Jun 19, 2023 | changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body
Feeling full Try and cajole an infant into eating more than they want and you’ll be in for some serious mess. Babies lose interest in feeding once they’ve had enough* and they don’t like being pestered to finish what you thought was the right amount. Being persuaded...
May 8, 2023 | changing eating habits
An email from Isabel arrived in my inbox recently, asking something that comes up often when working with people who are trying to change how they eat. It was about how to get back on track after a disruption to your normal eating routine. She wrote, “I’ve just got...
Apr 21, 2023 | changing eating habits
The way you and I eat today is governed by an appetite system which evolved over an incredibly long period of time – millions of years. Approaching mealtimes, our brains fire off an array of electrical and chemical signals, to drive us to find food and eat it,...
Dec 28, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits
If you’ve crashed out of a diet more than once before, for the same reason each time, it may save you a lot of angst and hard work to look at what caused the de-railing. The problem may be to do with specific eating habits rather than your overall diet… What if...
Nov 26, 2022 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll no doubt have come across the less than helpful advice to ‘just eat less’. It seems obvious on the face of it that if you downsize the amount you eat at mealtimes, you’ll consume fewer calories and your weight will drop....
Aug 14, 2022 | changing eating habits, Healthy habits, Keep the weight off
How an emergency mini-habit helps your client When your client is trying to make lifestyle changes to enhance their wellbeing, they want those changes to stick. It’s dispiriting to put effort in, only to find that progress is too difficult to sustain. As a health...
