THE BLOG
You’ve done it – you’ve reached your ideal body weight – yay, congratulations! But what happens once that initial euphoria wears off, once the congratulations stop?
...Changing our relationship with food is not linear.
Changing your relationship with food doesn’t just happen overnight. It goes through different stages.
You can choose with a click...
So why you really don’t want to diet - dieting and restriction don’t work. At least not in the long term. For a while most of us seem able to follow a meal plan, cut out...
It may be that in this time of isolation & stay at home you are finding yourself reverting to old habits as regards eating. First off this is fine and not uncommon at times of...
Cor, you’d think by the time I got to my age I’d be sorted!
But I still get myself confused & tied in knots about things – going into a circular thought train just...
So if I don’t diet, what do I do? As discussed in my article “Stop Dieting…” I have stopped dieting and adopted a more intuitive and moderation approach to...
One of the hardest things about leaving the diet mindset behind was to stop dieting.
It was something I had been doing for so many years: – Weight Watchers, Slimming World,...
Life can become busy & hectic. Therefore, anything I can do to reduce this I do. The principles of nourishment, self, consistency and simplicity lend themselves to a much less stressful and...
Neutralising the Scales
Part of moving away from a diet mindset is recognising/learning that we are so much more than what we weigh. The aim is to escape the influence the scales and this...
How to Moderate Trigger Foods
It’s all very well talking about food freedom and moving away from food restriction but some foods I still struggle to eat in a mindful way. The dictionary...
“Oh, are you being good?” I was asked on turning down dessert when out for dinner. One of my pet peeves – I just didn’t want any – no biggie!
It got me...
As has probably become apparent if you have read any of my previous posts I have actively been moving away from a diet mindset to one focussed on moderation or intuitive eating.
Recently I...