by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Jul 15, 2021 | diet mentality
Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth. ~Ecclesiasticus 30:15 An Excerpt from: Release Your Obsession with Food: Heal from the Inside Out I’m often asked how I went from overweight to normal...
by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Oct 24, 2019 | diet mentality
An excerpt from Chapter 3, Release Your Obsession with Diet Chatter: Heal from the Inside Out. In the Presence of His Glory, Closely watch your heart so your thoughts won’t shame you. For he sees guilt, opinion, and desire as plainly as a hair in pure milk. ~Rumi in...
by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Oct 10, 2019 | diet mentality
Today there’s a massive rush to the next diet fad—hoping to find the answer once and for all, to release weight. I suggest we stop chasing the diet and start chasing health. All the diets under the sun come and go, new ones, and old ones, but at the end of the day,...
by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Oct 2, 2017 | Binge Eating, diet mentality
Before I released excess weight for good and became known as a certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS), I spent nearly three decades at various arms of diet centers such as Weight Watchers, Ediets, Twelve Step programs, mostly as the recipient of diets initially...
by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Apr 26, 2012 | compulsive eater, diet mentality, healing, obsession with diets, Obsession with Food, Release the obsession with food, Weight loss miracles
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” ~Ralph Waldo EmersonI barely greeted Mary in the waiting room as she brushed her large framed body past me, marching to my office out of breath fretting, while mumbling she...
by Lisa Ortigara Crego | Jan 7, 2012 | 1300 calories per day diet, Daily Exercise, Diet fiasco, diet mentality, meditation, New Year's resolution, spiritually balanced, Svelte body, Weigt loss
I recently helped my patient Melinda sift through her New Year’s resolution, coaching her on diet mentality and how to make healthier food choices to quiet her binge eating. She is a voracious dieter, never trusting herself to put together an eating-for life formula...
