Mar 9, 2014 | Eat in tune with your body
How can someone who ate only McDonald’s food for 6 months have lost 56 pounds? The story of John Cisna, a biology teacher from Iowa has hit the press recently. Mr Cisna ate only food from McDonald’s for 6 months and reports having lost 4 stone in the process. He kept...
Mar 2, 2014 | Achieving permanent weight loss
Does each of us have a fixed “set point” for weight? This week I have been asked by three separate people about whether we have a “set point” for weight. The idea of a set point has entered the debate about weight and to what extent we can permanently lose weight, but...
Feb 16, 2014 | Build your weight loss confidence, Get control of your eating
The value of distraction for weight loss Using distracting activity to tolerate mild hunger Elsewhere in my blog articles I’ve outlined the value of learning to tune in to hunger and fullness signals from the gut to guide when to eat and when to stop eating. If you...
Feb 3, 2014 | Change your relationship with food
The documentary Horizon on BBC2 this week was presented by two doctors who are identical twins. Drs Alexander and Chris van Tulleken set out to test whether sugar or fat is more unhealthy. They went on different diets for a month. Alexander had a no carbohydrate diet...
Jan 26, 2014 | changing eating habits, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
Food waste is an important economic and political issue. It’s in the news increasingly as a global problem. It is also a highly emotive personal issue. In the 21st century we get confused about food waste. As recently as the 1950s food in the UK was rationed, so...
Jan 16, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
What is emotional eating? By “Emotional Eating” we mean responding to states other than physical hunger by eating. Food satisfies physical hunger. Other emotions are never fully satisfied by food, although food might have been the best thing you have found...
Jan 12, 2014 | Failed dieting, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Failed dieting gives us something in common Dieting has such poor long term outcomes that at any point there are millions of people who have tried and failed to keep weight off using conventional diets. Many have tried several diets, still to no avail. In cafes...
Jan 10, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating
We are a competitive species Human beings are very social animals with a keen sense of social hierarchy. We constantly gauge our own status in relation to other people during social interactions, often unconsciously. We like to feel similar enough to other people to...
Dec 14, 2013 | Eat in tune with your body
Our bodies evolved to eat small-ish meals Our problems with weight and eating stem from the mismatch between the systems our bodies evolved for finding, eating and digesting food in periods of variable food availability and the food environment of the 21st Century. We...
Nov 24, 2013 | Build your weight loss confidence, changing eating habits
Change your eating habits one small step at a time With Appetite Retraining weight loss is achieved by making stepwise changes to your existing eating habits or behaviours. The types of habits which produce overweight are those which involve ignoring or overriding the...
