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Four Steps to Weight Loss

December 12, 2016 By Lisa Schmidt

Do you crave pizza when you are stressed? It's likely a learned behavior. — Do you crave pizza when you are stressed? It’s likely a learned behavior.

My holiday gift to you is support for your weight loss goals. Here are four steps to weight loss: Awareness, Rules, Structure, and Peacefulness.

Eating, and liking certain foods are learned behaviors. As omnivores, we eat different foods based on our learning. This means that our preferences for certain kinds of foods developed over time and become habits. Some of us think we are “addicted” to different foods like sugar, or even fatty foods. Research tells us that we may have preferences for sugary foods (and who doesn’t??) but these preferences are actually learned behaviors. Since they are learned behaviors, we actually can end overeating in four steps. [Read more…] about Four Steps to Weight Loss

Healthy and Mindful Holiday Baking

November 9, 2016 By Lisa Schmidt

The holiday season is a time to celebrate with family and friends. Unfortunately, for many it also

Use fresh fruit to "healthify" your holiday baked goods — Use fresh fruit to “healthify” your holiday baked goods

becomes a time for over-eating and weight gain. According to the National Institutes of Health, holiday eating can result in an extra pound or two every year, which can really add up over a lifetime. The holidays don’t have to be equated with weight gain if we focus on a healthy balance of food, activity, and fun to stay healthy through the holiday season.

Traditions that define most family celebrations include food, drink, and sweets. If keeping your waistline in check has become a goal, indulging your sweet tooth without drowning in calories is possible. By using seasonal and fresh ingredients, minimizing butter, reducing sugar, upgrading recipes with fiber-rich whole grain flour, and using nuts creatively for added crunch and healthy fat, you can cook like a pro and please even the most discriminating family member or guest.

Here are some tips for making favorite recipes healthier:

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January 15, 2016 By Lisa Schmidt

Watch Your Weight, Arizona!

September 24, 2015 By Lisa Schmidt

A new report was released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and it ranks the State of Arizona as the 29th “fattest” because of the percentage of residents classified as overweight or obese. You can see me discuss the findings on Channel 12 news.

Sustainable Living & Mindful Eating

July 24, 2015 By Lisa Schmidt

How do you want to spend the rest of your life? Whether its traveling, spending time with your loved ones, living out your passions, or even climbing Mt. Everest, what you eat and how you eat can help you get there. It also can help the planet, too! [Read more…] about Sustainable Living & Mindful Eating

What purpose does your disordered eating serve?

July 15, 2014 By Lisa Schmidt

Have you ever considered what purpose your eating pattern serves? Any type of disordered eating pattern, whether it is restricting food intake (a “diet”),

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counting calories obsessively, counting fat grams, avoiding entire categories of food (dreaded “gluten”, “carbs”, or “sugar” are three examples), overeating past the point of satisfaction, throwing up, compensatory behaviors like laxatives or exercising to extreme – all of these patterns are your relationship to food. And your relationship, like any other relationship, serves a purpose in your life.

What would you be doing with your life if you weren’t spending all of your time counting calories? Hating yourself? Wishing you were something – anything other than you think you are? How much time are you spending each day with thoughts about food, feeding, body size & weight? Most importantly, what would you be thinking and feeling if your mind wasn’t occupied with thoughts about food and your body?

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June 10, 2014 By Lisa Schmidt, MS, CYT, e-RYT

Obsessed with losing weight? READ THIS, please.

October 31, 2013 By Lisa Schmidt

Eat as if your life depends on it - because it does — Eat as if your life depends on it – because it does!

At any given time, almost 50 percent of Americans are on a diet. Over two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. We know the data – as a nation, we are alarmed when we watch the news. We are a nation of watchers – sedentary, we overeat as we watch television and continue our preoccupation with calories. Even McDonald’s has gotten into the nations’ obsession, and are now posting calories. As we continue to hope for weight loss, we grab at all kinds of promises, even those proven to be untrue when it comes to food.

Yesterday at a business meeting I heard a few women discussing just how great it was to have gone on a raw vegan smoothie “cleanse”. It wasn’t just the quick weight loss, mind you, but “I just love the way it makes me feel!” They held up the remains of their green drinks, which looked a bit grungy, and toasted each other for their brilliance. Later in the same meeting I observed them eating from the snack bowl a few highly processed, sugar laden “snack” bars marketed as “90 calorie or less” Smart Choices.

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