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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...
How many eating decisions do you make in a day?

How many eating decisions do you make in a day?

Jun 2, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body

How many eating decisions do you make in a day? If you google this question, there are numerous references to a research paper published by Brian Wansink in 2007 showing that we make in the region of 200 eating-related decisions each day, many of them out of conscious...
How emotional dysregulation can drive emotional eating

How emotional dysregulation can drive emotional eating

May 21, 2023 | Change your relationship with food, Emotional Eating, Psychology

Working with clients who struggle with emotional eating This blog is written for professional colleagues from all disciplines whose work involves helping people change how they eat. I’ll write this to you directly, to make the writing flow a bit better than using...
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