Aug 5, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
It’s all too easy to “pick” whilst you’re preparing food. Maybe a piece of chopped red pepper or the bit of cheese that broke off when you’re grating the block. If this is the extent of your picking, it’s not going to cause a problem But if like Carys your nibbling is...
Jul 23, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, overcome anxiety about eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Stop yo-yo dieting
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...
Jul 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, book review, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Myth busting
There is so much vitriolic disagreement on twitter (my favourite social media platform) about what foods are good for us, that I frankly switched off long ago. If the experts couldn’t agree – in fact far from agreeing, experts often take polar opposite positions –...
Jul 10, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss
Cancer Research UK launched an advertising campaign recently which has attracted a huge amount of attention. As you can see in the picture, in case you haven’t seen the ad, the images are cigarette-style packs with the strapline “Obesity is a cause of cancer too…Like...
Jul 10, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, book review, changing eating habits, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
This excellent book by Clinical Psychologist Dr Denise Ratcliffe will be immensely useful for anyone considering bariatric surgery, as well as people who’ve had surgery and those close to them. Half the book is about preparing for bariatric surgery and the other half...
Jun 26, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, Feel better about yourself, Maintaining your new weight, Psychology
Photo by Kevin Lanceplaine for Unsplash There was an article in last week’s Guardian newspaper titled “Why Weight Loss Causes Breakups”. It was about how dramatic weight loss following bariatric surgery may transform people’s lives, but can also lead to the end of...
Jun 19, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story, Stop yo-yo dieting
Photo by Mauro Mora for Unsplash As I emphasise over and again with Appetite Retraining, permanent weight loss requires a permanent change to eating habits. And in order to change an established eating habit, you need to have energy and brain space (Working Memory)...
Jun 4, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
Some of the reasons we eat more than we need are pretty obvious and are to do with what’s happening right now with what’s on our plate – it tastes amazing and we don’t want to stop eating, or someone’s cooked it for us and we don’t want to offend them by not eating...
May 28, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Ask the Appetite Doctor, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
In February I received an email out of the blue from Tim, who was writing to me with some feedback about my book “How to Retrain Your Appetite”. His words tell his story better than I possibly could, particularly as we’ve never met and I only know what he’s included...
May 22, 2019 | Ask the Appetite Doctor, Psychology, Real life story, talking about eating and weight
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash I was asked this tricky question recently. It’s a thorny issue, and there is no simple answer. I’ve given some ideas here, which are to do with your relationship with your daughter (or other loved one) and her life...
