When clients come to me they are often under the impression that if they lose weight that they will be automatically be more healthy. Often they have absorbed this information from news reports, magazines, health professionals and well meaning friends and relatives. But did you know that study after study has shown that people with […]
What makes you binge eat?
What sends you running to the biscuit tin? 🍪 Stressful day at work, problems with your kids, arguments with your other half? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I started eating emotionally after a traumatic incident where the police told me it was my fault (I was drunk), I was ostracised by people I knew, who blamed me, the ‘victim’ (not […]
Your eating habits have nothing to do with food
When I look at the social media feeds of the large slimming companies in the UK, I notice that it’s largely focused on food, which, if you didn’t know by now, isn’t really the reason that most of us are overweight. 😱 Our problems with food stem from the way we feel about ourselves. Food’s a […]
3 myths you’ve been told about ‘normal eating’
Normal eating habits… do you even remember what that means? In fact I’m not sure that ‘normal eating’ really exists but I do know that there’s a hell of a lot of disordered eating going on, even if you don’t have an actual eating disorder. I prefer to look at what constitutes a healthy relationship […]
You need to stop dieting for your daughter, niece, granddaughter and all the little girls that know you.
I don’t often post stuff about what our daughters are seeing because I don’t want to make you feel more guilty than you probably do already but I feel really strongly about how the ‘diet’ and ‘wellness’ industries are still manipulating our daughters under the guise of ‘body confidence’. 😡 ❓Have you checked your daughter’s Instagram […]
Why you need to accept yourself before you can change
Self acceptance seems like a simple concept but in real terms it can be a really hard thing to do. We are, from childhood bombarded with reasons why we are not likeable and not enough and by the time we reach adulthood, some of these reasons are so deeply embedded we accept them as fact. […]
7 Reasons Your Eating Feels Out of Control
If you’re at the stage where your eating feels out of control, you’re always eating like it’s your last meal or you’re bingeing like mad then you’re in the right place. The problem with this kind of eating (and it’s a habit or a learned behaviour that you’ve got into, that you can also get […]
How to overcome comfort eating
If you think I’m writing this because I’m the expert on comfort eating then you’re half right. I won’t go into full details but if you want to know about my struggles with comfort eating and binging then you should read this post. But I also want you to know that if you self medicate […]