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Cari Corbet-Owen

U.S.

On Vacation
returns 12/01/2009

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	T	P	Comments
Dave	10/31/09	10	9	10	10	Hi Cari, Looks like I got the .....
Chantal	04/21/09	10	10	10	10	thank you so much for your time
David	04/06/09	10	10	10	10
David	04/05/09	10	10	10	10
kristin	04/05/09	10	10	10	10	Thank you for taking the time to .....

Recent Answers from Cari Corbet-Owen

2009-11-13 weight:

HI Sartaj I hope you don't mind me referring you to a couple of webpages but I've been asked this question many times: For a 10 step recipe go to: http://www.ditch-diets-live-light.com/summer-body.html

2009-11-08 travelling:

Hi Hailey Being out of routine and being tempted with all kinds of foods that you haven't perhaps tried before or perhaps think you'll never see again are often reasons we gain weight. Hailey, I know

2009-11-02 fat loss:

Hello Lynn - this is a really important stage of life for your relationship with you body. Here's what you need to remember - this is the time of puberty when you body is going through lots of hormonal

2009-10-30 How to handle weight gain of daughter:

Hi Dave, your daughter is lucky to have a Dad who cares... now the big question is how to get your caring across in a way that is perceived as the loving intention it is, in a way that is effective! So

2009-04-12 Losing weight:

Hi Sammy If you want to make exercise fun go to http://www.ditch-diets-live-light.com/exercise-information.html and just scroll down a bit and you'll see a whole bunch of stuff I've written on just

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