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Food Addiction & Emotional Eating
Practical and clinical perspectives on food noise, binge eating, compulsive eating, emotional eating, and cravings.
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Our Food Relationship Assessment
Explore your relationship with food through Dr. Tro’s assessment and accompanying lecture.
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Understanding Hunger: Why Your Hunger Has Nothing to Do with Willpower
One of the biggest myths in medicine is that hunger is simply a matter of self-control. If that were true, obesity would have been solved decades ago. Instead,…
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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 with food. Not…
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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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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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Managing Cravings: The Moment After ‘The F-Its’ Hit
It’s been a long day. You’re exhausted, stressed, maybe anxious or overwhelmed. Emotions are running high, and suddenly, the urge to eat hits. You’ve “been good” all day,…
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Precision Metabolic Care is Changing What’s Possible in Chronic Disease
February, 2026 – TOWARD Health physician Dr. Laura Buchanan, MD, recently co-authored a study published in the journal Healthcare titled Psychological Aspects and Implications of Food Addiction 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, or after the holidays or after vacation. A new page, a fresh calendar, a psychological…
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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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Breaking the Cycle: Letting Go of Shame
As 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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Why Community and Accountability Matter for Lasting Health Change
Dr. Tro explains why community and accountability are powerful supports for consistency, resilience, and lasting health change.
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Before You Start Losing Weight: Build a Plan That Lasts
Identify your reasons for change and the foods, times, places and situations that make it harder to stay on track.
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TOWARD, a metabolic health intervention that improves food addiction and binge eating symptoms
Blauvelt, NY – Toward Health has released new research in Frontiers in Psychiatry confirming that food addiction and binge eating can be significantly improved through a virtual, lifestyle-first…
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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: Protecting Your Lifestyle
Over the last few weeks of our group 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 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 knew…
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Mastering Special Events
The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and, unfortunately for many, a potential derailing of carefully maintained diets. Thanksgiving, in particular, often serves as the…
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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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