastic solution seesaws with the idea that it's a lazy solution. Neither idea is true, or helpful.

Being kinder to yourself leads helps habit change — including eating-habit change — for several reasons. Some overeaters fear that self-compassion will decrease self-control. Others find mental habits hard to break. It's possible to cultivate a more self-compassionate stance with these guidelines.

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Saner Eating Makes News: And Four Ways to Use the News

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on May 8, 2014

While we struggle in private with our own weight and diet demons, this public health and food environment does also help or hinder us

While we struggle in private with our own weight and diet demons, this public health and food environment does also help or hinder us

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Weighing in on “Weighing In”

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on April 10, 2014

It’s a common question, with an answer that has shifted over time: “How often should I weigh myself?”

It’s a common question, with an answer that has shifted over time: “How often should I weigh myself?”

Education

Addictive Foods

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on March 4, 2014

How do you deal with the foods that get you in trouble?

How do you deal with the foods that get you in trouble?

Diet

How Diet Books Can Help You Lose Weight

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on January 17, 2014

A book can help you to lose weight and stay fit—but never in the ways you might expect.

A book can help you to lose weight and stay fit—but never in the ways you might expect.

Diet

Counting More Than Calories: Factoring in Months and Years

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on October 30, 2013

Who moves through the feasts and parties and candies and dips without regaining?

Who moves through the feasts and parties and candies and dips without regaining?

Those of us concerned with diet, health, weight, eating disorders, and addiction follow what I call “Sugar News” with great interest. Bingers now benefit most.

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"Food Is a Wonderful Place to Hide"

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on June 27, 2013

For many, starting in childhood or beyond, food becomes a source of solace and a companion—not only in hard times, but at the end of even normally stressful days.

For many, starting in childhood or beyond, food becomes a source of solace and a companion—not only in hard times, but at the end of even normally stressful days.

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Stand Up to Lose Weight

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on May 24, 2013

It's not always the grand gestures that add up to strong health habits. Sometimes something as simple as standing more, moving more, can add up to a big difference

It's not always the grand gestures that add up to strong health habits. Sometimes something as simple as standing more, moving more, can add up to a big difference

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Hot Off the Press: Sane Eating News

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on May 10, 2013

Can the media possibly bring us more on diet and weight? Yes, it seems so....though recent offerings seem especially helpful to those trying to eat more sanely, whether for weight loss or beating food addiction.

Can the media possibly bring us more on diet and weight? Yes, it seems so....though recent offerings seem especially helpful to those trying to eat more sanely, whether for weight loss or beating food addiction.

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A Weight Loss Toolbox

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on March 18, 2013

Most of us need a “toolbox” to stay on a helpful plan, to stick with changes, and, finally, to turn changes into habits. At least five "eating trouble spots" can benefit.

Most of us need a “toolbox” to stay on a helpful plan, to stick with changes, and, finally, to turn changes into habits. At least five "eating trouble spots" can benefit.

Addiction

Kicking a Food Addiction: Six Points On the Path to Peace

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on January 24, 2013

By now the scientific verdict is clear: some foods can spark cravings that rival those of any abused drug. These days, understanding and supports have solidified for the binger, though, and clearer paths to freedom can emerge. These paths often include six predictable points along the way.

By now the scientific verdict is clear: some foods can spark cravings that rival those of any abused drug. These days, understanding and supports have solidified for the binger, though, and clearer paths to freedom can emerge. These paths often include six predictable points along the way.

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Leaving the Kingdom of Sweets

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on January 2, 2013

As we leave the holidays behind, most of us also exit the Kingdom of Sweets....here are three pathways for cutting sugar successfully in the New Year.

As we leave the holidays behind, most of us also exit the Kingdom of Sweets....here are three pathways for cutting sugar successfully in the New Year.

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Simple Gifts: Ten Not-So-Hard Ways to Avoid Holiday Pounds

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on November 30, 2012

Whatever else this holiday season may mean to you, it’s the season of “too much”. Yet even if you decide not to try to lose weight this month, you may well want to avoid gain.

Whatever else this holiday season may mean to you, it’s the season of “too much”. Yet even if you decide not to try to lose weight this month, you may well want to avoid gain.

Career

Stand Up to Keep Weight Down

Terese Weinstein Katz Ph.D. on November 2, 2012

The world presents many challenges to staying fit and eating well. But thankfully, an easy move here or there really does help—in other words we needn’t struggle and strain for every bit of progress. Sitting less, for example, forms a reasonable and reachable goal--and one that has clear payoffs for health and weight.

The world presents many challenges to staying fit and eating well. But thankfully, an easy move here or there really does help—in other words we needn’t struggle and strain for every bit of progress. Sitting less, for example, forms a reasonable and reachable goal--and one that has clear payoffs for health and weight.