Living with Obesity/Expert Profile

Cari Corbet-Owen

U.S.
On Vacation
returns 01/10/2013
Expertise

I'm happy to answer questions about self-acceptance and losing weight naturally. I'll answer questions about the psychology of eating, enjoying exercising and so on. I am not a dietician and so won't answer any food-related questions.

Experience in the area

2 decades of studying medical and psychological journals and given Mind over Fatter workshops internationally. Written two books, The Joy-Filled Body: Eat! Play! Love and Live (available only from ditch-diets-live-light.com) and The Mind over Fatter program.

Organizations

Have been the psychologist to SANEP (The South African Nutrion Experts Panel), and on the team of experts of both the South African Journal of Natural Medicine and Shape magazine.

Publications

Shape, Glamour, Readers digest, O, Men's Health and many many others

Education/Credentials

Clinical psychologist

Awards and Honors

O magazine (S.African) published an excerpt of my book. Been nominated twice for the S.African businesswomen of the Year in 2006 and 2007 in the health category.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

Write a few more books and make the ditch diets live light website the most visited food and eating resource on the web.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Fat is not always the health ogre it's made out to be see http;//www.ditch-diets-live-light.com/obsity-research.html. However, our thoughts about our fat cause us enormous chronic stress that cause all the health problems forever blamed on being overweight.

Average Ratings

  • Knowledgeability 9.94
  • Clarity of Response 9.71
  • Politeness 10.00
  • Response Time(hr) 11.8
  • Response Time(hr, last 90 days) 9.4
  • Number of Questions Today 0
  • Max Questions to be Asked in a Day 5
  • Total Questions (since joining AllExperts) 116
  • Volunteer Since 2008-06-15
  • Prestige Points 620

Recent Reviews from Users

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UserDateKCPComments
zeyna03/30/12101010 
paul fava07/26/11101010sincere thanks
hamza06/18/11101010 
helena05/09/11101010thanks for the answer.
Jane10/23/09101010You are so right. I guess I .....

Recent Answers from Cari Corbet-Owen

2012-03-28 need help:

Hi Zeyna    If you have a hormonal problem you may need to seek your doctors advice because a hormonal imbalance can sometimes stimulate your appetite and that's not something I can help with.  And here's

2012-02-04 Weightloss:

Hi Claudia  Actually it's a myth that you need willpower at all.  What you need is something entirely different..... you can read about it <a href=" http://www.ditch-diets-live-light.com/diet-motivation

2011-07-21 obesity:

Hi Paul, there is no need to eat salads every day.  While salads are healthy for you so is plenty other food.  But try to make sure you do eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, and prepare your food by grilling

2011-05-09 hi:

Hi Helena, there are a great many drugs that advertise they can help you lose weight.  Frankly I don't recommend any of them for a number of reasons:  1)  They may help you lose weight, but how much harm

2011-05-02 hi:

HI Helena  Try to incorporate 'lifercise' into your life.  In other words, how can you incorporate little bits of exercise into your everyday life.  For example, lots of wriggling can apparently burn up

 

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