food scriptIn today’s lesson you’ll begin to understand where your beliefs about food and eating come from.

Kicking binge eating into touch means that you’ll need to begin to understand why you behave the way you do around food.

Yep, you’re just gonna have to dig deep into your past experiences and look at the way you talk to yourself about food and start putting that jigsaw together. [click to continue…]

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This it the first post in our mini-course, ‘Nine Strategies to Stop Binge Eating’.

There’s a complimentary coaching assignment at the bottom of each post to help mobilize you into action :)

In this first lesson we’ll be looking at what you need to eat to begin to stop binge eating.

Strategy 1: Control your Binge Eating with Optimum Nutrition

It’s a paradox but you need to eat your way out of a weight or eating problem. This bit is crucial! I won’t work with clients who don’t make a real effort to rehabilitate their nutrition as it is so difficult to get results otherwise.

Once you start dieting, comfort eating, or bingeing your physiology is sent way out of control and it can make it nearly impossible for you to resist urges and cravings, particularly for sugar or starchy carbohydrates. Further, this kind of eating actually makes you crave sugar and starchy carbohydrates!

Put simply here’s why: [click to continue…]

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3 Ways to Find Inner Peace and Stop Binge Eating

June 14, 2011

Keeping a blog allows you to see just how people find you online. That is, what search terms people type into the search engines to arrive at your blog, such as ‘find inner pace and stop binge eating’. Today, someone used this phrase to find this site and reading it touched me and reminded me [...]

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Comfort Eating: What Is It Anyway?

June 10, 2011

So you think that you comfort eat and it’s a bit of a problem – stops you losing the weight that you just can’t shift. But when does this ‘comfort eating’ become a problem and what is it really all about? Well comfort eating or emotional eating, and this is my personal view, encompasses a [...]

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Food To Boost Your Mood: Baked Sweet Potato, Cottage Cheese & Ruby Salad

June 9, 2011

Got Cravings? Eat Food To Boost Your Mood If you suffer from cravings, overeating, comfort eating or emotional eating then it’s likely that you’re sometimes a little moody and you need to concentrate on eating food to boost your mood.

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Five Weight Loss Coaching Tips

June 7, 2011

Losing weight, and maintaining that weight loss, means that you’ll need to change your habits permanently so that you don’t pile on the pounds once you’ve slimmed down! One of the major mistakes that most dieters make is that they don’t break down old habits and replace them with new ones. Unfortunately, this means that [...]

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Food Offence # 2: Belvita Breakfast Biscuits or how to overdose on sugar

June 6, 2011

There’s another product on the market that claims to be a suitable part of your breakfast, and that is Kraft’s Belvita Breakfast Biscuits. Advertised on TV using a couple of well-liked celebs these ‘biscuits for breakfast’ are seductive. I mean, who doesn’t sometimes fancy something sweet for breakfast and if the famous, slim and attractive [...]

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Food Offence #3: Coco Pops for Breakfast?

January 18, 2011

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating here, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially if you have a tendency to disordered eating (and given that you’re reading this post then perhaps that might be true of you). For many women who struggle with disordered eating breakfast is either non-existent or [...]

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Sugar Detox Day 7: Blood Sugar and the Glycaemic Index/Load

January 15, 2011

Blood Sugar, Energy and the Glycaemic Index It was once thought that eating an equal amount of any kind of carbohydrate would have the same effect on blood glucose levels. It is now known that different carbohydrate-containing foods do in fact have different effects on blood glucose levels. The Glycaemic Index (GI) is a ranking [...]

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Sugar Detox Day 6: What Is a Low Sugar Food?

January 14, 2011

I’m confused! What is a Low Sugar Food? You can be forgiven for not knowing what a low sugar food is because we are sold supposedly healthy foods by the food manufacturers and retailers of this world that are packed with sugar. Go into any supermarket and you’ll see cereals and snack bars, for example, [...]

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