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...
Nov 6, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
The Marshmallow Test Professor Walter Mischel’s “Marshmallow Test” has become famous as a measure of children’s capacity to delay gratification. You may well have heard of it – the child is asked to sit in a room, alone, with a marshmallow on a plate in front of them....
Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorised
Illustration: The Behaviour Change Wheel (Michie et al Silverback Publishing) If your job includes helping people make positive changes to how they eat, you’ll know how hard this can be. Helping people lose weight is complex. There is no end of advice and new wonder...
Oct 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, 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, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
It’s been an exciting week at Appetite Retraining HQ! First, as you can see, my book became an Amazon Number 1 Bestseller!! Thank you to everyone who has bought it and if it’s helped you, please tell other people that there is an alternative to...
Oct 6, 2019 | Uncategorised
There continues to be daily disagreement about what we should be eating if we want to lose weight. On social media this disagreement is at times vitriolic, whether that’s lay people attacking journalists for critiquing fad diets or academics slugging it out on...
Aug 28, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Stop yo-yo dieting, talking about eating and weight
When Alie Ward recently posted this photo on twitter asking “How can I get these plates from @Macys banned in all 50 states?”, her tweet had 6,700 replies, 5,900 retweets and 49,700 likes. That’s a lot of activity. I’ve scrolled down the first 50 replies and they are...
Aug 15, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
A lot of what’s stopping you losing weight and keeping it off could be your unhelpful eating habits. Nibbling at food whilst you’re cooking, eating to stave off boredom, having a slice of cake with coffee at work because everyone else is, grazing through a family...
