Mar 5, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Do you eat more than you really want to when you eat out with friends? When you find that despite your best intentions, you splurge whenever you eat out with friends, you may be tempted to avoid eating out, at least until you’ve reached your goal weight. But eating...
Feb 21, 2018 | Ask the Appetite Doctor, Build your weight loss confidence, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
Eating leftovers is an occupational hazard if you have kids of any age, or if you cook for anyone else…. If this sounds like you or someone you know, here are some tips. …… How do I break the leftover eating habit? Dear Helen, I’ve got into the habit...
Feb 13, 2018 | Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, overcome anxiety about eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
When feeling hungry makes you anxious, and makes you eat more than you need If the idea of getting hungry fills you with unease, or even dread, you may find yourself eating extra now to avoid risking hunger pangs later. I call this “Insurance Policy Eating”. Taking...
Feb 6, 2018 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
When it doesn’t feel safe to lose weight, deal with the safety issue before the weight I’ve re-read the last paragraph of Roxane Gay’s book “Hunger. A Memoir of (My) Body” several times and each time it made my spine tingle. “in telling you these truths about my...
Feb 1, 2018 | Ask the Appetite Doctor, Change your relationship with food, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
Part of me is desperate to lose weight and another part isn’t. I feel like 2 people! Dear Helen, I have been trying to lose weight for most of my life. I keep going round in a pattern of going on a diet and having success to start with, but then giving up and...
Feb 1, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Ask the Appetite Doctor, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body, Feel better about yourself, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
Dear Helen, I need help to stop bingeing on unhealthy foods. I’m generally in good health and feel happy with my home and work life but bingeing is getting me down. My diet generally is good and I am aware of what foods are good and bad for me. But in the evening I...
Jan 23, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Do you plan to have one of something, say a biscuit, and find that you can’t stop at just one or two? Do you intend to have just a taste of something but end up eating it all? Like an appetiser at a meal, a small tasty bite can stimulate the appetite rather than...
Jan 9, 2018 | Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Psychology
It’s now January 2023, 5 years since I wrote this post-Christmas confessional blog… I’m re-posting it now because a conversation just this morning reminded me the issue of what to do with leftover Christmas chocolate crops up in early January and I...
Jan 2, 2018 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
The Appetite Manifesto Happy New Year Everyone! Over the coming year I’ll be posting simple-to-use guidance on how to change any unhelpful eating habits you want to put behind you. Whether this matters to you because you want to lose weight, or feel more in...
Dec 27, 2017 | Build your weight loss confidence, Feel better about yourself
Building Self-Belief If 2017 wasn’t the year you achieved what you wanted in terms of changing your eating habits, you may have a nagging sense that 2018 isn’t going to be much different. You may be feeling disheartened and discouraged, but still desperate to make...
