The Appetite Club

08/01/2026

Here’s what I’m taking from the new BMJ systematic review + meta-analysis (7 Jan 2026) on weight regain after stopping weight-management medications:

When people stop anti-obesity meds (including GLP-1/GIP-GLP-1 injections), weight regain is the norm, not the exception. Across 37 studies (9,341 people), the average pattern was a steady return towards baseline — roughly 0.4 kg per month after stopping, with a full return to baseline predicted around ~1.7 years. 

For GLP-1 medications specifically (e.g., semaglutide/tirzepatide), regain looked faster per month (~0.8 kg/month) — but because initial losses are often larger, the time back to baseline was still around ~1.5 years. 

And it’s not just weight: improvements in markers like blood pressure and cholesterol tended to drift back too (around ~1.4 years). 

Appetite Club takeaway: this isn’t a “lack of willpower” story — it’s a biology + environment + chronic condition story. If a medication is part of your care, it deserves a long-term plan (including what “maintenance” looks like, and what support you’ll have if you ever come off). And if you are coming off, this is exactly where we focus: rebuilding trustworthy appetite regulation without sliding into restriction-rebound cycles. 💛 

(Always speak to your prescriber before changing any medication.)

05/12/2025

To all my wonderful clients present, past and future. Love, Alison

This blog is an invitation to step out of that. To let getting dressed become easier, more political (in a good way), and more you.

05/12/2025

This blog is an invitation to step out of that. To let getting dressed become easier, more political (in a good way), and more you.

10/11/2025

🌿 Why Our Obsession with Weight Isn’t Really About Health 🌿
And why Intuitive Eating is both health-centred and deeply feminist

Most of us grew up believing that caring about our weight meant caring about our health.
But when you dig into where those beliefs came from… the picture looks very different.

Our cultural obsession with being smaller, tighter, “more toned,” or more “disciplined” around food has far more to do with diet culture, misogyny, and the male gaze than with actual wellbeing.

Diet culture thrives when women:
• feel too big
• feel ashamed of eating
• feel like their appetite is dangerous
• feel like their worth is tied to appearance
• spend their mental energy trying to shrink

Because a woman who is exhausted by self-fixing has less energy for everything else — joy, ambition, creativity, boundaries, rest, and power.

💛 Intuitive Eating is the opposite of that.
It restores health to what it actually is: nourishment, satisfaction, emotional regulation, self-trust, autonomy and connection.
It rejects the idea that you must be hungry, smaller, or “disciplined” to be good.

Intuitive Eating is not just a food approach —
it’s a feminist act.
It’s reclaiming your body from a system that profits when you doubt yourself.

Your body was never the problem.
The culture that convinced you to hate it was.

If you’re ready to explore a more compassionate, evidence-based approach to food, appetite and body trust, you’re in the right place. 💚

For decades, society has taught us that caring about our weight is the same as caring about our health.But when we look closer, we discover something very different.Our cultural obsession with thinness has far more to do with diet culture, misogyny, and the male gaze than with genuine wellbeing. And...

18/10/2025

Latest blog because we care and judge nobody ❤️

You finally feel in control. You start a GLP-1 medication, your appetite shrinks….. but then something shifts..

10/10/2025

It’s one of the strangest things about modern life: so many women spend years — sometimes decades — trying to weigh what their bodies clearly don’t want to weigh.

09/10/2025

Intuitive eating is "an approach that focuses on trusting your hunger cues," says dietitian Jinan Banna. In 2010, Taylor Swift was practicing the eating pattern.