Our Lady of Weight Loss » The Dieting Brain http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:01:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 15 Simple Steps: Quiet the Post-Thanksgiving Cravings http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/15-simple-steps-quiet-the-post-thanksgiving-cravings/ http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/15-simple-steps-quiet-the-post-thanksgiving-cravings/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:44:38 +0000 Janice Taylor http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/?p=1114 The following E-emergency “Post-Thanksgiving Craving” email came swirling into my inbox this morning, from a client of mine – who has, (drum roll, please) – permanently removed over 20 pounds in the past 12 weeks!  (Results typical:) I thought her plea for help worth sharing, because I know that we all have ‘alien’ voices in [...]

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]]> http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/15-simple-steps-quiet-the-post-thanksgiving-cravings/feed/ 679 Flat Belly Brain http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/belly-brain-bats-in-my-belfry-butterflies-in-my-gut-brain/ http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/belly-brain-bats-in-my-belfry-butterflies-in-my-gut-brain/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:50:23 +0000 Janice Taylor http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/?p=1128 I woke up this morning with bats in my belfry and butterflies in my gut!  In other words, I woke up with Belly Brain, which triggered a memory of Oz. I remembered what the great Oz said (not from the Wizard of Oz; rather Oprah’s Dr. Oz).  In one of his better appearances on Oprah, [...]

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]]> http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/belly-brain-bats-in-my-belfry-butterflies-in-my-gut-brain/feed/ 133 The Dieting Brain: Are You Touch Starved? http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/the-dieting-brain-are-you-touch-starved/ http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/the-dieting-brain-are-you-touch-starved/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:55:06 +0000 Janice Taylor http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/?p=1028 When I heard that neuroscientists found that touch activates the brain’s cortex, which is linked to feelings of reward, my weight loss bells and whistles went off. People tell me (and back in the day, before I permanently removed over 50 pounds, I said it too), “I had a hard day; a seriously hard day!  [...]

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