Aug 2, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, coronavirus, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology
Weight loss is back in the headlines as the UK government announces a new 12-point strategy to help people reduce weight. The impetus has come from reports that weight is a factor in how badly we suffer with covid-19 if we fall ill with it. Personally I really dislike...
Jun 20, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Photo by creatv-eight for Unsplash I recently wrote a blog titled “What is working memory and why does it matter for weight loss?” where I explained that we only have limited brain capacity, and we need some of this capacity when we want to change how we eat. In...
Jun 3, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
We’re still in a state of lockdown, though that is starting to change. The short-term future remains really uncertain, and we’re in a state of limbo. I’ve been thinking a lot about change, and adjustment recently and decided that I’d write...
May 24, 2020 | changing eating habits, coronavirus, Eat in tune with your body, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, lockdown, talking about eating and weight
Given how limited our lives are during lockdown, food is even more of an issue than it was before. And that’s saying something. With #lockdownweightgain trending on twitter, it seems we are eating more out of boredom or stress, or because someone in our...
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...
