Feb 13, 2024 | Overcoming barriers to weight loss
What’s your immediate reaction to someone leaving food on their plate? Disapproval? Admiration? Or even envy? It turns out that not finishing what you were served is a highly emotive issue. One of the steps I recommend to my Appetite Retraining clients who are working...
Nov 26, 2022 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, changing eating habits, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll no doubt have come across the less than helpful advice to ‘just eat less’. It seems obvious on the face of it that if you downsize the amount you eat at mealtimes, you’ll consume fewer calories and your weight will drop....
Oct 23, 2022 | Achieving permanent weight loss, Change your relationship with food, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Psychology
How do you deal with the treat foods that lead you to overeat? People often tell me that their way of dealing with the high calorie foods they find hard to resist, is to keep them out of the house. Their reasoning is that if something’s not in the cupboard, they are...
Jun 1, 2022 | Change your relationship with food, Get control of your eating, Overcoming barriers to weight loss, Real life story
Not long ago, I had a sudden lightbulb moment during a session with a client. I’ve had several interesting insights working with Morag, which I think are to do with her openness and her determination to find things that work for her. In this particular session we were...
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...
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...
