Why Food Feels So Complicated
(and What You Can Do About It)

By late January a lot of us feel weary - from the pressure to change how we eat and how we look, from thinking about food more than we’d like, and from feeling on track one day and back to square one the next.

If this sounds familiar, it’s not because you’re doing something wrong. It’s because the ways we’re typically taught to think about food make it far more complicated than it needs to be.

Rather than start another diet this January, there is a completely different way to approach nutrition and self-care - one that’s about eating enough, enjoying your food and learning to listen to your body, without restrictive food rules, all-or-nothing thinking or punishing regimes in the gym.

It starts with understanding why food is taking up so much space in your head. Once you can see what’s going on, it gets much easier to step out of the ‘starting again’ cycle and find more calm and ease with food.

In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll:

• Understand why diets and the food rules we absorb typically backfire

• Make sense of eating for comfort, stress or to switch off

• Learn simple ways to tune back into your body’s signals

• Leave with practical, realistic steps you can start straight away - no counting, tracking or cutting things out

This workshop is for you if you:

• Find your head is filled with food thoughts, or you rely on food for comfort

• Feel pressure every January to “make up” for Christmas

• Are drawn to starting a diet this New Year, but the idea of restriction and food rules fills you with dread

What to expect:

It will be a small group held in the cosy and welcome Blissful Studio. It is not a weight-loss session, neither will it be your typical nutrition talk. Nobody will be weighed or asked to share anything personal. You’re welcome to just listen - however, there will be space for a little private reflection, and time for questions at the end.

Led by Sarah Grant, a BANT Registered Nutritionist and Behaviour Changed Practitioner. Sarah holds Advanced Practitioner in Nutritional Therapy for Eating Disorders and specialises in helping people overcome binge eating, emotional eating and chronic dieting.