Mindful Eating Blog & Free Resources
Compassionate insights and tips to help you make a start on navigating emotional eating, food shame, and finding peace with food.
My blog posts and resources provide lots of tips and information about how to feel more in charge of food, strategies to tackle mindless overeating, and how to address emotional eating or binge eating. They offer a common-sense approach to weight loss and long-term weight control. In order to make positive, long-term changes, becoming more self-aware around your relationship with food and having better insight into not just what you eat, but how and why you eat, will give you a better foundation from which to find a personalised approach to improving your own unique relationship with food.
Food and eating can symbolise different things to different people. For example, food can calm you down when your nervous system feels completely overwhelmed; it can act as a powerful distraction, temporarily numbing your mind and shielding you from uncomfortable thoughts, heavy emotions or stressful situations that feel too difficult to face in the moment; it can act as a reliable friend when you’re feeling lonely; it can offer a sense of control or predictability when the rest of your life feels chaotic, or it can serve as a safe and easily accessible reward at the end of an exhausting day.
Because food carries such deep meaning, navigating these various layers can quickly feel completely overwhelming. Whilst these articles can’t unpick your entire history overnight, my blog posts are here to break down this complexity into clear, compassionate insights to help you understand your habits and safely make a start on your journey of healing.
My blog posts reflect much of what I cover in my one-to-one sessions and webinars. I hope they inspire in you the hope to begin a journey towards a happier, healthier relationship with food.
If you’re tired of trying to figure things out alone and want to take the next step, let’s look at your unique relationship with food together. Contact me (Emma Randall) to book a free discovery call, or Whatsapp/text me: 07961 423120.
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: 'The Brain's Tug-of-War: Understanding Emotional Eating'. Considering one-to-one sessions? Introduction When we think about going on a diet, a [...]
How Food Affects Mood: Eat Your Way To Happiness
How Food Affects Mood: Eat Your Way To Happiness What we eat and how we feel and function are inextricably linked. The brain needs a lot of fuel and nutrients to keep it ticking over 24 hours a day, [...]
Gradual Weight Loss With Mindful Eating: My Weight Loss Journey
Gradual Weight Loss With Mindful Eating: My Weight Loss Journey Final Entry: Wednesday 20th December (for the first 5 entries click here) I achieved my mindful eating weight loss task of losing 10 pounds since September! I started at 10 [...]
Mindful Eating Weight Loss Challenge
Mindful Eating Weight Loss Challenge I’m setting myself a challenge! My goal is to lose 10 pounds in 14 weeks, without strict dieting. This averages out at between half to one pound loss per week. I plan to do this [...]
Successful Weight Management: Five Self-Care Strategies To Help You Succeed
Successful Weight Management: Five Self-Care Strategies To Help You Succeed Keeping your weight under control is not simply about eating less and moving more. It also involves having the right attitude towards yourself. For many people, losing weight isn’t [...]
Eating Behaviour Counselling: Helping You To Improve Your Eating Habits And Relationship With Food
Eating Behaviour Counselling: Helping You To Improve Your Eating Habits And Relationship With Food “Emma has helped me so much with understanding my relationship with food.” “After years of yo-yo dieting, I felt lost with food…” Many people approach [...]
Dietary Coaching: How I Help People To Find A Fresh Approach To Weight Loss
Dietary Coaching: A Fresh Approach To Weight Loss There are many people who have tried various diets but still haven’t tackled their excess weight. Through my dietary coaching work I’ve come across a good number of individuals who feel that [...]
Balanced Eating: The Importance Of Being Realistic
Balanced Eating: The Importance Of Being Realistic We often hear about the importance of having a balanced diet, but it can be hard to achieve balanced eating just by being told what to eat and what not to eat. [...]
Improve Eating Habits With Daily Behavioural Goals
Improve Eating Habits With Daily Behavioural Goals When it comes to eating, the things we do once a week are rarely the issue- it's the little things we do daily that have the biggest impact on weight. Many people [...]
Difficulty Losing Weight: Factors That Can Hold Us Back
Difficulty Losing Weight: Factors That Can Hold Us Back Many clients tell me that they know how to lose weight- it’s just the ‘doing’ that they find hard. So what are some of the key things that can contribute [...]
Quick-Fix Diets: Why They Don’t Work And What To Do Instead
Quick-Fix Diets: Why They Don’t Work And What To Do Instead I meet many people who have embarked on numerous diets over their lifetime, yet they’re still struggling with their weight- they’re sick and tired of dieting and are desperate [...]
Food Choices: How Marketing Can Sabotage Our Good Intentions
Food Choices: How Marketing Can Sabotage Our Good Intentions When it comes to managing our weight and our health it can be a real challenge, as we have to make multiple food choices every single day. The problem is [...]
