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Mary Desaulniers's Articles in Weight Loss

  • How to Make Sleep Your Weight Loss Buddy
    Recently, sleep deprivation has been identified as one of the major problems of our internet culture. Not coincidentally, obesity (despite the many diets that are around) is at its highest level. The connection between sleep deprivation and weight gain is no longer in the realm of conjecture. Several studies show a direct correlation between sleep and weight.
  • Losing Weight with Sound
    Sound is not just used to bring a sense of inner peace; sound actually has physical applications that can reduce pain and reverse the progress of disease. Can we not use these applications for weight loss as well?
  • The Meaning of Hunger
    Sometimes hunger is not simply hunger for food. It is hunger for the emergence of a new self, hunger for a birth that, like any other birth, is a labor in progress. Are we serious enough about our well-being to confront our hunger, turn its energy around so that it serves, rather than stifle, us?
  • To Lose the Last 10 pounds
    Most post-partum women have a difficult time losing the last 10 pounds of their pregnancy weight. The author examines why agonizing over these last 10 pounds is meaningless and what these last 10 pounds may mean to a new mother.
  • Women, Dieting and The Search For Perfection
    The whole question of dieting or not dieting is inseparable from us, women, because of our ambivalent relationship with our bodies—we love it and we hate it. The authors of three books on the market explore this issue of body acceptance and provide suggestions on how women can re-think their relationships with their bodies.