Exploring Your Reasons for Overeating
There are many reasons why people eat - apart from the one essential reason, which is to satisfy your physical need for nourishment, so you can live as healthy and robust a life as possible. Most 'normal' eaters eat for reasons other than physical hunger, but they don't do it all the time. I...
Read moreHelp With Thanksgiving (Or Any ‘Loaded’ Meal)
Occasions like Thanksgiving can be a wonderful time of celebration, togetherness, fun, reflection and gratitude. And yet they can also be a time fraught with triggers, like: the sheer volume and range of food available; relationship tensions, family politics, or old resentments; the exhaustion...
Read moreBinge Eating – It’s Not What You Think It Is
Bingeing and feeling out of control around food can be a very painful and distressing thing to experience - physically and emotionally. Most people who come to me for help feel a lot of shame around their binge eating behaviour. They think it's their fault. They think it means something about what...
Read moreDo You Call Yourself a Food or Sugar Addict?
If you struggle with your relationship with food and your body, you've probably told yourself, or at least heard other struggling people say, that you (or they), are a food addict. 'Sugar addict' is another popular label. I used to use both these terms to describe myself – for decades. I thought it...
Read moreKnowing Your Limits and Emotional Overeating
Do you overstep your limits? Perhaps the question to ask first is this: do you know what and where your limits are? This is something that has taken me a while to learn - and honestly, I'm still learning. I'm not sure that we can ever get this piece 'right' because knowing what and where your limits...
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