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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…)
Get Active – Never too busy to be more active
Achieving a more active lifestyle is not normally something that happens automatically. And you can almost guarantee that people who try the dramatic radical approach by initiating an extensive new exercise regime won’t be doing it in even three or four months’ (more…)
Take Control – Today
The more we live our lives on cruise-control, the more we are letting time pass without doing something positive to overcome obesity and improve our lives. Being on cruise-control is the opposite of being in control. Cruise-control means acting out (more…)
Enjoy Life – Right now
One thing is pretty certain about life. This is not a dress rehearsal. So we should strive to thoroughly enjoy what we have, starting right now. Our challenge in overcoming obesity is to integrate the principles of recovery with (more…)