Weekly Messages
Get Active – Don’t get sucked in by the weight-loss industry
Getting more active is and isn’t a big deal. It is a huge deal in terms of benefits to our health and well being but it doesn’t need to be a big deal in terms of taking a lot of (more…)
Enjoy Life – Practice being positive
One of the best strategies for enjoying life is thinking positively about all the little encounters and occurrences which make up our daily life. Positive people are constantly on the lookout for the positive angle in situations and people. But (more…)
Eat Well – Eat several small, nutritious, HOMEMADE meals a day
Several small nutritious meals are easy to imagine. But homemade meals are a bit different. Homemade meals have almost become a quaint idea; something very old people used to do last century. But the tide is turning, as processed, fast (more…)
Kia Ākina – Persist – Go the extra mile
Going a little beyond what we immediately feel like doing stimulates our persistence “muscle”. The more we stimulate this muscle (prefrontal cortex) the stronger it becomes. The stronger we become up top, the more in control we will be of our (more…)
Eat Well – Become snack-free
An excellent strategy for recovering from obesity is to knock snacking on the head. Knocking snacking on the head along with attention to portion size are two of the top strategies for recovery. Snacking is engaging in the modern habit (more…)
Get Active – Think health rather than calories
Getting more active is one of the key aspects of recovering from obesity, but the effect is indirect. Getting more active reflects in better overall health, noticed in terms of increased energy and enhanced feeling of well-being. It is this (more…)
Take Control – Always think before eating
If we don’t stay alert and vigilant we run the risk at every eating opportunity to slip back into old patterns of automatic eating, especially in the first two years. Being alert and ready to make good decisions when the (more…)
Enjoy Life – Focus on the positive even when the scales are negative
The “long and happy journey” we’re on for obesity recovery is a life-long journey, so let’s start enjoying it now, because the reality is our lives are relatively short whether we live 50, 70 or even 90 years. One of (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. How dominated is your current diet by non-starchy vegetables? Review the past three days of eating. How many meals did you have? (more…)
Persist – Daily practice will turn into permanent lifestyle change
We all know that recovering from obesity is not a short- or long-term project. It is about permanent lifestyle change for the rest of our lives. At the outset, like for the first few years, the things we’re wanting to (more…)