Weekly Messages
Eat Well (content)– By dealing with our top 5-10 problem foods
Most of us with obesity have a number of identifiable problem foods. These favourite “yummy” foods are invariably high energy foods, and therefore excellent for building fat stores. Regular consumption of these foods, which includes snacks between meals, helps keep (more…)
Persist – Practice becoming more patient
Lifestyle change doesn’t happen overnight and it doesn’t happen by itself. Lifestyle change involves a conscious struggle for an extended period of time – but we already knew that didn’t we! Developing more patience is one of the most important (more…)
Eat Well (process) – 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 – Move your bowels
Getting very personal now. If we’re not moving our bowels at least once a day, it could very well indicate we’re spending too much time sitting and lying around and not being active enough in our daily life style. Chances (more…)
Take Control – Plan what to eat every day
This is a big one. Planning what to eat every day takes energy, and because we’ve all got only so much conscious energy, it is best to work on it just one day at a time. That way we’re more (more…)
Enjoy Life – By supporting other people’s recovery
It is very easy to just focus on ourselves; not only in our busy day-to-day life but also in our personal struggles with obesity recovery. And of course, we have to focus on ourselves to recover from obesity. But one of the really satisfying things in life is supporting others to achieve their goals. For (more…)
Eat Well (content) – 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 – Keep going even when difficulties arise.
This is critical. Keeping on going when difficulties arise, even when our child inside is pleading with us to give up. The “long and happy journey” of permanent weight loss is likely to be the most important thing we’ve done in our life so far, but equally (more…)
Eat Well (process) – How much food do we really need?
The best way of losing weight is to stop eating altogether. But that is a recipe for ill-health and premature death, the opposite of what we’re aiming for on the long and happy journey. The next step down is radically (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…)