Losing weight successfully is not quick. It's not easy. But it is doable. It involves a realignment of your lifestyle. It's not just what you eat but also when, where, why and how

- Dr Phillip C. McGraw ('Dr Phil')

'Heal Your Relationship With Food And Your Body' Coaching

Are you unhappy with your weight, body size and shape? Are you an emotional eater? Do you eat more than your body needs? Are you always on a new diet?

Answer yes or no to the questions below to find out if you need to heal your relationship with food and your body.

Do you eat when you are not really hungry?
Do you carry on eating even though your stomach is full and satisfied?
Are you always starting a new 'diet'?
Do you use food for comfort or 'something to do'?
Do you feel guilty when you eat to the point that you are stuffed and uncomfortable?
Do you eat secretly?
Do you eat all the biscuits on the plate and then decide you can't have any tomorrow?
Is your day governed by thoughts about food?
Do you know the calorie and/or fat content of most foods?
Do you see sweet or high fat foods as the enemy?
Do you weigh yourself every day?
Do you exercise to lose weight rather than because you enjoy it?

If you answered 'yes' to 3 or more, then you would benefit from 'healing your relationship with food' coaching.

'Healing your relationship with food' coaching will help you to make peace with food and your body. Learn how to accept the things you can't change about your body and change what you can. Outwit your cravings and get unstuck when you hit a plateau. Give you the understanding that diets fail because we rebel. Help you to put strategies in place to catch you when you're not in the mood to listen to your body's hunger.

Coaching will help you to create a new life by teaching you how to deal with your self-destructive emotions. When you feel stress, anxiety or depression, there's a natural human impulse to eat. Food does stabilise your mood and mental functioning. The problem is that you will usually eat comfort foods like tubs of ice cream, adding to your weight issues.

When you get depressed and abuse food, a viscous cycle ensues: you are left with a feeling of guilt, more depression, and more stress and anxiety. There will always be problems in life but with coaching you can regain the natural understanding of how to respond to your feelings. Thus you no longer gain weight and you feel good about your body.

'Healing your relationship with food' Coaching is not another diet plan - we all know that diets don't work. If you don't believe it, write down all the so-called diets you've tried in your life and note which ones actually worked. Now is the time to accept that healthy eating is the lifestyle to maintain your natural body weight and that coaching will support you to let go of the habits and patterns that have been failing you again and again.

This is a balanced, healthy, holistic approach to healing your relationship with food. You can return to your normal body weight and no longer be in 'dieting hell'...

'Healing your relationship with food' Coaching involves a weekly phone session with on-going email support. Alternatively if you live in or near Edinburgh there are weekly group sessions and workshops, led by the Coach, (connecting you with a 'buddy' throughout the sessions, to give you extra inspiration).

Email now to make an appointment for your FREE half-hour coaching consultation. You've nothing to lose and a new life to gain.