Weekly Messages
Enjoy Life – By turning off the stress
Being on the journey of permanent weight loss takes a lot of energy; conscious energy. And sometimes it feels like too much energy is required to keep going. So what can we do when the stress gets to breaking point? A great strategy is deliberately (more…)
Eat Well – Eat a high-fibre diet
Eating well means eating for nutrition rather than eating for comfort. One of the hallmarks of eating well is consuming a high fibre diet. Fibre is sometimes also called roughage. Fibre consists of the parts of plants that can’t be digested (by humans), mainly cellulose. A (more…)
Persist – If struggling, don’t give up completely
None of us are perfect. All of us slip up from time to time, generally for very good reasons. The trick with continuing to progress on the “long and happy (recovery) journey”, despite major stress, is to change down to (more…)
Eat Well – Sometimes eat two meals a day
Most of us overestimate the amount of food we need for health and think three big meals a day are required (plus snacks in between – a fourth meal). Recovery from obesity requires us to eat less calories than what we use up (more…)
Get Active – Five minutes stretching every day
Is there anything stopping us from spending five minutes each day undertaking a set of stretches? Making the time to do just five minutes of stretches every day is an excellent thing to add to our new recovery lifestyles. Five minutes is just 0.3% of the (more…)
Take Control – Routines and reality
There’s something very real about standing on the scales and checking your weight. Becoming overweight requires a certain neglect; and part of this neglect is being dissociated from the reality of slowly putting on unnecessary fat. Becoming overweight requires us (more…)
Enjoy Life – By being reassuring, comforting and encouraging to yourself
We all know the “long and happy journey” isn’t always happy. All of us have experienced some ups and downs and most have also experienced some really big ups and downs over the years while coming to grips with our (more…)
Eat Well – Don’t be fooled by the hidden calories in drinks
It is very easy to consume calories through drinking. An excellent new lifestyle strategy is to reduce or eliminate altogether drinks with calories in them, which basically means drinks containing sugar or alcohol or both. When thirsty, we should always (more…)
Persist – By allowing ourselves to become genuinely hungry before eating
Here is a really important persistence exercise to try, which if we can suss will take us a good three steps forward on the long happy journey. It’s about learning to withstand the Beast grumbling inside us. When the Beast (more…)
Eat Well – Deliberately limit portion sizes
To lose weight we have to eat less. Exercising more can do it but we’ve got to do so much exercise to burn off excess food, like 40 minutes of brisk energetic walking for just one small chocolate bar. It (more…)