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...
Jan 26, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, lockdown, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
As lockdowns continue to try and curb transmission of Covid19, the pressure we’re under may show in our eating patterns. My blog this week is on a situation I often hear from clients, which is that they struggle with their eating much more in the evenings than...
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...
