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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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Healing Your Relationship with Food in Two Parts: Biology First, Compassion Second
I view my journey to sustainable weight loss and healing my relationship with food as two distinct parts. The first is understanding my body’s relationship to food. Not…
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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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What is Food Grief? (And Why It’s Not Actually About the Food)
If you had told me a few years ago, when I weighed over 400 pounds and was seriously considering bariatric surgery, that I’d someday be writing about grief…
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Self-Loathing is a Learned Behavior
In regard to my relationship with food, weight and body image, I’ve always secretly felt like I was more broken than most people, and that if anyone…
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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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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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Nighttime Eating Isn’t About Hunger. It’s About This.
I didn’t know there was a name for it, but the second I heard the phrase Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, it hit me like a ton of bricks as…
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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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Handling Your Diet Over the Holidays: Mastering the Pivot
There’s something so familiar and appealing about starting your diet on a Monday. A new page, a fresh calendar, a psychological exhale. And January 1? Even when it…
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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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Breaking the Cycle:
Letting Go of ShameAs a health coach, I have a front row seat to the terrible things people think and say about themselves over their eating – the cruel self-judgment, the…
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Beyond Diets: How I Found
the Support I DeservedTwo years into my low-carb journey, I found myself in a place I knew all too well after decades on the diet-binge rollercoaster: panicked, frustrated, and angry at…
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Nighttime Eating and Scrolling: Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
I didn’t know there was a name for it – Revenge Bedtime Procrastination – but the second I heard the phrase, it hit me like a ton of…
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6 Simple Steps to A More Satisfying Holiday Season
This time of year can be full of landmines and pitfalls to your eating and fitness routines. Here are a few tips to help you avoid the holiday…
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Amy’s Corner: Protecting Your Lifestyle
Over the last 3 weeks of our #WhyWait2024 challenge, we have talked about the basics for a healthy lifestyle: why and how to keep carbs low, utilizing technology…
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Amy’s Corner:
Self-Loathing is a
Learned BehaviorIn regard to my relationship with food, weight and body image, I’ve always secretly felt like I was more broken than most people, and that if anyone knew…
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