Getting a bit more sleep may help you eat less

Getting a bit more sleep may help you eat less

Tweaking your night-time routines may be an unexpected way to reduce your food intake, with a beneficial side-effect of being more rested. Laboratory studies Studies where people’s sleep is deliberately reduced suggest that we tend to eat more when we sleep less....
The million-dollar question in weight loss – how to keep the weight off

The million-dollar question in weight loss – how to keep the weight off

The million-dollar question in weight loss – even more than how you lose the weight in the first place – is how you keep it off.  Approaching her 40th birthday, Maya had undertaken to lose a stone. As a seasoned dieter, she anticipated it being hard work but this...
Does your self-control go to pot in the evening?

Does your self-control go to pot in the evening?

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...
Why do you always seem to have room for dessert?

Why do you always seem to have room for dessert?

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...