Weekly Messages
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 (more…)
Take Control – Move from passive to active
The majority of us live our lives not really thinking much about what we’re eating, how we’re eating it, or how active we are. We are largely passive. The result of being passive while living in an obesigenic environment like (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 – Eat plenty of lettuce
There is almost nothing better than a lettuce salad for lunch. Lettuce is low in calories, and relatively high in micronutrients – folate, zinc, potassium, iron, Vit A, Vit C – and of course is also a good source of fibre. It is (more…)
Persist – By preserving aspects of the new lifestyle even when we feel like giving up
Persevering even when we feel like giving up is one of the best ways of really making progress on the “long and happy journey”. Persevering makes the journey feel like it can be achieved and persevering despite feeling like giving (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…)
Get Active – Thank goodness we don’t have 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 – Consciously develop a new anti-obesity lifestyle
To develop a new anti-obesity lifestyle is to start undertaking it on a daily basis. Then bit by bit it becomes so ingrained we do it without thinking. That needs conscious thought on a daily basis while the new behaviours (more…)
Enjoy Life – Don’t get it mixed up with pursuing pleasure
Striving to enjoy life is relevant for everyone – fat, skinny and in-betweens. 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 (more…)
Eat Well – Eat to live by dealing with NEEDNT foods
A fundamental issue about what food to eat is summed up beautifully in the age-old question: “living to eat or eating to live?” Like breathing, eating nutritious food is a deeply satisfying necessity of life. But like drugs, NEEDNT foods, (more…)