Weekly Messages
Eat Well – Eat bulky low-energy food everyday
Bulky low-energy foods are natural appetite suppressants; they really do quench hunger, particularly when eaten slowly – thorough chewing and deliberate pausing between mouthfuls. What are the best bulky low-energy foods to eat? Two of the best are salads and vegetable soups. Keeping up salads maintains a (more…)
Persist – Take a long-term view, but live one day at a time
Focusing on the big picture needs a good dollop of persistence and patience, while we continue to work on weight-loss, one day at a time. Like everything else that is practiced over and over, it gets easier with time. When the weight is (more…)
Eat Well – Be the last to start eating and the last to finish
Eating well involves eating less while enjoying the eating more. Being the last to start eating and the last to finish is a cunning way of achieving both of these aspects of eating well. If we eat with others, we need to make sure they are (more…)
Get Active – Leave the car in the garage
One of the things that I have noticed as we have moved into level 3 is the huge increase of cars on our roads and the huge decrease of people walking, biking, scooting. Timely reminder to consider leaving the car in (more…)
Enjoy Life – By going out of your way to help someone
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, the “golden rule” or “ethic of reciprocity” is a principle that is common to all the great religions and embraced by many cultures. Doing things for others is also one of the key strategies (more…)
Eat Well – Conquer the see-food diet
Yes, the “see-food” diet is when we just eat everything we see in front of ourselves. We don’t have to think with the “see-food diet”. It’s a fantastic diet for maintaining obesity. But recovery from obesity needs conscious thinking, particularly countering the “see-food diet”. A large plate of food sitting in front of us can (more…)
Persist – Don’t give in to urges to eat – have a Plan B
We all know about feeling hungry when we’re not actually physiologically hungry at all. We’ve got our wires crossed. But the trouble is we’ve done a lot of practice eating to cope with feeling bored, stressed, angry, lonely, sad, or (more…)
Eat Well – Eat a little less every day
The reptile hates seeing the words – “Eat Less” – the reptile always wants to eat more. The “long and happy” journey of weight-loss can be really tough at times. When we’ve trained the reptile inside to overeat, it begins to expect to (more…)
Get Active – Fill the day with movement
We don’t have to become elite sports people to lose excess weight. But we do have to become more active in our daily lives to lose excess weight permanently and become healthier. Sitting and lying around is a killer. What we’ve got to do is spend as much of the 16 hours we’re not (more…)
Take Control – Write Down a Current Plan
There’s nothing quite like putting down on paper what is in our heads. Not only does writing down our plans help us work out what our plans actually are, but once we’ve got them down on paper we’ve got an external reminder which can keep us on track so we achieve (more…)