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How to build self-belief in your ability to achieve permanent weight loss

Apr 20, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Overcoming barriers to weight loss

It is much easier to achieve a goal if you believe that you can do it. We derive belief in our ability to do something from previous successes. We expect failure where we have failed before. This is intelligent learning from experience. If you’ve failed at losing...

How to Stop Emotional Eating

Jan 16, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Overcoming barriers to weight loss

What is emotional eating? By “Emotional Eating” we mean responding to states other than physical hunger by eating. Food satisfies physical hunger. Other emotions are never fully satisfied by food, although food might have been the best thing you have found...

How to cope when friends pressurise you to eat

Jan 10, 2014 | Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating

We are a competitive species Human beings are very social animals with a keen sense of social hierarchy. We constantly gauge our own status in relation to other people during social interactions, often unconsciously. We like to feel similar enough to other people to...
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