Escaping the Dieting Trap

If you've been dieting for years, you probably know by now that it doesn't work very well. You lose weight, regain it, try something different, lose some weight again, regain it. You might manage to keep some of it off for a while. But eventually you're back thinking about food more than you'd like,...

This week, I spent an entire coaching session with a client while she ate a sandwich. It might sound a bit strange. But there was a reason for it. We weren't trying to teach her how to eat “properly” or make her eat more slowly. We were curious about what happened when she paid attention to...

Recently, a conversation with a client got me thinking about freedom. She was reflecting on how freeing it had felt to spend time in spaces where people were less constrained by mainstream expectations about how they should look, behave or present themselves. What struck me was that the freedom...

For years my calendar was marked by periods of bingeing and restricting. We had Christmas, then the months after Christmas were spent repairing the "damage" of Christmas bingeing and unattuned eating, which really just meant getting the number on the scale back down to where I could tolerate it. Then...

A couple of days ago my grocery delivery was over an hour late. When the driver finally arrived, I asked how he was doing. It was brutal out there even at 10 am, and they were running significantly behind after a warehouse fridge breakdown knocked everything out of kilter.. He said his office had...

A woman messaged me recently. She'd been dieting for thirty years. She'd tried lifting all restrictions, read the Lindo Bacon book, paid a small fortune to a coach who told her to release all restrictions. She gained weight, felt out of control, and ended up dieting again to lose it. She wanted to know...