Why Portion Control Doesn’t Work (And What To Do Instead)
Let me know if this sounds familiar to you. Healing from compulsive overeating / bingeing is impossible within this cycle. You go on a diet or meal plan and you do really well with it for a little...
View ArticleWho Can You Trust?
I’ve been seriously crazed this week in preparing for the HAES® Master Class and Rosh Hashanah, so I’ve decided to share a snippet of my book, Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal. I...
View ArticleDr. Deah’s Guilt-Free Diet (Not THAT Kind of Diet)
Yes, you read that correctly. I am promoting a restrictive diet and I am inviting you to join me in my Guilt Loss Program. One of the comments I hear frequently in my work is some version of: “I really...
View ArticleEnding The War With Your Body
It started even before New Year’s. The onslaught of ads and messaging telling you that the fun was over. Eating for pleasure, partying, etc. You had done too much. You passed the limit. And now it is...
View ArticleEnvision Your Diet-Free Life
One of the many things that I dislike about diets is that they’re so all-consuming. Personally, I think that dieters need to think and talk about their diets all the time because it’s really not a...
View ArticleWhy IS This Night Different from all Other Nights? (Or Is It?)
Passover is one of the many Jewish holidays that is celebrated with a ritual feast. A feast filled with symbolic foods and a prescribed schedule for when to eat these foods. Depending upon how...
View ArticleWhy I Told My Students That the “Freshman Fifteen” is Bullshit
I should emphasize something: I rarely swear in my classes. Sure, I often teach Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” during the first week of my composition courses, and plenty of the readings I assign...
View ArticleDispatches from Ladyblogland
So much good reading this week! Dye your armpit hair if you like. It’s your body! Refinery 29 This is enough to melt my cold, cynical heart: These parents retracted the original birth announcement for...
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