May 11, 2020 | Uncategorised
What is Working Memory and why does it matter for weight loss? People come to you for help and advice about making changes to how or what they eat. Some clients may be able to take the information you offer and put it into action without a backward glance, grateful...
May 6, 2020 | book review, exercise, Feel better about yourself, Psychology
Today, I experienced something really out of the ordinary. I had about 45 seconds of feeling complete in-my-body joy whilst I was running. If you’re a runner this won’t sound that odd. But if like me you have only ever run in the hope it would do you some good, you’ll...
Apr 26, 2020 | Psychology
Psychotherapist Esther Perel spoke to the Financial Times’ Culture Call podcast about coping in a pandemic. There’s a lot of good stuff in the interview, but Esther’s experience with clients differs from mine, so here is my take on one of the points we differ on....
Apr 18, 2020 | changing eating habits, kids eating healthy food
Young children don’t always want to eat what you want to give them! If your child won’t eat vegetables and you’re pulling your hair out, two publications – “Tiny Tastes” and the Purely Nutrition story books – could be just what you want. They are produced by...
Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
On not writing a blog article in March I usually write two blog articles a month, one for fellow professionals interested in the psychology of eating and weight loss, and one for a general audience of anyone interested in changing unhelpful eating habits. But in...
Feb 9, 2020 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Whilst developing Appetite Retraining, I was on a huge learning curve. Despite decades of training and experience in providing psychological therapy, I was having to go back to first principles in order to think about eating and appetite in a way that could help me...
Jan 22, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology
Human memory We have three types of memory processes – sensory memory, working memory (which used to be called short-term memory) and long-term memory. Long-term memory refers to anything stored sufficiently well to be accessible more than a few seconds later – not...
Jan 11, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Now the excitement of a new decade is fading, you may find that your drive to stick to your New Year’s resolutions is coming unstuck. When you set out on January 1st with your Dry January, Veganuary or Whatever-else-anuary plan, you’ll have been trying to replace old...
Dec 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Mental imagery or visualisation has long been used in psychological therapies, partly because of its powerful healing potential. It is this healing potential that we can harness in working to help people change unhelpful eating habits and lose weight. Your client’s...
Nov 18, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Some clients and patients (I’ll just use “clients” from now on to cover both) find that they turn to food to deal with stress even though they don’t want to. This can mean that they can stick to their weight loss goals when life is smooth, but when their stress levels...
