Posts by Camille Martin, RD
4 Super-Effective Strategies to Keep Yourself From Overdoing It This Thanksgiving
Now that I’m divorced, I no longer attend the huge Thanksgiving gathering that my ex-husband’s family hosted. My family, owing to my dad’s job as a football radio announcer – which requires that he work on Thanksgiving – has no tradition. And since my side of the family doesn’t do anything, my kids go with…
Read MoreThe Best Weight-Loss Tip of All: Stop Being a People-Pleaser
This week, I want to tell you a story about a fence. I can already hear you saying, What in the world does this have to do with losing weight? Well . . . everything. But before you think that this will be the most boring post of all time, I want to give my…
Read MoreHow to Keep Emotional Eating From Derailing Your Health Goals
Hello, my name is Camille Martin, and I am an emotional eater. Actually, because I don’t like labels and because I want to be totally accurate, let me revise that statement: My name is Camille Martin, and I trained myself to eat emotionally – but now I have the tools to manage it. I want…
Read More“Too Busy” to Be Healthy? How Having a Busy Life Can Help You Lose Weight
You don’t have to have a full-time job, be the head of the PTA, or have five kids to classify yourself as busy. No matter what your life circumstances are, if you are a woman, you are busy. So with your laundry list of things to get done in a typical day – which probably…
Read MoreHow to Break Free From the Mental Drama That’s Keeping You From Achieving Your Goals
I remember all too well the college days of being assigned a term paper and the torture that would ensue. I need to start working on my paper. I don’t feel like working on it today. I’ll start tomorrow. (Doesn’t start tomorrow – or the next day.) I’m such a loser that I didn’t start…
Read MoreWhat Bruce Jenner Can Teach Us About Weight Loss
Last week, I watched an amazing documentary about Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner. Aside from the inspiration of Bruce staying true to his authentic self by choosing to become Caitlyn, I realized that how he trained for his astounding gold-medal win at the 1976 Olympics can be a blueprint for successful weight loss. [In this post, I’m using…
Read MoreWhat Happened After I Quit Drinking for a Year
This past week marked my one-year anniversary of not drinking. And I have never felt so good in my life. I want to talk to you about why I decided to quit, what it’s done for me since I did, and why you may want to consider taking a break from it yourself. Before I…
Read MoreWhy You Should Never Act Based on Current Results – Especially if You’re Not Happy With Them
A few years ago, I was in the best shape of my life. I felt great about how I looked and couldn’t wait to work out. I was eating healthy, had no problem managing my tendency to eat emotionally, and was juicing and experimenting with raw food recipes. I was drinking tons of water, meditating…
Read MoreI Cut Up My Victoria’s Secret PINK Card – Here’s Why
When I was in college, my good friend Holly and I used to go out at least once a week, doing the typical things that 20-year-olds do. One afternoon I was at her house waiting for her to finish getting ready, sitting in her living room in a chair that had a magazine rack next…
Read MoreWhy Emotional Eating is an Eating Disorder — And How to Stop
During the 20-plus years I spent trying to lose the same ten pounds, I resorted to some really desperate measures. I took diet pills, I exercised for hours at a time, and I went for days without eating (only to spend the next day bingeing). But the worst thing that I ever experienced was the…
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