Dec 5, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, holiday eating
Christmas may seem a strange time to be talking about food and smallness. After all, it’s a season renowned for excess. Letting your hair down is the thing that makes it celebratory. But I know from hearing it over and again, that the expectation of excess can...
Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised
You have intentions to eat well, and most of the time you act in line with them, but there are blips We’ve all been there. You set out with the best of intentions to eat healthily, make mindful choices and embrace a balanced diet. Yet once in a while you find yourself...
Oct 9, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology, Real life story
How much of your eating is done furtively? Are you always relaxed and open when it comes to eating, or does part of your relationship with food take place in secret? With certain types of food getting a really bad rap, eating them means we can feel tainted by...
Jul 4, 2023 | Achieving permanent weight loss, holiday eating, weight loss
Holiday season The schools are about to break for the summer as we approach peak holiday season in the UK. A break from routine A change of scene and a different pace of life mean the chance to recharge your batteries and decompress from whatever else has been...
Jun 29, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology
My guest blog for The Weekend University I was delighted to write the following guest blog for The Weekend University. The Weekend University describe their mission as making the most important, evidence-based ideas from psychology more accessible, so that you can use...
Jun 19, 2023 | changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body
Feeling full Try and cajole an infant into eating more than they want and you’ll be in for some serious mess. Babies lose interest in feeding once they’ve had enough* and they don’t like being pestered to finish what you thought was the right amount. Being persuaded...
Jun 12, 2023 | Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Real life story
Claire is 41 years old, married with 2 young children. She has a very busy life. In addition to looking after her children and running her home, she works part-time as a beauty therapist and spends lots of time with her parents, sister and her husband’s family. Claire...
Jun 6, 2023 | Real life story
Niamh’s experience of Appetite Retraining, in her own words I recently emailed everyone who has done my online Appetite Retraining course to ask how they were getting on, and had a reply from Niamh which opened with the words, “What can I say? You’ve literally changed...
Jun 2, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
How many eating decisions do you make in a day? If you google this question, there are numerous references to a research paper published by Brian Wansink in 2007 showing that we make in the region of 200 eating-related decisions each day, many of them out of conscious...
May 21, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Emotional Eating, Psychology
Working with clients who struggle with emotional eating This blog is written for professional colleagues from all disciplines whose work involves helping people change how they eat. I’ll write this to you directly, to make the writing flow a bit better than using...
