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A neighbour has agreed to help with my garden, a hundred foot long by 34 foot wide wilderness, full of planting, a pond, lots of tall overhanging trees; a magnolia, a copper beech, a lime, an elm, and a clump of 4 connected sycamores, with a mass of shrubs and bamboo thrown into the mix. Yesterday I was shocked when I saw an area he’d cleared, where all the established plants had disappeared kaput.

getting the maj kitchen garden ready to eat from
Maybe this will house a Kitchen Garden

Then I remembered what it was like; full of bindweed, brambles and whatnot, a large but uninspiring shrub, and a very pretty, burgundy hellebore with dark green/red leaves, that had sadly been restricted by what lay around it.

I quickly moved into a place of optimism and feeling really ready to make the changes this garden has been crying out for, for the longest time, because I’m now able to focus. (Most of what you see there is rubbish for the tip or the bonfire).

Previously Clare and Daniel, have helped here and there, and she started a blog where we’ve previously noted some of those outdoor adventures. Clare is a great photographer!

Kitchen Garden

But you’ll notice a distinct lack of mentioning, one of my favourite subjects food, and there is no kitchen garden at the moment. Which is something I’d like to rectify.

I’ve really been torn in the past, because I’d want anything for the table to be grown using organic principles, otherwise what’s the point, in this day and age?

But I’m torn by whether that should be a raised bed arrangement or the companion planting method. Maybe be a mixture of both. I’ll have to look into it more thoroughly.

Sweet Garlic

The person I should probably ask is my friend Jo Barker a wonderful Landscape Architect & Permaculture Specialist, she takes people on Foraging Walks and can tell you the culinary / medicinal use of every stray plant in your garden.

When she first came to look at mine, she had me go round it’s perimeter walls, and squeezing myself behind every established shrub gave me a great view of the garden from an entirely different perspective.

It took me back to being a kid of 8 in Davyhulme Park where I spent most of my time, outside school, playing adventure games using an untamed imagination gifted to childhood.

It was Jo that pointed out the sweet garlic, and yesterday I broke a few stalks off to add to my evening meal using them in a similar way to how you’d use chives.

using natural sweet garlic
Adding a light onion flavour to food by including this snipped sweet garlic to your dish or salad

I just snipped them with scissors and added them to the onion, and mushroom mix I had going on in the pan, the taste was subtle, they’re equally at home in a salad, or a hot dish. Another addition to the allium (onion) family.

Today my neighbours having a BBQ and I suggested he use some to add a subtle colour and flavour to his food. I’m looking forward to seeing what other natural foods I can add to give more flavoursome nutrients.

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One Essential Ingredient

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Using love as a weapon in the kitchen
What does preparing food really need, tough love, kind love, or discipline?

When you cook you either go through the motions of preparing food or you love the process, as well as the end result. And it doesn’t matter how much you spend on sourcing the finest quality ingredients, if this one element is missing eating your food just won’t be a great experience for you or those you serve it to. Of course the essential component is:

LOVE!

Leave that out at your peril. The ripples that emanate from it are intangible but deeply felt, prior to sitting down, during the meal, and once it’s over. And if you’ve ever had the experience of attending a family meal served up with a dollop of resentment you’ll know the exact flavour we’re going for here.

What are your eating experiences like?

And this leads us into all manner of food-related territory doesn’t it? Our relationships with food start very early on, and mostly learned through the family. Let’s start with putting food on the table, have you been or are you now the main cook in your home?

  • Do you enjoy it?
  • Are you stingy?
  • Do you try to overfeed your flock?
  • How do you behave around food at the table?
  • What language do you use?
  • How old are your kids?
  • What food-patterns have you taught them?
  • How long have they been listening to your food-and-weight-hangups?

How aware are you of the impact that your attitudes towards food, eating, and how you talk about your weight have had on your own children’s psyche? What food-related patterns have they developed, that either support yours or rebel against them? Here’s an example of a lady I worked with where her family patterns held a firm grip:

In her early 50’s, we’ll call her Jennifer, she grew up with a mum who was obsessed with dieting; she would feed the family, didn’t sit with them at the table, and didn’t seem to eat. She put her daughter, Jennifer, on a diet from early puberty, having firmly planted the idea that her she was overweight as early as primary school. She and her sisters would sneak treats into the house, store them away like squirrels, awaiting an opportunity to have secret snacking sessions in their bedrooms. Unsurprisingly Jennifer didn’t feel good about herself, and became a serial dieter too, and it’s easy enough to see how that happened?

My mum passed away (aged 93) at the end of 2013, and was a bit of a minx when it came to food, because she used it to replace her emotions. A very common trait of her generation, and born in 1920, between the two world wars.

Killing them with kindness

overfeeding and killing our kids
Heart’s in the right place, but overfeeding our kids is misplaced

A bit harsh, but my mum was typical of her generation, she overfed us, always wanting to push more food our way, but it’s a dysfunctional way of showing love. My mum found it almost impossible to be demonstrative, either physically or verbally.

And her own very challenging upbringing is responsible for much of that. She was in a hospital bed for most of her childhood, treats were not on the agenda, so it’s understandable that she would want to compensate that lack with her kids. And she was as much a victim as anyone, of society’s growing consumerism, that developed post WWII.

I wouldn’t be much of an alternative therapist if I’d not spent time addressing the ramifications that impacted me, but I’m still a work in progress. And I didn’t have children, so perhaps I missed an opportunity to heal it more organically, as our children often reflect back and highlight our less desirable traits.

But similarly, had I had kids what patterns would I have unconsciously passed on, oblivious in how much my upbringing was impacting them, that they would then have passed down the line to their own children?

What food-related behaviours are you teaching others?

Maybe something similar happened to you, because it’s not unusual, and along with the vast changes that have taken place in food manufacturing, we now have a level of obesity that’s growing exponentially. Of course food gets blamed, but we know don’t we, that there’s far more going on under-the-car-bonnet of gaining weight, losing it, then gaining it all back again?

But what are we teaching our kids when it comes to emotional eating, are you teaching the Clean Plate method of eating. Cornell University released a study in 2014 that showed 92% of adults eat everything they put on their plate. It’s clearly a common practice, passed down the generations, unnoticed and without question.

These are current findings on child and adolescent obesity:

childhood obesity stems from the home
Childhood and adolescent obesity is on the increase

The psychology of food choice

Bringing it back to the kitchen, and cooking, and putting food on the table, there are a number of things you can do that will help to break the patterns that your family have been passing down the ancestral line, which all come back to love:

  • Look at how you feel about the food you produce for your table, and put as much love as you can muster into every spoonful
  • Cook things you enjoy eating
  • Eat natural foods that you recognise as growing, or roaming below the ground, on land, or in the sea
  • Stay away from synthetically manufactured foods (and non-foods), because your body needs nutrients it can easily recognise, digest and absorb
  • Celebrate food, it sustains us, it’s provides the fuel you need to live
  • Buy the best quality ingredients you can afford and take the less is more approach
  • It’s about quality not quantity
  • Look at your portion sizes, are you overdoing it?
  • Can you start reducing the amount incrementally, because the all or nothing approach to food is difficult to sustain in the long-term?
  • Being more mindful of the language that you use and the behaviour you’re displaying unconconsiously
  • Find someone to help you change some things without battling your willpower each day, despite your best intentions, or contact on that link
  • Set the best example you can

As a fellow foodie I know the importance of not losing your love of food, because loving food is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s social and celebratory. But altering any unhelpful relationships with food will bring noticeable differences.

And the benefit of all-things-weight and eating, is how highly measurable this is, which includes your feelings as you progress.

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Change Your Health & Weight

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Are you ready for different, I mean really different,
because enough is enough and it’s time for a complete overhaul,
a new confidence, a new mindset, a new body, a new you.
In other words … the works?
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What is different about this

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Are you at everyone’s beck and call, rarely making quality time for you, do you have a true sense of who you are, and what you’re good at? Perhaps you do when you’re ON, doing what you do best, i.e. how you earn a living, or as a parent, or as a wife. But aside from your obvious strength, then do you know who you are?

Getting rid of the old version

It’s a common myth that it’s rude, nay selfish to put yourself first. But here’s the rub, when you put your needs way down the list, lets be honest they are often close to the bottom of the pile once everyone else has pushed and pulled.

But the irony is that not being at the centre of your world actually affects the version of you that you give to others.

Which transcribes as being unable to deliver the quality of personal energy that you’d like to in order to feel good inside and out. It’s a bit of a trap and it’s fooling no-one, and of course you feel it at some level.

And similarly are there any areas where you tend to over-commit as it’s often indicative of falling short in other areas. Are you familiar with this one:

There are only so many hours in a day

What are you NOT making room for in your life, and consider the potential you’re holding back from. Getting stuck is a cop-out, but I know you already know it:

  • Are you middle-aged?
  • Is (the quality of life you want) passing you by?
  • Does safety over-rule?
  • Do you feel you’ve got to do something in a last-bid-attempt?
  • Is there a sense of urgency?
  • Are you researching for better solutions?

Are you ready to shine

So it’s time to stop and take yourself seriously! And if you’re ready this transformational programme is all encompassing.

EFT for overeating helps to quell food cravings
Attending a food cravings drop-in workshop helps eradicate the compulsion to overeat

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Welcoming in the new you

This uses the most up-to-date cutting-edge technology found anywhere, here’s what it is and what it is not:

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  • It’s not a magic bullet, you will have homework to do, and the more you’re willing to do between meetings the better your results will be
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  • It’s not a magic bullet, you have a simple regime to follow first thing in the morning (which takes a maximum of 20-minutes, there is no physical activity involved in this)
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  • This is not a magic bullet or nutritional system you take forever and a day that brings about long-term stamina, flexibility, healthy organs and increased self esteem
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Why they need looking at together

Something that is often missed is that when we have health issues, in tandem with weight loss challenges, they are not separate and ought not to be treated as such. But if you do treat them separately, you’re unlikely to clear both sets of symptoms fully, or new conditions arrive to take their place.

It makes sense doesn’t it, how can we possibly separate them, because there are boundaries as to where one sets of symptoms stops and another set start?

Recent psychology, especially in the field of Energy Psychology shows us that the body is being influenced by the mind as well as it’s physical environment, at least as far back as the womb. A baby is picking up everything that is going on with their mum, who they inhabit, and their dad too.

See what Bruce Lipton a Developmental Biologist has to say about it in this 4-min video:

Maybe you’re wondering how this is relevant to health and weight loss? The answer is that symptoms can be changed and not losing the weight you want to is connected psychologically, subconsciously, physically, mentally and emotionally.

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Who Is It For?

  • Have you been overweight for decades trying diet after diet without success?
  • Have you developed chronic disease symptoms which are sapping your energy?
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You’re in charge

This top-level bespoke coaching service offers you the chance to realize all your wellness dreams that lead to a healthier, slimmer body, because the information we use will make it so much easier to get on-board with yourself so that you will:

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  • Get energised
  • Keep up with everything albeit; your life, your kids, your loves and your passions
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How is it different?

From the outset you’ll start reclaiming the body you want, and notice a difference in yourself, which ultimately helps you uncover a healthier, happier you.

It’s a chance to finally get on-board with yourself by changing what’s stopped you before. You might be surprised to learn that it’s not your fault, and this makes a big difference too.

What’s Included

  • Change your mind service
  • Change your body service
  • A Weight & Health Tracker that identifies your patterns
  • Private food allergy testing
  • Private hormonal testing – which ensures your metabolism is healthy
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  • Naturopathic nutritional support
  • Regular consultations

This highly tailored service offers you a different approach by working with the biology of what assisted in putting on the weight in the first place, because this IS where most people need to start.

This addresses any behavioural patterns and whatever stopped you from finding a successful outcome in the past, which leads you back into normalised eating behaviours and exercising for health. It takes you into future goal-setting in order to receive more from life in all the key areas of relationships, family and friends, career, money, hobbies, community, health and your immediate environment.

No matter where you live, whether we work in person (face-to-face), over Skype or the phone, is your choice, as well as geography.

Your programme includes all of the above, so that a broad range of approaches can be integrated with these new-age findings. This enables you to recover your health, get energised and lose the weight, naturally, at your own pace (and more importantly your body’s pace):

But I’m not asking you to pay yet, we need a chat to ensure this is the right programme for you and that we’re a good match in working together to achieve your best outcome. (Payment plans are available).

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Comfort Eating

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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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When You Crave Food

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Learning to deal with food pangs is a major help
Getting Rid Of Your Food Cravings Makes A Huge Difference To Being Successful With Weight Challenges

It’s important to know why you crave food, what lies behind weight gain, that changing your relationship with food will help you find your desired body shape. And the bottom line is that using tactics that turn out to be this weeks fad or last weeks flavour don’t really help, on the contrary they’re likely to be working against you.

And do you ever find yourself saying things like this to yourself:

  • I’m hopeless at dieting
  • I can’t lose weight
  • They work for other people but not for me

But if you say some of these things to yourself and you put yourself down for it, then it’s not helping either.

Diets work for some people, but it’s usually when they have all the chairs stacked up and they’re simply ready, or that what created the weight-gain was a phase of disruption, rather than a well established pattern.

Of course it doesn’t always last and if that same person has an emotional trauma in the future there’s nothing to say that they’ll not fall off the wagon and resort to similar patterns again.

And there’s nothing to say they won’t, it all depends on how much of the pattern they changed, it can depend on so many variables, and weight gain can become more complex as we age, when hormonal issues kick in.

Listen To What You’re Telling Yourself

You may or may not be aware but your mind is always listening, whatever you say to yourself about your weight, eating and body image, is what your mind and outer experience delivers time and again. You’ve probably heard this saying:

You get more of what you focus on!

Which translates as, if you keep telling yourself how hopeless you are when it comes to losing weight, then guess what you’ll be hopeless, you may even put more on over time.

I know this from experience!

If you crave food you might find that your cravings move around, from one food to another, and this happens for a number of reasons, such as:

  • Hormones, at certain times of the month or in certain phases of your life
  • New habits which get more easily formed because food is the place you turn to for comfort
  • Associations, foods you ate that re-visits a moment in time you shared with others
  • Cultural links, with events
  • Other people’s expectations of you
  • Men and women being treated differently growing up

If we briefly look at the last point, as a woman did you grow up being treated differently to your male siblings, and as a man did you have allowances made that your sisters didn’t?

I know that happened in my family home, and I was very resentful in my teens, where decades later I learned that my brother’s perception was rather different to the one I took away.

Which demonstrates that events and how a shared experience doesn’t necessarily mean the same experience of itself, and important to remember.

As A Parent

Right off the bat, I’ll confess I’m not a parent, I have the experience of a child who lost a parent quite early (at 13 my father passed away following a chronic illness) which brings about a different set of challenges. That point in my life brought about substantial change in every which way.

But as a parent have you unknowingly inherited any unwanted methods of parenting form your parents. because we often continue the patterns that we were raised by. As parenting doesn’t come with a manual, there are as many parenting styles as there are parents.

Have You Become An Alien To Your Kids

It’s something you can look at. For example if your kids are struggling in an area of their life, can you assist them in finding their own solutions, rather than telling them to do x, y, and z. This can be a huge challenge for a parent, but teaching your kids to take responsibility from the outset by using a hands-off supportive approach is time consuming but it pays off massively later.

The downside is the later you start the harder it is, and most parenting doesn’t introduce the idea of taking ownership of cause-and-action until kids become adolescent, when their hormones are raging and the last thing they probably need is an unrecognisable system at home.

Raising children can be likened to making a Christmas cake (please excuse the frippery) but you toil and toil, adding all the required ingredients, at every turn, at all the various, yet rigid (systems imposed from the broader society) stages, and finally the proof of the pudding is whatever turns out of the tin on the big day.

What Is Your Family History

If you take a moment to consider your own history there are probably examples you can think of where your parents asked something of you they would not have asked of your opposite-sex siblings? Are you continuing that same pattern, because this keeps unwanted behaviours bound in! Have you gone the opposite way just because it seemed the right thing to do?

This might be a triggering topic for you, something that has you running to food for cover, as the cravings rear their sexist heads. We’re not beating anyone up here, no matter how much angry or passive aggressive your behaviour has become for you with others or you with yourself.

It is what it is, and it’s better out than in, because where family patterns have resulted in unhelpful patterns with food, types of relationships and behaviours, it’s wise to look closer to home for insights.

No-one wittingly set out to relay these patterns onto you, everyone in your life was doing the best they could with what they knew at the time.

So the next time you crave food, take for a moment to think about it if you can stop yourself in time, and see if you can track it back to where or when it started.

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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?

Food Cravings

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Learning to deal with food pangs is a major help
Getting Rid Of Your Food Cravings Makes A Huge Difference To Being Successful With Weight Challenges

If you’re reading this then I already know you know how this 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 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.

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, and more!

It may be none of these, and if that’s it then just think about yours?

Want 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 and the good news is you can un-learn it just as easily.

I was working with a group for the day, and when we did work on Food Cravings 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?

Chase Away Your Food Cravings

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

This 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, then choose what would be your absolute favourites if you were to make a list.

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

  • Food cravings
  • Addressing self-sabotage around your own unyielding high expectations
  • Exploring your personal demons
  • Learning how to work by yourself
  • How to break the hamster-wheel habit
  • Eat what you love and still lose weight
  • Get yourself off the yo-yo dieting roundabout

Food Addiction Help

This releases the emotional torment that keeps you dancing around food cravings, which is freeing in itself. It subsequently helps the body to get off the yo-yo dieting roundabout and instead helps address all your basic triggers around certain foods and their associations, in order to become impartial towards it which gives you back the control.

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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?

A Healthy Dinner

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The pattern of eating healthy meals starts early on in life
A Healthy Dinner Habit Starts At Home And Is What You Teach Your Kids

When it comes to having a healthy dinner, if you are someone who is easily drawn into what we might call Craving Foods (or non foods as some would say) it can feel like a punishment and totally hard work, to have to eat a balanced and healthy meal, but why is that?

I want to explore, and make no apologies for borrowing Paul McKenna’s phrase, The Clean Plate Club because I took my NLP training with he and Richard Bandler.

I have to admit I became a little smitten with Bandler, as a force to be reckoned with. His powers to facilitate change in others is magical, and considering he charges private clients in the region of $10K it was a privilege to watch him at work.

It’s a great phrase and I’m sure many of you reading will relate to it as I do from childhood. Then like me you were probably taught that it was wasteful or rude to leave food on your plate which didn’t leave much room when it comes to forming life-long and unnecessary habits.

Your Parents Know Best?

Of course your parents thought they were doing the right thing, as their aim was to get some decent nutrients inside their kids to keep them fighting fit especially during the post-war ‘fifties, when I grew up, alongside a sense of you don’t know how lucky you are, nor did we.

After all don’t parents always do the best they can with their resources at any given time? And you reach a point when you learn to appreciate that at least, no matter what scars they’ve imparted 🙂

How many of you were also threatened with the starving children in Africa line (ouch!) and how wasteful you were being when there are children in the world who would be more than grateful, so the guilt piled up (just like my plate in later life) and it all went into the mix of learning how to turn to food for comfort etc.

Of course as a child the fact that there was no practical way of transporting leftover food from the plate to anyone, let alone those in dire need, was often completely missed (dependent on a number of factors).

Parental Awareness About A Healthy Dinner

Your folks did the best they knew how, but these days society has a more global, social, economic, political awareness and understanding of how this can fill a growing child with some pretty poor coping strategies.

And parents are far more savvy when it comes to implementing different tactics to help their kids eat foods they’d not wittingly chose, i.e. vegetables by employing more creative tactics.

And it’s not your fault, because over the recent decades we’ve been fed (if you’ll pardon the pun) a range of confused messages about what merits a healthy lifestyle, so it’s understandable if you’ve not known which way to jump.

And this is partly what lead me to becoming a Health & Weight Loss Coach (unexpectedly).

And my own search reveals that we need to apply a range of tangibles, among them is a relaxed approach to food, eating and weight, and reset any offset subconscious programming around this often complex topic.

And wherever we aren’t relaxed about food, eating and weight, is a good place to start.

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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?