Imagine you’re scrolling on social media and you come across a “What I Eat in a Day” video, how do you feel when you watch them? In this blog I’m sharing 5 problems I see with “ What I Eat in a Day” videos as a registered psychologist.

So you’ve given up dieting, you’re no longer following a rigid healthy eating plan, but you still want some guidelines as to how to eat healthily. In this blog post I’m sharing my seven flexible tips for healthy eating – the food freedom edition.

Are you thinking about trying Noom? Perhaps you’re wondering whether it’s any good? This is my honest Noom review as a registered psychologist and food freedom coach. Trigger warning – since Noom is a diet, I will be discussing weight loss and calories, so if that might be triggering, please read another post.

For years, I felt like I was over-eating. I found it hard to control myself around food – especially at buffets or parties where food was in abundance. These 6 tips have been instrumental in helping me stop overeating.

(Guest Post on Brainz)

Words are powerful. I use affirmations in my own life and also with clients to help them in their journey towards healing their relationship with food and body image.

Are you a late night binger? Maybe you eat really well all day, but when evening comes 💥 BAM 💥 you’re suddenly feeling wild and out of control around food?  Read on to find out the ONE thing you need to stop doing to avoid these night-time binges.

For three years in a row, I quit gluten, dairy, sugar, soy, caffeine and alcohol for the month of January. I was so committed, that I “cleansed” three times a year.  I gave up cleansing three years ago and this is my story of what happened after 30 days (and 10 of these cleanses)... It’s perhaps the dark side, when healthy eating is taken too far. 

Dr Lara Zibarras was interviewed by Brainz Magazine. Read the full article here as she describes her work as the food freedom psychologist, her background, how she came to be doing what she’s doing, and tips for anyone wanting to take steps towards food freedom…

(Guest post on Brainz Magazine)

For years, the holiday season used to fill me with dread. With mountains of food everywhere, I worried about what it would do to my waistline. I was convinced my fitness would suffer and stressed about how I couldn’t stop myself from gorging on chocolate. Here are four tips to relax and enjoy food this holiday season…

Is it possible to be too healthy or eat too clean? A few years back, I didn’t think so. In fact, it was my life’s mission to be as healthy as possible, to look after my own and my family’s wellness. After all, I thought, food is medicine. Nothing wrong with that, right? My orthorexia started with good intentions…

(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)

Burn it to earn it! As the holiday season approaches, it’s worth considering how helpful (or true) this message is… Should exercise feel like punishment for eating a bar of chocolate?

Do you skip through meals and rush through your food? Maybe you eat lunch at your desk, mindlessly munching on a sandwich whilst you catch up on emails? The problem with mindless eating is that it’s easy to disconnect from the experience making it harder to tune into your hunger and fullness signals…

(Guest Post on Complete Wellbeing)

This article was an interview between Maria Angelova and me. It was initially published on Medium and it’s my take on the 5 things that should be done to improve and reform the health and wellness industry.

Why can’t I stick to my healthy eating plan? I hear this often in my coaching practice. It’s easy to blame willpower, or the fact that we "didn’t work hard enough." But the truth is there are many biological and psychological factors at play.

After my youngest was born I wanted to “get back on track” and this slowly morphed into a rigid eating pattern where I’d given up many foods for the sake of “health”. Only it wasn’t healthy – I was constantly tired and it impacted my mental health.

(Guest Post on She Owns It)

As it turns out, the pregnancies I had in my 30s triggered a new eating disorder. Only this time it was more insidious because I had no idea that what I was doing could be disordered…

(Guest Post on Your Tango)

A few years back I wanted to “get healthy” and lose my baby weight. I knew I didn’t want to fad-diet-my-way to a slimmer body because that had previously been unsustainable for me, so I was looking for something different. This was when I discovered “wellness” and I jumped on the “clean eating” bandwagon…

Words are powerful. Perhaps more powerful than you’d imagine. Whilst you are healing your relationship with food and your body image, these food freedom affirmations can help you.

For five years, sweets never passed my lips. I avoided all processed sugar for the sake of my health and was determined to never ever eat sugar. I’d bought into the whole “sugar is poison” concept but never took the time to look beneath the alarming headlines about how sugar is slowly killing us all.

(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)

If you’re anything like the vast majority of the population, you started this year with one of these goals as a top priority: “get in shape”, “lose weight”, “get fit” or “get healthy”. I get it. For the longest time my Januarys started with a rigid healthy eating plan to get back in shape and lose the holiday bulge.

(Guest Post on Pick the Brain)