Use Your Personal Writing For Weight Loss And Creativity
March 10, 2010 by Ellen Taliaferro, MD
Filed under WellWriting, healing, lose weight
Instead of eating, you discover what’s eating you.
–Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, found herself 50 pounds heavier after being placed on a new medication. What to do?
She found the answer in her own work after noticing that students taking her 12-week course in writing often left the class thinner than when they began the course. She wrote the book, The Writing Diet, once she made this connection. You can read a Newsweek magazine interview with Julia by clicking here.
Tarcher Talks feature several of Julia Cameron’s books. To see the video featuring her book about writing for weight loss, click here.
Which Diets Work Best?
May 18, 2009 by Ellen Taliaferro, MD
Filed under Patient Self Management, Recent Posts, lose weight
The question of which diet works best can generate some heated opinions. At the same time, diets discourage dieters who have bounced from diet to diet without really losing weight or losing weight only to watch the scales creep up and then some.
From time to time, medical research “weighs in.” To see one of the latest diet research published papers, click here.
New Category: Lose Weight
May 15, 2009 by Ellen Taliaferro, MD
Filed under Patient Self Management, Recent Posts, lose weight
Obesity and hypertension go hand and hand in the land of chronic disease which now accounts for:
- 81% of hospital admissions
- 91% of all prescriptions filled
- 76% of all physician visits
In medicine, hypertension is often treated with medication that can be done away with if the patient can lose weight. Losing weight is not small problem. In fact, nearly 65% of American are considered to be either overweight or obese.”
Towards that end, a new category is being added to this blog: “fat and weight.” You can determine if obesity or being overweight is a problem that you have by using the calculator located in the column to the right of this post.
If losing weight is the prescription as well as the challenge, what is the answer on how to best do it. I have recently signed on to the Jon Gabriel program (The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body) as well as the Paul Mckenna program (I Can Make You Thin.) Both of these programs focus on not dieting but rather managing your eating, emotional health, physical activity.
It is quite to early for me to report any results of my own journey. I do know that low carbing worked well for me for one year. Then slowly, like many others who have lost weight with this program, I found that my weight began to return. When it was all over, I ended up gaining even five pounds more.
If you are struggling with weight issues and want to contribute your own thoughts, please post a comment to this blog post.