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Cari Corbet-Owen

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Expertise

I'd love to answer your questions about how to lose weight naturally --without diets, diet products and diet programs. I love to answer your questions about: intuitive eating, turning exercise into fun (instead of a chore) and how to improve your body image even before you reach some or other magical figure on a scale. Please note, that as I'm a psychologist and not a dietician, I don't answer any questions related to nutrition.

Experience in the area

I'm a Clinical Psychologist who has researched diets and dieting and what works and what doesn't (in medical and psychological journals) for almost 2 decades. I'm the author of two books: The Mind over Fatter Program and The Joy-Filled Body: Eat! Play! Love and Live! I have written numerous articles spoken at psychological conferences, lead workshops internationally and been on TV and radio. I was a childhood dieter at 11, anorexic by 15, a frantic yo-yo dieter for 20 years before discovering that STOPPING dieting was the answer. My URL: www.ditch-diets-live-light.com

Organizations

Have been the consulting psychologist to the South African Nutrition Experts Panel, and am on the experts panel for Shape Magazine, South African Journal of Natural Medicine and the South African Journal of Psychology.

Publications

Shape, Readers Digest, Men's Health, Glamor, South African Journal of Natural Medicine, O magazine and many many others.

Education/Credentials

Clinical Psychologist

Awards and Honors

Been nominated for 2006 and 2007 as South African business women of the year in the Health category for starting The Mind over Fatter movement. Had an excerpt of my 2nd book selected by O Magazine (South Africa) which appeared in their December 2007 edition.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

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

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Breakfast may NOT be the most important meal of the day; see http://www.ditch-diets-live-light.com/breakfast-buzz.html

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	P	Comments
Jan	01/27/12	10	10	10	Thanks, Cari! I much appreciate the links .....
Jan	09/08/11	10	10	10	thanks Cari for the info. Appreciate it .....
K.	08/28/11	10	10	10	Thank you for your answer! :)
Stephanie	07/16/11	10	10	10
Jacky	07/16/11	10	10	10	Thank you so much! You've really made .....

Recent Answers from Cari Corbet-Owen

2012-01-26 Learning some tips:

Hi Jan....well here are some links to the relevant pages about those topics on my website and then I do go into much more details in my Mind over Fatter programme. Good luck and give me a shout again

2012-01-26 stagnant weight loss:

Hi Lw.... well a weight of 69.7kg's at your height it doesn't sound to me like your body wants to lose anymore weight... and if you've started working out, muscle weights 3 times on a scale what fat does

2012-01-19 Perseverence & Willpower:

Hi Ethan Well I had to smile when I read your letter because it sounded just like something that I could have written myself a few years ago :) And with that in mind.... I think you might find these

2011-08-31 Diet and Healthy Safe Weight Loss:

Hi Gene, I may not be able to answer all your questions but I'll do my best. First of all, weight on a scale really isn't a good measure of health because muscle weighs 3x on a scale what fat does. It's

2011-08-27 not losing weight:

Hi Kiely Here are a couple of things I'd take into consideration: 1) Everyone has different body shapes and sizes. For example, I'm short and kinda squat.... doens't matter how much I wish I were teeny

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