May 14, 2023 | Psychology
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, but I was tempted not to write a blog on mental health. I’ve worked in Adult Mental Health as a Clinical Psychologist for over 30 years and provided psychological therapy to thousands of people. Perhaps that’s why it seemed...
May 8, 2023 | changing eating habits
An email from Isabel arrived in my inbox recently, asking something that comes up often when working with people who are trying to change how they eat. It was about how to get back on track after a disruption to your normal eating routine. She wrote, “I’ve just got...
May 6, 2023 | Change your relationship with food
Not sure how to stick to your healthy eating plans this weekend? The UK will see its first Coronation in 70 years later today, and we’ve been given an extra Bank Holiday on Monday to mark the occasion. Which is great in some ways, but I’ve been having conversations...
May 1, 2023 | Emotional Eating
If you work with people who struggle with regulating their food intake, the chances are that at least some of your work involves emotional eating. Emotional eating is the tendency to overeat in response to negative emotions, irrespective of feelings of fullness. In...
Apr 21, 2023 | changing eating habits
The way you and I eat today is governed by an appetite system which evolved over an incredibly long period of time – millions of years. Approaching mealtimes, our brains fire off an array of electrical and chemical signals, to drive us to find food and eat it,...
Jan 12, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Feel better about yourself
What emotional reaction do you get to eating less? If you’ve been eating more than you need, reducing the size of your main meal may be a change that will help you feel more in control around eating, feel better physically and perhaps lose weight into the bargain....
Jan 4, 2023 | Feel better about yourself, Psychology
A lot of people I work with are tired. Very tired. They are worried about their health, and often weight management is more of an immediate pressure than fatigue, because weight might just be something they can do something about, whilst the demands on them...
Dec 28, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits
If you’ve crashed out of a diet more than once before, for the same reason each time, it may save you a lot of angst and hard work to look at what caused the de-railing. The problem may be to do with specific eating habits rather than your overall diet… What if...
Dec 12, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Psychology
Advent is a season of waiting Whether you’re waiting for a hugely meaningful religious festival, for tinsel and baubles to light up your home or for a succession of parties, the four weeks of Advent are about a run-up to something. You may be so busy that it passes in...
Dec 4, 2022 | Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Psychology
At the end of a meal If you are in the habit of finishing off overly large meals, one specific change to how you eat – learning how to stop when just full – may help you feel much more satisfied, both physically and mentally. Eating more than you need can leave you...
