by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Intuitive Eating, Parenthood
“I’m going to do something I shouldn’t,” I said to my husband as I stepped on the bathroom scale. I knew there was little to be gained (no pun intended!), except maybe some material for this blog post, but I was curious. I was 5 weeks...
by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Biology, Diet Industry, Parenthood
If you happened to read my post about garcinia cambogia, you know that I have a bone to pick with the diet industry and the way things are marketed. Marketers know how to wordsmith things to make them sound amazing. You will see terms like “clinically...
by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Food Addiction
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog programming due to the birth of a child. My child, to be exact. My post today was supposed to be about goals and habits, and one of the points I wanted to make is the importance of being flexible about the methods with which...
by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Diet Industry, Intuitive Eating
I rarely talk about my personal journey with disordered eating. I’m not ashamed – at least not anymore – but I wasn’t sure how relevant it was. I never wanted someone to think I was saying, “I totally get it because I went through something...
by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Whole Food Plant Based
Want to know what I find fun? Don’t laugh, but I think it is very fun to review new groundbreaking research right when it comes out. For example, I still remember in grad school when the article came out about social networks and obesity (Christakis &...
by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Diet Industry
I am reading the Amazon page for Garcinia Cambogia (GC) right now and I’m getting pretty fired up. I’m looking at pictures of fit looking people and being told that GC “…is the clinically proven dosage to make it the most effective weight loss...
by Shawn Hondorp, PhD, ABPP | Biology
When I conduct psychological evaluations for people pursuing bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery such as the sleeve gastrectomy or the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass), it’s not uncommon for people to tell me that they have told very few people about their decision...
