A 90-minute workshop for women tired of starting again every Monday

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 that you’re doing something wrong. It’s the way that most of us were taught to think about food makes 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 in a way that actually satisfies you and learning to listen to your body, without restrictive food rules, all-or-nothing thinking or punishing regimes in the gym.

Change starts with understanding why food is taking up so much of your headspace. Once you can see what’s going on, it gets a lot 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 to work with your body’s hunger and fullness signals, rather than overriding or ignoring them

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

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 Blissful Studio. It is not a weight-loss session, and neither will it be your typical nutrition talk. Nobody will be weighed or asked to share anything personal. You are welcome to just listen - though 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 Change Practitioner. Sarah is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor and holds Advanced Practitioner accreditation in Nutritional Therapy for Eating Disorders. She specialises in helping people overcome binge eating, emotional eating and chronic dieting. Find out more at www.gutreaction.co.uk/balance-workshop

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