Traditionally we look at food cravings and the drive to overeat as a problem, something to be fixed and overcome. What if we've misunderstood the message cravings are trying to send us? And what if
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Overeating
Q&A 31 – Overeating: Why diets work temporarily
When we start a new diet or eating plan we often have success for the first few days. Why is that? And why does that
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Q&A 30 – Is fear making us fat?
When we don't understand the nature of Thought, our thinking can (innocently) be fearful, to greater or lesser degrees.
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Q&A 29 – Overeating: Is there such a thing as relapse? Part 2
This is part 2 of our conversation about whether or not relapse is a thing. In part 1 I left out an important part of
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Q&A 28 – Overeating: Is there such a thing as relapse?
What's really going on when we 'fall off the wagon'? When we revert to the behaviour associated with an unwanted habit
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Q&A 27 – Overeating: Why are diets a different kind of suffering?
Why do we fail so often at diets? The answer may surprise you: it has to do with what and how much you're thinking and
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Q&A 25 – Overeating: What are we escaping from?
So often we believe we have unwanted habits like overeating because of the circumstances of our lives. We innocently
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Q&A 24 – Being Present With Ourselves
What happens when we try to be present with ourselves, including uncomfortable feelings or experiences we have? Is there
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Q&A 22 – What does looking upstream have to do with diet and weight-loss?
When we use the phrases 'upstream' and 'downstream' in the conversation about the nature of Thought, how does that
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Q&A 21 – Overeating: Putting the Cart Before the Horse
Traditionally, when we tackle an overeating habit with diets and white-knuckling and other strategies like that, we're
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