How Appetite Retraining can help you eat better during lockdown

How Appetite Retraining can help you eat better during lockdown

  Given how limited our lives are during lockdown, food is even more of an issue than it was before. And that’s saying something. With #lockdownweightgain trending on twitter, it seems we are eating more out of boredom or stress, or because someone in our...
What we can learn from how we ate as infants

What we can learn from how we ate as infants

Whilst developing Appetite Retraining, I was on a huge learning curve. Despite decades of training and experience in providing psychological therapy, I was having to go back to first principles in order to think about eating and appetite in a way that could help me...

Becoming a bestseller and a short video on eating habits

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...

Plate size, meal size, fat shaming and food waste

When Alie Ward recently posted this photo on twitter asking “How can I get these plates from @Macys banned in all 50 states?”, her tweet had 6,700 replies, 5,900 retweets and 49,700 likes. That’s a lot of activity. I’ve scrolled down the first 50 replies and they are...

Plate-clearing: Vice or Virtue?

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...