Think about someone you love and truly care about. Perhaps focus on someone that you could be responsible for taking care of - your son or daughter, your nephew or niece, or perhaps a parent. Now think about what food and lifestyle choices you would make for them, wanting the best for them... WOULD YOU... - Encourage them to starve themselves (/fast) all day, only to notice that they get really hungry and end up overeating in the evening (which makes sense as they've barely eaten all day)? - Tell them to spend several days/weeks just living off cabbage soup, or 800-calories, or avoiding all ca ..read more

How do you feel about your body? Are you in awe of how it does so much for you every day? Do you love and value your body for allowing you to move, work, travel, and so much more? Or perhaps... do you constantly feel the need to change/ improve your body? Do you always feel as though your body isn't good enough/ quite slim or toned enough/ quite perfect enough? Do you spend your days focusing on things that you hate about your body? Many people go through their entire lives feeling bad about their body. Their days are spent thinking negative thoughts about their body, criticising their body, a ..read more

Maybe you wake up and the first thing you worry about is what you are going to eat that day. Perhaps you spend a lot of your time feeling guilt around the food choices you made yesterday and may make today. Perhaps you spend your day worrying about all of the things that you want to eat but "shouldn't" be eating. Or maybe you go through your day feeling bad about your body, spending hours scrutinising every food choice and planning out which diet you need to go on from Monday or next week.... Spending a lot of time and energy worrying about food and your body can be exhausting. When your mind ..read more

“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.” ― Rebecca Wells Do you feel a lot of pressure to achieve “perfection”? Perhaps you feel that you must look a certain way, that you must do things right so that nobody else judges you, that you need to have a spotless home, or that you should never fail or make a mistake? There can be a lot of pressure to achieve “perfection” in our society. Yet perfectionism is often something that can drive you down a path towards low self-esteem, anxiety and low mood. Unhelpful perfectionism is where you set very high standards o ..read more

,“If we make self-love or body acceptance conditional, the truth is, we will never be happy with ourselves. The reality is that our bodies are constantly changing, and they will never remain exactly the same. If we base our self-worth on something as ever-changing as our bodies, we will forever be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and shame.” — Chrissy King One of the reasons that many people don't feel good in their body is that they are not prepared to accept that their body has changed. They are still trying to get their body to look how it did when they were 20, before they ..read more

,“You can’t hate yourself happy. You can’t criticize yourself thin. You can’t shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care.” —Jessica Ortner The relationship that you have with food and your body are intimately connected. In fact, the food choices that we make are very often an expression of how we feel about our bodies. IF YOU FEEL BAD OR DOWN ABOUT YOUR BODY YOU MAY - Try and punish your body with restrictive diets and/or starve your body because you don't feel "good enough". - Not put any time or effort into preparing and eating things (for example you may regularl ..read more

,“I realized that I couldn’t knowingly look to food for a way out when it had so clearly led me here. It wasn’t hunger that beckoned me to eat more. It wasn’t my stomach that needed to be reconciled. It was shame. It was guilt. And food can’t remedy such things” ― Andie Mitchell, Many people struggle with binge eating. Binge eating describes a state of eating large volumes of food and feeling out of control around food. If you have experienced binge eating, you may have found yourself bingeing when alone and may then have felt shame or guilt after eating too much. Many people don't talk about ..read more

You've been there so many times. You've decided that this time ,"THIS IS GOING TO WORK" and you are determined to make this new diet stick. You promise yourself that ,"THIS TIME THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT", you are committed to putting in more effort, to having more willpower and to making this work... and yet, a few weeks (or maybe months) later, you find yourself back at square one. ,You've decided that the diet you tried was not the right one, you've fallen off the wagon and are promising yourself to start a new diet on Monday. Research shows that no matter what diet you try (low carb, low fa ..read more

Many people that seek out weight loss help or solutions may actually be struggling with binge eating disorder. These people may then feel defeated and frustrated when they find that the weight loss solutions they are trying are not effective. Perhaps they can stick to a diet or meal plan for a few weeks or months but then after this, they may find themselves over-eating and bingeing even more than they had before. Binge eating disorder can be resolved effectively with psychological treatment. However, a lot of the tools that are used for weight loss such as intermittent fasting, calorie counti ..read more

,“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.” ― Matt Haig ,We've all been there.... you rush through the day, doing things for others, trying to tick off items on your to-do-list and you barely have a minute to yourself. Yet when you get to the end of the day you really feel as though you deserve a "treat" for all of the hard work you have done for others so you turn to something easily accessible, maybe those glasses of wine, pieces of chocolate or biscuits you've had your eye on all day. How much time we dedicate to ourselv ..read more