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Helping You To Improve Your Relationship With Food Through Mindful, Balanced Eating
Do you want to improve your relationship with food? Perhaps you want to lose weight but don’t want to go back to restrictive diet plans. Or maybe you’re a healthy weight but battling with emotional eating.
Whilst weight loss clubs give people plenty of opportunity to focus on and achieve their weight loss goals, it’s not easy to find something that helps an individual to understand why they might overeat in the first place or why they find it hard to eat in a balanced way, which might keep them stuck in a cycle of yo-yo dieting or swinging between binge eating and restrictive eating.
My blog posts provide lots of tips and information about how to feel more in charge of food, strategies to tackle mindless overeating, how to address emotional eating or binge eating and they offer a fresh approach if you want to lose weight and achieve successful long-term weight management. In order to make positive, long-term changes, building self-awareness and self-insight can help an individual to understand why and how they eat, why they might turn to food to ‘cope’, and how to manage the food environment in today’s stressful, fast-paced world. We all have different needs, preferences and challenges, so finding a personalised way of eating that works for the individual can be really helpful.
Food and eating can symbolise different things to different people. For example, eating can be a way of having a break, it can have a calming effect, it can act as a distraction or provide a temporary release from difficult situations or from one’s own state of mind, it can be a way of taking or relinquishing control, and it can even be a means of rebelling or ‘rule breaking’. Food might be used as a way to try and self-soothe or even self-punish.
Throughout my website my aim is to empower you with in-depth knowledge, give you an understanding of mindful eating concepts and provide you with clarity and insight to help you feel hopeful about developing a better relationship with food. My blog posts reflect much of what I cover in my one-to-one sessions and my webinars. I hope they inspire you to begin a journey towards a happier, healthier relationship with food.
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If you think you could benefit from my services and would like to have a chat, feel free to give me a call (Emma Randall) on 07961 423120, or email me.
The Difference Between Hunger And Cravings
The Difference Between Hunger And Cravings When we have the urge to eat, the difference between hunger and cravings isn’t always clear-cut. The mind can do a good job of convincing us that it’s time to eat, and so [...]
How To Stop Dieting, Eat Normally And Lose Weight
How To Stop Dieting, Eat Normally And Lose Weight I hear many people say they're sick of dieting, but they're still overweight and just want to start eating 'normally'. Whilst weight loss clubs give people plenty of opportunity to [...]
How To Stop Overeating With ‘Middle-Way’ Eating
How To Stop Overeating With ‘Middle-Way’ Eating I've worked with many people over the years, and the vast majority of them have a history of yo-yo dieting where they have a tendency to swing between extreme behaviours of being [...]
Health And Well-Being Tips For The Coronavirus Lockdown
Health And Well-Being Tips For The Coronavirus Lockdown The Coronavirus lockdown is a very challenging time for many. However, there are ways in which we can try to turn it to our advantage if we're mindful of how we [...]
How To Develop Mindful Eating Skills
How To Develop Mindful Eating Skills Mindful eating is a way of helping people to relate to and approach food in a more positive way. There are a range of mindful eating skills that are worth developing if you’re [...]
10 Tips To Avoid Overeating At Christmas
10 Tips To Avoid Overeating At Christmas The stress of preparing for Christmas, the huge array of delicious-looking festive foods in the shops and restaurants, food gifts we receive as well as the eating behaviour of those around us [...]
Why We Overeat And What To Do About It
Why We Overeat And What To Do About It There are a multitude of reasons why we might overeat or make poor food choices. We’re confronted with an abundance of delicious, often cheap, high-calorie foods wherever we go, and [...]
How To Boost Your Weight Loss Motivation
How To Boost Your Weight Loss Motivation We all know that weight loss isn’t something we can achieve with minimal effort- it requires self-control, planning, focus, consistency, patience- and motivation. Dieting can feel boring and restrictive, and can require [...]
The Problem With Having A Weight Loss Goal
The Problem With Having A Weight Loss Goal When clients tell me that they want to lose weight, that’s often their primary focus. However, they find it helpful when I explain that a weight loss goal needs to be [...]
Why It Can Be Hard To Stick To A Diet
Why It Can Be Hard To Stick To A Diet And What To Do Instead Read more about my webinar: 'How To Stop Binge Eating'. Considering one-to-one sessions? Join my online support group. Introduction When we think about going [...]
Food And Mood: How To Boost Your Mood And Brain Function
Food And Mood: How To Boost Your Mood And Brain Function Understanding the link between what we eat and how we feel psychologically is important if we want to feel good and have a brain that’s working optimally. The [...]
Healthy Eating Talks In Lightwater Surrey
Healthy Eating Talks In Lightwater Surrey And Online Over the years I’ve given a lot of talks at various organisations, mainly at weight loss companies but also in different community settings such as cafes, churches, mother and baby groups [...]
