Oct 23, 2022 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
How do you deal with the treat foods that lead you to overeat? People often tell me that their way of dealing with the high calorie foods they find hard to resist, is to keep them out of the house. Their reasoning is that if something’s not in the cupboard, they are...
Jun 1, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
Not long ago, I had a sudden lightbulb moment during a session with a client. I’ve had several interesting insights working with Morag, which I think are to do with her openness and her determination to find things that work for her. In this particular session we were...
May 16, 2022 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Real life story, Stop yo-yo dieting
Chris is struggling to believe the difference that putting his smartphone away during meals has had on his weight. In September 2020 Chris, a 45-year-old entrepreneur, approached me after he’d read one of my blogs on behaviour change. We were six months in to...
Nov 28, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Psychology, Real life story, Stop yo-yo dieting
The million-dollar question in weight loss – even more than how you lose the weight in the first place – is how you keep it off. Approaching her 40th birthday, Maya had undertaken to lose a stone. As a seasoned dieter, she anticipated it being hard work but this...
Sep 12, 2021 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Chocolate, cheese or crisps? What’s the hardest food for your clients to resist? When I ask fellow professionals what would most benefit their work with weight loss clients, it’s overcoming cravings that tops the list. There’s a growing body of psychological research...
Aug 19, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, lockdown, Psychology
Did you gain weight during lockdown? If you gained weight during lockdown you may be on a mission to lose it again now that things have returned to something more normal. While it may seem obvious to look for a diet to get you there, overhauling how you eat may be...
