Rarely away from the fridge now you're stuck at home all the time? Well famous hypnotist Paul McKenna has revealed his top tips to stop snacking all the time during lockdown.
If you've so much as glanced at your social media feeds over the past week since Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the whole country to stay at home wherever possible to try and stop the spread of coronavirus, you will have seen plenty of people complaining that they can't stop eating and are worried about piling on the pounds over, what looks sets to be, a few months of uncertainty.
Many of us are now watching a lot more TV than we normally would as we adjust to spending a lot more time at home and, sitting in front of the telly goes hand in hand with enjoying a few snacks.
But, appearing on Tuesday's This Morning, Paul McKenna gave key tips on trying to not let your eating get out of hand.
He broke his advice down into three key tips:
1. Act on real hunger rather than emotional hunger
He explained: "Real hunger is when you think 'oh it's lunchtime I'll make something to eat', whereas emotional hunger is when you're bored, anxious or miserable and reach for food for that reason rather than being actually hungry.
2. Eat what you want not what you think should
Paul said: "As soon as you make a food for forbidden, you want it more. People I know who are thin still eat pizza, chips and chocolate, just not to the excess."
3. Eat consciously
Paul explained: "Focus on the food and nothing else. If you watch TV when you eat, you will eat more. Research overwhelmingly shows us that.
"People who eat consciously eat a little bit of food, put down their knife and work and chew it slowly. When you do this it's easier to hear the signal from your stomach to say your full, so it's easier to stop."
Paul also told This Morning host Holly Willoughby to ward off her chocolate cravings she needed to imagine the taste of something she didn't like while imagining eating the chocolate, in her case tinned tuna.
