Jun 1, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
When we eat too quickly or too distractedly we tend to eat more than when we concentrate on the food. Eating mindfully is a step that can significantly help with weight loss. With Appetite Retraining the focus is on making stepwise changes to your eating patterns...
May 5, 2014 | Eat in tune with your body, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
One of the first self-help diets books to be published in 2014 was “The Best Diet for You” by Caroline Jones. The fact that it reviews the pros and cons of 30 of the top diets tells us where we are with dieting. Confused and overwhelmed with information is how I’d...
Apr 6, 2014 | Change your relationship with food, Eat in tune with your body
Two sure-fire contributions to poor health are stress and poor diet. But what constitutes a good diet has become so confused that eating itself becomes a major source of stress for many. One week newspapers are reporting on a study suggesting that a high protein diet...
Mar 23, 2014 | Eat in tune with your body, Get control of your eating
The Appetite Pendulum This scale is at the centre of Appetite Retraining. It provides a way of judging your level of hunger or fullness. You can use this subjective 11 point scale to measure how hungry or full you are at any given point. If you have...
Mar 9, 2014 | Eat in tune with your body
How can someone who ate only McDonald’s food for 6 months have lost 56 pounds? The story of John Cisna, a biology teacher from Iowa has hit the press recently. Mr Cisna ate only food from McDonald’s for 6 months and reports having lost 4 stone in the process. He kept...
Dec 14, 2013 | Eat in tune with your body
Our bodies evolved to eat small-ish meals Our problems with weight and eating stem from the mismatch between the systems our bodies evolved for finding, eating and digesting food in periods of variable food availability and the food environment of the 21st Century. We...
