Weekly Messages
Take Control – Using our brain’s ‘higher power’
Taking control is about conscious thinking; using the brain muscle just above the eyebrows, our brain’s Higher Power, and using that to guide our behaviour rather than the primitive child-reptile in the deeper recesses of our mind. Our brain’s Higher (more…)
Enjoy Life – By being an encouraging parent to ourselves
A sure way of beginning to enjoy life now is to become more encouraging to ourselves, (being a good parent to ourselves.) Struggles and disappointments are part of everyone’s regular life, which can undermine our enjoyment and contentment. Having an (more…)
Eat Well (Content) – Eat much less sugar
When we reduce the number of foods on the NEEDNT Foods List (NEEDNT is an acronym for Non-Essential, Energy-Dense, Nutritionally-deficienT), we automatically eat much less sugar, because sugar is a very common additive in processed food. Sugar can be a (more…)
Persist – Relapses are almost inevitable.
Relapses are some of the best learning opportunities. But relapses can also be very demoralising and make us feel the recovery journey is a “long, miserable and impossible journey”. The trick is to pick ourselves up as quickly as we (more…)
Eat Well – Chew every mouthful thoroughly before swallowing
As we become more conscious of our eating behaviours we might be amazed at how we eat. A mouthful of food, a couple of chews and then, instead of chewing the food thoroughly we swallow, or perhaps shovel in another (more…)
Get Active – Never too busy to be more active
Achieving a more active lifestyle is not normally something that happens automatically. 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 – 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 – Less consumption, more meditation
Enjoying life on the long happy journey is developing a lifestyle that brings greater contentment in the end and a happiness that is far greater than short-term candyfloss indulgence. Meditation is one of the things that works for many in (more…)
Eat Well – Increase your resistant starch consumption
We have previously emphasized the importance of eating non-starchy vegetables but this doesn’t mean that eating starchy vegetables such as potatoes and rice, or having pasta from time to time, is wrong. It’s just that when starchy foods such as (more…)
Eat Well – Savour the flavours
What does it mean to savour food? To savour means to taste and enjoy the food to the full. We all know that weight loss and weight maintenance requires eating less, particularly eating less energy-dense food. That can sound a bit (more…)