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Amy’s Corner
Practical guidance from Amy Eiges on cravings, behavior change, self-compassion, lifestyle, and the patient experience.
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Choosing Maintenance: An Act of Self-Compassion
I was recently working with someone during a health coaching appointment who had spent most of her life fighting with her body. She knew every diet, every rule,…
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10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Weight Loss Journey
My whole life, I thought weight loss was about food and willpower, but after decades in the trenches, it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. If…
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When Your “After” Still Looks Like Someone Else’s “Before”
There’s a kind of PTSD that comes from living in a morbidly obese body for decades. There is the reliving of the obvious moments — the stares,…
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Health Isn’t a Willpower Problem, It’s a People Problem
If you’re trying to change your diet, reclaim your health and build a better life, you know how isolating it can feel. The world is not set up…
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Medical Gaslighting: Ignoring Patients’ Needs Undermines Health and Trust
I have spent my entire life fearing doctors. No matter what I went in for, an ear infection, the flu, a broken wrist, the conversation always circled back…
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Health, Grief, and Why Support Matters More Than Willpower
Last week, my beloved dog, Oliver, passed away. He came into my life as a salve. After my mother died, when I was reeling and my siblings and…
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Amy’s Corner: Finding Strength in Recovery
Reflections from the ObesityHelp Conference Recently, Dr. Tro and I spoke at the ObesityHelp conference, an organization dedicated to bariatric patients. I’m always a bit nervous before I…
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Weight Watchers is Dead
Last year, Weight Watchers – the company long held up as the gold standard in smart and sensible dieting – filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to restructure…
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination: Why We Eat and Scroll at Night
Learn what revenge bedtime procrastination means, why nighttime eating and scrolling can happen together, and practical ways to change the pattern.
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Amy’s Corner: New Year, New Challenges
I used to start off every new year with a laundry list of ambitious resolutions, but there was never any real understanding of how I would actually achieve them.…
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Amy’s Corner: Diabetes is Personal
It is mid-October as I sit down to write this, which used to be my favorite time of year, but fifteen years ago, on October 20, I lost…
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Amy’s Corner: #WhyWait
And just like that, the summer is over, and in only 12 weeks we will officially close out the year. Come January, many of us will be…
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Diet & Weight Loss Myths We Tell Ourselves
There’s lots of misinformation out there, but often the greatest diet and weight loss lies are the ones we tell ourselves. The Food I’m Craving Will Taste Awesome.…
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Small Changes + Time = Big Impact
A thought experiment: you have a pile of sand. A heap. Remove one grain of sand and place it next to the pile. How many piles do…
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How to Recover When You’ve Been Off Plan
Are you filled with food-regret, feeling ashamed, and ready to hit the ‘Refresh” button on your diet? Have you eaten so off plan you cannot fathom how to…
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The Importance of Self-Care
It’s no secret that as a society we are all under a ridiculous amount of stress, and that our own self-care often suffers serious neglect as a result.…
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Lessons Learned on the Road to Losing 225 Pounds
Keep your total carbs low. Shorten your eating window. Move your body. Get enough sleep and manage your stress. Those are the basics. But the road to leaving…
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“Now What?” (Is an Open-Ended Question)
I am an obesity parolee. It is the most apt description Dr. Tro and I have come up with for what it feels like to lose 200 pounds…
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Are You Hungry? The 6 Defenses for Sustainable Weight Loss
By Amy Eiges For decades, it felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall trying to lose weight and improve my health. Every day brought…
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Tales From The Scale: The Evil Metal Box
Health Coach Amy Eiges: Dealing With a Bad Case of the F***-Its By Amy Eiges This is not the blog post I intended to sit down and write…
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