Don't Worry Blog: Eating habits
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Complete lifestyle change. Help! Is this really the only way to lose weight?
The idea that you can only lose weight with radical lifestyle change is pretty unhelpful. What does it mean anyway.
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What food rules are you following?
Making a few small changes every month to our food routines can help us to manage our weight effectively.
read article 208
Eating fast makes you fat
People who eat rapidly risk being overweight. Research shows that obese people eat fast and maintain the same rate of eating throughout meals.
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Eating for two while pregnant causes long term weight gain
Eating for two during pregnancy could condemn women to a life of obesity and illness. Eating carefully will avoid being up to 3 stone heavier.
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The strategy you use to control your weight determines success
One client said she had "been on a diet for 30 years on and off", but was stubbornly one stone overweight. Clearly dieting doesn't work for her.
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What makes us eat?
See it, want it, eat it. Advertisers benefit from this by showing us appetising foods with lots of happy people enjoying them.
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Chocolate cravings
Lots of people exclaim that they couldn't imagine life without chocolate. But we didn't eat it till the 17the Century.
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Medicine doesn't work if you don't take it
If you have lost weight on a diet, the weight will come back on as soon as you stop, unless you change your eating patterns.
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Unconscious eating
Most of what we do every day is determined not by conscious intention or deliberate choice, but by our unconscious and automatic responses
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Appetite and hunger are not the same.
Hunger and appetite are similar but not the same. The drivers within the body are different.
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Managing your weight
Purposeful weight management involves behaviour change. Eating differently. And in fact it is not really about managing weight either.
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How to stop those cravings
Cravings seem to arise out of the blue and we are overcome with the need to eat the craved item
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How do we get fat?
Is it eating too much or exercising too little? Well, it is probably more complicated than that.
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Good eating habits to help you manage your weight
To lose weight, we need to change our eating habits. A crash diet might help in the short term, but we can't eat like that for months on end.
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Big guilt - after eating chocolate
Just thinking these foods are bad and banned makes them (of course) more desirable.
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