Feb 6, 2018 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
When it doesn’t feel safe to lose weight, deal with the safety issue before the weight I’ve re-read the last paragraph of Roxane Gay’s book “Hunger. A Memoir of (My) Body” several times and each time it made my spine tingle. “in telling you these truths about my...
Feb 1, 2018 | Ask the Appetite Doctor, Change your relationship with food, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
Part of me is desperate to lose weight and another part isn’t. I feel like 2 people! Dear Helen, I have been trying to lose weight for most of my life. I keep going round in a pattern of going on a diet and having success to start with, but then giving up and...
Feb 1, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Ask the Appetite Doctor, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body, Feel better about yourself, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
Dear Helen, I need help to stop bingeing on unhealthy foods. I’m generally in good health and feel happy with my home and work life but bingeing is getting me down. My diet generally is good and I am aware of what foods are good and bad for me. But in the evening I...
Jan 23, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Do you plan to have one of something, say a biscuit, and find that you can’t stop at just one or two? Do you intend to have just a taste of something but end up eating it all? Like an appetiser at a meal, a small tasty bite can stimulate the appetite rather than...
Dec 19, 2017 | Ask the Appetite Doctor, changing eating habits, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
We want to change our Friday night takeaway habit, but keep failing! Dear Helen, My wife Hayley and I both work and have three young children. We find that we start the week with good intentions eating-wise, but have got into a pattern of ordering a take-away every...
Dec 14, 2017 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Part 3: Because of unconscious self-sabotage You’ve made a decision to lose weight and chosen what approach you’re going to use. If you’ve chosen Appetite Retraining, you’ll have worked out which Unhelpful Eating Habits you need to change and familiarised yourself...
