The Paul Dermody Podcast

Ever feel like you're stuck? Like you'll never crack this? The problem is seldom calories and food. Maybe it's feeling inferior to self-righteous influencers, perfectionism, expectation management, …

21 short lessons regarding human nature, melancholy and sadness, self-image, the problem with goal-setting and so much more.

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If you want to make peace with food, you'll probably need certain conditions. Since choices carry consequences, the real question becomes, "What conditions do I want to place on my behaviours?" Think…

A few thoughts on improving your relationship with food during the last part of the year. This episode highlights one common mistake to avoid that seems counterintuitive to typical diet rules.

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Client Craig shares his insight on changing how to relate to hard times, accepting struggles and stress, food guilt, yoyo dieting, core beliefs, the need for more humour in behaviour change and much…

We are often told of success stories as a moment of enlightened clarity. But they're more messy than that. Here are four turning points in my own history that shaped change in my behaviour.

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If you press the f**k it button and eat way too much, counting calories can seem like the only option. People often feel their only options are track every morsel of food, or graze and slow binge al…

True freedom with eating involves meeting different needs at different times. Learn to make the right decision for the right context. If restriction triggers binge eating AND you want to find contro…

This episode discusses identity, insecurity, cravings, urges and certainty - and how they influence how we behave in the world.

If you want new results, you need a new normal. The five topics discu…

The world supplies situations. Food supplies experiences. Other people supply words. We, as humans, supply the meaning.

Our beliefs about ourselves and the world at large drive our behaviours and i…

We know the harm of food-restrictive diets, but what about things that diets restrict us from doing? How does not nourishing ourselves restrict our daily lives? How does a poor relationship with foo…

Imagine ending the binge-restrict cycle, healing your relationship with food, and more. My former coaching client and current mentee, Clara, experienced this after a year-long weight-neutral approac…

I have a few important eating (and life) questions to make you think and reflect. 15 to be precise. 

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A calorie deficit equals fat loss, right? Not necessarily.

A deficit will exaggerate your bad habits - especially those patterns you keep repeating. If you keep overeating every time you try to lose …

Do you feel you overeat every time you try and lose weight? Does tracking calories stress you out? Try Paul's 4E method. This isn't a quick hack or a one-and-done but a lifelong set of behaviours to …

Maintenance doesn't "feel" like a goal but it's a vital one to learn nonetheless. A calorie deficit won't fix your bad patterns. It will magnify them further. This episode explores two main reasons w…

If you are anxious about pressing the f**k-it button every time you eat a certain food, this prompt will help you break that pattern. It's a kind, gentle reminder of how to stay more present whilst e…

In this episode, Paul discusses 14 ways to NOT break the overeat-restrict cycle. These are some of the common and significant roadblocks his clients struggle with. 

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Paul discusses a question he received on Ester weekend - "How do I not press the f**k it button this Easter?" 

Waiting until Easter Sunday to ask this is like asking how to learn to swim today. You c…

Patterns of behaviour that once spared us embarrassment, shame or judgment might now be the source of our pain as adults.

Secret eating once got us through a tough period and now it's the only way we…