Articles tagged with comfort food
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Change Your Eating Behaviour Through Awareness and Acceptance
Learning to change your eating habits usually requires increasing your awareness and acceptance of bodily sensations, and adverse mood states. Being in touch with what mood sensations you experience will enable you to choose how you act, rather than simply reacting in the same old eating ways. Now that sounds like a wise approach, but it’s [...]
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"Panade" or baked soup
It just started raining here and it is cold in a way that will require hunkering down and hot soup tonight. My slippers are on and the fireplace is soon to be lit. I'm trying to distract myself with coziness. A panade (or baked soup) is a super comforting way to warm up your belly [...]
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Roasted Butternut Squash Polenta with Fried Sage
My office contains over 400 cookbooks. You could say I'm an addict. I have more on my iPad but when it comes to cookbooks, I still prefer the real thing. There is nothing like turning page after page in front of a warm fire with a glass of wine. Nestled in many of those favourites are [...]
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Poached Eggs with Shiitake Mushrooms, Wilted Arugula and White Truffle Cream
In my quest to find the “best” recipes, I have been fortunate to discover incredibly talented professional and home chefs, and bloggers. Many of them have been willing to share their recipes and techniques with me. Chef Viviane Banquet Farre is even more generous then most. Whenever I visit her website I am captivated with [...]
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Sunday Afternoon and Emotional Eating Takes Over
Are Sundays a problem for you? A lot of women have told us that long Sunday afternoons are eating triggers for them. Some don’t know why, and can’t do much about it. It could be that a stretched-out Sunday afternoon—when there are no barbecues or trips to the mountains or other big plans—leave you in a [...]
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Guiltless Comfort Foods
Comfort food is like a warm hug that wraps around you as you eat. It is not surprising that we find it hard to give up our comfort foods when the time to diet comes. If you deprive yourself of foods that can comfort, eating will feel like a disciplinary camp [...]
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If losing the weight has become a losing battle, here is probably why
It’s that you are failing to exercise self-control. That’s the reason you are overweight. It’s why you’ve been overeating and eating all those fattening comfort foods. What will it take to regulate your behavior, your desires? What will you try? Will you try to bring yourself more in line with a better standard? Of course, you [...]
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How to get over being dumped
Use Mood Calcuation. When are you extremely emotional, doing anything practical or rational seems impossible. That is why you have to control yourself with numbers, because numbers don’t tend to trigger too much emotion. Take your mood and give it a number out of ten .e.g. my self-esteem is 4/10 my level of crying is [...]
