Nov 18, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
Some clients and patients (I’ll just use “clients” from now on to cover both) find that they turn to food to deal with stress even though they don’t want to. This can mean that they can stick to their weight loss goals when life is smooth, but when their stress levels...
Nov 6, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Get control of your eating, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
The Marshmallow Test Professor Walter Mischel’s “Marshmallow Test” has become famous as a measure of children’s capacity to delay gratification. You may well have heard of it – the child is asked to sit in a room, alone, with a marshmallow on a plate in front of them....
Oct 17, 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, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
It’s been an exciting week at Appetite Retraining HQ! First, as you can see, my book became an Amazon Number 1 Bestseller!! Thank you to everyone who has bought it and if it’s helped you, please tell other people that there is an alternative to...
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 26, 2019 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, Feel better about yourself, Maintaining your new weight, Psychology
Photo by Kevin Lanceplaine for Unsplash There was an article in last week’s Guardian newspaper titled “Why Weight Loss Causes Breakups”. It was about how dramatic weight loss following bariatric surgery may transform people’s lives, but can also lead to the end of...
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)...
