May 25, 2014 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
It is not yet widely known that there is an important relationship between weight and sleep. When you are trying to lose weight, getting insufficient sleep can make the task much harder. A helpful book by Dr Michael Breus, “The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan” underlines the...
May 18, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
Eating in cafes and restaurants has become increasingly popular over recent years. When you’re trying to lose weight eating out can become a challenge because The variety of tempting foods means you order more food than you need The size of the portions served means...
May 5, 2014 | Eat in tune with your body, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
One of the first self-help diets books to be published in 2014 was “The Best Diet for You” by Caroline Jones. The fact that it reviews the pros and cons of 30 of the top diets tells us where we are with dieting. Confused and overwhelmed with information is how I’d...
Apr 27, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating
Stress is the emotion people experience under prolonged emotional or mental pressure. It is produced by an imbalance between the demands on you and your resources for coping with those demands. You are stressed if: You feel over-burdened You are tense, tearful,...
Apr 20, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
It is much easier to achieve a goal if you believe that you can do it. We derive belief in our ability to do something from previous successes. We expect failure where we have failed before. This is intelligent learning from experience. If you’ve failed at losing...
Apr 13, 2014 | Build your weight loss confidence, Get control of your eating
One size does not fit all We all need different sizes and shapes of shoes, and yet when it comes to weight loss we often turn to one-size-fits-all diets. Appetite Retraining offers advice on how to devise a weight loss plan that is tailored for you and your lifestyle....
Apr 6, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
Two sure-fire contributions to poor health are stress and poor diet. But what constitutes a good diet has become so confused that eating itself becomes a major source of stress for many. One week newspapers are reporting on a study suggesting that a high protein diet...
Mar 30, 2014 | Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Lacking willpower is frequently given as a reason for failing to lose weight. “I have no willpower” If you think like this, you probably see willpower as a stable personality characteristic that you’re stuck with. Recent research challenges this view of willpower. In...
Mar 23, 2014 | Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating
The Appetite Pendulum This scale is at the centre of Appetite Retraining. It provides a way of judging your level of hunger or fullness. You can use this subjective 11 point scale to measure how hungry or full you are at any given point. If you have...
Mar 16, 2014 | Build your weight loss confidence, Get control of your eating
How to Wait to Eat until You are Hungry In the 21st Century it is all too easy to eat when you’re not hungry: widespread availability of food coupled with advertising means that we are reminded of or offered food more or less continuously. Because of the way the...
