Sep 12, 2021 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
Chocolate, cheese or crisps? What’s the hardest food for your clients to resist? When I ask fellow professionals what would most benefit their work with weight loss clients, it’s overcoming cravings that tops the list. There’s a growing body of psychological research...
Aug 19, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, changing eating habits, lockdown, Psychology
Did you gain weight during lockdown? If you gained weight during lockdown you may be on a mission to lose it again now that things have returned to something more normal. While it may seem obvious to look for a diet to get you there, overhauling how you eat may be...
Jan 26, 2021 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Feel better about yourself, Get control of your eating, lockdown, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
As lockdowns continue to try and curb transmission of Covid19, the pressure we’re under may show in our eating patterns. My blog this week is on a situation I often hear from clients, which is that they struggle with their eating much more in the evenings than...
Oct 11, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Lose weight without changing your lifestyle, Maintaining your new weight
Being able to make room for dessert even when we’ve eaten our fill at a meal has been dubbed the “dessert stomach” or “second stomach”. Of course, we humans only have one stomach, and being tempted by the dessert menu isn’t because we have another stomach. It’s a...
Aug 8, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, changing eating habits, Get control of your eating, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss
I love reading academic research on eating and appetite that is readily applicable to the real-life situations I encounter every day at work with people who are unhappy with what they weigh, how they look, how they eat, or all three. An example of super-useful...