Make Peace with Food: How to Take the Next Doable Step
When you're suffering, sometimes the process of healing can seem like a huge mountain to climb, especially when you're still mired in the dysfunctional behaviours and there seems to be very little if any progress. Today I'm going to teach you about something that isn't rocket science. But applying...
Read moreDiets: The Abusive Partner in a Toxic Relationship
Diets are like an abusive partner in a toxic relationship with your own body. Like an abusive partner, diets restrict your freedom by attempting to control what you eat, when you eat and how much you eat. Like an abusive partner, diets gaslight you by making you believe that your weight regain...
Read moreThe O-Word Is the Second Preventable Cause of Cancer After Smoking. Is It True? Is It Helpful?
Cancer Research UK is in the news again with another of their stigmatising campaigns. Last year they launched a national campaign on the connection between ‘obesity’ and cancer. Billboards all over the country featured a game of hangman. Remember this? This year, the campaign is drawing...
Read moreHow to Find Your Eating ‘Off-Switch’
Why you can't find your off-switch I hear this a lot from people: 'I don't have an off-switch!' 'I don't know when to stop eating!' 'Once I start, I can't stop eating - it's like I have no off-switch!' or 'I've never had an off-switch' It breaks my heart to hear this. Having the experience...
Read moreComment on The Telegraph’s ‘Overweight and proud, but is the game finally up for ‘fat-fluencers’?’
Three prominent fat activists were recently interviewed by a reporter from The Telegraph newspaper, a conservative-leaning daily broadsheet here in the UK (conservative with a small c though some would say with a capital C). Let me introduce you to these three inspiring women: Amy Pence-Brown is the...
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