Weekly Messages
Eat Well – Welcome the feeling of hunger into your life
The feeling of hunger for many people with obesity is a negative one and even a frightening experience for some. A feeling of impending doom can descend at the whiff of the possibility of feeling hunger. But this feeling is (more…)
Get Active – Stop being a baby
In the first year of life we were all totally dependent on the adults around us to help us get around. Many of us will find that we return to that dependent state of living in our final year of (more…)
Take Control – Routines and reality
Routines and reality There’s something very real about standing on the scales and checking our 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 (more…)
Enjoy Life – By deliberately switching off when feeling stressed
From time to time, perhaps even several times a day, switching off and letting go of ourselves can be a liberating way of dealing with stress. Praying used to be the main way in which people used to have this (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 – Don’t give in to the wild cats
What do you do when the craving for certain foods comes on? The more we give in to those urges and “feed the wild cats” the more they will continue to thrive and give us hell. Conversely, the more we (more…)
Eat Well – Welcome the feeling of hunger into your life
The feeling of hunger for many people with obesity is a negative one and even a frightening experience for some. A feeling of impending doom can descend at the whiff of the possibility of feeling hunger. But this feeling is (more…)
Get Active – Thank goodness we don’t have to become marathon runners
We don’t have to become marathon runners to lose weight, although if we did become a marathon runner we would probably lose a lot of weight. The problem is that if we chose this strategy we would then have to (more…)
Take Control – Being conscious of everything we eat
It’s very easy to slip food down between meals, without being fully aware of it. For some it’s even easier to consume drinks laden with calories (sugar) without really thinking of how it is maintaining (and perhaps even advancing) obesity. (more…)
Enjoy Life – Don’t get it mixed up with pursing pleasure
Striving to enjoy life is relevant for everyone – fat, skinny and in-between. But it is a particular issue for us who love food;we whose enjoyment in life can become distorted and dominated by the quest to consume pleasurable food. (more…)