I’m injured and I can’t exercise!
If you’re injured and can’t exercise, learn why a break from exercise is a good thing, how to trust your body wisdom, and discover new activities you enjoy!
Deprivation: A Hidden Trigger for Eating
When you’re “not allowed” to eat foods you love, you may develop feelings of restriction and deprivation which lead to powerful cravings and overeating.
Don’t exercise to punish yourself for eating
People often say, “I know I should exercise, but I hate it!” because they’ve learned to think of exercise as punishment for eating.
Your Exercise Personality
Take this Exercise Personality quiz to identify your unique exercise personality traits to find physical activity that you will enjoy and stick to!
Diet and Activity Trackers: The Next Generation of Misused Tools
Fitness bands, calorie apps, body composition monitors, and other gadgets have brought the old diet diary, bathroom scale, and pedometer into the digital age. Are they an improvement?
How to Stop Using Exercise as Punishment for Eating
Those charts that convert minutes of exercise into calories turn exercise into punishment for eating. Exercise is for health, vitality, and fun, not for earning the right to eat!
How yoga became part of my mindful eating journey
Yoga is an important part of my mindful eating journey. While my body becomes more flexible, so does my thinking. I am cultivating self-acceptance, nonjudgment, and presence.
Yoga is an eclipse of the mind
When I intentionally pause for a yoga class and align my body and mind, the physical practice slowly eclipses the activity of my mind.
Can learning about your brain help you in sports and life?
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. John Sullivan, a Clinical Sport Psychologist and Applied Sport Scientist. (Our discussion inspired me to buy his book, The Brain Always Wins. In it, he explores brain management and physical activity, rest and recovery, nutrition, cognitive functions, emotional management, and socialization. Can’t wait to read it! ) During
Mindful Eating as a Yoga Practice
Whether you are practicing yoga or mindful eating, there are times when it will come naturally and times when it is challenging.
What is Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training?
The mission of Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training is to change the way the world thinks about eating! We created this video to explain how: What is Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training?
How many calories do you need to burn to eat _______?
“If you eat a chocolate glazed doughnut worth 240 calories, you’d have to walk for about 60 minutes to burn it off” is part of the dieter’s eat-repent-repeat cycle.
How to Decode Emotional Eating
In this video, Dr. May teaches us how to decode emotional eating using a simple script to recognize and meet your underlying needs more effectively than with food.
Why do we turn to food?
In this video, Am I Hungry? founder, Michelle May M.D. shares her story, and asks the question, “Why do we turn to food?”
What are your biggest challenges with eating?
In preparation for our new Mindful Eating Support Community, over a hundred people shared their two biggest challenges when it comes to managing their eating.