Our food choices and eating behaviour are impacted by our preferences, associations, emotions, beliefs and environment. An awareness and understanding of why and how we eat or choose what we eat can help us to break habits that don’t serve us and adopt healthier habits if we choose.
A pursuit of finding the ‘right’ diet and to eat ‘healthy’ can become unhealthy if it becomes an obsession and takes the joy out of eating and life. Diets and…
How do we stop the cycle of emotional eating when it feels out of control? What is emotional eating? Emotional eating is when the primary reason for eating is mood…
Thinking the ‘diet starts tomorrow’ can lead to overeating in anticipation of future restriction, whether it’s the New Year or any Sunday when the diet starts Monday. Imagine this, it’s…
You just have to open a diet book or fitness magazine to discover that the calories in the alcoholic drinks you consume can substantially add to your daily caloric intake.…
Joyful Eating is essentially my food and nutrition philosophy. It underpins my book and approach as a nutritionist, writer and recipe developer. The Philosophy of Joyful Eating The philosophy of…
The media are warning of the risk of gaining weight during lockdown. However, concerning yourself with your weight at this time is not beneficial for your health. Allow me to…
Is it time to ditch the bathroom scales for good? Consider this. Say you’ve started a diet. You’ve been good… oh very good the past few days. All the hard work must…
When the food rules of a diet are so strict that people wonder, ‘is this food legal’, it’s too restrictive. Recently I overheard someone say, ‘I’m not sure it’s legal’,…
Are you afraid that you’d let yourself go and gain weight if you stopped dieting? At the beginning of each year, we’re exposed to many messages that tell us we…
Warning: This blog intends to express how gender norms influence food choice, not to portray gender as binary. Apologies for the gender stereotyping! Although intended as a tongue-in-cheek idiom, Real…
A fear of judgement can influence our relationship with our body and food. In the book, Joyful Eating, I dedicate an entire section and self-reflection activity to judgment. This is because,…
How did I stop eating like it was the last slice of tiramisu I’d ever have, that is overeating when I allowed myself to indulge on ‘treat’ foods? In my…