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| About Gillian |
| A former smoker and overeater, Gillian Riley has been teaching her successful techniques for stopping smoking and eating less since 1982. Her work has at its focus the thinking that drives addictive behaviour and the techniques needed to achieve control. A highly articulate teacher, she brings to her workshops and personal counselling a practical approach to addiction, one which confronts the psychological barriers that make the difference between failure and success over the long term. |
| Gillian led her first seminars on stopping smoking in the United States, where she lived for 17 years. In 1984 she returned to her home town of London and has been living and working in the UK since then. |
| During follow-up counselling with ex-smokers, she soon realised that for many of them the biggest challenge they faced was staying in control of their eating. After working one-to-one with these clients for some time, Gillian developed techniques and then a seminar to offer to anyone who experiences loss of control over food. |
| Gillian's first book, How To Stop Smoking And Stay Stopped For Good (Random House UK/Vermilion, 1992) is widely recommended and used in smoking clinics with in the National Health Service in the UK. Gillian no longer runs seminars for smokers. Since 1996 she has delivered a number of training seminars for professionals in the National Health Service on how to help smokers to quit. |
| Gillian introduced the Eating Less seminars in 1997, self-publishing an early version of the book as course material. Random House UK (Vermilion) published an improved version in 1999 and a second edition in 2005, titled Eating Less: Say Goodbye to Overeating. |
| Gillian has been a guest on television and radio, including BBC1, GMTV, ITV, BBC Radio 2 and the BBC World Service. The BBC1 documentary Fat Free, broadcast over six weeks in January and February 1999, followed the progress five people wanting to lose weight, one of whom went through an Eating Less course with Gillian. |
| Gillian is currently a regular guest speaker at Ragdale Hall Health Hydro in Leicestershire, where she gives introductory talks on taking control of overeating. |
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