The "F" Word (It's not what you think)

If you struggle to identify and process your emotions, you're more likely to turn to food for comfort or distraction.  In this episode, Dr. Nina explains that the only way to get rid of feelings is to actually FEEL them. She demonstrates the difference between thinking about your emotions and expressing them. When you can identify and process what's going on inside, you won't use food to cope!

Remember, feelings are reactions to situations, not character flaws!

Watch the video for more food for thought.

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Be Size Awesome

Do you know any people who are awesome?  Are they cool and amazing because of the size of their jeans?  Their weight?  No, of course not.   

In this episode, Dr. Nina helps you size up your life, emphasize what's important,  and start feeling awesome!

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Balance Your Life (& the Scale)

On the ladder of life, are you always scrambling to get to the next rung, always trying to get somewhere, to achieve something? 

"When I lose weight, then I'll start dating."

"When I'm a size zero, I'll be perfect."

"When I finish grad school, my life will be great."

"When I get a new job, then I'll be happy."

"When I get a promotion, I'll feel good about myself."

Goals are great – but if you're always looking to the future, you're never really in the present.  If what you want exists only in the future, you never have what you want.  Deprivation leads to a sense of emptiness, and feeling empty may cause you to turn towards (or away from) food as a way of comforting, soothing, or distracting yourself.

If you can balance appreciating your progress from the past, looking towards the future and what you hope to achieve, with being where you are - in the moment - you'll probably feel better.   You don't need to turn to disordered eating (or other things) to cope, if you feel good.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.  That's why it's called the present.”

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Trying to lose weight? It's NOT About Willpower!

Think you're a food addict, a binge eater, a compulsive overeater?  You're NOT!  Dr. Nina gives viewers a new way to think about their struggle with food, weight and body image.

Is Your Diet Failing You?

Does the phrase “pool party” create anxiety or dread?  If the idea of BBQs and bathing suits makes you wish you'd stayed on your diet all summer, then consider this:  

Maybe you’re not a failure at dieting; maybe dieting has failed you.

In this episode Dr. Nina explores ideas about failure and success, and how that influences your measure of yourself and your self-worth.  When you feel successful, you’re more likely to feel good about yourself in general - and when you feel good, you’re not as likely to turn to food for comfort or escape. 

She reminds listeners that if you fail at something, that doesn’t mean you are a failure.  After all, the “u” in failure is not spelled Y.O.U. J  When you personalize the failures in your life, you feel bad about yourself.   The failure becomes a character flaw, instead of a situation that didn’t work out. 

Dr. Nina gives examples of very successful people built their success on the steps of failure, such as Michael Jordan (who lost many games, and many shots),  Steve Jobs (who was fired from Apple),  Oprah Winfrey (who was fired from her job as a TV reporter) and Thomas Edison (who unsuccessfully tried for years to invent the light bulb).

She suggests that if you’ve been dieting to lose weight, then you haven’t failed at dieting; dieting has failed you.  That’s because diets deal with food, with WHAT you’re eating, and not WHY.

Are you lonely, upset, or helpless?  Are you happy and this is the only way you know how to celebrate?  Are you rewarding yourself?  Punishing yourself?  Avoiding something painful or upsetting?  What’s going on?

Dr. Nina proposes a new way to think about success.  Instead of dieting, try responding to your thoughts and emotions in a new way. 

When you can identify and process what’s going on inside – the emotions, conflicts and states of mind that are hard to be with - you won’t need food to distract you from those things, and that’s how you lose weight for good.  

Check out this episode!

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