Sep 12, 2021 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Chocolate, cheese or crisps? What’s the hardest food for your clients to resist? When I ask fellow professionals what would most benefit their work with weight loss clients, it’s overcoming cravings that tops the list. There’s a growing body of psychological research...
Aug 19, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, lockdown, Psychology
Did you gain weight during lockdown? If you gained weight during lockdown you may be on a mission to lose it again now that things have returned to something more normal. While it may seem obvious to look for a diet to get you there, overhauling how you eat may be...
Apr 24, 2021 | Uncategorised
How to nip chocolate cravings in the bud Whatever diet you’re trying to follow, if chocolate is your weakness, you’re likely to find yourself fighting the urge to eat it at times. And that may happen whether your diet includes your favourite treats, or tells you to...
Feb 10, 2021 | Uncategorised
New research on Time-Restricted Eating You’re familiar with the 5:2 diet which has been around for a while now. It’s a form of Intermittent Fasting (IF) where you fast for two days a week to regulate your overall food intake. Intermittent Fasting can take any form –...
Jan 26, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, lockdown, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
As lockdowns continue to try and curb transmission of Covid19, the pressure we’re under may show in our eating patterns. My blog this week is on a situation I often hear from clients, which is that they struggle with their eating much more in the evenings than...
Jan 18, 2021 | Events, Feel better about yourself, lockdown, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Body image Positive body image isn’t simply the absence of negative feelings about your body. It’s influenced by appreciation of the function as well as appearance of your body, being aware of your body’s needs and being able to deal with appearance-related messages...
Dec 23, 2020 | Uncategorised
Dear fellow professionals, It has taken me days to put fingers to keyboard in a final newsletter of 2020. What I want to tell you about is forward-thinking, an exciting new training course developed from work by Plymouth University which will start in the new year. I...
Oct 11, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight
Being able to make room for dessert even when we’ve eaten our fill at a meal has been dubbed the “dessert stomach” or “second stomach”. Of course, we humans only have one stomach, and being tempted by the dessert menu isn’t because we have another stomach. It’s a...
Oct 5, 2020 | Uncategorised
Your client wants to stop snacking in the evening but keeps finding themselves piling into packets of crisps when they sit down to relax. They feel annoyed with themselves and think it reflects some sort of character flaw. They ask you for help and you offer...
Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorised
I get a couple of emails a week from people I don’t know, either when they’ve read my book, or seen something I’ve posted on social media. Out of the blue I received one such email from Anthony after he had seen a short video I had posted about Appetite Retraining,...
