Non Diet Weight Loss from the Enlighten Programme
A blog from Roz Watkins
My thoughts, ideas and occasional rants about the world of weight loss. I help people lose weight using a non diet approach and the blog shares some of the ways I do this.
My main website is at http://enlightenprogramme.co.uk, where you can read reports, order my special non-diet weight loss courses and do quizzes to learn about yourself too.
Intermittent fasting
As I may have mentioned before, my Dad has never been one for moderation. Read more »
Muller advert - "Forget Fad Diets"?!
I nearly choked on my full fat yogurt when I saw Muller’s latest ad. This is in their “Forget Fad Diets” series, and it has a cheery sound track and features lots of svelt young women chomping on Mullerlight and stomping on fad diet books. Read more »
Still drinking diet coke?
I recently noticed that a friend’s bottle of “Orangina Lite” proudly proclaimed: “No sugar or artificial colours or flavourings”. It looked so wholesome I actually initially misread this as claiming it had no artificial sweeteners. However, a read of the ingredients revealed that it contains aspartame. I suppose the claim is true in a legal sense but hardly fair.&n Read more »
Who Knows Best: Fighting the Fat / Channel 4
Last night’s “Who Knows Best - Fighting the Fat”, on channel 4, was so awful I hardly know where to start. Read more »
GM foods and mutant hamsters
Until recently, I hadn’t come down strongly on one side or the other in the GM foods debate. I thought there could be benefits given the number of people we have to feed in the world, although better access to contraception and less food waste would seem a preferable (albeit less profitable) alternative. Read more »
How statins and a low fat diet nearly killed my Dad
My Dad has written an article about his experiences with statin drugs. He was put on these a few years ago when, despite being a slim, fit, healthy non-smoker, his heart disease risk was deemed high because his cholesterol levels were above the new recommended limit. Here is his story: Read more »
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Researchers at Princeton University have found that rats fed high fructose corn syrup gain significantly more weight than rats fed table sugar. They also gain weight around the middle and develop the known risk factors for high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, cancer and diabetes. Read more »
Horse training, rats and over-eating
I have two horses and I like them to be well behaved but also really enthusiastic about what we do together (which is not always the case with horses!) I use clicker training (positive reinforcement) where the horse gets a reward (usually food) if it does the right thing. In clicker training, you pair the food reward with a “click” sound so the horse learns that the click mea Read more »
High fat breakfast may be healthiest start to the day
I’ve been saying for a while now that my clients have an easier time losing weight if they eat a fatty breakfast. However, people find it hard to believe me. Read more »
Sometimes you just have to feel bad!
Something that came out strongly in the recent telephone seminar is that giving up emotional eating can involve feeling our emotions more. And that this isn’t always pleasant! Read more »
