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...
Jun 3, 2020 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Build your weight loss confidence, Keep the weight off, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology, Stop yo-yo dieting
We’re still in a state of lockdown, though that is starting to change. The short-term future remains really uncertain, and we’re in a state of limbo. I’ve been thinking a lot about change, and adjustment recently and decided that I’d write...
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...
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....
