Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
There was hardly a dry eye in the house for the Final of this year’s UK Strictly Come Dancing. Emotionally speaking, it was a high-octane evening which crescendo-ed up to the announcement of the winners. Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell lifted the glitterball...
Nov 27, 2024 | Uncategorised
When you’ve spent time on social media, or been hanging out with friends, do you come away buoyed up and motivated, or depressed and demotivated by everyone else’s successes? In this blog I want to help you pause and notice what place comparison plays in your life...
Oct 29, 2024 | Get control of your eating
Christmas is coming Depending on your personality and your relationship with food, Christmas eating will be a source of joy or dread. It’s not just Dinner itself on the Big Day – it’s the annual flurry of pre-Christmas get-togethers with work colleagues or...
Sep 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
You’re really struggling in the evenings with overeating As the nights draw in, evenings take on an autumnal feel. You’re less likely to be outside and much more likely to be on the sofa, watching TV. Of all the segments in the 24-hour cycle of our lives,...
Aug 19, 2024 | Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
You’re exhausted and jittery, but you have to keep going There’s a big deadline coming at you – it might be a work presentation, last-minute adjustments to an upcoming exhibition of your work, or a looming submission deadline. So you’re working mad hours,...
Jul 22, 2024 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology
You and I have parts, or aspects of ourselves, that can make weight loss difficult. If I didn’t have these aspects, I’d never have got interested in this field myself. And I’m guessing that you wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t too. How do these parts or...
Jun 24, 2024 | holiday eating
Holidays Funnily enough, I actually began developing Appetite Retraining on holiday in the South of France. It was the summer of 2011, and I’d decided only the previous week to see whether I could devise a way of losing weight that didn’t involve dieting. My aim was...
Apr 24, 2024 | Uncategorised
Many people fail with their approaches to losing weight because they don’t know how our appetite system works. Here’s what you need to know… It’s complex The human appetite system is complex and it evolved over millions of years. What drives us to eat,...
Mar 26, 2024 | Get control of your eating
We accumulate eating habits like we accumulate junk Have you ever stopped to notice the eating habits you’ve picked up somewhere along the way, that no longer do anything for you? Like the odds and ends in a drawer or a cupboard that you haven’t got around to clearing...
Feb 13, 2024 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
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...