Jul 4, 2023 | Achieving permanent weight loss, holiday eating, weight loss
Holiday season The schools are about to break for the summer as we approach peak holiday season in the UK. A break from routine A change of scene and a different pace of life mean the chance to recharge your batteries and decompress from whatever else has been...
Jun 29, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology
My guest blog for The Weekend University I was delighted to write the following guest blog for The Weekend University. The Weekend University describe their mission as making the most important, evidence-based ideas from psychology more accessible, so that you can use...
Jun 19, 2023 | changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body
Feeling full Try and cajole an infant into eating more than they want and you’ll be in for some serious mess. Babies lose interest in feeding once they’ve had enough* and they don’t like being pestered to finish what you thought was the right amount. Being persuaded...
Jun 12, 2023 | Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Real life story
Claire is 41 years old, married with 2 young children. She has a very busy life. In addition to looking after her children and running her home, she works part-time as a beauty therapist and spends lots of time with her parents, sister and her husband’s family. Claire...
Jun 6, 2023 | Real life story
Niamh’s experience of Appetite Retraining, in her own words I recently had an email from my client Niamh which opened with the words, “What can I say? You’ve literally changed my life this year!” She went on to explain the transformation in her relationship with food,...
Jun 2, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
How many eating decisions do you make in a day? If you google this question, there are numerous references to a research paper published by Brian Wansink in 2007 showing that we make in the region of 200 eating-related decisions each day, many of them out of conscious...
May 21, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Emotional Eating, Psychology
Working with clients who struggle with emotional eating This blog is written for professional colleagues from all disciplines whose work involves helping people change how they eat. I’ll write this to you directly, to make the writing flow a bit better than using...
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...
