Talk Yourself Thin: The power of mantras for weight loss

Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, CSSD, LDN is a registered dietitian and certified specialist in sports dietetics. Dawn is a trusted food & nutrition expert appearing regularly in national media outlets such as The Dr. Oz Show, USA Today, Dateline,Newsweek, Cooking Light and WebMD. She is the nutrition consultant for the Chicago Cubs, a food and nutrition blogger with USA Today andHuffington Post and a nutrition expert on the advisory board of Fitnessmagazine. Dawn writes health and wellness articles for national magazines such asFitness, Health, Yoga Journal and Vegetarian Times. She is a co-author of Counseling Overweight Adults (American Dietetic Association, 2009), nutrition consultant for the New York Time’s Best Seller The Carb Lover’s Diet (Oxmoor House, 2010) and author of The Flexitarian Diet(McGraw Hill, 2009.) Dawn has worked as the dietitian for Lifetime Television and with a national healthfood chain, exclusive spas, DePaul University and Northwestern Memorial Hospital Wellness Institute. Dawn was a national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association for 9 years and has 13 years experience working with clients to improve health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. Most recently Dawn received Lifetime Television 2011 “Remarkable Woman Award” for her work in the field of nutrition.