Why do I keep Bingeing?

Oh No, it’s happened again. WHY do I keep bingeing? Might this sound like you?You’re home alone. Nothing is on the TV. You are absolutely shattered and have had a rubbish day at work (or doing whatever you were doing). You might have had a perfectly decent day at work…

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Podcast: Breaking the Cycle: Insights on Binge Eating and How to Overcome It

Podcast: Breaking the cycle.Thrilled to share that Season 2 of The We Are Wellbeing Podcast is finally here! And I'm even more excited because I'm the featured guest on the very first episode! Join me and Anna Wallace as we delve into a really important topic: Breaking the Cycle: Insights on Binge…

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Self-sabotage and its relation to disordered thoughts around food and eating

What is Self-sabotage?Adapted from an article in Psychology Today, Carolyn Ross, 2021Self-sabotage – thinking about this in relation to our plans to have a healthy weight, shape, and size, and we embark on a programme of some kind to help us get there….. but somehow we get in the way…

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Food Noise – further articles

Some further articles about Food Noise  “What Is Food Noise? A Conceptual Model of Food Cue Reactivity”This article defines “food noise” as heightened and persistent manifestations of food cue reactivity, often leading to food-related intrusive thoughts and maladaptive eating behaviors. It discusses how external and internal stimuli can trigger these…

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Food Noise

There has been a lot in the news lately about something called “food noise” and especially in relation to the impact of the recent increase in the use of weight-loss “jabs” which talk about the reduction of this food noise.I thought I would look for any interesting and helpful information…

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Eating and dopamine

Emotional eating, binge eating and comfort eating- why do we do it? This blog post takes a number of articles and pulls together a few thoughts from them.   If losing weight wasn’t hard enough…...a study from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in the USA reveals that…

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