Aug 2, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, coronavirus, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology
Weight loss is back in the headlines as the UK government announces a new 12-point strategy to help people reduce weight. The impetus has come from reports that weight is a factor in how badly we suffer with covid-19 if we fall ill with it. Personally I really dislike...
Jun 20, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, 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, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Photo by creatv-eight for Unsplash I recently wrote a blog titled “What is working memory and why does it matter for weight loss?” where I explained that we only have limited brain capacity, and we need some of this capacity when we want to change how we eat. In...
Feb 9, 2020 | 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, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Whilst developing Appetite Retraining, I was on a huge learning curve. Despite decades of training and experience in providing psychological therapy, I was having to go back to first principles in order to think about eating and appetite in a way that could help me...
Jan 22, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Psychology
Human memory We have three types of memory processes – sensory memory, working memory (which used to be called short-term memory) and long-term memory. Long-term memory refers to anything stored sufficiently well to be accessible more than a few seconds later – not...
Jan 11, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Now the excitement of a new decade is fading, you may find that your drive to stick to your New Year’s resolutions is coming unstuck. When you set out on January 1st with your Dry January, Veganuary or Whatever-else-anuary plan, you’ll have been trying to replace old...
Dec 17, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
Mental imagery or visualisation has long been used in psychological therapies, partly because of its powerful healing potential. It is this healing potential that we can harness in working to help people change unhelpful eating habits and lose weight. Your client’s...
