Non Diet Weight Loss

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 »

I’m reading a book called “Mindless Eating” by food psychologist Brian Wansink. The research shows some bizarre things that make us eat more.

For example, if they have a big plate people eat 25 - 28% more food.

Eating while watching TV causes people to eat over 40% more food! Read more »

I watched a Horizon programme the other night, which was a summary of research over the years to do with weight loss.

They showed the classic experiment where they put both thin and overweight people in a calorific chamber so they could show exactly how much energy their bodies were using and therefore their “metabolic rate”. Read more »

Australian gym instructor and former model Paul ‘PJ’ James decided to put on weight so he could see how his overweight clients felt. As someone who had always been slim, he has had to gorge himself on junk food since Christmas to put on the weight, and he now weighs around 20 stone. Read more »