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The Big 3 properties of food that drive overeating

The Big 3 properties of food that drive overeating

Nov 11, 2025 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food

What’s stopping you losing weight? When you’re stuck in a loop of getting a handle on your eating, then it all goes to pot, you can start to feel hopeless about genuine, lasting change. It’s not you The problem is one of your biology interacting with our modern food...
She Lost the Weight—But That Wasn’t the Real Transformation

She Lost the Weight—But That Wasn’t the Real Transformation

Nov 2, 2025 | Change your relationship with food, Real life story

This story isn’t about pounds—it’s about freedom, identity, and self-worth. Cici wanted to get skinny quickly. At 26 years old she was an experienced dieter and told me, “I feel this is my last chance”. Starting as far back as childhood, she had tried every diet...
When YOU really want to lose weight, but part of you just doesn’t care

When YOU really want to lose weight, but part of you just doesn’t care

Jul 22, 2024 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology

  You and I have parts, or aspects of ourselves, that can make weight loss difficult. If I didn’t have these aspects, I’d never have got interested in this field myself. And I’m guessing that you wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t too. How do these parts or...
Small & Special: a mantra for enjoyable eating

Small & Special: a mantra for enjoyable eating

Dec 5, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, holiday eating

  Christmas may seem a strange time to be talking about food and smallness. After all, it’s a season renowned for excess. Letting your hair down is the thing that makes it celebratory. But I know from hearing it over and again, that the expectation of excess can...
How much of your eating is done furtively?

How much of your eating is done furtively?

Oct 9, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology, Real life story

How much of your eating is done furtively? Are you always relaxed and open when it comes to eating, or does part of your relationship with food take place in secret? With certain types of food getting a really bad rap, eating them means we can feel tainted by...
The Psychology of Eating – my guest blog for TWU

The Psychology of Eating – my guest blog for TWU

Jun 29, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Psychology

My guest blog for The Weekend University I was delighted to write the following guest blog for The Weekend University. The Weekend University describe their mission as making the most important, evidence-based ideas from psychology more accessible, so that you can use...
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