2020-12-14 13:20
Covid turned everything upside down…we’re working from home, connecting on Zoom, and rarely going anywhere. So why not mix things up this holiday season? With an increased lockd… Read More
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2020-10-30 18:20
We all need a bit of me-time to relax, unwind, and enjoy a little pampering. You don’t have to pay a lot of money to get the amazing experiences of a spa if you create your own at home… Read More
2020-07-16 18:46
Adopt a Meditation Practice:I started meditating 32 years ago, and it has been a daily part of my life ever since. I teach clients how to develop their own meditation routine, and I tell the… Read More
2020-05-08 13:49
Every day many people add a little, seemingly harmless, white substance to their coffee, tea, cereal, and smoothies. Sugar sweetens our food and brings us pleasure. You wouldn’t crimin… Read More
2020-03-13 17:46
There is a ton of information out there about antioxidants. Whereas many health topics are here today and gone tomorrow antioxidants are here to stay. There are three families of antioxidant… Read More
2020-03-09 22:22
It was a typical Friday night. After a long week of work, and of stressing and feeling down on myself about just about anything and everything, I stopped at the store and purchased my favori… Read More
2020-02-28 16:40
Stress is a huge contributing factor to emotional eating. It leaves us feeling overwhelmed, chaotic, and makes us reach for food to stuff down those uncomfortable feelings. The good news is… Read More
2020-02-21 13:56
Are you frustrated and discouraged because over and over you hear about “the ultimate weight loss solution”, “the magic cure for belly fat”, and the “5 second e… Read More
2020-02-14 14:11
Studies increasingly find that friendship and a sense of community can provide a higher quality of life and overall well-being. Research conducted amongst older people in Australia showed th… Read More
2020-02-07 16:43
You have a goal. Somehow you have to motivate yourself to achieve it. If you don’t have a full-time coach to hold you accountable, which do you think is more effective: The whip or the… Read More
2017-10-04 19:07
Did you ever read Judy Blume Books as a kid? They were my favorite! Books like:
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret.
Blubber
Deenie
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing
I loved her books. I w… Read More
2017-08-10 11:53
Dear Tricia: &nb&helli…Read More
2017-08-08 07:51
Dear Tricia:
As far as eating the right foods and portion sizes, I do well at home during the week. But whenever there is a social event or potluck, I tend to overeat and my portion sizes ar… Read More
2017-07-28 12:56
Dear Tricia:
There always seems to be a lot of press related to the sexual molestation of minors. I have a hard time understanding why these people do what they do. There seems to be a patte… Read More
2017-07-14 15:12
Dear Tricia:
My whole life I have felt fat. I am actually a normal weight, but I don’t feel like it. I have always felt bigger than my friends and been embarrassed about my weight. But… Read More
2017-07-07 06:42
Dear Tricia, with all this news about our economy and unstable stock market, job losses and foreclosures, I feel depressed about the state of our nation. I find that I’m consoling myse… Read More
2017-06-30 12:57
Summertime is awesome. The weather is gorgeous (even if it’s not sunny) and there always seems to be more time to be with family and friends.
Unfortunately, summer also means more part… Read More
2017-06-26 23:15
The soy industry has had to contend with “bad labelitis” for quite some time, though its finally breaking free from its bad reputation. The National Soybean Research Center tried… Read More
2017-06-20 07:15
This is for all the mothers in the world who have kids with weight issues.
Dear Tricia,
My child is overweight and I’m extremely concerned for her because I know from personal experien… Read More
2017-06-19 23:15
In a classic food psychology book harshly titled Obese Humans and Rats, researchers Stanley Schachter and his team determined that the more hassle to obtain food, the less we eat.
If white r… Read More
2017-06-13 12:12
“Dear Tricia,
I’m an emotional eater. I’m convinced my situation would improve if only my head wasn’t spinning a hundred miles a minute. I can’t turn it off. I… Read More
2017-06-12 23:15
In his book Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink relays a story about a particular Midwestern jail, where the sheriff noticed an interesting trend: the inmates would gain 20 – 25 pounds duri… Read More
2017-06-05 23:15
Most people, dieters and non-dieters alike, are aware of the fact that the French seem to have more of a handle on their weight than the average American. And we often wonder why. This is a… Read More
2017-06-05 15:32
Dear Tricia,
I’m a 43-year old woman with an eating disorder. I’ve been bulimic for 25 years now, starting when I was 18. I went to treatment when I was 20, but I still con… Read More
2017-05-29 23:15
During a “wrap party” for 20/20 who shot an episode on food consumption, Brian Wansink (author of Mindless Eating) and other researchers played a trick on the attendants, who wer… Read More
2017-05-22 23:15
We all know people (or we are those people) with fierce label loyalty. You simply won’t drink Pepsi if there is no Coke available. If you’re going to gobble down a pint of ice cr… Read More
2017-05-22 11:40
Dear Tricia,
I’ve been doing my best to treat myself with care over the past several months. I’ve noticed; however, that a few of my friends and family members are subtly trying… Read More
2017-05-15 23:15
We are creatures of habit…and suggestion. Often the mere mention that something is “delicious” is enough to prepare our minds and taste buds for a taste extravaganza, whet… Read More
2017-05-08 23:15
“Past associations are the most common reason a food becomes a comfort food. Some of these associations can be linked to specific individuals (‘My father loved green bean cassero… Read More
2017-05-01 23:15
Most of us inherently know that people who watch a lot of television are more likely to be overweight, but how bad is it? Well according to Brian Wansink in Mindless Overeating, watching tel… Read More
2017-04-24 23:15
We all have our own individual take on the best comfort food, based on our own personal history as well as our physiology. With that said, Brian Wansink (author of the book Mindless Eating)… Read More
2017-04-17 23:15
As we begin to bring more awareness to the moment, the exact moment, when we reach for food, we also begin to notice how quickly we consume food.
From Brian Wansink’s book Mindless Eat… Read More
2017-04-10 23:15
The scent of food can often be more powerful than the food itself. The smell of bacon? Heaven. Or how about an apple pie? Or a turkey baking in the oven? Just like the cartoons, we can almos… Read More
2017-04-03 23:15
The Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois looks and feels just like a restaurant. That’s because, in a sense, it is. It’s also a lab where… Read More
2017-03-27 23:15
Comfort foods have a bad reputation. Most people don’t have carrot sticks topping off their list of comfort foods, for instance (unless they are glazed and cooked with butter and brown… Read More
2017-03-20 23:15
In a study performed by Brian Wansink (author of Mindless Eating) and his graduate students, he proves that the larger the container put before you, the more you’ll eat.
Wansink and hi… Read More
2017-02-27 14:05
From the savory cereals to dusty pancakes and delicious pastas, grains and their flour derivatives have always been a mainstay on so many family dining tables.
The “white or wheat&rdqu&hell…Read More
2017-02-21 07:46
Yesterday I did something kind of scary.
I invited 6 incredible women friends over to help me read through the manuscript of my new book.
Several of these women have had their own struggles… Read More
2017-02-20 23:15
In an excerpt from Brian Wansink’s book Mindless Eating, the author retells a conversation with a friend:
Over coffee a new friend commented that he’d lost 30 pounds within the p… Read More
2017-02-13 23:15
None of us choose to be fat. As a child, we don’t say, “I want to grow up and be large, Mommy!” It happens, often subtly and slowly. Years worth of misguided eating habits… Read More
2017-02-06 13:57
Holidays like Christmas, New Year’s, Valentines Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving are usually challenging times for food addicts.
Every kind of sugary, starchy, f… Read More
2017-01-30 23:10
Most diets are based on the concept of deprivation, in one form or the other. And as we know, they are rarely successful. We deny ourselves everything from chocolate to pizza to pasta in the… Read More
2017-01-23 22:55
Culturally, we are all taught to believe that bad moods = comfort foods. Whether it’s the lonely woman home at night eating a pint of ice cream or the overworked binger who scoffs down… Read More
2017-01-18 22:42
Most of us realize our desire for a particular food can mask an unmet emotional need. Perhaps we need a good cry or a hug and instead we find ourselves opening the refrigerator, as if that c… Read More
2017-01-13 14:02
Deprivation diets don’t work. Adjustment diets do. Adjustment diets are based on making slight alterations to your food intake and lifestyle that may take a little longer to but last o… Read More
2017-01-05 18:05
40 adults were invited to watch a videotape and give some feedback when it was over. They were also given a complimentary bag of M&Ms to eat while reviewing the video. Half were given a… Read More
2016-12-29 17:37
The New Year naturally gets us thinking about how we want things to be different. We think about what didn’t go so well in the last year and how we want to have new experiences in the… Read More
2016-12-29 17:32
I was listening to holiday music and a song from Handel’s Messiah started playing. It filled me with such sweet feelings of love and warmth.
My dad, who died 15 years ago of cancer, al… Read More
2016-11-15 13:55
If you assume that on January 1st you’ll automatically have weight to lose on account of holiday eating, think again. There is a way that you can enjoy the holidays—including gre… Read More
2016-11-15 13:55
If you’re anything like me, you get a little nervous to go out and socialize. Parties are supposed to be fun, but if you suffer from even a tinge of social anxiety, things can get a li… Read More
2016-11-15 13:55
Holidays are typically stressful everyone. Even if you boycotted the holidays, you’d still have to contend with the traffic, crowds and endless tracks of holiday music playing everywhe… Read More
2016-11-15 13:55
Sugar is everywhere, especially during the holidays. Everyone is baking goodies loaded with sugar, and candy and cookies of all different shapes and colored sprinkles abound. It seems… Read More
2016-11-15 13:55
It seems strange that so many people feel depressed during the holidays, when it’s a time is a time when we’re supposed to feel joyful. The experience of feeling down during the… Read More
2016-11-15 13:55
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2016-11-15 13:50
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2013-04-26 20:35
By Tricia Greaves Nelson
Roy and Tricia with clients, Tsilah and KimReading books about happiness is nice, but it doesn’t always translate into having more happiness in our own lives… Read More
2013-04-12 10:37
By Tricia Greaves Nelson
Roy and Tricia in 1990
I have had the honor of knowing Roy Nelson for over 25 years now. As a spiritual healer and mentor, Roy has been responsible for changing my… Read More
2013-04-12 09:38
By Roy Nelson
This is the time of year when, in the Jewish tradition we celebrate the Jews’ freedom from bondage, and in the Christian tradition, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus… Read More
2013-04-12 07:06
Did you know that sugar is the #1 additive used in our country’s food today, beating out all other 2600 additives combined? Nowadays sugar is being added to practically everything fro… Read More
2013-04-12 06:17
Apple Jack’s, PixyStix, Mary Jane’s and Fireballs. Am I dating myself? My favorite sweets were constant companions growing up. And it didn’t end with childhood. Sugar binge… Read More
2013-02-07 16:04
What is the number 1 most consumed vegetable in America?
Does pizza sauce count as a vegetable?
What percentage of kids don’t eat at least some vegetables every day?
Childhood obesity… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Over the past 4 months I have been struggling with a health issue that has driven me to the brink of MADNESS. This was a somewhat mysterious problem with very uncomfortable side effects. I w… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
When it’s hot and sticky outside, the most natural thing for anyone to want to do is eat ice cream! But the prospect of packing on pounds and not fitting into our favorite swimsuit may… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Roy Nelson In today’s busy world, you’re busier than ever. Between driving kids to practice, holding down a job, sitting in on charity boards, checking in on aging parents, an… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
By Roy Nelson Those struggling with weight loss typically believe that they should have the willpower to stop binge eating. Yet time and time again they do everything they can to quit bingei… Read More
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