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...
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....
