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Jacquie Whur MSc Psychology
Clinical Hypnotherapist, specialising in weight loss, anxiety & self esteem. Habit - Behaviour & Mindset Change

Take back control, banish sugar cravings, build a new relationship with food. Core You Hypnotherapy is about helping you to become the person that you want to be. It’s about helping you to find peace, calm, acceptance, change, happiness at your very Core. Along with being a Hypnotherapist, I am a lowcarb/keto Nutritional Advisor with Nutrition Network and an Ambassador with the Public Health Collaboration, working to change obesity, type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes with weight loss and diet changes. I have a full weight loss program. My aim is to help my clients not only lose weight but to change their relationship with food, change habits and behaviour and build self esteem.

24/02/2026

What you do within the space of silence matters. 🧠

Otherwise when the food noise returns fear grows.

You go back to thinking that you can’t control it.

The thing is Glp-1’s don’t just silence hunger, they also dampen the brains reward system.

If you eat through stress or emotions, or use endless cycles of dieting and restrictive eating, then you have outsourced not just appetite regulation but emotion regulation.

Food noise was never about willpower, it’s neurobiological.

It’s primarily driven through the hormonal imbalance of insulin resistance, and the stress response.

Glp-1s don’t teach you how to naturally quieten food noise, they don’t teach you how to find space within your emotions so that you don’t need to turn to food.

They don’t teach appetite regulation or emotion regulation.

So what you do within the period of silence matters.

What you eat, how you move your body, daylight, sleep, stress management, emotion regulation.

These were the things that caused the weight gain in the first place.

Food noise appeared because of one, or a mixture the above.

Don’t take the space of silence for granted, use it to learn and become stronger. 🧠💪

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10/02/2026

A brand new study has just shown exactly what my clients consistently report.

Less stress ☺️

Using hypnosis for nervous system regulation and anchoring for safety. The study showed that the participants who were in the hypnosis group had significantly lower cortisol awakening response (CAR). The control group, no change.

My clients all joke that they take me to bed with them at night.

There’s nothing to do other than close your eyes, listen and then let yourself drift off to sleep. 💤😴

Pulling safety into the body is how you hack cortisol.

If you want to give it a try, DM me your email address and I’ll send you the recording.

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05/02/2026

Sometime the speed of change still takes me by complete surprise.

My client had developed a real fear of riding her horse, and it was getting her down and robbing her of any sense of enjoyment 😔

We could only have been about 4 mins into using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) when she stated that she simply couldn’t find the fear anymore.

The feeling was gone, and as hard as she tried she just couldn’t pull it back.

We then built confidence 🤩

She’s now free from the feeling and the thoughts that were holding her back, and loving riding. 💪

Sometime change happens like a flick of a switch.

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04/02/2026

What did she say…which path did she tell you to walk.

We are biased to the present situation, we choose what’s familiar, and comfort over what’s new or difficult.

If you want to reach your goals, you have to start being your future self.

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03/02/2026

Just been listening to Dr Mary Claire Haver’s latest podcast, 70% of all Alzheimer’s case are women, this is a scary figure.

This is why I prioritise what I eat
This is my I move my body
This is why I work on my stress management
This is why I’m conscious of improving sleep quality.
This is why I advocate for continued learning.

Alzheimer’s doesn’t just happen, it’s slowly evolving over decades, and perhaps if it had a different name, we may realise that we have more control. Research increasingly uses the term type 3 diabetes, or diabetes of the brain.

It is a metabolic disease, through insulin resistance.

As women we are more at risk because of declining estrogen, and as recent research has shown, HRT doesn’t protect against it.
BUT your lifestyle does 💪🧠

You have more control over your future self than you think.

I can’t guarantee that I won’t get Alzheimer’s, but I hope I’m tipping the scales in my favour.

This is why my work focuses on metabolic health, it matters.

28/01/2026

You can change your mind, and you can also change your body…I did ! 💪

I educated my mind and it changed my life.

21/01/2026

I know it doesn’t look that great…
but it actually tasted really good.

But here’s the interesting part about the visuals…

What your eyes see when you look at food is perception.
 And perception isn’t just visual — it’s shaped by your nervous system and gut microbiome.

Many of us eat with our eyes first. But that only becomes important when the brain is relying on external stimulation for reward.

When we ask ‘What do I feel like eating’
 That answer is strongly influenced by how regulated your nervous system is and by the quality of your gut microbiome.

Different foods feed different bacteria. Those bacteria influence digestion, inflammation, satiety signals, and even cravings via the gut–brain axis.

When ultra-processed foods dominate, microbes that thrive on them increase,  and they send louder ‘feed me’ signals.

When the gut is supported and blood sugar is stable, the brain doesn’t need visual excitement to justify eating.
 Satiety hormones signal safety. Dopamine quiets. Perception shifts.

The eyes still see the same food, but the nervous system isn’t asking, ‘Is this exciting enough’

This isn’t forcing yourself to like “boring” food.
 It isn’t pretending. It isn’t discipline.

It’s biology adapting.

A system that no longer needs overstimulation to feel satisfied.

Food doesn’t have to look impressive to be enough. #

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19/01/2026

If you want to increase your chances of success by 43%, no matter what your goal is,

you need to writing it down.

Not just once…you need to put it on your ‘To Do’ list every day!

If your goal is weight loss, don’t just write ‘lose weight’.
 Write how you’re going to do it.
Break it down:

* Will you intermittent fast?
* Increase protein?
* Walk a certain number of steps each day?
* Plan meals in advance?

Your brain needs specific instructions.
Think of it like writing a shopping list. 
You wouldn’t write:

* “Go shopping”
* “Don’t buy biscuits”
* “Don’t get chocolate”
* “I don’t need wine”

You’d write what you do want.

Now, if you’re anything like me, you may forget to take the list with you 🙈 but because you wrote it, you can still visualise it and end up buying most of what you need.

That’s how the mind works.

We have to tell it what we do want and give it the “shopping list” every day. Otherwise, the brain filters it out, not because you lack willpower, and not because of your personality, but because your brain is designed to optimise cognitive function.

If your goal isn’t clearly at the top of the list, it gets deprioritised.
 That’s why most resolutions are forgotten.

Neuroscience shows that the simple act of writing your goal down daily increases your chances of success by 43%. You can amplify this even further with pictures, visualisation, and mental rehearsal.

Some people call this manifestation. What you’re really doing is training your mind to work with you, not against you.
Through repetition, writing, doing, and imagining, the behaviour becomes familiar. 
Familiarity becomes habit. Habits shape identity.

You start to identify as someone who eats a certain way, moves daily, and follows through. That identity creates a powerful feedback loop.

So get yourself a planner, and give your brain its daily shopping list.

You’ll thank yourself 💕

15/01/2026

The more ultra processed foods you eat, the more your mental health suffers. The research is clear, eating rubbish isn’t just about putting weight on, it literally changes your brain.
Anxiety and obesity have long been correlated, switching to real food, changes not just your body but also your thoughts.

I see this time and time again with my clients.

Stop and understand just how much processed food you eat, from cereals and bread full of emulsifiers, to the mid morning biscuits, lunch that’s a sandwich, crisps, fizzy drinks, chocolate, snacks, the list is endless.

It’s hard to change, but you have to keep reminding your mind of the why.
Yes it might be more time consuming to have to make different choices, but as that old saying goes, if you don’t make time for your health, you will be forced into making time for your illness.

Ultra processed food drives inflamation, it drives insulin resistance, it drives a plethora of diseases.

14/01/2026

Neuroscience has made one thing clear: lasting health behaviour doesn’t come from control, it comes from how safe, calm, and supported the nervous system feels.

When we address emotional regulation, food noise softens.
 When food noise softens, behaviour changes naturally.

This is the work I do with clients every day. This was the basis of my MSc. Hypnosis, emotion regulation & emotional eating.
 And it’s why willpower was never the problem.

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09/01/2026

I was chatting with a friend the other day, when the topic of gout came up.

Which lead me to explain about insulin resistance and how gout becomes a marker of pre-diabetes/diabetes.

Most people think that it’s a diet of red meat, shellfish & red wine that’s the culprit. The old fashioned notion of the rich man’s diet, and yes several generations ago, this may have been the case.

What we now have though, and what most people don’t realise is that fructose (simple sugars/simple carbs) are converted into uric acid, the crystals that form in the joints. Our diets are awash with sugar/carbs and this is the main driver of insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance is the umbrella term that is given to metabolic syndromes. It is in effect the culprit that opens the door for all of the above ⬆️⬆️

This is why understanding insulin is the way forward, so that you can take steps to address your health both physically and mentally.

Cutting calories doesn’t address this, you can be slim and still be insulin resistant.

Insulin resistance is driven through poor diet, chronic stress and high cortisol,
poor sleep, & frequent blood sugar spikes.

Menopause becomes a significant factor that raises the risk of insulin resistance, as the decline in estrogen impacts insulin and cortisol. This is why it’s so important to address insulin. When you do, you find that menopausal symptoms also reduce.

Your health matters, calories aren’t the answer, insulin is !

08/01/2026

I’m not a trump fan, but this is a significant move forward in nutritional guidelines. The food pyramid has been flipped on its head. 🙌

Real food, protein, veg, full fat, & a huge reduction in carbohydrates!

I wonder how long it will take NICE to follow. Our NHS eatwell guideline plate, drives obesity, metabolic syndrome, & insulin resistance.

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