Global obesity is on the rise, and every week a plethora of new diets emerge, but none have been universally accepted as the answer. At the same time, UK eating disorder charity BEAT report that over a million people in the UK suffer with issues around food, and a 34% increase since 2006. The US organisation NEDA reports that binge eating disorder is more common than breast cancer, HIV, and schizophrenia.

Problems with body image affect virtually all women and an increasing proportion of men.

Is it possible that there is any link between the above statistics and the multi-billion dollar/pound dieting industry? And if so, what can we do about it?

Harriet Morris, The Eating Coach, has some answers that move the discussion away from complaining that ‘diets just don’t work’ and what your audience can do to eat better AND happier – whether their issue is binge eating that is ruining their life, or just a desire to eat 10% better.

For the last 7 years has been empowering women & men to achieve up to a 95% drop in binge eating without feeling deprived or bad about themselves. Her own journey of recovery from compulsive eating and sugar addiction started when she turned 40. She used her midlife crisis to start relying on curiosity and experimentation as her guides, before training with The Institute for The Psychology of Eating in 2013. She is also the creator of The Body Confident Project, which helps real women start to accept their body shape in less than a month.

With over 150 episodes, her podcast The Eating Coach has had over 180,000 downloads. Harriet also hosts the Harry Potter Saved My Life podcast, which uses the characters & spells from JK Rowling’s magical universe as inspiration to help anyone suffering from anxiety or depression.