Diet | The Placebo Diet…

Love Yourself – Love The Foods That Love You Back

We often eat because food gives us a good feeling; but some foods give us a better feeling than others! Generally, chocolate produces a better emotional reward than cabbage. It’s useful to know which foods boost your mood then you … Read More

Do Things Differently This Year…

When you set a goal there’s a specific process within your brain that determines how or even if you achieve it. If the strategy you try to follow to reach a goal means any sense of unhappiness or loss of … Read More

Eat More & Control Your Hunger

There are two big players when it comes to the drive to eat: as with all body signals there’s one hormone to turn it on and one to turn it off, and the balance of the two determine the overall … Read More

You CAN Stop Emotional Eating

When you put something in your mouth that you think tastes good, but you know is hurting you, how do you override that and still do it? Losing weight and stopping smoking both require the ability to delete certain truths, … Read More

Are You Self-Harming With Food?

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself how you benefit from your comforting eating behavior? Would you suddenly get a knife and slash away at your arm to relieve boredom, or to feel comforted? Of course not – that would … Read More

Why Do We Need Yet Another Diet?

For our hunter gatherer ancestors, the need to lose weight was not an issue, for them the main challenge was getting more fats, carbs and even sugar into their diet. Their priority was to consume enough energy to survive, and … Read More

Mindful Eating

People who are not happy with their weight typically spend a lot of time thinking about food when there is no food in front of them. Equally typically, when there is food in front of them, they think of anything … Read More

Obesity – It’s Not Just What You Eat

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall recently said that Obesity has become the ‘new normal’. It affects so many of us, two thirds of us are overweight and many suffer from Diabetes and related health issues – YES eating healthy fresh food instead … Read More