Emma Randall: Mindful Eating

18/03/2026

One of my new clients can really relate to this concept of 'data-driven' eating. She's spent years , counting calories and then struggling to stick to her and food rules. She also has a fear of gaining weight, which has kept her trapped in unsustainable food tracking and monitoring. This has historically led to uncontrollable bingeing about 10 days after starting her diet.
She's keen to try a new approach. Mindful eating is about eating in a more intuitive way- no foods are forbidden (it's how much of a food you eat and how often you eat it that counts); it involves practising not eating mindlessly or quickly, savouring food so that you really enjoy it, and stopping eating if you're just eating for the sake of it and before you get overly full. This is honouring the body, and it's most definitely not about trying to eat perfectly. Perfect eating doesn't exist and it's not a realistic approach to food. Restriction leads to bingeing, and this client now recognises that whilst it's an entirely new skill to adopt, she wants to end her vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting for good, and data-driven eating and tracking. She's looking forward to feeling more at peace with food, and avoiding the extreme behaviours of being 'on' or 'off' her diet, and nothing in between. She knows deep down that a more moderate approach to food will be in her own best interest long-term.

11/03/2026

Here's my new blog post "How Food Affects Your Mood: Eat Your Way To Happiness".
https://mindfuleating.org.uk/how-food-affects-mood/

How Food Affects Mood: Eat Your Way To Happiness What we eat and how we feel and function are inextricably linked. The brain needs a lot of fuel and nutrients to keep it ticking over 24 hours a day, and if it’s running on empty, we can experience a whole range of symptoms such as low

05/03/2026

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Mindful Eating: Enjoy a Healthy Relationship with Food Start Changing The Way You Think About Food And Transform Your Eating Habits “I find myself, yet again, looking to join my usual weight loss club. I know my diet club food plan doesn't suit me, though if

05/03/2026

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04/03/2026

Our parents' eating habits can significantly affect our own eating habits and food preferences into adulthood. Foods consistently available in the home can influence children's preferences, so if fruit and veg is widely available at home, this can have a positive effect on that child's consumption and later on in life too (as long as the child wasn't forced to eat the fruit and veg- this could create a negative association with fruit and veg).
Children naturally imitate the eating behaviours of those around them. Parents who eat a wide variety of foods are more likely to have children who do the same.
My client describes herself as a 'picker', and she mentioned that she used to see her mum snacking a lot- her mum could live on snacks and nibbles and not be fussed about meals.
Whether you're trying to lose weight or maintain weight, have a think about any mindless eating habits that drive you to overeat or eat in a less healthy way. What specific habits keep driving your overeating or mindless eating? What might have contributed to you being overweight in the first place? Difficulties losing weight or experiencing weight re-gain might be partly attributed to habits you adopted a long time ago, but which you've never thought about or questioned. You're the adult- what new eating habits would serve you better?

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27/02/2026

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25/02/2026

"I came across Emma’s Mindful Eating website when I was scrolling and Googling to find a new weight loss group as I had regained weight and couldn’t face going back to my old group. I read her website with increasing interest and the scales (sorry, bad pun) fell from my eyes!

I had four sessions with Emma and the first was revelatory and a bit painful as we examined the origins of my eating habits and my relationship with food. Subsequently, we explored my self image, my critical inner voice (such a bitch!) and ways of nurturing and self-soothing.

I worked hard; journaling and reflecting on habits, behaviours and practises. Looking at “forbidden foods” was really interesting. Weight loss groups' values or currency (points, syns etc) unfairly loads some foods with many health giving properties: nuts, seeds and even avocados! It is so good to have broken free from this.

In my case, constant dieting and weight loss was for aesthetic rather than health reasons. Duh! Now, I’m putting my health first."

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09/02/2026

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06/02/2026

Happier Mind, Happier Eating, Happier Weight.

Uncovering The Root Of The Habit
We have to consider both conscious and subconscious motivations, drives and needs in order to understand why a behaviour might have become a compulsive habit.

General mental health and well-being is intimately linked to eating habits. Improving your relationship with food requires becoming more self-aware in terms of unhelpful and deeply ingrained thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours around food, nutrition and dieting (such as believing you must always clear your plate, or avoiding any high fat food), acknowledging the different types of eating you might do on a regular basis, such as reward eating, stress eating, boredom eating or secret eating, whilst addressing mindless eating and managing the food environment (food cues).

Read my latest blog post: 'Improve Your Relationship With Food For Better Eating Habits': https://tinyurl.com/5afnp5fk

Improve Your Relationship With Food For Better Eating Habits Root Of The Habit: The Conscious & Subconscious Mind We have to consider both conscious and subconscious motivations, drives and needs in order to understand why a behaviour might have become

05/02/2026

This diabetes type 1 client is doing so well losing weight through a combination of nutrition education, addressing emotional eating and mindless grazing.
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22/01/2026

17/01/2026

Could your vitamin D levels be low?