Dec 23, 2020 | Uncategorised
Dear fellow professionals, It has taken me days to put fingers to keyboard in a final newsletter of 2020. What I want to tell you about is forward-thinking, an exciting new training course developed from work by Plymouth University which will start in the new year. I...
Oct 11, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight
Being able to make room for dessert even when we’ve eaten our fill at a meal has been dubbed the “dessert stomach” or “second stomach”. Of course, we humans only have one stomach, and being tempted by the dessert menu isn’t because we have another stomach. It’s a...
Oct 5, 2020 | Uncategorised
Your client wants to stop snacking in the evening but keeps finding themselves piling into packets of crisps when they sit down to relax. They feel annoyed with themselves and think it reflects some sort of character flaw. They ask you for help and you offer...
Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorised
I get a couple of emails a week from people I don’t know, either when they’ve read my book, or seen something I’ve posted on social media. Out of the blue I received one such email from Anthony after he had seen one of my videos… “Hi Helen I have been...
Sep 6, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Photograph by https://traineracademy.org/ Note: this blog article is about weighing yourself as a tool in losing weight and keeping it off. It is likely to be of use to people who currently eat more than they need and want to lose weight, but it does not cover issues...
Aug 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
One of the reasons many of us eat more than we need is that we eat beyond the point of feeling full. It’s so easy to keep eating when the food is delicious but day-in, day-out this can lead to feeling out of control around food. Learning how to stop eating when we’re...
Aug 23, 2020 | Psychology
Obesity Canada have published guidelines on clinical practice which include a chapter on psychological and behavioural interventions in obesity management. If you work with people who live with obesity it’s really worth reading. Here’s a glimpse of what’s in the...
Aug 13, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, talking about eating and weight
A new TV diet programme, same old format Dr Michael Mosley’s current Channel 4 series “Lose A Stone in 21 Days” has been met with criticism from two quarters. One from people whose concern is that the very low 800 calories a day diet will trigger people into...
Aug 8, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
I love reading academic research on eating and appetite that is readily applicable to the real-life situations I encounter every day at work with people who are unhappy with what they weigh, how they look, how they eat, or all three. An example of super-useful...
