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The Need to Feel Wanted

February 21, 2012 By Holly Alastra 2 Comments

I want men to find me attractive. It satisfies my ego when a man wants me. Isn’t it fun to make a head turn? Especially as we get older and realize that our looks just aren’t the same as they were in our twenties and early thirties. I realize this need to be seen as [...]

Filed Under: Body image, Diet

Healing the shame that keeps you stuck

February 16, 2012 By Karly Randolph Pitman 4 Comments

If I had to describe the men and women that I talk to, those who are trying to gently heal from food stuff, I would describe them in this way: incredibly kind. Conscientious. Earnest. Sincere. Tender hearted. Sensitive. Empathetic. Spiritual. People with deep values who try to live them out. Often high achieving/setting high expectations [...]

Filed Under: Body image, Overeating, Sugar, Weight loss Tagged With: anxiety, binge eating, bulimia, depression, eating disorder, healing, low self esteem, Overeating, shame, sugar addiciton, tips, weight loss

End emotional eating with kindness

February 7, 2012 By Karly Randolph Pitman 6 Comments

Can you befriend difficult emotions? The poet Rumi writes, This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar, Weight loss Tagged With: anxiety, attachment theory, caring for emotions, emotional eating, feelings, mindfulness, negative emotions, Overeating, sugar addiction, weight loss

Becoming attached – do you judge your pain?

January 26, 2012 By Karly Randolph Pitman 6 Comments

I recently shared my theory that refuge – a deep rooted feeling of belonging, safety and attachment – is what creates the foundation for growth, maturity, and change with food. I heard from so many tender men and women who resonated with that theory – and who wondered, Yes, but how?? How do I create [...]

Filed Under: Body image, Overeating, Sugar Tagged With: attachment theory, binge eating, blame, emotional eating, forgiveness, guilt, healing, Overeating, shame, spirituality

Softening my struggle

January 15, 2012 By Lauren-Lee 4 Comments

I am a loving mother, a sister, a daughter – a multi-faceted individual – but I somehow in the past I found myself disqualifying all the others parts of me and concentrating on the fact that I was a food addict. In my teens I hid from life by trying to eat my fears away [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar

How attachment can heal overeating. For good.

January 11, 2012 By Karly Randolph Pitman 37 Comments

I’ve been speaking to lots of women this week. It’s January. They’re trying to start the year positively – to finally heal this “food thing” (or sugar thing) for good. These are bright, kind, loving, perceptive women. Women who’ve often been through incredible, heartbreaking challenges in their lives – challenges they’ve handled with remarkable grace [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar, Weight loss Tagged With: attachment, attachment theory, binge eating, binge eating disorder, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, eating disorder, high sensitivity, highly sensitive person, John Bowlby, Overeating, sugar addiction

How to respond to family scrutiny about weight

December 24, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman Leave a Comment

You may find yourself gathering with friends and family this weekend for Christmas. There’s something about being around people that you don’t see everyday that prompts a desire to put your best foot forward. You want to be seen for who you really are, and you want to belong – to be loved and accepted. [...]

Filed Under: Body image, Weight loss

Unsweetened me.

December 19, 2011 By Esther Piszczek 6 Comments

I’ve been playing with sugar recently. Sharing the holidays with friends and loved-ones often spurs the desire to “relax” into sugar. I tell myself, as I reach for the ice cream with spoon in hand, that I deserve a little treat. I know that with just a little “hit” of that sweet goodness my mind will relax, the tension [...]

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Loving where you’re at.

December 12, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 8 Comments

I’ve received hundreds of emails that all say this, in one form or another: I’m really struggling and I feel so ashamed. I’ve been there, too – in fact, I hit one of those walls this week. This time it came in the form of my old friend, anxiety. For a slew of reasons, my [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar, Weight loss Tagged With: anxiety, binge eating, depression, mindfulness, Overeating, self acceptance, sugar addiction, tips, tools

Does intuitive eating lead to sugar addiction?

December 6, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 6 Comments

I hear from a lot of women who’ve struggled with intuitive eating. They try to listen to their bodies and eat what they want, only to find themselves in the throes of sugar addiction. As one dear woman I’ve been coaching put it, “I tried to let myself eat what I want. I eat cookies [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar Tagged With: candida, food addicts anonymous, grey sheet, intuitive eating, sugar abstinence, sugar addiction, sugar detox, sugar free diet