Apr 4, 2018 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
One of the reasons people give for abandoning a diet is that they missed their favourite foods too much to continue. The foods they miss most of all are their favourite treats – often something sweet or savoury that would be seen as unhealthy and isn’t allowed by the...
Mar 20, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Failed dieting, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
You’re at a loose end, stuck inside because of the freezing weather, and you keep having the urge to go to the kitchen and graze on something tasty. You’re not hungry – you ate lunch only an hour ago – but your brain keeps switching to thoughts of food. There are...
Jan 23, 2018 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Do you plan to have one of something, say a biscuit, and find that you can’t stop at just one or two? Do you intend to have just a taste of something but end up eating it all? Like an appetiser at a meal, a small tasty bite can stimulate the appetite rather than...
Jan 2, 2018 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle
The Appetite Manifesto Happy New Year Everyone! Over the coming year I’ll be posting simple-to-use guidance on how to change any unhelpful eating habits you want to put behind you. Whether this matters to you because you want to lose weight, or feel more in...
Dec 19, 2017 | Ask the Appetite Doctor, changing eating habits, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Real life story
We want to change our Friday night takeaway habit, but keep failing! Dear Helen, My wife Hayley and I both work and have three young children. We find that we start the week with good intentions eating-wise, but have got into a pattern of ordering a take-away every...
Nov 18, 2016 | Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits
Focusing attention on what you’re eating means you get more pleasure from the food Whether you focus on food or not whilst eating, you’ll get the calories Focusing on it determines how much of the pleasure that’s available in the food...
