Frequently asked questions
Why does my weight always return
Why do I lose weight and gain it all back again?
Recurring weight isn’t caused by lack of discipline. It happens because an Eating System, shaped by emotion, history, and survival is running in the background of your life.
Diets change the food. They don’t change the system.
Why does my weight always come back after a diet?
When you diet, you disrupt your Eating System. It pushes back, triggering overeating or relief eating to restore balance.
The Weighting for Happiness® Programs show you why this happens and how to stop the cycle.
moreWhy is it harder to keep weight off after 45?
Hormones shift, stress increases, and long-term eating patterns become more entrenched.
The Weighting for Happiness® Programs help you see what’s driving your eating so you have clarity rather than confusion.
Why Diets Don’t Work
Why don’t diets work for me anymore?
Because diets only work at the food level. If you’re eating to cope, soothe, suppress, or regulate, no diet can override that. WFH shows you the root cause beneath the eating.
Why can’t I stick to a diet?
You’re not failing. Diets destabilise your Eating System. When a diet restricts food, your system reacts by increasing cravings, urges, and emotional eating. WFH teaches you how that system works so you can change it.
Do diets cause long-term weight gain
For many women, yes. Dieting leads to system 'overshoot,' triggering rebound hunger and relapse patterns.
Understanding the Eating System stops the cycle.
Eating patterns, hidden behaviours and systems
What is an Eating System?
Your Eating System is the invisible set of emotional rules, learned survival strategies, family influences, and automatic behaviours that shape how you eat every day.
WFH helps you uncover it step by step.
How do I know if I have an Eating System issue?
If your weight repeatedly cycles, if you eat on autopilot, or if eating brings relief rather than hunger satisfaction, you have a system at work.
WFH helps you see its patterns clearly.
Why do I eat on autopilot?
That’s relief eating. The system restoring emotional balance.
It isn’t hunger, and it isn’t lack of willpower.
What’s the difference between binge eating and relief eating?
“Bingeing” only describes the food. Relief eating describes the system:
- hungering → eating → resolution
Understanding the cycle gives you control again.
How Weighting for Happiness helps
How does WFH help with recurring weight gain?
By uncovering the system behind your eating.
Once you understand the emotional, behavioural, and survival patterns involved, you can make changes that last.
Is WFH a weight-loss program?
No. It’s a root-cause program.
When the drivers of eating change, weight follows naturally, without the fight.
Will WFH help if weight issues run in my family?
Yes.
Family food rules, roles, and emotional patterns are part of your Eating System.
WFH helps you understand and change what you inherited.
Can WFH work alongside medical treatment?
Absolutely.
WFH focuses on behaviour, emotion, and hidden eating drivers, it complements nutritional and medical care.
How is Systems Thinking is different to other weight loss specialists
What is the difference between the Systems Thinking approach to weight loss and other specialists?
Each diagnostician (Therapist, Doctor, Dietitian or Fitness Coach) views the problem in their own specialty and may be solving the wrong problem for you.
The medical focus can be on drugs to reduce appetite, gastric banding, or other aspects of your heath.
- The therapist will have you examine your life and look at trauma you may have experienced.
- The fitness coach will say, it’s simple, move more and eat less.
- The dietitian will prescribe diets for you that you are unable to stick with.
Systems Thinking uncovers the underlying reason and then lets you choose the correct specialist to work with from the above list once you realise eating was a solution, rather than your underlying problem.
Program details and what you get
What will I get out of the programs?
You’ll learn:
- your food history
- your dieting patterns
- your family food culture
- your emotional and behavioural eating triggers
- the structure of your Eating System
This clarity gives you power to make conscious choices instead of repeating the cycle.
What are the three WFH programs?
- Your Weight & Dieting History
- Your Family Food Culture
- Your Food Choices & Eating Patterns
Together, they reveal your Eating System.
Will the Programs help me lose weight?
You’ll change the system that drives your eating.
Once that shifts, your relationship with food changes, and so does your weight.
Support, access and suitability
Do I need willpower to do this Program?
No.
WFH replaces willpower with understanding.
When the system becomes visible, eating becomes easier to regulate.
Who is the program for?
WFH is designed for women 45+ who have tried everything and still feel stuck in a weight regain loop.
If you’re ready to understand the cause instead of blaming yourself, you’re in the right place.