By Ian Callaghan. Qualified Chef · Diplomas in Nutrition · City and Guilds · NLP Master Practitioner · Reiki Master · British Army Veteran · 25 Years Technical Architect · 40 Years of Food and Nutrition · Author of Under Load · Creator of the Emotional Observation Method. Here is the short answer, because you…
There are two photographs of me that tell the whole story, taken about eighteen months apart, and the entire weight-loss industry is quietly hoping you never lay them side by side and ask what happened in the gap. Same man, same face, except one of them is carrying five stone the other one isn’t. Not…
Quick answer to why you are exhausted in sobriety You are more exhausted in sobriety because you are white-knuckling. Your nervous system sits in fight-or-flight all day. Jaw clenched. Shoulders locked and braced against every craving that walks past. I call this physical bracing burnout. You are not weak, and you are not failing. You…
Why do you feel nothing anymore? Because the part of your brain that registers pleasure has gone offline, and that is a hardware problem, not a character flaw and not, on its own, depression. The clinical name for it is anhedonia. It is the flat, grey, going-through-the-motions state where the things that used to land…
Post acute withdrawal syndrome is the reason you quit drinking, did the hard part, and still feel grey months later. It is not depression. It is not a relapse of your old self. It is not proof that you are broken. It is your nervous system rebuilding hardware that alcohol spent years quietly dismantling, and…
Self sabotage is not a character flaw. It is not a weakness, nor is it evidence that you are fundamentally different from people who seem to manage. It is a machine running a programme that was written long before your conscious intentions arrived on the scene, and nobody has ever shown you where the interrupt…
The direct answer: Cravings and emotional eating are not a character flaw. They are a physiological signal from a nervous system that has exceeded its capacity to regulate. When the system is underloaded, from blood sugar crashes, poor sleep, chronic stress, or suppressed emotion, it looks for the fastest available regulation. Food is not the…
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