Aug 5, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
It’s all too easy to “pick” whilst you’re preparing food. Maybe a piece of chopped red pepper or the bit of cheese that broke off when you’re grating the block. If this is the extent of your picking, it’s not going to cause a problem But if like Carys your nibbling is...
Jul 23, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, overcome anxiety about eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Stop yo-yo dieting
What’s your immediate reaction to someone leaving food on their plate? Disapproval? Admiration? Or even envy? It turns out that not finishing what you were served is a highly emotive issue. One of the steps I recommend to my Appetite Retraining clients who are working...
Jul 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, book review, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Myth busting
There is so much vitriolic disagreement on twitter (my favourite social media platform) about what foods are good for us, that I frankly switched off long ago. If the experts couldn’t agree – in fact far from agreeing, experts often take polar opposite positions –...
Jul 10, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, book review, changing eating habits, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
This excellent book by Clinical Psychologist Dr Denise Ratcliffe will be immensely useful for anyone considering bariatric surgery, as well as people who’ve had surgery and those close to them. Half the book is about preparing for bariatric surgery and the other half...
Jun 19, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story, Stop yo-yo dieting
Photo by Mauro Mora for Unsplash As I emphasise over and again with Appetite Retraining, permanent weight loss requires a permanent change to eating habits. And in order to change an established eating habit, you need to have energy and brain space (Working Memory)...
Jun 4, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
Some of the reasons we eat more than we need are pretty obvious and are to do with what’s happening right now with what’s on our plate – it tastes amazing and we don’t want to stop eating, or someone’s cooked it for us and we don’t want to offend them by not eating...
