May 8, 2022 | Healthy habits, Psychology
Tweaking your night-time routines may be an unexpected way to reduce your food intake, with a beneficial side-effect of being more rested. Laboratory studies Studies where people’s sleep is deliberately reduced suggest that we tend to eat more when we sleep less....
May 1, 2022 | Events, Psychology, Real life story, talking about eating and weight
Emotions are the stock-in-trade of psychologists and psychotherapists, but if your training and expertise is primarily to do with diet and nutrition, then being asked to help someone with their Emotional Eating may be something that feels scary. As one...
Apr 21, 2022 | Psychology, talking about eating and weight
Calorie labelling is now law in UK restaurants Will it work for people who want to use it? The UK has just introduced mandatory menu labelling for restaurants over a certain size, with calorie counts for individual dishes. We aren’t the first to have...
Mar 15, 2022 | Uncategorised
What happens when you really savour junk food? Some foods are super-moreish There’s something about certain foods that alters the way we eat them, and makes it harder to stop. Some brands even use irresistibility as a selling point. “Once you pop you can’t stop” is...
Feb 26, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Psychology
The problem with cravings A craving is an intense desire or urge to eat a specific food. Chocolate is by far the most commonly craved food in Western cultures* and in a world where it’s on sale everywhere round the clock, it’s something that clients often struggle to...
Jan 25, 2022 | changing eating habits, Psychology
Educating your clients about the psychology of eating A valuable part of your role in helping people change how they eat is educating them about the biology of the human appetite system. Having evolved over millions of years, the human appetite system is...
Jan 12, 2022 | Eat in tune with your body, Psychology
It’s January. The month where words tumble out of every newspaper, magazine and social media channel telling you how to improve your diet. Lots of do’s and don’ts, recipes and rules. Is another diet actually what you need? When you’re scrolling through...
Jan 5, 2022 | exercise, Feel better about yourself, Keep the weight off, Psychology
Fancy some bite-sized exercise? Welcome to Snacktivity! Would you like to exercise more? Studies show that the main reason for inactivity is perceived lack of time. When you’re rushing between one thing and the next, finding the officially recommended 150...
Dec 23, 2021 | Psychology
It is amazing to work in a job which has the potential for healing, but in our zeal to help we sometimes lose track of what it may be costing us, emotionally and energetically. Putting your own oxygen mask on before trying to help anyone else with theirs is a...
Dec 17, 2021 | Uncategorised
Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol was the book that persuaded me at the tender age of eleven that books without pictures could be magical. The miserly money-lender who brings misery to the lives of those he encounters is a great antihero and I enjoy...
