Healthy Living
DETONATE IT! Americans
Eating Expertly
have taken the “food
pyramid” and flpyram ipped it
upside down with their upsid
poor eating habits. Now poor e
it’s time to blow it up.it’s tim p
Feeling a little post-holiday bloat?
You’re not the only one. Five top
diet gurus offer advice on how
to blow up your eating plan
and regain waistline control.
By Donna Scaglione
T
HE HOLIDAYS ARE OVER, EVERYY DEEP-
fried, stuffed, and sugar-coated lastated last
one of them. Now it’s time to make make
good on your resolutions to eateat
better, slim down, and
have more energy.
Getting in shape is the
second-most-popular New
Year’s resolution behind nd
quitting smoking, accord-
ing to Self magazine.
Sadly, fewer than 30 percent succeed She tells her clients to write CAROLYN O’NEIL Registered
in these well-intentioned goals. response cards that acknowledge dietitian, co-author of The Dish: On
The failures result not from lack thoughts and circumstances that Eating Healthy and Being Fabulous!
of trying, but from poor planning could derail them from reaching O’Neil’s mantra: “The more you
and ingrained misunderstandings goals. Reading the cards every day know, the more you can eat.”
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about nutrition and exercise, the encourages them to move beyond She is talking about knowing your
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experts say. To help you stick to your the obstacles. personal eating habits and under-
goals, consider the advice of some of One example addresses the feel- standing of food. That doesn’t mean
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these good-eating gurus. ing of being deprived over not hav- simply knowing your tastes and
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ing a particularly sinful dessert. “I memorizing a few calorie counts.
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DR. JUDITH S. BECK am either going to be deprived of O’Neil recom-
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Director of the Beck Institute for some food today, or I am going to be mends keeping a
Cognitive Therapy and Research and deprived of feeling better and having food diary of every-
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clinical associate professor of psy- more energy,” Beck suggests writing thing you eat, as
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chology in psychiatry at the on the card. “Either way, I am going well as how you
University of Pennsylvania to be deprived.” feel at the time.
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Beck’s plan is not just Beck, author of The Complete Beck This helps avoid
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about changing the way we Diet for Life: The 5-Step Program for mindless eating
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eat, but also altering our Permanent Weight Loss, says that, O’Neil and gives you an CHEESE
thinking. She uses cognitive although thought-changing skills idea of what emo-
therapy, a form of talk thera- sound simple, they are not intuitive. tional triggers prompted you to devour T
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CHICKEN,
py that dates to the 1960s, to They must be learned and practiced, that pint of Häagen-Dazs at 2 a.m.
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Beck
teach people skills and strate- much like learning how to play a “Once you’ve identifi ed, ‘Gee, it UIT
gies to combat the thoughts piano concerto. And they must be looks like I eat a big piece of chocolate
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that sabotage their plans for healthy accompanied with a nutritious, sus- cake when I’m bored,’ you can say,
eating and weight loss. tainable diet. ‘What else can I do?’” O’Neil says. NUTS,BREAD MILK/© 2008 JUPITERIMAGES CORP. / O
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