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Slim People Enjoy Food Too! Have a mince pie!

2011-12-06T04:08:00.000-08:00

Slim People Enjoy Food Too!

Why do fat people think slim people don’t enjoy food? Someone said to me today “well of course I really enjoy eating”. What’s that supposed to mean, that I don’t? Being in the food trade for years developing new products I learnt to appreciate ‘quality’ food. Slim people love eating too but they know when to stop because they ‘listen’ and ‘feel’ their body. Being bloated and feeling sick is not on slim people’s agenda. Infact, over eating negates the enjoyment of food. No mouthful tastes as good as the first.

So enjoy small quantities of ‘quality’ food and stop wasting your money, your health and your time eating junk that clogs you up. One mince pie filled with lots of juicy raisins and sultanas is much more enjoyable than 6 filled with ‘gloopy’ filler to make them cheaper.

Ban TV Suppers- my Weight Loss thoughts on Waitrose article

2011-10-31T07:16:00.000-07:00

I got really annoyed at the article in Waitrose magazine debating whether we should ban the TV supper. One argument that is missed entirely is that when you eat in front of the TV or computer for that matter, you go into an eating ‘trance’. Unless the food is overly hot or tastes ‘off’ you will not even notice what you are eating. You will be unaware of the texture, the smell, the flavour mix and you will eat everything on your plate. The TV hypnotises you with its minute flickers and I have helped more than one mother understand that her children are not deliberately ignoring her when she calls them. They are hypnotised and instead of shouting (which just winds you up) she goes and clicks her fingers in front of them she will break their trance and get their attention.

TV and computer eating is contributing to obesity in this country. You cannot be aware of exactly when you have had enough and know when to stop eating. Just look at the popcorn eaters in the cinema, munching mindlessly away.

How long does it actually take to eat a meal? If you can’t devote this small amount of time to thoroughly enjoy your food without the box then you really do need some help!

Burglars with Good Taste!

2011-08-22T02:28:00.000-07:00

I got burgled last week and lost my sense of humour for a while as you can imagine. What did the thief take? Well he/she climbed over a wall to get in and then they went into my shed. Did they take my bike, garden tools, windsurfing boards, my daughters wakeboard? No they emptied my freezer of all my home cooked foods! They left a bag of ice, 3 cup cakes in a tin, ice cream and a bag of chicken breasts. I was very, very mad!

As I advise my weight loss clients to do, I make large meals for the family and use left over’s to freeze portions for later use. So our thief has obviously walked past our house and enjoyed the smells wafting along the pavement and thought they would have some of that. They must have taken away 2 black sacks of meals in all the freezer containers I have collected over the years.

I haven’t bothered to claim on the house insurance, it’s not worth it with the excess but it’s all the work it was going to save me that’s so annoying. When working late it’s great to take a ‘proper’ meal to work to enjoy and knowing someone else had all my soups, risotto’s, curries, etc is galling!!

Anyhow rant over with, if you plan ahead as I would encourage you to do for those times you are too tired to cook and may then reach for rubbish food, make sure you have a lock on your freezer if it’s outside!!

Treats to Help you Lose Weight

2011-07-25T07:47:00.000-07:00

It was a long old week last week and ended feeling very jaded and tired! Yep, even therapists get this way sometimes! So I needed a treat, something to look forward to at the weekend. I’m a great believer in treats and rewards for hard work. What is the point otherwise? So many people treat themselves in unhealthy ways or do not do so at all and then feel very dipondant with life. How so do you reward yourself? With a bottle of wine or a pack of doughnuts? Rewarding yourself with a biscuit with a cup of tea will ensure you put on 5 extra pounds in weight you don’t need over the year.

My top 5 rewards recently have been;

1. A beautiful bunch of lilies

2. A new paperback

3. A sports massage

4. A morning on the beach with a paper when there were loads of chores to do

5. A 15 minute water ski

None too expensive and even the water ski only cost about the same as a couple of bottles of decent wine and gave me way more of a thrill and a long lasting buzz. Yes, my legs ache but in a good way.

Think of 5 ways to ‘treat’ yourself now that will help you ‘feel’ better instead of reaching for food or booze. I guarentee you will gain so much more pleasure from these and help you lose the weight too.

A Weighty Memory Problem

2011-07-15T02:41:00.000-07:00

Clients tearfully say to me that other people think they are stupid because they are fat. This causes them to work really hard to prove otherwise but if that is the reality they are not going to win. Research at the University of Los Angeles has shown that on average the brains of overweight people were on average 4-8% smaller than those of healthy weight. Premature ageing of the brain results in memory loss and may even contribute to Alzheimer’s. Scans of the brain showed that the shrinkage occurred around the area of the brain responsible for reasoning, memory retention and ability to make judgements.

The good news was that when they lost weight the memory scores improved. The scientists do not really know why yet but do know the brain starts to function normally again.

Sleep deprivation is a common problem with overweight people. Reported to me time and again is f the marvellous side effects of using hypnotherapy CD’s is much improved sleep which affects concentration hugely in the day.

So thank goodness I am not fat, just coping with the stupidity caused by the menopause is challenging enough!

If you have had enough worrying about what others think of you, start today by booking a FREE Chat and finding out what it will really mean to you to have others see the real you.

See Food Diet

2011-07-05T04:49:00.000-07:00

We have locusts in our staff room. If we have biscuits or cakes on the staff room table which we frequently do they literally disappear within hours or even minutes sometimes. If you suffer from the inability to waste food as discussed before and need a dustbin then our staff table will oblige!

A study in America put sweets on the desks of the secretaries in either a clear or a white jar with a lid. The jars were the same in every way and each night after the secretaries had gone home the jars were refilled after taking note of how many had been eaten. The secretaries that had clear jars had eaten an astonishingly 77% more calories than those with the clear jar. This would have added 5ilbs in extra weight over the year! How often do you just mindlessly see food (I include biscuits, sweets etc) and just eat it because it’s there. No checking in with your body as to whether it need refuelling or not? Is this random eating of your piling on the pounds or is it making you weary during the day as your body works hard to process the random junk you shove in with no thought?

On the plus side you are less likely to overeat if you are well hydrated. My clients will see that I keep a pint glass in my desk. Not filled with a pint of bitter, I hasten to add, but a pint of water. I always have a 2 litre bottle of water near me and you will be asked if you would like a glass. This is not only to be polite but I find that I can see how likely someone is to be dehydrated by how much they drink or not during our session and whether this needs to be in their hypnotherapy recording. We often mistake the signs of dehydration for hunger so instead of reaching for a biscuit reach for a pint of water.

Top tips:

1. Keep a pint glass on your desk or at your workstation and you will drink much, much more that if you have a small glass. In another study the military found that soldiers drank 81% more water when the water jugs were put on the mess tables as against on a side table. Very important when to be dehydrated could be fatal. You will be less tired and less likely to reach for a quick sugar ‘fix’.

2. If you have ‘junk’ foods lying around or inside your fridge or a cupboard you frequent, you are having to say ‘no’ mentally so much more often. Each time you see the food you have to make a decision. So put away the ‘junk’, change the cupboard or put to the back of the fridge. The chocolate in my fridge is on the top shelf in the door with a plastic cover over it as it’s where the eggs should be. I know it’s there but I do not see it every time I open the door.

Back in the office though, my hiding places have been scouted out!! Fireproof locked cupboard perhaps?

Stop Eating in Front of Your Computer to Lose Weight

2011-05-17T04:49:00.000-07:00

SeeSaw.com has conducted a survey on eating habits and found that tree-fifths of people are eating their evening meal in front of their computer. I could have saved them the money on this research as it’s all too common and not just for evening meals. The main culprit is lunch, with virtually all my clients who are office based eating lunch whilst on the computer.

To really enjoy your food and be aware of your body’s natural signals to stop eating you must concentrate on your meal. Enjoy the taste, the smell, the textures, the colours! Give some respect to your food and your body by taking time to nourish yourself without distraction.

Take a break from work or the PC and you will come back refreshed. Enjoy a conversation with your family or friends. This will slow your eating and help you to notice when you have had enough and can stop. Remember its all waste, whether you waste it in the waste bin or waste in on your waist.

What Makes You Fearful? Weight Loss Fears

2011-04-06T09:22:00.000-07:00

Trekking through the jungle alone didn’t make me fearful, a venomous snake crossing my path made me jump but didn’t make me fearful but eating street food did make me fearful. How weird is that, the thought of getting sick from unhygienic food made me cringe as opposed to getting lost or bitten.

What makes you fearful with regards to your health?

I have heard many different fears expressed by clients regarding food and their personal self image. Despite the abundance of food that we have available to us many still have a deep rooted fear that there won’t be enough at the next meal s so have to eat everything available then and there. Still others have the fear of punishment within them from childhood if they do not clear their plate.

Saddest of all is those who fear unwanted attention by the opposite sex should they become slim. These behaviours stem from previous experience and have become deeply embedded in the unconscious mind. Hypnosis helps to make sense of these fears and free you from them so they stay where they belong, in the past.

Holiday Food and Making Choices

2011-04-01T03:34:00.000-07:00

And there it was! The golden arches of McDonalds in Panama!! It never ceases to amaze me where this company has got to despite revolutions and poverty, it is everywhere. Finally back from my Central America travels the only tummy upset was the day I got home when all I had eaten for 24 hours was airline food.

The staple food of Central America is gallo pinto, fried white rice and kidney beans and this is breakfast, lunch and dinner for many. Being from the affluent west with dollars to spend I was privileged to have choice and ate very, very well most of the time. My gallo pinto was accompanied by meat or fish with a smoothie of fresh fruits to drink. Eating was a pleasure when food is simple and fresh. In Nicaragua they say that no-one has to go hungry as there is always fruit on the trees. What an amazing attitude from people with so little yet with a welcoming and friendly spirit.

This beautiful little girl was selling mangoes by the roadside instead of being in school.

Travels in third world countries really help you focus on how much we have in this country and be eternally grateful for our ability to choose our destiny.
What are you grateful for today? What choices do you have?

Holiday Eating

2011-03-04T05:48:00.000-08:00

My holiday travelling through Central America is nearly here. I set the goal and off I go. With my interests in food, I will be looking at what the local people eat and sampling new cuisine. There is nothing worse than the sight of a McDonalds when I am abroad and seeing how many tourists will go there because they know what to expect. No sense of adventure or experimentation.

Having said all that my family did draw the line at eating Guinea Pig in Peru, but really couldn’t!

I will inevitable be thinner when I come back because of all the trekking but hope to avoid tummy upsets by taking large doses of probiotics before I go and whilst there. That is not a recommendation it just works for me really well. If I can make my digestive system super strong before I go then I am less likely to suffer.

I’ll let you know what curiosities I find so long as I do not spend too much time bouncing off the walls after sampling all the coffee out there. What caffeine does to your body is another story

Allow Your Body to Rest

2011-02-26T09:23:00.000-08:00

Another point on snacking- I have always said you should allow your body to rest and it does not need to be processing food all the time. It’s great to be backed up by medical research at the Metabolic Medicine Department at Glasgow University. It was found that snacking puts stress on the liver and the pancreas as blood sugar levels stay higher during the day. Unless you are a diabetic your body is very good at regulation it’s blood sugar levels and eating regular meals with a gap of about 4-5 hours is ideal.

Eating early in the evening and allowing your body to digest before bed will aid sleep. Your body needs to rest and relax, not be processing some enormous great meal.

These are the behaviours of slim people and with Hypnotherapy I will help your unconscious mind to model this behaviour. One of the first significant changes my clients generally see if that they are no longer snacking between meals and are reawakening the feelings of real hunger in their body. How great is that? How do I help you do this? Click here

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The Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods

2011-02-22T05:46:00.000-08:00

Did you see this programme? It’s so good to see someone backing up all I tell clients. The presenter who normally eats a very healthy diet preparing her meals herself ate nothing but low fat prepared foods for a month. The result; very tired, bowel habits totally disrupted and she put on 3lbs. She was also constantly hungry.

Low calorie drinks will contribute to weight gain and it shocks my clients when I give them the research that has been done. In the programme some of the ingredients were shown to make wallpaper paste and were extracted from duck feathers. Yuk!

In a previous life I was a meat buyer for Sainsbury’s and I can tell you I am very picky about what I give my children to eat. Less is defiantly more when it comes to quality and your health.

So stop fooling yourself with low fat rubbish and you will not only lose weight more easily but will be healthier and probably have more money in your pocket!

Stop Snacking between Meals to speed up Weight Loss

2011-01-27T09:23:00.000-08:00

Contrary to a lot of nutritional advice I have always advocated 3 meals a day and not snacking between. I was seen by some as very ‘old fashioned’ and they were right. In years gone by we did not have the ‘snack’ mentality. Instant snacks were not readily available anyway and eating 3 meals a day was ‘normal’. Getting to know when you are hungry and embracing that feeling knowing that your body is using up the unwanted fats, sugars and carbohydrate that have sat on your body for too long need to be embraced. The hormone insulin that is released to carry sugar to the cells to burn up as energy, keeps you going for about 3 hours. After this your body will start using energy from the fat stores. Yippee!

So if you allow 4-5 hours between meals you will burn more fat. Professor Atkin, Head of diabetes and metabolic at Hull York Medical School says ‘Fat is burned as soon as your carbohydrate stores fall and you start the mobilisation of fat for energy’ Click here for details of my programme

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Diets Don't Work Rant of the New Year!

2011-01-10T02:31:00.000-08:00

At Marks & Spencer’s till I counted 20 magazines. Of these only 3 did not refer to dieting in one way or another. Now don’t get me wrong I am all for getting Christmas out the way and starting the New Year with goals for the coming one. In fact I LOVE the whole New Year, new you concept. BUT and this is a big BUT, (or even a very big BUTT) why do so many people decide to go on a diet once again at this time. Diets don’t work for 99% of people. If they did why is the nation getting fatter and why are Weight Watchers, Rosemary Conley Sliming Clubs so successful? If they truly worked then no-one would be overweight, fat or chubby or however you describe yourself.

So many clients say they have tried Weight Watchers etc and it worked. Yes, but for how long and if it did why are you here? Well it all went back on again they say. So it didn’t work then, did it? I know I am on a bit of a rant here but the only way to stay slim and healthy is to permanently change your relationship with food and exercise. If in your unconscious mind you do not have a deep burning desire to be slim and know that is truly who you are you will try one diet after another forever.

My most successful clients of last year came to see me consistently throughout the year to ensure they stayed on course and we addressed any other issues as we went along together. Even when I told them ‘you have got it! You don’t need to come any more’, they still came every 4-6 weeks just to have the support they needed. Average weight loss of these clients 3stone 5lbs.

Don’t delay or waste any more money, pick up the phone and call for your Free Chat on 0118 9782409 at the Wokingham Clinic or 01243 527208 at Chichester.

BTW the magazines that didn’t have diet stuff on were, TV Choice, Sudoku, and Country Living. Just in case you were wondering!

Diet Pills and Fun Snow Time

2010-12-01T03:42:00.000-08:00

“What do you think about diet pills?” a client asked me this week. “Not much” I replied. The side effects are too horrible to contemplate. If you fancy risking paranoia or wearing an adult nappy because your bowels are too loose then go ahead!

There are lots of people making lots of money from suckers who think diet pills will help. Some have herbs, some have talcum powder and none are medically endorsed.

I am tempted to shout this next sentence “THERE IS NO QUICK FIX”. The only way to lose weight permanently and safely is to change your eating and exercising habits. If you are indulging in self destructive behaviour we need to get to the bottom of this and help you change it. Hypnotherapy really helps this by changing how you think about many unhelpful situations. Under hypnosis the unconscious mind relaxes and becomes open to new behaviours and beliefs.

It’s snowing as I write this and how lovely to see the children all having fun outside in the school playground. If youngsters spent more time running around playing instead of holed up with computers and X-boxes etc we would have a lot healthier and slimmer teenage population. When did it become so scary to let the kids play out?

SIt Up Straight To Help Weight Loss

2010-11-19T09:40:00.000-08:00

One of my top tips to help become aware of when you are full is to eat at the table. This is good for your digestion as your stomach is not squashed as it would be eating on the sofa.

Australian researchers have found that having good posture enables food to reach the lower part of your stomach sooner so letting you know you are full quicker.

My mother had a wooden spoon to hand to whack elbows that found their way onto the table! To put elbows on you have to slouch.

So to avoid eating more that you need (and the wooden spoon), do as your mother told you and “SIT UP STRAIGHT AT THE TABLE”

Sleep More and Lose Weight More effectively

2010-11-09T09:35:00.000-08:00

Sleeping less inhibits weight loss and contributed to weight gain. A new study published by the University of Chicago verified this in a new study published in October 2010. They found that those on a diet who had less sleep lost less fat compared to those who had adequate sleep. Cutting back on sleep reduced fat loss by 55%.

People who sleep less also have higher ghrelin levels which reduce energy and stimulate hunger.

More information on the study can be found here.

http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2010/20101004-sleep-dieting.html

It is a very common complaint of my weight loss clients that they sleep poorly. However the good news is that when they listen to my Hypnotherapy cd’s as they go to sleep they sleep better and wake more refreshed. I don’t tell clients that this may be a ‘side effect’ of our work together but hear the response of sleeping better again and again.

Losing Weight-What Will You Look Like and Who Will You Become?

2010-10-29T02:38:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Warr on Weight blog

To help you achieve your goals to become the person you deserve to be I will be writing some brief tips and ideas to help and motivate you along the way.

As you work towards your ideal weight and size for you it can be good to know that some one really does want you to succeed and that person is me! It’s easy to say we want to lose weight fast or slowly or healthily but it’s not easy to actually do all on your own.

Future You

With the Warr On Weight blogspot I hope you will be inspired, challenged, comforted and motivated to take that next step on your journey towards your future self.

So who is your future self, take a few moments to sit quietly and image who you want to become.

Go forwards in time to a special date that you could look forward to, a holiday, a celebration, or Christmas perhaps. Imagine you are meeting your future self having lost the weight that you wish to.

What do you look like?

What clothes are you wearing?

How is your hair styled?

What are you doing that perhaps you cannot do now?

How do you move?

What are others saying about you?

What are feeling?

What are now doing that you were afraid to before?

As you imagine your future self more and more you will find yourself moving towards that reality as you take the necessary actions to bring it about.

You cannot hit a target you cannot see.

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