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Enjoy Life – Keep up relationships
We must endeavour to enjoy life now, rather than wait to enjoy life in the future when we have lost 30kg or so. Life is too short to delay focusing on the really important things in life. One of the most important (more…)
Eat Well – Eat colourful meals
We all know we need to eat less calories; but it isn’t necessarily just a matter of eating less of the food we are currently eating if we want to eat well. Eating well for the rest of our lives (more…)
Persist – With flexibility
Persistence is described as continuing with a course despite difficulty or opposition. And this is exactly what we need to achieve our ultimate goal of recovering from obesity; by reaching a BMI of 29 and then maintaining that weight (or (more…)
Eat Well – Become a very slow eater
A tried and true strategy for eating less is to become a very slow eater. Becoming a very slow eater stretches out the time we eat, which can decrease the feeling of being deprived that a number of us (more…)
Get Active – Every little bit contributes to a better life
Increasing our general activity is a must for maintaining our weight-loss; but it is also excellent for many other things as well. Here are some of them: Lowers your risk of heart disease Lowers your risk for type 2 (more…)
Take Control – Our sick environment makes it necessary
The fact we have to consciously take control shows just how toxic the environment we live in is. If we lived in an environment which supported good health, then we would be able to simply get on with life and eat (more…)
Enjoy Life – That’s what we want for our lives – right?
The tragedy is that being obese, particularly being morbidly obese, can be a real downer when it comes to enjoying life. Obesity erodes enjoyment of life through limiting opportunities to engage in fun activities and everyday interactions with other people. (more…)
Eat Well – Eat three small nutritious, homemade and planned meals a day for a sustained period
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got” This simple truth attributed to Henry Ford is an excellent one for us compulsive overeaters who are striving to overcome obesity. However, it’s not (more…)
Persist – Persistence and determination are everything
We all know that obesity is often the result of unhealthy eating habits combined with unhealthy activity habits, and a large dollop of unfair energy-conserving genetics thrown in for extra measure. And we know we can’t change our genes, but (more…)
Eat Well – Eat mindfully to change overeating habits
Habits are automatic behaviours that free up our minds for other things. This is possibly the greatest capacity of the human mind and finds its origin 500 million years ago when fish first evolved. Fish were the first species to (more…)