Philosophy:
Healthy living without dieting...Green Mountain at Fox Run firmly believes
that eating what you want is a critical step to putting an end to what
for many of us has been a lifelong struggle with food, eating and weight.
Managing your weight and health doesn’t require elimination. Instead,
it’s moderation in all things, and realizing that what’s “good”
for you varies from situation to situation.
Program:
Women-only week or more program focuses on helping you put the joy
back into food, eating and life while successfully managing your health
and weight. Approach includes Change How You Think About Food, Change
How You Feel Through Regular Physical Activity, Change the Way You Think,
and Rediscover Having Fun.
Eat
What You Want: by Marsha Hudnall,
MS, RD, Nutrition Director, Green Mountain at Fox Run. Eat what you
want? If only it were true! Well, here’s some good news. It is!
Yes, you can eat what you want and still manage your health and weight
successfully. In fact, at Green Mountain at Fox Run, we firmly believe
that eating what you want is a critical step to putting an end to what
for many of us has been a lifelong struggle with food, eating and weight.
But, you say, if I eat what I want, I’ll eat nothing but candy
bars and French fries. Maybe that sounds good at first, but if you examine
your real “wants,” you’ll see that you really do desire
more than just the pleasure you get from the tastes of rich foods. You
want well-being, too. And consistently overeating rich food doesn’t
feel good.
The trouble is, if you don’t let yourself have what you want when
it comes to getting pleasure from food, your desire for well-being gets
buried under feelings of deprivation. If you’re faced with the
urge to eat a candy bar, but you feel like you can’t or shouldn’t
have it, then that’s all you can think about. You can’t move
to the next step and think about whether you really do want the candy
bar in light of your health and weight goals.
It’s important to be clear, too, that when you eat what you want,
your decision won’t always be to forgo the candy bar (or whatever
food or beverage or amount it is that you previously felt like you shouldn’t
be eating). You will still sometimes want the candy bar. That’s
normal – managing your weight and health doesn’t require elimination.
Instead, it’s moderation in all things, and realizing that what’s
“good” for you varies from situation to situation. Sometimes,
the best choice is the candy bar. Other times, it may not be. But that’s
for you to decide…not some diet or other regimen that dictates
what’s right for you.
If all this sounds good to you, but you’re not quite sure how
to start putting it into practice, join us for a week or more at Green
Mountain at Fox Run in Ludlow, Vermont. Our program focuses on helping
you put the joy back into food, eating and life while successfully managing
your health and weight.
If you’ve already been to Green Mountain, let this serve as a
reminder that you are the best judge of what’s right for you at
any one time. But to judge effectively, you may need to put the challenge
of letting yourself eat what you want at the top of the list of obstacles
you need to overcome. Because as many of us know too well, deprivation
leads to overeating, whether it be the amount of a food you eat at any
one time, or the frequency with which you eat certain foods that may
be counterproductive to reaching your goals.
Green Mountain at Fox Run 1999
reprinted with permission
