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Get Active – Use the stairs
Taking the stairs instead of using the lift or escalators is an excellent strategy for inserting more activity into our lives. And the opportunity pops up frequently. Having a flight or two of steps to climb is having a mini (more…)
Take Control – Develop strong new eating routines
An excellent strategy for us to lose control with eating is to not think ahead. However, having to think a lot about what to eat all the time can get to be a real drag and very tiring, which is (more…)
Enjoy Life – By going out of our way to help someone
What we’re interested in is deeply enjoying life rather than just living for short-term consumption (of food), which may provide some immediate pleasure and comfort but fades quickly and leaves us worse off in the end. “Do unto others as (more…)
Eat Well – Eat non-starchy vegetables everyday
An obesity recovery lifestyle will feature a diet dominated by these fantastically nutritious, low calorie, high roughage foods (see Appendix). How dominated is your current diet by non-starchy vegetables? Review the past three days of eating. How many meals did (more…)
Persist – Make the change
Everyone wants to lose weight without having to put any real energy into it. But putting things off until āpōpō (tomorrow) is literally a killer when it comes to obesity and recovery. Procrastination about taking the steps to make the (more…)
Eat Well – Deliberately limit portion sizes
To lose weight we have to eat less. Exercising more can do it but we’ve got to do so much exercise to burn off excess food, like 40 minutes of brisk energetic walking for just one small chocolate bar. It (more…)
Get Active – Deliberately build in more activity
When you think about it, we New Zealanders live pretty inactive lives. Just walking three blocks can seem a long way to many people. But our bodies need movement and our hearts love to pump it up a bit. We (more…)
Take Control – Using our brain’s Higher Power
Taking control is about conscious thinking; using the brain muscle just above the eyebrows, our Higher Power, and using that to guide our behaviour rather than the primitive child-reptile in the deeper recesses of our mind. Our Higher Power is (more…)
Enjoy Life – By being thankful for the good things in our lives
One of the surest ways of enjoying life is to become more thankful for things in our lives. Eating favourite NEEDNT foods can bring about a short-term feeling of pleasure and comfort but it doesn’t last and, as we all (more…)
Eat Well – Eat plenty of lettuce
There is almost nothing better than a lettuce salad for lunch. Lettuce is low in calories, and relatively high in micronutrients – folate, zinc, potassium, iron, Vit A, Vit C – and of course is also a good source of fibre. It is (more…)