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Take Control – Make recovery a priority
Most of us know that recovering from obesity is of great benefit, which can be measured in terms of additional years of life (not just months) as well as increased energy for the rest of our lives. And most of (more…)
Enjoy Life – By being reassuring, comforting and encouraging to ourselves
We all know the “long and happy journey” isn’t always happy. All of us have experienced the little ups and downs and most have also experienced some big ups and downs over the years with coming to grips with our (more…)
Eat Well – Eat nature’s food and live long
The food industry exploits a human weakness for sweet foods and deliberately manipulates food products with just the right amount of sugar, fat and salt to produce highly moreish processed foods (and drinks such as Coca Cola), which are high (more…)
Persist – Replace procrastination with action
We can all improve our natural persistence ability by practicing being determined, and replacing procrastination with completing something we’ve been putting off doing. In fact we can start doing this today. – Pick something small that you’ve been putting off (more…)
Eat Well – Pause before eating – say Grace
An important aspect of Eating Well is to slow down our eating. This way we are likely to eat a little less, which is necessary to recover from obesity. A great way to get a meal off to a good start then is to (more…)
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…)