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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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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…
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Amy’s Corner: Distractions
I went to the hairdresser recently, and while I was there waiting for my “natural” blonde highlights to re-emerge, I heard client after client come in, sit in…
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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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Understanding Our Triggers: Pattern Recognition
The scale. A combination of glass, metal and springs that can be a useful tool to give us information about our current gravitational pull on earth. Data, a…
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The Lying Liar: Learned Helplessness & Food Addiction
learned helplessness NOUN A condition in which a person has a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be…
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Moderation is a Fairytale
At some point (likely many points) during your low-carb journey, you will encounter a tempting food that is off-plan, and something resembling the following will roll around in…
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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 our own self-care often suffers serious neglect. What we have seen…
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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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Why Are You Eating?
Every time my eating spirals out of control into a case of the “F-its” (also known as “F-it…I’ve screwed up, so I’m gonna eat all the things and…
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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?
By Amy Eiges I recently wrote on Twitter about the value of “failing” at many attempts to lose weight, all of which landed me before Dr. Tro and…
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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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Weathering the Perfect Storm
By Amy Eiges If you are brand new to keto/low carb or just starting out on your weight loss journey, you might want to save this blog…
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The Cold, Ugly Truth: “I Will Always Be a Food Addict”
By Amy Eiges I am a food addict. The fact that I have lost about 180 pounds would seem to indicate that I am no longer a…
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Self-Care Must Be a Priority Under COVID-19 Quarantine
By Amy Eiges These are extraordinary times we are all living through right now, and it would be easy to slip back into self-destructive behaviors, forgetting to make…
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“I Am Not Broken”
Freedom is Attainable — It’s On the Other Side of the Mountain of Garbage We’ve All Been Fed “Jeez, Amy. What are you getting so worked up about?”…
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