Aug 15, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
A lot of what’s stopping you losing weight and keeping it off could be your unhelpful eating habits. Nibbling at food whilst you’re cooking, eating to stave off boredom, having a slice of cake with coffee at work because everyone else is, grazing through a family...
Aug 5, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
It’s all too easy to “pick” whilst you’re preparing food. Maybe a piece of chopped red pepper or the bit of cheese that broke off when you’re grating the block. If this is the extent of your picking, it’s not going to cause a problem But if like Carys your nibbling is...
Jul 23, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, overcome anxiety about eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Stop yo-yo dieting
What’s your immediate reaction to someone leaving food on their plate? Disapproval? Admiration? Or even envy? It turns out that not finishing what you were served is a highly emotive issue. One of the steps I recommend to my Appetite Retraining clients who are working...
Jul 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, book review, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Myth busting
There is so much vitriolic disagreement on twitter (my favourite social media platform) about what foods are good for us, that I frankly switched off long ago. If the experts couldn’t agree – in fact far from agreeing, experts often take polar opposite positions –...
Jun 26, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, Feel better about yourself, Maintaining your new weight, Psychology
Photo by Kevin Lanceplaine for Unsplash There was an article in last week’s Guardian newspaper titled “Why Weight Loss Causes Breakups”. It was about how dramatic weight loss following bariatric surgery may transform people’s lives, but can also lead to the end of...
Mar 5, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Do you eat more than you really want to when you eat out with friends? When you find that despite your best intentions, you splurge whenever you eat out with friends, you may be tempted to avoid eating out, at least until you’ve reached your goal weight. But eating...