Aug 14, 2022 | changing eating habits, Healthy habits, Keep the weight off
How an emergency mini-habit helps your client When your client is trying to make lifestyle changes to enhance their wellbeing, they want those changes to stick. It’s dispiriting to put effort in, only to find that progress is too difficult to sustain. As a health...
Aug 7, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Feel better about yourself, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Is it your first holiday in a while? With covid restrictions eased for the first summer in three years, many people are booking holidays and crossing their fingers that they will actually be able to go. If you’re planning to get away over the next few weeks, I...
Jun 1, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
Not long ago, I had a sudden lightbulb moment during a session with a client. I’ve had several interesting insights working with Morag, which I think are to do with her openness and her determination to find things that work for her. In this particular session we were...
May 16, 2022 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Real life story, Stop yo-yo dieting
Chris is struggling to believe the difference that putting his smartphone away during meals has had on his weight. In September 2020 Chris, a 45-year-old entrepreneur, approached me after he’d read one of my blogs on behaviour change. We were six months in to...
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...
