Dec 17, 2015 | changing eating habits, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
Adele has been in the press a lot recently. Mainly for the record-breaking sales of her new album 25. But also because she has lost weight. Her weight loss is attracting the attention of the press because of how she achieved it. According to The Sun the singer said: I...
Dec 12, 2015 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Eat in tune with your body, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
According to today’s Daily Express, a study by the company Healthspan found that we will on average consume over 19,000 extra calories in December than in other months. No wonder most of us gain weight during the festive season! According to the Healthspan...
Dec 8, 2015 | Change your relationship with food
Before the first bite we see what is on our plate. How food looks has an impact on how we expect it to taste. Appetising food begins with sight and smell.We all know that our sense of smell is essential to our enjoyment of food. When we have a bad cold, food...
Oct 9, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
Love your food whilst you lose weight Hooray! One of the nation’s favourite TV cookery presenters Mary Berry has spoken of eating cake as healthy, as long as people only eat a small piece at a time. Trying to forego treats like cake is a major reason for people...
Aug 10, 2014 | changing eating habits
“I eat well all day but in the evenings my eating goes to pot” This is one of the specific eating behaviours identified in Appetite Retraining as contributing to overweight and it is endorsed by many people. Evening is a time of day when many of us eat for...
Jul 31, 2014 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
I’ve written before about weight and sleep. Sleep duration and quality appears to have a direct effect on our metabolic rate and on our eating habits. Without realising it, a poor night’s sleep can increase our calorie intake the next day. So Appetite Retraining takes...
Jun 22, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body, overcome anxiety about eating
There is no shortage of advice on how to reduce calorie intake. There’s a new way every week mentioned in the national press and there are enough books on the subject to fill a library. Open just about any book on weight loss and a significant section of it will list...
Jun 15, 2014 | changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body
Cultures and individuals vary enormously in their eating patterns first thing in the morning. Foreign travel introduces us to foods first thing that we wouldn’t normally associate with breakfast. History books show that how we eat breakfast now is not how it has...
Jun 8, 2014 | Feel better about yourself
With some 12 million people in the UK and approximately 100 million in the USA on a diet at any one time the pursuit of thinness is highly sought after. This is fuelled by concerns about health and our preoccupation with our outer appearance. The media feeds off this...
Jun 1, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
When we eat too quickly or too distractedly we tend to eat more than when we concentrate on the food. Eating mindfully is a step that can significantly help with weight loss. With Appetite Retraining the focus is on making stepwise changes to your eating patterns...
