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If you’re reading this then I already know you know how food cravings feels, I hear phrases like, out-of-control, the food’s controlling me, I can’t help myself, zoned out eating, comfort eating, secret eating.

And it occurs for many different reasons.

The over-eating strategy

The bottom-line is that it really is a strategy and it’s been learned, either from others or created by you, as a means for not feeling something else. Whether it’s just so you can have something just for you, or because you’re split every which way where this is something just for you.

Perhaps it’s that the kitchen is your domain, and another area of control, where you dictate what goes into the store-cupboards and fridge. It can be very much about control, especially when lots of other areas in life, and people make you feel blown around by circumstances, their behaviour, kids growing up and making their own way, not needing you quite so much, work, partner, having to do everything yourself, etc.

It may be none of these, and if that’s so just thing what yours is.

Wanting to find the control to eat less

What must be understood is that this pattern of compulsive behaviour is just that, it’s a behaviour you learned to do at some point but the good news is you can un-learn it as well.

I was working with a group for the day, and when we got to the Food Cravings segment one lady in particular stood out. Her desire to eat a shop-bought meringue nest was such that she had us all laughing. We had some fun with the wording to work through it and everyone else benefited from her need, because she was just saying what everyone else was thinking.

Two hours passed and she’d not been tempted and said her children wouldn’t believe she could have gone that long without caving in, an hour later she threw it in the bin. She was surprised at both how hard it was to resist eating it at the beginning, that she’d turned it down after such a strong urge, how quickly it changed and all the things that lay behind it, among which was that ‘someone had taken the time to make it’. This actually harked back to her mum making them in the kitchen when she was a kid. Does some of this already sound familiar?

Food Cravings Service

Working on your comfort eating is about realigning with yourself, so you stop getting those pangs of having to reach for unwanted items when you’re not even hungry.

Changing your food cravings gives you have a chance to bring along all the things you’d like to start resisting more, your poisons of choice. If you’re someone who just overeats everything at certain times of the day or month, in other words anything will do, the root cause will show itself to make it be different

Then we work through the items and reduce the craving one-by-one.

• Food cravings
• Addressing what stops your success
• Explores your personal demons
• Teaches you how to work on your own when you need it
• Helps you get off-the-hamster-wheel habit
• Helps you to eat what you love and still lose weight
• Gets you off the dieting roundabout

This releases the emotional torment that keeps you dancing around it, which is freeing in itself. It subsequently helps the body to get off the dieting roundabout and instead it addresses all your basic triggers around certain foods, their associations, so you become impartial and take back the control.

This is carried out in a number of ways fitted to suit you best.

There is a Special Offer below this – take a look and book your one-off Food Cravings Session Today, knowing that you can take it off a full package if you chose to upgrade to more sessions! This is a one and a half-hour session which presents a great opportunity to address all your Food Cravings, understand how they trigger you and test out the techniques and working together.

At the same time if this turns out to be enough for you then excellent, I’ll celebrate too!

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Working with Jane

Changing unwanted patterns with all-things-food makes an enormous difference to everything else, especially how you feel about yourself.

When it comes to making better decisions, addressing what stops you is a very good place to start. Are you ready to take the plunge?

You can have a free Unravelling Session to establish what you need:

• To discuss what you want to address further
• Find out how long something it’s been going on
• It’s an opportunity to see if we’re a good match for making the changes you want
• You can ask any questions
• This conversation is the first step in bringing about your ideal outcome

This is carried out on the telephone or over Skype.  There are a variety of services to choose from and we can talk about what is a best fit, so it’s important to be as clear as possible on what you need help with.

Fix me – fix me now

I’m not going to say too much about this, except it’s important to understand that you’ll be fully engaged in the process and this service is not for you if you’re just looking for someone to fix you – lovely melody Chris Martin – misguided sentiment!

Just to qualify that … fixing you is superficial, relying on those ‘unreliable’ conscious efforts and willpower that falters, well it just takes far longer than it needs to, especially with all the false stop-start-stops.

This treatment bypasses the unwanted symptoms and behaviours so that you transform and having cleared the debris, it gives you a lightness and freedom to really create the quality of life you want! And by nature ensures that you’re not turning to other things for support instead.

I will teach you some amazing techniques (where you’ve a chance to become your own expert), you’ll be supported throughout the process, but ultimately it’s all about getting you where you want to be and getting immersed is key to your successful outcome.

How many sessions will I need?

This is a challenging question, because although the Services have been worked out carefully aiming to fit all needs, sometimes it takes longer and sometimes less.

If it transpires that you need less session-time anything additional will be refunded and likewise if you require more sessions, both of these would happen on a pro-rata basis. If you upgrade to a higher rated level then any difference will be calculated and deducted prior to the amendment.

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Changing unwanted patterns with all-things-food makes an enormous difference to everything else, especially how you feel about yourself.

When it comes to making better decisions, addressing what stops you is a very good place to start. Are you ready to take the plunge?

It’s the season to be jolly – tra la la la la la la la laaaa …

Okay it’s a bit early, but it won’t be long now.

And the height of the social season of the year and a huge part of socializing in most cultures involves food.

We break bread with friends and family alike, especially at Christmas time.

And I can’t think of a more substantial piece of equipment to have at the core of your kitchen tools and equipment than a KitchenAid.

The KitchenAid KSM156BCA Artisan Mixer

Back in the day … when I first came across the KitchenAid I was training school-leavers in all things food and cooking and catering, by way of preparation for their future careers in the food industry.

The training was two-fold, out on placement in catering establishments, anything from a sandwich bar to a 5* hotel, I had kids at Manchester United and the Lancashire Country Cricket Ground, as places I had worked as a casual waitress myself.

Although I visited them out at those establishments, I also ran an in-house micro canteen, serving a loyal crew of regular diners, where we gained a good reputation for quality and price.  I bet you’ll never guess where I herald from – in case you don’t know the UK very well, it’s Manchester, where these two establishments Man Utd and the LCCC are just around the corners from one another in Stretford, although some die-hards would argue that Man Utd is in Salford (as it tips onto the border).

The kids loved the pressure and the buzz, which if you’ve ever worked in the Food & Beverage Industry you’ll wholly relate to, and if there was one piece of equipment we all agreed on it was our prized KitchenAid Food Mixer where the youngsters would elbow one-another out of the way in order to use it.

Professional Food Mixer

If you’ve never used one you might be wondering what made it so popular? The features everyone loved best are it’s simple yet slick design, and as it’s made completely of metal it’s a substantial piece of kit complete with a sturdiness unlike any other similar machine, that often have a tendency to move around as the machine vibrates.

It was the first make to borrow the stainless steel bowl from the professional kitchen environment and this acts as the icing on the cake (so the speak) 🙂 which means it’s very easy to clean which always helps in the aftermath of preparing a meal for that special occasion that can turn an unblemished kitchen area into a catastrophe area.

An Easy Clean Machine

This machine really does tick all the boxes by combining a beautifully designed domestic appliance with all the features and stability of a professional machine.  The only aspect that may put people off is the price … but with equipment such as this you really do get what you pay for.  

And it makes a great present to yourself or a wedding gift, or yes a Christmas present, although I’m not even going to go there with the subject of how many men think that we women are happy to receive presents for the house – as wonderful as this piece of kit is, that’s definitely a no-no for most women any way! 

Television Cookery Shows

If you check out television cookery shows, such as the BBC’s Great British Bake Off you’ll see every contestant has a KitchenAid sitting on the workbench, as a standard piece of kit.

Another show where the KitchenAid pops up on a regular basis is the BBC’s Master Chef so it gets around, But it’s such a lovely simple, clean, easy-to-use and clean machine, that every home should have one, at least where a regular attempt at the home-cookery tasks of mixing and baking go on.

Just as an add on here, there is nothing wrong with baking and eating baked goods, provided you mostly eat a balanced healthy eating throughout the week. And although home cooking is something that food addictions can stem from, unconsciously, avoiding baked goods is not necessarily the best way to deal with this if it’s an issue for you.

It’s a big topic, and everyone is different, getting your eating normalised is key, and there is such a wide range of alternative products to use in baking instead of wheat based items for example, that the world of cuisine has taken on a new life in offering such a range of experimental opportunities.

Product Details

• Boxed-product Weight: 13 Kg
• Item model number: KitchenAid KSM156BCA
• ASIN: B002A0ZD9Q

Technical Details

• Smooth rounded design
• Direct drive
• Single attachment hub
• Full metal construction
• >Original planetary action

90th Anniversary Limited Edition (Candy Apple Red)

Here you’ll see the special edition version of the KitchenAid Machine and the colour is very seasonal and fashionable at the moment with lots of other matching equipment out there in the market … that will look very smart in any modern kitchen – begging to be used more often and more easily than any food mixer you may have owned before.

It gets a big thumbs up from me and that’s not just me being sentimental. I was in that role for 9-yrs and just wonder where they are now and what they’re getting up to, and that would be fascinating to learn.

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Working with Jane

Changing unwanted patterns with all-things-food makes an enormous difference to everything else, especially how you feel about yourself.

When it comes to making better decisions, addressing what stops you is a very good place to start. Are you ready to take the plunge?

Does this resonate? “I’m afraid of change”

New beginnings and changing habits can be fearful, we put things off, where anything and everything can keep us away from a work-life balance. Straying outside the comfort-zone takes some doing, and there may be a range of excuses you conjure up, at the drop of a hat, in order not to go there, such as:

• What will others (he or she) say?
• Will it rock the boat?
• Will they still love me?
• Can I succeed?
• What if I fail?
• Will I look stupid?
• I’m too busy
• What’s yours?

Changing habits once and for all

But it’s natural enough to feel this way when you’re about to embark on something different, just think back to when you first started school, where a mixture of excitement and fear coalesced.

You’ve been there dozens of times since, so you know how it feels to make change, and how good we are at painting ourselves into a corner during the pre-amble, where that pleasantly surprised feeling of relief takes over once the deed is underway.

This is especially so when it comes to changing habits, patterns or behaviours that no longer serve us. You might even think there’s something wrong with you, that your wiring is dodgy, or feel certain that you’re just a hopeless case.

Breaking bad habits

But the good news is that whatever you are telling yourself, in the wee small hours of feeling hopeless, through the chattering inner-voice that won’t shut up, it’s okay and it’s NOT your fault. It just is, but it needn’t stay that way, because most things are pretty-much reversible, provided you’re willing to play along with the easier way of changing habits.

The thing is we’re geared for change, the physiology relies on it, nature demands an ebb and flow. We need fresh influences to inspire an energized life where we can inspire ourselves that in turn inspires others through the process, whether it’s your family, friends, in your business or at work.

You owe it to yourself and others to get o-board with you in order to change your mindset which makes the biggest difference for change, so you can open those Great Expectation windows, pull down the drapes of predictability keeping you shrouded and dull and let in the light.

How does it work

Memories are held at a cellular level and every time you’ve attempted to address let’s say weight-loss, in the past and failed, they are held in your body’s physiology and as you make yet another attempt, the previous attempts are sitting there holding onto all the times you’ve failed (in your eyes) or someone else’s.

It’s like a memory bank, similar to the number of times your bank account has ever gone overdrawn, you can feel it maybe in your gut or somewhere in your system, if you take a moment to tune into it.

These failed attempts are haunting your determination for success – this time – and these past feelings of let-down and disappointment can be cleared from your system, in order that you now achieve the results you actually want.

The added benefit is that this clearing process (which is no more than a gentle tapping on the ends of the upper body and facial meridian points) will effect a faster change in your equilibrium so you can have your desired weight-loss, ideal relationship (without having to lose your current partner if you don’t want to) and a restored healthy body.

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Working with Jane

Changing unwanted patterns with all-things-food makes an enormous difference to everything else, especially how you feel about yourself.

When it comes to making better decisions, addressing what stops you is a very good place to start. Are you ready to take the plunge?