The sign-up numbers for gym membership increase by about 15% in the first month of the year, so your local gym will be jumping for joy this week in order to sell the idea of people being able to obtain the body they have always...
by Bianca Skilbeck Coinciding with Body Image & Eating Disorder Awareness Week (BIEDAW) is the Butterfly Foundations “Love Your Body Week” which runs from 3rd-9th September. With that in mind, there is no better time than now to start to think about the ways in which you...
This week I am in the Gold Coast, Queensland at the 4th NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS and OBESITY CONFERENCE. While catching up with previous participants of our Obesity and Eating Disorders courses has been an added bonus of the conference, I am particularly enjoying hearing the discussions...
Ever wonder why your partner eats too much, even when you warn him or her not to? It could be precisely because your admonitions put your partner into a state of reactance, causing them to go against your advice just to prove their independence. Reactance is...
A couple of weeks ago I made an amazing discovery. Thanks to a facebook advertisement from a local health club, I now realise that I have two bodies; a winter body and a summer body. The summer body, is apparently made in the winter, so I’m...
Many people refer to themselves as compulsive eaters and say "I eat when I'm happy, and I eat when I'm sad", so it's worth considering what we can do to help understand the dissatisfied eater. Dissatisfied eaters eat heavily, need lots of variety, have a strong...
The end of the financial year is just over a week away, but you are just in time to spend some $$ towards your 2017 professional development and make your accountant happy. We have a number of courses suitable for health professionals who encounter clients with...
Many girls agree their mother has the biggest influence on their own self-image and they have adopted their mothers’ views on food and dieting. A 2009 magazine survey of 512 teenage girls with an average age of 14 found: 38% said their mother had the biggest influence...
This is just a small selection of the men and women that have joined the ACFED family. We use the word family, because we have a personal connection with each and every person in our ACFED Approved Practitioner network. We have met each person, and...
For many people emotional eating has caused a lifelong union with the cycle of weight loss, then weight gain known as yo-yo dieting. Common struggles include feeling out of control when you eat, not being able to stop eating, or not caring whilst you binge, then...