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The Secret to Success: Rewire Your Brain to Stop Binges and Overeating

The Secret to Success: Rewire Your Brain to Stop Binges and Overeating

It’s the secret to success, although it won’t work for everyone. If you’re you are ready to challenge your deeply ingrained beliefs, then keep reading… The secret? The Binge Breakthrough Formula. The exact formula that helped Helen stop using food as an escape; it helped Emma feel happier with her “mum curves”, and it helped Bethan say “no” to food when she didn’t want it.

All three have transformed their eating habits, stopped their binges and overeating, without ever having to hide the binge foods.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasAugust 16, 2023binge breakthrough, binge eating, how to stop bingeing, how to stop binging, how to stop overeatingComment

From Restriction to Nourishment: Tips to Improve Your Relationship with Food

From Restriction to Nourishment: Tips to Improve Your Relationship with Food

Having a healthy relationship with food is vital for our overall health and wellbeing. If you've been struggling with restrictive eating patterns or chaotic behaviours around food, then these tips will take you from restriction to nourishment.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJune 30, 2023Improve relationship with food, how to heal your relationship with food, Food FreedomComment

Embrace Your Inner Power: 18 Empowering Affirmations for Positive Body Image and Food Freedom

Embrace Your Inner Power: 18 Empowering Affirmations for Positive Body Image and Food Freedom

Have you ever wondered about the power of affirmations? These simple yet impactful statements have the ability to transform your mindset, boost your confidence, and manifest positive change in your life.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJune 18, 2023food freedom affirmations, intuitive eating affirmationsComment

Bounce Back After a Binge: 5 Practical Tips to Help

Bounce Back After a Binge: 5 Practical Tips to Help

It can be so distressing when you've had a binge and you're feeling all kinds of emotions. In this blog post, I want to share five practical tips that will help you regain control and take care of yourself after a binge. Remember, you're never alone on this journey, and I'm here to support you every step of the way.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJune 16, 2023Bingeing, No more binge eating, binge eating, how to stop bingeingComment

Conquer Your Fear Foods: Practical Tips for Overcoming Anxiety and Enjoying Food Again

Conquer Your Fear Foods: Practical Tips for Overcoming Anxiety and Enjoying Food Again

Are you ready to break free from the grip of fear foods and regain a healthy relationship with eating? In this blog post, we'll explore some practical steps that will help you challenge your fear foods and embrace a healthier and more balanced approach to food.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJune 2, 2023fear foods, food freedom, food anxiety, challenge fear foodsComment

Weight Gain in Recovery - 8 Tips to Help You Cope

Weight Gain in Recovery - 8 Tips to Help You Cope

Weight gain in recovery feels like the worst thing. I’ve been through the process of gaining weight myself after an eating disorder, so I feel you. It can feel hard, frustrating and disheartening. Worse - you might even feel like dieting or restricting once again.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasApril 14, 2023ED recovery, weight gain, weight gain in recovery, weight gain in ED recoveryComment

How to eat chocolate without guilt (at Easter and all year round)

How to eat chocolate without guilt (at Easter and all year round)

It’s Easter! There’s going to be some chocolate around! And for some people this can feel really stressful and guilt inducing. In this blog post I’m giving you 5 tips to help you eat without guilt this Easter (and all year around).

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasApril 4, 2023Eating chocolate, Easter, Easter chocolate, Eat without guiltComment

The problem with "What I Eat in a Day" videos

The problem with "What I Eat in a Day" videos

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.

Anti-diet, Food FreedomLara ZibarrasMarch 24, 2023what I eat in a day, the problem with what I eat in a day videosComment

Tips for Healthy Eating : The Food Freedom Edition

Tips for Healthy Eating : The Food Freedom Edition

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.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasMarch 17, 2023Healthy Eating, Food Freedom, eating without restrictionComment

Do You Feel Like You're Overeating? Here's 6 Tips To Help

Do You Feel Like You're Overeating? Here's 6 Tips To Help

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)

Food Freedom, Anti-dietLara ZibarrasMarch 8, 2023overeating, food freedomComment

21 Positive Body Image and Food Freedom Affirmations

21 Positive Body Image and Food Freedom Affirmations

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.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasMarch 7, 2023food freedom affirmations, intuitive eating affirmationsComment

Stop this ONE thing to avoid late night binges

Stop this ONE thing to avoid late night binges

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.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasMarch 3, 2023Bingeing, Secret eating, late night binges, emotional eatingComment

The Food Freedom Psychologist ‒ Exclusive Interview With Dr. Lara Zibarras

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)

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJanuary 11, 2023Food Freedom psychologist, Food freedomComment

As A Food Freedom Psychologist, This Is How I Tell My Clients To Relax And Enjoy Festive Food

As A Food Freedom Psychologist, This Is How I Tell My Clients To Relax And Enjoy Festive Food

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…

(Guest post on Brainz Magazine)

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasDecember 7, 2022festive food, food freedomComment

35 Food Freedom and Positive Body Image Affirmations

35 Food Freedom and Positive Body Image Affirmations

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.

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJuly 27, 2022food freedom affirmations, intuitive eating affirmationsComment

4 Surprising Things I Learnt from Eating a Handful of Sweets

4 Surprising Things I Learnt from Eating a Handful of Sweets

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)

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasJuly 12, 2022Sugar addiction, Food Freedom, Food restriction, Healthy Eating, obsessed with healthy eatingComment

Feeling guilty when you eat dessert? Here’s 3 tips to stop the food guilt

Feeling guilty when you eat dessert? Here’s 3 tips to stop the food guilt

Have you ever felt guilty when you ate dessert? If you said yes, it’s no surprise – just think about the way we speak about desserts. They can be a guilty pleasure, a cheat or a treat, they are sinful. We learn how to satisfy a sweet tooth with no regret, or we learn how many minutes at the gym we need to “burn off” the calories. If you’re someone who’s felt guilty, here’s three tips to help you take the guilt – and stress – out of eating…

(Guest Post on Zig Verve)

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasMay 1, 2022guilt-free eating, Guilty eating, Eating dessert, Stress-free eatingComment

4 Things I’ll Never Say (or Do) in front of my Daughter.

4 Things I’ll Never Say (or Do) in front of my Daughter.

When I was a child, I watched my mum dieting—a lot. It wasn’t just my mum. This was the 90s and everyone seemed to be dieting those days. Food and diets were a topic of conversation whenever my family got together, bemoaning those “last few kilos,” my aunts trying to “be good” … It was constant chatter.

(Guest Post on Elephant Journal)

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasApril 26, 2022Parenting, Role modelling food, Mums dietingComment

The surprising reason for your sugar addiction

The surprising reason for your sugar addiction

Do you feel like you’re addicted to sugar? It’s like you’ve got persistent sugar cravings and each time you start a box of chocolate you Just. Can’t. Stop. Maybe the cravings got so bad that one day you decided to banish all sugary foods from your house, or tried one of those “30 days to kick the sugar habit” diets.

(Guest Post on Complete Wellbeing)

Food FreedomLara ZibarrasApril 19, 2022Sugar addiction, Sugar cravings, Eating chocolateComment

5 important things I've learnt since I recovered from bulimia

I started dieting when I was just 16 years old. A combination of being bullied at my previous school, along with some unsolicited comments about my body, sent me into a negative downward tailspin of hating my body. It was back in the days before social media, so I grabbed all the magazines I could to learn how to change my body.

(Guest Post on A Lust for Life)

Food Freedom, Anti-dietLara ZibarrasMarch 30, 2022Dieting mindset, Dieting, Diet culture, bulimia, eating disorder, eating disorder recoveryComment