Weekly Messages
Eat Well – Don’t freak yourself out
Our challenge is to eat less calories to recover from obesity. However, suddenly eating a lot less will put the body into an energy-conserving state, in which the desire for more food increases and the body’s metabolism begins to slow (more…)
Get Active – Simple exercise facilitates recovery
Don’t let another day go by without increasing your activity in some way. We don’t have to become an ultra-distance runner, or a runner of any sort for that matter, to recover from obesity. But increasing the general activity levels (more…)
Take Control – Rewards work
Rewarding ourselves for doing something we are finding hard to initiate and/or keep doing is a great “Take Control” strategy. The “thing” could be weight loss itself, or it could be any number of things we know will work for (more…)
Enjoy Life – More books, more sleep, less television and less trashy magazines
It is hard to really enjoy life while consuming on a daily basis the mountains of trash, gossip, shallowness and overhyped bad news on offer, and being continually exposed to product marketing by predatory corporations. Staying up late watching mindless television (including sports…) not (more…)
Eat Well – Be careful about alcohol
One of the many things the alcohol industry won’t publicize about alcohol is that it is fattening. Regularly drinking alcohol adds a surprisingly high extra calorie load to the diet. Alcohol is an excellent fuel. It can be used to (more…)
Persist – Make the change
Everyone wants to lose weight without having to put any real energy into it. But putting things off until apopo (tomorrow) is literally a killer when it comes to obesity and recovery. Procrastination about taking the steps to make the (more…)
Eat Well – Be kind to your digestive organs
Here’s something you may not have thought about recently. What makes your oesophagus and stomach happy? a. One large piece of unchewed steak b. Two moderate pieces of unchewed toast c. Three small pieces of unchewed anything d. Blended soup (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 – One step at a time, one day at a time
Taking control of the situation which is maintaining our obesity takes energy, a lot of energy, a lot of mental energy. There are issues to do with eating the wrong food against our better judgement and issues to do with (more…)
Enjoy Life – Put gratefulness at the core of your recovery lifestyle
Recovery from obesity is only possible with a new sustainable lifestyle that has been assembled carefully through various experimentations, and then practiced and practiced until it becomes second nature and happens without conscious thinking. This process is what, in Kia (more…)