There are many reasons why people struggle with their weight, but if there is no known medical reason, the eating problem may be in the mind (psychological) rather than on the plate.

People eat for many reasons other than hunger – simply because it is a meal “time” or as a way to relax at the end of the day. Some people eat just out of habit, or because food is there, or to please other people. There are a whole host of reasons, some conscious and some not.. Eventually it becomes difficult to actually recognise when you are hungry and when you are full.

We use and combine a variety of techniques to find out why you are overeating and change it for you. We also help you to get back in tune with your appetite – so you simply eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. When this happens the weight starts to come off, naturally and permanently.

Psychological factors addressed include:

Emotional Eating

Eating when angry, stressed, bored, upset or lonely. When we eat for emotional reasons we never feel “satisfied” - because it wasn't hunger that we were trying to satisfy in the first place.

Habit Eating

Examples of this are, eating because it is a meal time, break time, or just because we are usually do, rather than because we are really hungry. Eating a takeaway because
we usually do on a Friday night, for example. Finishing everything on the plate, because we always do, (however big the plate of food is and whether we are hungry or not). Always having a biscuit with a cup of tea, always having crisps in the pub with our drink, always having a pudding in a restaurant, because we usually do. These habits which are built up over a life time, tend to get firmly stuck and can be difficult to get out of.

Habitual eating also means that it becomes more and more difficult for us to know when we are truly hungry, or full.

Eating Because we feel we “should”

For example, because someone has offered us a piece of cake, we feel we “should” be polite and eat it. If we are out for a meal, we feel we “should” have three courses. If everyone else is eating, we feel that we “should” join in. If we haven't eaten much during the day, or we have been ill, feeling that we really “should” eat something, even if we are not hungry.

You will be asked to complete a questionnaire, so that we can tailor your sessions. Most people have 5 sessions over a couple of months, followed up by regular reviews for up to a year. This is not about dieting, (in fact, dieting is discouraged), but about taking back control of your eating habits, so that you can feel free and food becomes a pleasurable way of keeping alive and well.

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