Laura Lloyd, eating psychology coach

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I dashed out the door today without having made a packed lunch. So I made this bean salad with tinned beans, tuna, cucumber and herbs from my friend’s garden. Literally, five ingredients. Total cost - I’d say £1.20. Magic. You know, organic chia-seed-laden delicatessen finery doesn’t have to have the monopoly on healthy eating. Healthy doesn’t have to mean hours of prep or complicated shopping. Being caught out doesn’t mean you have to live on pies from bakeries. Healthy food should just be decent - the best you can do given your finances and your time - don’t let ‘cleanneating’ become another unlovable, perfectionist aspiration, another way to fail. * * You can get a free copy of my illustrated ebook at (link in my bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift * * #eathealthy #healthyfood #nutrition #realfood #cheapfood #lunchbox #lunchideas #food #fitness #eatingdisorderrecovery #balanceddiet #balancedlife (at Ponsanooth) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoHuMVVlgcJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lxu63ym8ilfk

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Nuts! That’s how I’ve felt around food at points in my life. Obsessed with food, and depressed about my body. Coming back to the beauty of appreciating real food, natural loveliness, is a nice shift away from more-ish junk. Although I follow my intuition, I know I also get stuck in craving phases and that includes getting habituated to very salty and fatty tastes. When I taste something so real like these hazels it reminds me to savour more deeply and mindfully the plain flavours as nature delivers them! How do YOU balance your intuition and cravings versus your deeper knowledge of what makes your body feel good in the long run? * * You can get a free copy of my illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at (link in my bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift * * #sensational_eaters #bodypostivity #food_psychology #bodyposi #bodypositive #bingeeating #bingeeatingrecovery #mindfuleating #eatingpsychology #eatingpsychologypractitioners #weightlossjourney #weightloss #weightlossmotivation #antidiet #wellness #selflove #movement#mindset #ditchdiets #intuitiveeating * * (at Truro, Cornwall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn3Jic0FGgh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15m44of6offv

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Racing through your meals? Under time and work pressure? You’d be amazed by how many of my eating psychology clients are hugely high-achieving, smart people, who put themselves under pressure to meet their own and others’ achievement expectations. There are three key results for the eater: 1) a fast eater out the body into stress mode - decreased calorie-burning, muscle-building, shut down digestion= crap metabolism. 2) hurrying bypasses satisfaction and pleasure, so there’s more likely to be an indulgence or food-as-reward used later to make up for the pleasure deficit, and 3) I see this pressure to reach expectations as a variant of restriction - although it’s holding yourself ‘up’ to a standard rather than reining yourself in, the sensation is constriction, up-tightness, pushing yourself around with self-sacrifice strictness and discipline; and the result is an urge to backlash and even binge eat. I’d say this factor was huge in many of my crappy eating moments in life, because I have ambition in spades, and I’m smart and self-pushy. Do you experience this? Have you encountered this in your work or personal eating psychology journey? * * You can get a free copy of my illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at (link in my bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift * * #sensational_eaters #bodypostivity #food_psychology #bodyposi #bodypositive #bingeeating #bingeeatingrecovery #mindfuleating #eatingpsychology #eatingpsychologypractitioners #weightlossjourney #weightloss #weightlossmotivation #antidiet #wellness #selflove #movement#mindset #ditchdiets #intuitiveeating (at Truro, Cornwall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BndeKi-l1xG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4bsrzr3grrg

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Heyyy buttercup! I Iove this rich fatty creamy stuff: butter. Boiled egg, toast and...tahini, it ain’t the same. Margarine or spreadablized breadlube isn’t allowed within 2m radius of my house. Basically, I like the real thing. When I have some, I move on, stop craving and compensating. Fat is not the enemy. Dietary fat is a necessity, especially if you have focusing issues - brains need fat! Eating some fat doesn’t make you as fat as all the things you eat when you’re trying not to eat any. * * You can get a free copy of my illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at (link in my bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift * * #fat #nutrition #intuitiveeating #binge #eatingdisorderrecovery (at Truro, Cornwall)

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How do human mothers of young children ever have a spiritually uplifting morning routine or even eat breakfast? Do you do these things? What do they look like to you? I yearn for them. Breakfast: I believe in it, preach it, but when it comes to it I’m overdemanded and uninspired. So I was very delighted to be given this bowl of nutty granola, frozen straws, protein powder and passion fruit by my wonderful husband this morning. ** You can get a free copy of my illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Ne Your Best Weight Always at (link in my insta bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift ** #breakfast #mindfuleating #realfood #bingeeatingrecovery #eatingplan (at Penzance Harbour)

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Blackberries the kids picked on their walk with their granny. Juiced, then blended with blitzed watermelon and a tin of peaches in juice. YES! And YES that the kids found this to be as much of a treat as I did! ** You can get a free copy of my illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Ne Your Best Weight Always at (link in my bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift * * #realfood #realfoodrealpeople #eating #intuitiveeating #healthyfood (at Truro, Cornwall)

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I found a huge hula hoop at our camp site and I can do it, for the first time ever! I’m still totally scared of ‘exercise’ but embodying - being inside my body, the rush of steam or heat or cold or movement - it brings me into myself and it’s the closest to a spiritual homecoming I know! I hate myself less when I embody. I eat better food without any trouble when I embody. But if I dare to get ‘athletic’ or ‘progress-focused’ or dutiful on my own ass I soon cop out and stay static. Fun is the key for me! What’s the key for you? ** * you can get a copy of my free ebook How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at (click the link in my bio) lauralloyd.co/gift #exercise #embodiment #healthcoach #bingeeatingrecovery #naturalweightloss (at Falmouth, Cornwall)

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Icecreamicorn! How do YOU melt a sugar addiction? Maybe you’re trying too hard to rein it in? I had a crazy ice cream habit in Berlin, but it passed like the weather. I was amazed, it was so intense, it felt like it had such a grip on me. Hard to say what cured it. Maybe, I started taking a different route which no longer walked past the ice cream shop, and broke the association of the habit. What do you think solved it? * * Get my free illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at (link in my profile bio) lauralloyd.co/gift #healthcoach #addiction #foodpsychology #eatwell #bingeeatingrecovery

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I’m reaching for a life where I don’t grab for coffee or food to alter my state. I’m the kind of person that can create a habit or ‘addiction’ around ANYTHING. Coffee has been running my life since teen hood. People shrug it off as innocuous, but it stands between me and feeling REAL. This week, I’m thinking about it a lot as I try to help two clients pin particular learn to view their animal brain urges as just shouty habitual neurological misfires, and get rid of their unwanted eating habits. Obvs, habit change is the last thing we do together - we look to the inner world first and map the territory. Then, when we’re ready, we try to fix this hellish behaviour! * * You can read a free copy of my funny, wise, 20-minute read illustrated ebook, How To Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always, at (link in my bio) lauralloyd.co/gift #bingeeating #bingeeatingrecovery #mindfuleating #eatingpsychology #foodaddict (at Truro, Cornwall)

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Are diets evil? In my book, it’s the mentality of restriction - the mindset some of us get into when we diet - that’s the killer. If, like me, that means you have to steer well clear of meal plans, health plans, detoxes and diets, then so be it! ** You can get my free ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at (link in my bio) lauralloyd.co/gift. #antidiet #wellness #selflove #mindset #ditchdiets (at Truro, Cornwall)

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I always choose the cheapest thing on the menu!! I have this ‘hangover’ habit from growing up. I find it hard to just have what I fancy and to hell with the extra 2.99! I rarely eat out but when o do these days I really try to enrich myself with it physically and mentally- to choose with a sense of security and abundance, whatever my financial status that day. Do you have this choose-cheap thing too? * * You can get my free ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body, and Be Your Best Weight Always at (link in bio) www.lauralloyd.co/gift. #food_psychology #bodyposi #bodypositive #bingeeating #bingeeatingrecovery (at Truro, Cornwall)

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Making jokes about how absurd it is to farshame ourselves? And if we could really hear out loud the crap we say to ourselves -so harsh and vile. So I made this video over on IGTV - I was just larking about really, trying to make a point, y’know? * aaaand you can get a copy of my free illustrated ebook How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always at Laura Lloyd.co/gift (link in bio) #antidiet #wellness #selflove #movement #mindset (at Merchants Manor)

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It took me a couple of years to climb out of my pit of shit with food. ⠀ ⠀ I wrote and illustrated this simple, funny free ebook so that it doesn't take you that long. ⠀ ⠀ You can get my wise, 20-minute read illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body, and Be Your Best Weight Always here (link in bio) lauralloyd.co/gift.⠀ ⠀ #bingeeating #bingeeatingrecovery #mindfuleating ⠀ #eatingpsychology #eatingpsychologypractitioners (at Truro, Cornwall)

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Desperation is the brink of inspiration. I was out of ideas what to make for supper and ended up making the best salad ever with this grapefruit, beetroot and prawns. Pink pink pink! * You can get a copy of my free funny illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body and Be Your Best Weight Always, at (link in bio). There will, I promise, not be any recipes included!! It’s not a meal plan kinda book, yo! #sensational_eaters #bodypositivity #food_psychology #bodypositive (at Truro, Cornwall)

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Eat food! Eat it all, demolish it, devour it, live it, love it. ⠀ Do you need more permission to take PLEASURE in your food? ⠀ Are you getting full, and then wondering why you’re still hungry? Did you get SATISFIED?⠀You can get my free, funny, wise, 20-minute read illustrated ebook, How to Ditch Dieting, Love Your Body, and Be Your Best Weight Always here (link in bio) lauralloyd.co/gift.⠀ #bodypostivity #bingeeatingrecovery #eatingpsychology #weightlossmotivation #intuitiveeating (at Truro, Cornwall)

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Look at these painty leaves! Luscious! Love illustrations! Love ‘em! That’s why I’ve illustrated my own eating psychology Book - and it’s totally free, funny and heartfelt. LauraLloyd.co/gift (Link in bio) #weightlossmotivation #antidiet #wellness #selflove #movement (at Falmouth, Cornwall)

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I’m totally addicted to coffee. I’ve been saying so for years, and people just shrug and say « drink tea », but it bugs me. It’s an emotional compulsion. Always looking for myself to be more productive, creative, function better, have an edge, be brilliant. I was talking to an eating psychology client who@told me they were using hunger the same way, to keep them sharp, beat the lethargy and flatness. Others use sugar. * * * But a hypnosis training I was listening to recently told me that the brain naturally goes dreamy every 90 mins or so just to update its patterns, a little like Autosave on Word. That this is an essential@part of processing and you should relax or doodle or let your mind wander. So I’d like to learn to take the ebb with the flow more. To experience true aliveness in all its textures. But for now, I really want this coffee. ADDICT! Does this resonate with you? #bingeeatingrecovery #mindfuleating #eatingpsychology #eatingpsychologypractitioners (at Penzance, Cornwall)