The Appetite Blog
Articles to whet your appetite

If you’ve spent years on and off diets, you might be wondering: "Does intuitive eating help you lose weight?" Or, "Can I stop dieting and...

If you’ve ever struggled to “stay on a diet,” only to feel out of control later, you’re not alone. It's not a personal failure — it's biology. Your appetite is regulated by powerful hormones that respond to restriction. When you diet, these hormones change dramatically — increasing hunger, lowering satiety, and pushing your body to eat more.

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Why do I keep doing this?” after another episode of eating past fullness, you’re not alone — and you’re not lacking willpower. Overeating is not a personal failure. It’s a natural response to a set of deeper biological, emotional, and learned factors that often go unnoticed in our willpower-focused culture.

Intuitive eating isn’t just for those who are visibly struggling — it’s for anyone whose relationship with food or their body has been shaped by diet-culture's external control, pressure, or fear.

Appetite is regulated by a finely tuned network of hormones working between your brain, gut, and fat stores. These hormones don’t just affect whether you feel hungry or full — they also control your stress response, mood, sleep, energy use, and even how much joy you get from eating.

Intuitive eating is a completely different approach. Instead of trying to control food through rules and restrictions, it helps you rebuild trust in your body and respond to your natural hunger and fullness signals.

If you've been hearing about "weight loss jabs" like Wegovy  or Ozempic , you're not alone. These medications—known medically as GLP-1...

Injections make your appetite go away temporarily but when you need to come off them (and you will need to), your appetite will bounce back bigger than ever before.

There’s a strong body of evidence showing that rebound eating (or compensatory eating after restriction) is a real and well-documented...

Just by being here, reading this, trying again—you are showing resilience.

The truth is, health and appearance are not the same thing. The belief that looking a certain way means you are healthier—and vice versa—is

Food chatter if finding yourself obsessing over what you’re going to eat or worrying about whether you’ve eaten too much.

For decades, we’ve been told that weight equals health . That maintaining a BMI below 30 is necessary to avoid disease. That losing...

For many people, the desire to be thin feels deeply personal—something we’ve carried for as long as we can remember. We think of it as an...

Making the switch from restrictive eating to intuitive eating can feel overwhelming, especially if you've spent years following diet...

Intuitive eating makes so much sense in theory. Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full, and trust your body to regulate itself...

Having a healthy relationship with food means eating in a way that nourishes both your body and mind, without guilt, anxiety or obsession. Unfortunately, many people struggle with an unhealthy relationship with food, often without realising it. Diet culture, emotional eating and restrictive habits can all contribute to a negative mindset around eating. But what does an unhealthy relationship with food actually look like? Diet culture, emotional eating and restrictive habits c

Discovering the Benefits of Intuitive Eating for Every Walk of Life Intuitive eating is a refreshing, non-diet approach to food that...

Principle 10 of Intuitive Eating: Honour Your Health with Gentle Nutrition serves as the final step in the intuitive eating journey....

Principle 9 of Intuitive Eating: Movement – Feel the Difference shifts the focus from exercise as a punishment to movement as a...